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Aliens: APC

Scene from James Cameron's 1986 movie 'Aliens'.

 

The marines approach the colony complex in the APC. The atmospheric processor glowers in the distance beyond the storm wall.

 

APC design by Larry Lars with some mods to the front end by me. www.flickr.com/photos/28192677@N06/3599470850

 

Reference pictures for the storm wall and lots of interesting Aliens info can be found here: alienseries.wordpress.com/2012/10/18/hadleys-hope/

 

Tricks used: I only had 5 sections of the storm wall so I used a mirror to extend the wall into the distance and a little bit of photoshop to hide the mirror edges. The atmospheric processor silhouette is made of plates and positioned about 1 metre behind the wall to ensure it's out-of-focus in the shot. I used an iPad displaying a flat field of colour for the background and foreground lighting.

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Uploaded on November 2, 2014