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bogleech:tyrantisterror:highly-radioactive-nerd:raptorcivilization:strawberry-crocodile:tsunflowers:ultraman hasn’t been wrestling with guys in rubber suits since 1966 for you to go on tumblr dot corn and excuse supernatural’s failures“uhh ultraman is ugly” X-Files. Buffy. Dr Who. Prosthetics puppets and makeup have existed since before we could record video.Also like, this is what Ultraman looked like at the time Supernatural started airing:Don’t tell me they can’t have stepped up their game in the 15 years between then and now“Ultraman is ugly” INCORRECTPersonal bias aside, at least the man-in-suit effects make the attempt to convey to the audience “this is a monster.”Supernatural just says “please clap.”Ok I’m glad someone made this reply because I’m sorry but monster of the week TV shows have existed for DECADES with varying budgets and all of them managed to do more than “literally just a man wearing clothes” so Supernatural has no fucking excuse.I’m pretty sure the OP everyone is making fun of was joking to begin with, especially “they spent the budget on flannel shirts,” but it’s sparked some sincere discussion about TV creature effects anyway with a few people arguing for-real that they didn’t think Supernatural could have had the budget for cool looking demons.The Ultraman talking point really says it all to be honest, for those who missed me reviewing a ton of Ultraman monsters check out some of these:And if we stick just to Western TV shows pre-2000′s, this is some stuff I grew up with:Flukeman, X-Files, 1994:Na’Ka’Leen Feeder, Babylon 5, also 1994, this one is early CG and still looks fine:She-mantis, Buffy, 1997:Unnamed (AWESOME!!!!) alien shopkeeper, Farscape, 1999:None of these were that expensive or difficult to make back then and are even easier to do now. The She-Mantis is even recycled from another Babylon 5 alien prop! There are even Hollywood warehouses PACKED TO THE CEILING with animatronics, costumes and puppets that were made and never used, and they’ll sell them to new projects for relatively nothing because they might eventually deteriorate or get thrown out anyway.Dr. Who was also mentioned above, but I’d also put modern Who on trial for this laziness. There’s no reason why so many of its aliens are human-shaped, other than the fact that, from what I can glean, the directors tend to think puppets are “corny” and use them only sparingly. Vintage Dr. Who had all kinds of bizarre entities, whether they used a costume, a prop or even animation to convey them. -- source link
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