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Creating the Reapers - Radio Times, May 2005 |
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Visual effects supervisor Will Cohen explains how terrifying Doctor Who monsters the Reapers were brought to life.
"The Reapers are fabulous creatures from our angle. They come from another dimension to cleanse the hole in time, but basically they kill everybody and destroy everything. That's how they cleanse. Originally they were going to be grim reapers, men in cowls, and actually there's still a hint of that with this scythe-like tail that creeps up behind their heads, with demonic red eyes. And they've got a predatory bat-like, dragon-like, organic Balrog [from The Lord of the Rings] kind of feel to them. That's been fun to do.
"The Reaper went through several designs. It started off as a concept picture by Bryan Hitch, but was then taken up by our matte painter, Alex Fort. Alex and Russell [T Davies, executive producer] then sat in a room with a little maquette/sculpture that Alex had produced and they worked on that. The director Joe Ahearne came to the Mill, viewed the creature on computer and made some changes, so it was evolving all the time. In the end the model that should have been finished by the beginning of January was finished at the end of February. We were running to a horrendously tight schedule.
"The model took about two months to make, on and off, and we've had two or three weeks to do 40-odd shots with it."
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