“Hello, World!” It was around 2010 when I started watching fairly simplistic tutorials that no longer exist on YouTube. Now they only “explain” it using Adobe.
What I did wasn’t very elaborate; I wanted to find the “right technique.” I would have preferred to have someone walking, but that was what was available: a puppet. The sound isn’t a special effect; I put the video in slow motion.
It ended up making a pretty good effect with that, but little did I know others were trying very hard elsewhere to try and come up with the Predator effect in different ways. They were trying that thing when you point a camera at a monitor and you get this endless series of frames that kind of looks like the Predator camouflage effect. They were trying that but they couldn’t duplicate it. So I ended up calling John McTiernan and saying, ‘Hey, we don’t need motion control. We don’t need red light,’ and he was very happy.
