Me and my Monster

Me and my Monster

I was tapped by Stan Winston Studio in 1999 to create a maquette of a creature for an in-house film they were working on called "Me and My Monster". It was a charming, E.T.-like story where a boy befriends the monster he's afraid of that lives under his bed. I decided to take a lumbering, oafish direction on the beast, making him shaggy and kind of cute. Unfortunately, the great Stan Winston died before this film could come to fruition, which affected the effects industry tremendously.
Here are a number of pictures of the turnaround, including a few detail shots. These were shot at Stan's.

The sculpture was still fairly rough, so forgive that if you can!