Taken from JRE #1377 w/Rick Baker: https://youtu.be/cRUy8E6ueeo
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Taken from JRE #1377 w/Rick Baker: https://youtu.be/cRUy8E6ueeo
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So happy that as a young illustrator I'd met Ray at a Philadelphia science fiction con; oh so many years ago. He'd just come out of an exhibition room by himself and was just hanging out, and I asked politely if he minded signing a book of his work. Ray smiled gently and said that we could talk for a little bit as he was waiting for his handlers to take him to dinner. And we did; for almost a half hour; just talking about the craft, one artist to another, until Ray had to leave. And it's that respect for the next generation which never fails to impress; as your idols were once where you are.
Joe obviously knows nothing about Baker's role in the movie King Kong. The huge mechanical Gorilla that DiLaurentis built was a failure and it didn't work. So they hired Rick Baker to wear a Gorilla suit instead. The only scenes that use the mechanical Giant are when Jessica Lang is in the apes hand. Everything else is Rick Baker dressed as Kong.
Ray and Rick heros that put me on a path to doing work i love
I saw an article on American Werewolf in 1981, and at that moment decided that was what I NEEDED to do as a career. Well, It's 35 years later and I literally never worked a day in all that time, My work is so varied that every day I get to create something completely different. It's all thanks to being floored by what I saw in that magazine back in 81. Thank You Rick Baker.
"Destroy them… Kill… Kill! Kill! Kill them all! "