Looking for Predator backpack reference video and picture media
I have a predator 1 cannon animatronic setup that works, but I am sorting through a hardware response issue due to processing limitations. As I sort through issues on the build I am trying to always get things to be more movie accurate.
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So far this is what I could find on the site's youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBC5IU291q0
predator 2018 weapons masks armor adi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4pXjb3iRM4
AVP day in life of scar filming avp adi bts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3nOCBCw9Uw
PREDATOR Sculpting The Fugitive Predator ADI BTS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nobANLwggxc
PREDATOR 2018 Designing the Predator's Menagerie ADI BTS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q9V_1aXe2w&t=324s
AVP Filming Predators In Temple ADI BTS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fb2y2Q2m6k
Predators Engineers & Aliens - COMPLETE Timeline
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdobiVWv2IQ
ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Alec Gillis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWkE6EI4HEc
AVP Filming Scar Chestburster BTS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLL8KlUElbg
ALIEN 4 Chestbursters & Victim Death Tests ALIEN RESURRECTION BTS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YJb70577u4
AVPR Building the Predator Med Kit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B-6x1pKgDI
AVPR Predator Vs Pred-Alien Rooftop Fight BTS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWG-gGiwQ5E
AvPR Wolf Predator Maquette Collectible, Part 2- Final Master
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScSPqihdOXg
AvPR Wolf Predator Maquette Collectible Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Qw6GExPIdQ
AVP Full Scale DIsplay Room
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCsKSVF4gx8
AVPR Predator Invades ADI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU_jKFEvASA
AVPR Animatronic Wolf Predator Head ALIENS VS PREDATOR REQUIEM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpgznoPCRPk
AVP Animatronic Shoulder Cannon Tests
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXJ8GAsAREI&t=2s
AVP Facehugger Mechanics Tests ADI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUMX6hsvbO4
ALIEN 3 Dressing the Whippet ADI BTS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi_f_3Mn1nQ
predator backpack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAI68CoFmZ4
Animatronic Predator AVP cannon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8iVZZCwViY
Monsterpalooza 2013 - 3 Fun Days of Horror + Predator Suit w/ Jill Kill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve64PYfpRrk
AVPR To Dress A Predator BTS --- got this guy's autograph last weekend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEm3Tj6L_QE
AVP Brains, Blood & Guts BTS
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Hi Gabriel,
Looks like you've put a lot of work into searching down that reference, we've all been there! One place that might help is the Replica Prop Forum, since I know a few folks over there that have built multiple versions of the Predator. I also suggest following (and possibly reaching out to) @AliensFX on instagram as they post a lot of Predator builds and could be resource for reference material.
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The RPF is Art Andrews Property. Unfortunately after he acquired hunterslair.com now known as predatorium.com the process ended up running off some of the original content producers. There is some information there and they have been trying to get a lot of it better organized as many of the other sites are. I lurk around there as ksj and have some nice write ups there. I have poured through the site many times.
The above videos have so far been the best resource I have found to date.
Many are finding that sites like photobucket and myspace disappear after a decade or so and there has been a bigger push to store all related pictures and information on the respective site directly. Unfortunately when sites disappear so does the content so it has been a constant struggle. Who keeps a good catalog of photos from 10 or 15 years ago that can be easily found again? Throw in the fact that many get out of a particular costuming setup after 3 years or so on average as it gets old or life changes and many times they disappear off of a given forum or site.
Now throw in the fact that reel based media under ideal conditions is only rated to be good for a decade or three and we are now seeing all of the studies digitize their entire collection of videos. There are literally thousands of videos getting digitized and put online every week. And with space as cheap as it is this is happening more and more. And this needs to happen so the community can see things before the original creators disappear from the professions and from public memory.
Data is cheap and easy now, but finding the needle in the haystack. That takes some work to find sometimes.
Factor in I have about 4 years of development on my current costume and I keep getting it more and more accurate. The problem I have now is that the motion components are getting to the point where the rest of the suit needs to be super accurate.
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