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How did they make the Ooze-men go "SPLAT"?!
I've wondered this for 30 years
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Probably water balloons filled with purple “goo”, arranged in a vague human shape, set to explode. I think the technical term is “Squibs”.
Squibs will be squibs
🎶 No, I don’t want no squibs 🎶
A squib is a guy who can't keep his shape for me.
Going splat on a construction site trying to tango with me.
Squibs are specifically packs of liquid with a small explosive attached in order to allow them to burst on command. Without the explosive, it's just a water balloon.
That makes me wonder, why did we never get figures of the ooze-men? We got one of Ivan Ooze and I think the pig guy that only showed up in the movie, but no Ooze-men.
Now that you mentioned it, I wonder why there were no toy figures of them.
IIRC the Oozemen were actually additions to the story kind of late into production. They were originally going to go with rat-monster things, but they realized they did not look high enough quality on camera.
I think for the best results they would do this… 1: Fill a human substitute (a blow-up doll, a manikin, etc…) with purple “goo” and several low level explosives. 2: Dress it up. 3: Rig it up and set up the scene. 4: BOOM!
The ooze left on unmorphed Billy's hand when he punched the one, was grape jelly, pretty sure this specific part was made by filming two separate scenes using the same location, and then literally splicing the film strip together
If I had to guess they probably swapped the stuntman out with a CGI model that was masked over some actual goo they threw at a beam.
Probably not even a CG model. Liquid simulations and raytracing were not great at that time. I imagine they shot one take with the stunt performer, Then a second pass with an airgun firing the ooze at whatever surface it was going to splat upon. Either a simple cut between the two or some minor optical composition would allow it to look like the Oozeman was disappearing into the puddle/splat. (I am an animation compositor in Hollywood.)
Also, your job sounds so fun and cool!
This is the answer. I see some very clever but obvious cuts on some of those shots
I'm unsure of anything you said because I'm just not technically knowledgeable enough in special effects, but, especially for 30 years ago, the cut/transition from the actor/stuntman to the SPLAT is soooo seamless and smooth.
Cause that's what happened. This is all a well timed cut with what they just said. If Power Rangers is good at one thing, it's editing.
Close. The oozeman was probably falling in front of a green screen, comped in, and then quick cut to an ooze squib. The CGI in the movie is poor enough that you can definitely tell it wasn’t a CGI oozeman
A wizard did it
The one specific shot in the image is CGI, you can see the purple ooze doesn't stick to anything, probably too high and they didn't want to clean it by themselves
In the other shots it's a balloon filled ooze being thrown, and they just shot it twice and made jump cut
The actor sacrificed his own body for the movie
If this ain't the right answer then I dont know what is