We took artistic license with the labrum and palpi,
making them end far more pointed and "fangy" than a real
insects' do. You can see more closely Tom Killeen's
fabulous paint job, in a more revealing light than you
see in the film. You can also see the silicone gill-like
lungs on its' chest, which had bladders underneath to
make them work. Mechanical Co-Supervisors Scott Oshita, Gary Martinez,
and Dave Kindlon did an excellent job or wrangling the
designs and the workers and subcontractors to build them.
Kudos to Sam de la Torre for his "heading up" the
assembly of seven different , very complex
radio-controlled heads. That's three transmitters per
head on the more "hero" models! Didn't you say you did cutesy stuff as well?! Take me
home. Forget that! I wanna check out more MIMIC stuff on the
image map!
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YEEAAAH! Ain't it
cool? The insect eyes lie further in back, and the
silicone antenna nubs ("the NEE-pels" as Guillermo calls
them) are short and resemble , in a crude way, human
eyes. As in a real insect of this type, the mouth parts
all move together: the labrum in and out, the minor and
major mandibles scissoring, clamping, and bringing the
food to the mouth, an opening and closing jaw, a tubular
tongue that oscillates in and out, and 4 waving palpi to
help scrape up the loose bits.
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