{"id":478,"date":"2009-11-17T22:19:52","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T05:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidstipes.net\/?p=478"},"modified":"2018-12-31T17:06:17","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T00:06:17","slug":"night-of-the-creeps-on-dvd-finally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidstipes.net\/?p=478","title":{"rendered":"Night of the Creeps on DVD finally."},"content":{"rendered":"

Finally, after years of waiting, “Night of the Creeps” has made it to DVD release. The 1986 horror \/ sci fi film, written and directed by Fred Dekker, has been a somewhat hidden away cult classic. My son, Nathan, and I found it at Wal-Mart for about $15.00. It has the cemetery ending Dekker originally planned for the film.<\/p>\n

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DVD cover art.<\/p><\/div>\n

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It was fun to see the film again after all these years and it brought up some fun memories from working on the film. Under my company, David Stipes Productions, I was able to bring together some terrific talented people to work on the project.<\/p>\n

Celebrated concept artist and illustrator Steve Burg designed the spaceship. Burg and Emmy award winner Ron Thornton constructed the model.<\/p>\n

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Creeps spaceship being filmed in a smoke room to simulate foggy night.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Model maker, and later director, Dale Fay constructed the alien cylinder that contained the creeps.<\/p>\n

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One of the aliens running with Creep cylinder by Dale Fay.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Famed “Star Wars” vet, David M. Jones, supervised the construction of a huge forced perspective cemetery set for the film’s finale.<\/p>\n

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This is a small scale mock up David Jones built to show concept.<\/p><\/div>\n

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David Jones in center overlooking his work. Joanne Walker adds details to the left.<\/p><\/div>\n

Michael Karp provided motion control programming. Motion-control machine work and rigging was created by Richard Bennett.<\/p>\n

I was the visual effects supervisor and producer for my company’s portion of the effects work. I also created the motion graphics elements for the laser blasts and spark effects at the beginning of the film.<\/p>\n

There are a couple of interesting facts: only the bottom half of the spaceship was constructed as that was all that the audience ever saw.<\/p>\n

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Nathan Stipes refurbishing Creeps ship in 2005.<\/p><\/div>\n

The Creeps spaceship was used in a “Star Trek: The Next Generation” episode.<\/p>\n

Fred Dekker later worked as a consulting producer \/ writer on “Star Trek; Enterprise.”   In 2001, I was a visual effects supervisor on the show for two episodes. I was excited to see Fred’s name on the production crew list. It was fun seeing his face when I reintroduced myself after almost 15 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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