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Santa Gorilla celebrates the Holidays in Hollywood

SUBSCRIBE on YouTube: bit.ly/Zp70T4 and RING THE BELL! Santa Gorilla's Christmas Visit to Hollywood Blvd! FULL STORY: bit.ly/SantaGorillaFxYT On December 18th, 2013, the Oscar-winning FX team from Amalgamated Dynamics Inc. (ADI) invited us to tag along as they brought Bernie the #Gorilla from THE #ZOOKEEPER to Hollywood to share the wonder of Practical Effects with tourists and movie fans. His face is animatronically controlled by four...

AVP Tom Woodruff As The Alien BTS ADI

FOLLOW US HERE! instagram.com/alec_gillis/ twitter.com/alec_gillis instagram.com/tom_woodruffjr/ twitter.com/tom_woodruffjr facebook.com/tom.j.woodruff.5 FIND OUT MORE: studioadi.com ABOUT US: Amalgamated Dynamics (studioADI) is an Academy Award-winning character effects studio that designs, produces, and performs special characters for film, television, commercials and art exhibits.

Monster Suit Performance - 2

SUBSCRIBE on YouTube: bit.ly/Zp70T4 and RING THE BELL! Monster Suit Performance with FX legend Tom Woodruff, Jr. Buy FULL COURSE: bit.ly/MonSuitPerfYT ​For nearly 25 years, Academy Award-winning Special Character Effects wizard, Co-Founder of Amalgamated Dynamics, Inc. & Monster #SuitPerformance master, Tom Woodruff, Jr., has had to cope with finding the balance between creating a motivated on-screen monster suit performance and the...

Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr on Oprah

I do believe this is a 1995 segment featuring Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr on the Oprah Winfrey Show. Side Note: The hair in the mid-90's was totally out of control!

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Monster Suit Performance - A Brief History with Tom Woodruff Jr

SUBSCRIBE to SWSCA on YouTube: bit.ly/Zp70T4 A brief history of monster suit performance in Hollywood - #MiniLesson FULL COURSE: bit.ly/MonSuitPerfYT There's more to the art of performing a non-human creature character than putting on a rubber suit and making growling noises. With all the work that goes into the design of a creature, giving it life ultimately comes down to a perfomer: whether that performer controls the creature with rods,...

Tom Woodruff Jr - Monster Maker Interview with the Academy Award winning co-founder of ADI

SUBSCRIBE to SWSCA on YouTube: bit.ly/Zp70T4 Monster Maker #Interview with Tom Woodruff Jr. FULL STORY here: bit.ly/TWJrIntYT Enjoy this exclusive, in-depth interview with Academy Award™ winning special effects character creator & co-founder of Amalgamated Dynamics, Inc., Tom Woodruff, Jr. (AVP, Tremors, Starship Troopers, The Santa Clause, Death Becomes Her, The Thing) Woodruff, Jr. shares everything: his early experiments making plaster...

Zookeeper Bernie The Gorilla Tom Woodruff Jr Performing

Amalgamated Dynamics, Inc. ( studioadi.com)/ studioADI designed and created the animatronic gorilla for the feature film ZOOKEEPER. This demonstration shows just how life-like projects can be. Realism is key. Subscribe and get all of our videos as they are released." Music by: Benjamin Brown, Oddioworks, LLC bb@oddioworks.com

Tom Woodruff and Alec Gillis on Creating PENNYWISE in STEPHEN KING s IT

Robert Garcia interviews the Oscar-winning team for Visual Effects and Makeup, Tom Woodruff, Jr. and Alec Gillis from "Amalgamated Dynamics INC- Studio ADI."

ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Tom Woodruff Jr

Answering the call, Tom Woodruff Jr. accepts the ALS Ice Bucket challenge not just once but TWICE, then pays the challenge forward. Sultan Al Darmaki, Jason Speer and Lance Henriksen, you've been nominated! Please donate to help stop ALS: alsa.org The ALS Association

Inhabiting the Alien ADI s Tom Woodruff Jr Talks Performing Inside the Alien Suit

While we've had the pleasure of talking to many Predator actors, we've never spoken to an Alien actor in the past. In this episode Corporal Hicks and RidgeTop are joined once again by Amalgamated Dynamics Inc.'s Tom Woodruff Jr.  to talk about performing inside the Alien suit! We talk the duality of designer and performer, the appropriateness of utilizing dancers or mimes as suit performers, Alien 3's Pepsi advert, and plenty more! What did...

Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr at the premiere of The Thing

Special makeup and effects artists Alec Gillis (left) and Tom Woodruff, Jr. talk to LA Times reporter Emily Rome at the premiere of "The Thing" on Oct. 10.