Even Lost’s animators had no idea what the smoke monster was

Did you know that Lost ‘s smoke demon was voice by cicadas and the detent - clacks of a New York City hack receipt printer ? Also , Smokey ’s energizer had no cue what the foggy beast was when they animated him !

In a recent interview withPopular Mechanics , Smokey ’s illustrators fessed up that they too were in the dark when designing the Island ’s cloud monster . John Teska create Smokey during time of year one for Eden FX and worked on the course of study until time of year four . Teska was inform by sports fan theories when it come to designing the brute ’s twiddle deadliness .

This was something we did n’t have sex about when we started on the show [ … ] So even when there was something that harassed the shipwreck survivor , there really had n’t been any talk about what we would be doing until later on that first season . [ … ] An early possibility was that it was an electromagnetic force [ .. ] We experience there ’s magnetic force on the island - could this be some iron filing cloud that ’s being driven by the magnetism ? And that was something I could grab onto to kind of help touch off it when even the manufacturer were being vague about what that was .

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Teska tot that the brute ’s last identity even take him for surprise .

Now we ’re let into the final reach and finding out that it might even be psyche - motivated , which is something I did n’t see come . But it ’s an interesting touch .

Creating the monster can be an every bit perplexing experience . According to special visual supervisor enounce Mitch Suskin :

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It ’s really a very tiresomely recreate computer effect because it has to be random , like smoke , but we have to control it and vivify it to give it personality and to make it do what we want [ … ] It ’s actually a lot of trial and mistake to get Smokey to do what we need him to do and still preserve his weed - ishness without him becoming just a smoky worm .

Also , the article remark that Smokey ’s famous mouse click - clacking was “ created using the insistent clicking of a cicada and the noises from a New York City taxi receipt printing machine . ” No wonderment I ca n’t stand await for a reception .

[ viaPopular Mechanics ]

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