11 Things You Didn't Know About 'Hellboy II'
By Emily Christianson, Hollywood.com Staff
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Monday, July 14, 2008
5. The creatures are Jim Henson inspired:
Guillermo del Toro: I am a huge Jim Henson fan and actually Solution Studios who participated in many of the creatures - many of them used to be on the Henson shop…they work in Little Shop of Horrors and Return to Oz and so on and so forth. One idea I had in the movie is that first and foremost we wanted to make the movie feel handmade. We wanted the movie to have an artisan pride in craftsmanship, pride in the sets and the creatures. When they designed the Golden Army I told them, “Make sure the gold is hammered not flat. It is hammered and a little rust or oil stains. Let’s make everything lived in” because I wanted everything to be texturally palpable.
