Making Up Creatures (Special Edition)

Imaginary Worlds

Eric Molinsky

Arts, Science Fiction, Fiction, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Every year, I like to play a full-length interview with a previous guest who had so much more to say than what I could fit into a particular topic. Last summer, I did an episode called Making Up Creatures where I talked with the creature designer Neill Gorton, who is best known for working on the reboot of Doctor Who and the BBC series Being Human. I talked with Neill about how he approached redesigning classic monsters he watched on Doctor Who as a child, why simplicity always beats spectacle when designing a new creature and what to focus on when working within a limited budget. Today's episode is brought to you by Faraway, a new short story collection from Amazon, CovertKit and BetterHelp. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? We have partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle our advertising/sponsorship requests. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email [email protected] or click the link below to get started. Imaginary Worlds AdvertiseCast Listing Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:57.1	In the last summer, I did an episode called Making Up Creatures where I talked with
1:00.9	the creature designer Neil Gordon.
1:03.4	He is best known for working on the reboot of Doctor Who under the first two showredders,
1:08.3	Russell T. Davies and Stephen Moffitt.
1:10.7	He also worked on the Doctor Who's spin-off shows, Torchwood and the Sarah Jane Adventures.
1:16.4	Neil specializes in practical effects, meaning effects that are not CGI.
1:21.8	And I grew up watching movies and shows with practical effects, so I find this topic endlessly
1:26.4	fascinating.
1:27.9	And Doctor Who is famous for being jam-packed with aliens that need to be created on a limited
1:33.3	budget.
1:35.0	And this is a perfect time to play a longer interview with Neil because even though he
1:39.9	doesn't work on Doctor Who anymore, the show is coming back on New Year's Day for their
1:44.9	holiday special episode featuring the classic villain The Dolex.
1:50.5	By the way, Neil was recording himself at home, and about 10 minutes into our interview,
1:55.2	he discovered his recorder was not on.
1:58.0	I was recording a backup over Zoom, so that's what you'll hear at the beginning, and then
2:02.3	after the break, you'll hear his audio in high quality.
2:06.0	I began by asking Neil if there was anything he saw as a kid that inspired him to go into
2:10.8	the field of creature effects.
2:13.6	A big influence on me actually was I grew up in Liverpool.
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