THE  ALBERT  WHITLOCK´S  ARCHIVES.
 

Pictures gallery from the film:  The Thing (1982)
 

Director: John Carpenter
Cinematography: Dean cundey
Film Editing : Tod Ramsay
Art Direction : John Lloyd
Special photographic effects :  Albert Whitlock
Matte photography:  Bill Taylor
Miniatures: Susan Turner
Matte crew :  Henry Schoessler
Optical effects: Peter Kuran
Creature and makeup effect: Rob Bottin
Aditional matte painting: Jim Danforth
 
 
 

Original blue screen plate, and composition with the matte painting

Storyboard showing the action.

 

One more Blue screen shot.

One example of on location original plate. Latter on Whitlock matched the painting at Universal Studios.

The art department built a small part of the spaceship.
Whitlock painted the rest, adding some light effects and reflections on the spaceship surface.

Two more original plates and final composition with painting.

For the titles scene, model maker Susan Turner made the spaceship model,  and Jim Danforth painted the Planet Earth.