Despite its inauspicious beginning as a 911 call and a favor to a friend, Predator remains one of the shows and characters of which Stan Winston is most proud. "The Predator is an iconic character," Stan said, "as well known and loved a character in science fiction film history as any character out there. And he's basically a man in a suit. I think one of the reasons that the characters that have come out of this studio are so memorable is because they are not about the technology." "We use higher technologies where they need to be used, but we don't use them for their own sake," said Winston. "Predator was a perfect example of that philosophy. We could do it with a low-tech tool, so we used a low-tech tool. That doesn't mean there wasn't a great deal of technology that went into the Predator, as well. But we combined all of the tricks - high-tech and low-tech - to create this organic Predator character." Those 'tricks' referred to by Winston included optical techniques to create the Predator's camouflage effect, executed by visual effects supervisor Joel Hynek and an effects team from R/Greenberg Associates, working with images of a performer wearing a special red version of the suit Stan Winston Studio had built for that specific purpose.

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