{"id":164,"date":"2026-06-20T23:29:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T21:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/tarea5\/?post_type=video&#038;p=164"},"modified":"2026-06-28T13:06:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T11:06:36","slug":"rob-bottins-special-effects-work-on-the-thing","status":"publish","type":"video","link":"https:\/\/juvegat.laboratoriodiseno.cl\/tarea5\/video\/rob-bottins-special-effects-work-on-the-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob Bottin&#8217;s Special Effects Work On The Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Thing is much beloved movie, and not least because of it\u2019s practical effects by SFX whizzkid, Rob Bottin. At only 23 years old, Bottin created what are perhaps some of the most memorable practical effects of all time. John Carpenter\u2019s film, The Thing is a tense whodunit, or rather who is it, as the occupants of a research station in Antarctica or invaded by a hostile shape-shifting alien thing that, body-snatchers style, replicates its victims and infiltrates the yet to be assimilated. The film is iconic not only for its tense plot and minimalist soundtrack, but also for the terrifying forms of the thing itself.  This video is a companion to another video I did which looks at the career of Bottin as a whole, and at his seemingly abrupt exit from the industry. Here I\u2019m specifically looking at Bottin\u2019s work on The Thing, a film that he worked on for a year, he slept on the set of, and he worked so hard on he had to be treated for exhaustion after. Rob Bottin worked tirelessly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":219,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categoria_video":[12],"creadores":[157],"reparto":[155,156],"canal":[154],"class_list":["post-164","video","type-video","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categoria_video-peliculas-series","creadores-georg-rockall-schmidt","reparto-georg-rockall-schmidt","reparto-rob-bottin","canal-georg-rockall-schmidt"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juvegat.laboratoriodiseno.cl\/tarea5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/video\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juvegat.laboratoriodiseno.cl\/tarea5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/video"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juvegat.laboratoriodiseno.cl\/tarea5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/video"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juvegat.laboratoriodiseno.cl\/tarea5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juvegat.laboratoriodiseno.cl\/tarea5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"categoria_video","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juvegat.laboratoriodiseno.cl\/tarea5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categoria_video?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"creadores","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juvegat.laboratoriodiseno.cl\/tarea5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/creadores?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"reparto","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juvegat.laboratoriodiseno.cl\/tarea5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reparto?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"canal","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juvegat.laboratoriodiseno.cl\/tarea5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/canal?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}