Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-5094906-20130326163808/@comment-4047879-20130508181927

GothicNarcissus wrote: Personally I'm not overly impatient for mermaids and associates to come into the show. I know it's going to take alot of effort and a good budget to have them well done in terms of costumes or CGI, so I'd rather not have them at all than have them poorly done. See I couldn't be more excited at the prospect of mermaids and Ariel appearing. The actual mermaid aspect shouldn't be too difficult to do well at all, there have been some truely amazing costume swimmable tails made in films and tv before. Splash, the mermaid in the live action Peter Pan all have great tails. Aquamarine, H2O and Fishtale tails all made by JMB fx Studios are amazing and highly detailed, and then the tails in HOOK which I personally think would look best on Ariel and the other mermaids (have no idea who made them though) are just beautiful and fluid with the right level of detail. Then there is MerTailor who is truely talented and makes resonably priced custom highly detailed tails, now OUaT have a far bigger budget then his usual clients so imagine what he could create with their budget!!

Then of course there are the CGI tails in Pirates 4 which in my opinon is the best mermaid tails on screen to date (ok they had a HUGE budget) but still could get a great effect on a lower budget if they use a similar style, so it is do able. I hope they choose to go costume route or a blend of the 2, long shot under water CGI, close shot or full body on land costume rather than full CGI, we need more magical characters on the show with prosthetic make up etc rather than it all being CG creatures I feel.

Ursula or the squid should they choose to do it, I can see working far better in CGI, murged with the actress playing her, like the wings on the fairys or the wooden August.

As for underwater filming, they have done it with the Siren and Lake Nostos on a smaller scale so it is do able and they do it on shows like H2O, which must have a similar budget to OUaT?