Here's a quick little test you can try at home...

Patterson would have (of course) placed his shaped padding on the outside of the waders too. But the problem with creature suits that use a softer exterior skin as opposed to molded rubber is that wherever the pads separate you can have a give-a-way moment. This should have been edited out, but Roger thought he could get away with it.

As a quick test all I did here was stuff some foam on the RIGHT UPPER THIGH AND BUTTOCKS. I deliberately didn't make any hamstring line or knee tendon or calf muscle shapes. I simply wanted to place a thigh pad in the area where Roger might have had the separation problem we so often see with that kind of suit.

I pulled a pair of sweat pants over the leg and found that Roger's idea worked well UNTIL the leg began to shift and I imitated the motion where the same problem is seen in the PG film.

Watch the back and forth closer section of the moment just prior to and during the head turn in your copy of LMS. It's there at the top of the thigh. The pad separation problem.

Right now I'm trying to figure out a way that Roger might have avoided that dead give-a-way moment. :doh:

- Dfoot