A full make-up appliance matching the final configuration of the first 'Change-o-Head' acted as a bridge between the two animatronic heads. Its main purpose was to show David's transformed eyes during the transformation, as Baker was worried that he could not build realistic enough eyes for the 'Change-o-Heads'; for that reason, he sculpted the heads based on a cast of Naughton's face with a pained expression, and had them appear with their eyes closed in pain. "I was worried about making eyes that look real enough," Baker recalled, "and getting the eye mechanism to work in this head that was gonna be stretching and moving. We purposedly closed the eyes in the Change-O-Head -- the eyes were squinting up in pain because I just knew it was gonna be a problem to make the eyes look right. The second head began from the first's final, changed configuration matched by the bridge-appliance. It was also designed to be asymmetrical -- an intended effect that was not shown in the final film. Baker explained: "one side is more human, one side is more wolf-like, and my thinking was you could start shooting on the human side, it would turn and then you'd get more out of the Change-o-Head. But we found out as we were shooting it, when we turned the head faster the more movement there was, [the more] you actually didn't see the stretching-out of the face, which was the kind of big payoff in this whole piece; so we ended up not using it that way with the turning. We ended up with just a straight profile [shot] with it kind of stretching and shaking as it grows out." Also included in the final cut was a straightforward frontal shot, which partially showed the asymmetrical details (including the subtle change in colouration on the nose). A partial head was built for the growing ear insert shot. Also built, but not actually used for the film, was also a third 'Change-o-Head' specifically designed to portray Kessler's oversized canines erupting from his gums.

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