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Director John Stevenson Pays Tribute To A Special Effects Genius
Stop motion animation is still the most magical of special effects techniques to me, because instinctively you know that real light is falling on a real object that is seemingly moving of its own volition. Computer Generated Imagery may be able to create more complex and fluid motion, but we instinctively know that what we are looking at does not exist in our world. There is still an arcane power in watching something you know you can touch move on its own. So films featuring stop motion animation were my great passion as a child.
Stop motion animation was the Rolls Royce of special effects techniques in the 1960s and early 1970s. If you were a young fantasy addict a new Ray Harryhausen film at the local ABC cinema was the equivalent of a new McU film dropping today.
Director John Stevenson Pays Tribute To A Special Effects Genius
Stop motion animation is still the most magical of special effects techniques to me, because instinctively you know that real light is falling on a real object that is seemingly moving of its own volition. Computer Generated Imagery may be able to create more complex and fluid motion, but we instinctively know that what we are looking at does not exist in our world. There is still an arcane power in watching something you know you can touch move on its own. So films featuring stop motion animation were my great passion as a child.
Stop motion animation was the Rolls Royce of special effects techniques in the 1960s and early 1970s. If you were a young fantasy addict a new Ray Harryhausen film at the local ABC cinema was the equivalent of a new McU film dropping today.
- 10/14/2019
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Who fans might have to get out and push a little bit here, but a solid story proves worth the not-so-special effects...
Think of dinosaurs these days, and the first franchise that springs to mind is, of course, Jurassic Park. The trilogy of films was hot property at the time, with eye-popping visual effects and camera work. I must confess though, that the first film aside, the other two kind of left me cold. I saw the second one again the other day and I realised that for all its flashy budget, it amounted to very little. Richard Attenborough’s character loses his brain. Jeff Goldblum scowls a lot. Some baldy Pete Waterman lookalike character blunders around uselessly and then screams like a girl at the end when a dinosaur decides to eat him for tea. But hey, good effects, right?
Back in Doctor Who-land, Invasion Of The Dinosaurs works on the reverse principle.
Think of dinosaurs these days, and the first franchise that springs to mind is, of course, Jurassic Park. The trilogy of films was hot property at the time, with eye-popping visual effects and camera work. I must confess though, that the first film aside, the other two kind of left me cold. I saw the second one again the other day and I realised that for all its flashy budget, it amounted to very little. Richard Attenborough’s character loses his brain. Jeff Goldblum scowls a lot. Some baldy Pete Waterman lookalike character blunders around uselessly and then screams like a girl at the end when a dinosaur decides to eat him for tea. But hey, good effects, right?
Back in Doctor Who-land, Invasion Of The Dinosaurs works on the reverse principle.
- 8/30/2010
- by admin@shadowlocked.com (John Bensalhia)
- Shadowlocked
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