The precursor to the claymation classic Gumby was animator Art Clokey’s 1953 student film Gumbasia. The two would eventually collaborate on another giant gorilla movie, 1949’s Mighty Joe Young.
O’Brien himself mentored a young Ray Harryhausen in the years following Kong.
Animated by American stop-motion pioneer Willis O’Brien. O’Brien’s work on King Kong captured the imagination of the public and inspired an entire generation of stop-motion animators and future special effects pioneers. Kong’s summit of the Empire State Building is without a doubt one of the most famous scenes in all of cinema. King Kong (1933) – The Empire State Building Films like these would lay the foundations for later, more advanced stop-motion effects. The stop-motion technique is used to speed up the appearance of the bakers dough sculpting. One of the earliest recorded uses of stop-motion animation comes from the 1902 Edison Company Film Fun in a Bakery Shop. To celebrate this great craft, we’ve assembled a list of some of the most important, impressive and interesting moments in the history of stop-motion animation. Tippett would go on to create memorable stop-motion effects in the Star Wars and Indiana Jones movies, and would eventually bring the century old craft into the digital era.īut stop-motion isn’t just about the creature effects of O’Brien, Harryhausen, and Tippett. From pinscreen animation, cut-out animation, puppet animation, and more – there are so many amazing ways in which stop-motion effects have been used over the decades.
O’Brien would in turn train and later collaborate with none other than Ray Harryhausen, the animator whose work would inspire generations of filmmakers and effects artists – not to mention a film writer or two. One such individual was Phil Tippett, who after seeing The 7th Voyage of Sinbad as a child became determined to get into the special effects business. Willis O’Brien, the animator responsible for the stop-motion creature effects in 1933’s King Kong actually got his start animating movies for Edison’s company. Thomas Edison, or more likely those he employed, were some of the earliest stop-motion pioneers, with early stop motion techniques appearing in Edison Company films as early as 1902.
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Movie Magic taught me about the lineage of some of the great special effects pioneers, specifically those specializing in stop-motion effects.
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I also watched uncounted hours of the documentary series Movie Magic – a show that gave viewers a behind the scenes look at the effects that went into Hollywood blockbusters of the late 80s and early 90s. Sadly, I did not have the means at my disposal to film any of these creations, but I know I would have given the opportunity.
I would mold creatures out of Plasticine and build massive models and structures out of Lego, destroying them in elaborately staged scenes. But at the time I really had no understanding of the connection between those Harryhausen films my mother rented for us and those Lucas/Spielberg movies I so loved.ĭespite living in an era that would be dominated by computer generated visual effects, I became obsessed with stop-motion animation and practical special effects. In fact, having just seen Jaws for the first time and Jurassic Park for perhaps the fourth or fifth time in theatres, I was pretty much fully immersed in the movie worlds of directors George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. By this point in my life the Star Wars and Indiana Jones movies were my holy grail. She’d grown up watching Jack the Giant Killer, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, Jason and the Argonauts and other films featuring Harryhausen’s amazing stop-motion creatures, and was eager to share the movies she had loved so much as a child with her two young boys. This had a profound effect on me and would eventually shape the way I looked at and thought about movies. When I was 10 years old my mother introduced my brother and I to the work of visual effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen. This is an updated version of a 2009 article republished to celebrate TIFF’s upcoming Magic Motion: The Art of Stop-Motion Animation film retrospective.
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