Comments on: Retrotechtacular: The Revolutionary Visual Effects of King Kong https://hackaday.com/2023/03/10/retrotechtacular-the-revolutionary-visual-effects-of-king-kong/ Fresh hacks every day Tue, 14 Mar 2023 19:05:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 By: Jace https://hackaday.com/2023/03/10/retrotechtacular-the-revolutionary-visual-effects-of-king-kong/#comment-6614798 Tue, 14 Mar 2023 19:05:23 +0000 https://hackaday.com/?p=579767#comment-6614798 In reply to shod.

I took it more as maintaining the original films’ look.
Almost vindicating the originals by way of “no, those weren’t bad puppets, those aliens really looked like that!”

]]> By: tony https://hackaday.com/2023/03/10/retrotechtacular-the-revolutionary-visual-effects-of-king-kong/#comment-6614266 Mon, 13 Mar 2023 11:08:21 +0000 https://hackaday.com/?p=579767#comment-6614266 Who needs CGI when you can use guys in rubber suits:
Say hi Godzilla.

]]> By: Miles https://hackaday.com/2023/03/10/retrotechtacular-the-revolutionary-visual-effects-of-king-kong/#comment-6613637 Sun, 12 Mar 2023 03:44:08 +0000 https://hackaday.com/?p=579767#comment-6613637 Harryhausen is great. Go check out ‘first men in the moon’ great movie.

Also honorable mention to last show that leaned heavily on practical puppetry: Farscape

]]> By: echodelta https://hackaday.com/2023/03/10/retrotechtacular-the-revolutionary-visual-effects-of-king-kong/#comment-6613428 Sat, 11 Mar 2023 17:18:37 +0000 https://hackaday.com/?p=579767#comment-6613428 In reply to shod.

Kukla Fran and Ollie was once great entertainment. Bored me as a kid. Now I know I’ll pass on the Star XXX franchises.

]]> By: shod https://hackaday.com/2023/03/10/retrotechtacular-the-revolutionary-visual-effects-of-king-kong/#comment-6613311 Sat, 11 Mar 2023 13:10:55 +0000 https://hackaday.com/?p=579767#comment-6613311 Did you see the first episode of season 3 of ‘the mandelorian’? Awful non-CGI puppets still exist in the entertainment industry. Those bits were so bad that you wonder why absolutely nobody stepped in.
Those monkeys in the tree, goddamn that was awful.

]]> By: Sheff https://hackaday.com/2023/03/10/retrotechtacular-the-revolutionary-visual-effects-of-king-kong/#comment-6613062 Sat, 11 Mar 2023 03:40:30 +0000 https://hackaday.com/?p=579767#comment-6613062 In reply to Hirudinea.

No, he is half left. …….. I’ll let myself out.——>

]]> By: Drone https://hackaday.com/2023/03/10/retrotechtacular-the-revolutionary-visual-effects-of-king-kong/#comment-6613011 Sat, 11 Mar 2023 01:29:55 +0000 https://hackaday.com/?p=579767#comment-6613011 The special effects in King Kong 1933 were brought to life through the use of stop-motion animation by Willis O’Brien and his assistant animator, Buzz Gibson.[1][2] Mighty Joe Young (1949), on which O’Brien is credited as Technical Creator, won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects in 1950. Credit for the award went to the film’s producers, RKO Productions, but O’Brien was also awarded a statue, this time proudly accepted by him. O’Brien was assisted by his protege (and successor) Ray Harryhausen and Pete Peterson on this film, and by some accounts left the majority of the animation to them. Raymond Frederick Harryhausen[3] (June 29, 1920 – May 7, 2013) was an American-British animator and special effects creator who created a form of stop motion model animation known as “Dynamation”.[4] Harryhausen’s works include the animation for Mighty Joe Young (1949) with his mentor Willis H. O’Brien (for which the latter won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects); Harryhausen’s first color film, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958); and Jason and the Argonauts (1963), which featured a sword fight with seven skeleton warriors. His last film was Clash of the Titans (1981), after which he retired.

* References:

1. King Kong (1933 film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Kong_(1933_film)

2. Willis H. O’Brien

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willis_H._O%27Brien

3. Ray Harryhausen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Harryhausen

4. Ray Harryhausen, Whose Creatures Battled Jason and Sinbad, Dies at 92, by Patrick J. Lyons May 7, 2013 [Warning: May be paywall restricted for some viewers.]

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/08/movies/ray-harryhausen-cinematic-special-effects-innovator-dies-at-92.html

]]>