What If Jason and the Argonauts Had Smoother Stop-Motion?
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Published 2021-03-31
You liked a similar video I did about 1933's King Kong, so I thought I'd do a sequel of sorts. What do you think of the results?
✨ Programs used:
-I used Flowframes with RIFE to interpolate the framerate from 23.98 fps to 191.74 fps and then used FFMPEG to reduce that back to 60 fps. Flowframes is free and you can find it here: nmkd.itch.io/flowframes
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All Comments (21)
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The original of the statue works so well because that’s how I’d imagine a bronze statue to move like.
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The Skeletons looked better, but there's something about the jerkiness of the bronze statue in the original framerate that made it more menacing.
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Proof that an active understanding of the rules of animation is more important than frames per second. Ray Harryhausen was really a great.
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For a movie from 1963, this is still unbelievably far ahead of its time and so well done
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The original bronze statue was intentionally made to have stilted animation in order to simulate metal having a tough time deforming in order to move. Ray even expressed his frustration with executives that couldn't understand this.
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Makes you realize just how impressive this movie was when it came out. It's really not bad even on original form
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the jerky stop motion is a huge part of the charm and depth of the characters. they are all much more menacing in the original, especially the bronze giant and skeletons. they just felt other-worldly and trigger the uncanny valley enough to make you uneasy just looking at them. and all these years later, this still holds up incredibly well. it gives me just the same feeling now at 35 as it did when i was 6. i love it
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The scene with the boat and statue behind looks menacing in the original. Smoothing it out somehow makes it stand out more that it is a blue screen effect.
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I think the appeal of the original is just how 'jerky' the movements of things are. Its that unnatural jerkiness that makes the monsters that much more terrifying
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Funnily enough it’s the slightly jerky animation that gives its the terrifyingly timeless appeal
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The effects have aged incredibly well
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The statue is so terrifying. What a cool scene!
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I remember a documentary years and years ago, where Ray H. intentionally made the Bronze statue move kinda herky jerky to show that he was in fact made of metal. Both look great, but I prefer the original tbh.
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It is a testament to Harryhausen's genius that the higher frame rate really doesn't make the animation look any better.
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It does add a realism but it really shows how amazing Ray Harryhausen was. Without modern technique was able to create something so close. Legend.
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I think Ray Harryhausen would agree, the jerkiness of large objects definitely gave it mass thus making it more scary, also the jerkiness worked better with the skitterish of the skeletons, but everything else looks like a huge improvement. RIP Harryhausen you were a movie wizard.
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The smoother effects kind of look neat, but, at the same time, it makes the creatures look more like they aren't actually there.
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The slightly unnatural movement of the monsters is what makes them so great and distinct.
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You managed to take something that was great and make it ok. Kudos.
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The genius of Ray Harryhausen. Not just a technical wizard but truly an awesome performer; he is ‘playing’ all of those stop motion characters, imbuing them with life and spirit so memorable they influenced everything that came after. Incredible.
