Any fans of stop motion photography?
 

I just recently watched 20 Million Miles to Earth, King Kong, Son of Kong and Mighty Joe Young... I really enjoyed the stop motion photography effects of Ray Harryhausen and Willis O'Brien.
I was wondering if there were some other classic films that You might recommend that featured stop motion photography.

i think the origional of The Lost World has it ..


if you want to have fun - there's free software on the net available that lets you create your own stop motion movies ..

i did a 10 second film of my kids mega block dragon flapping its wings :D

You can see some stop-motion work of mine on the new DVD of "The Entity" (there's a documentary I did some stuff for). One of my favorite movies featuring quite a bit of stop motion is one no one ever thinks about..."The Empire Strikes Back" (!)

How and where? I'm interested.

Different kind of stop-motion...

...but what about Nightmare Before Christmas?!?

http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.ya...ickortreat.jpg

look for a free software called Monkey Jam.

let me know if you cant find it ..

Found it and downloaded it, thank you very much. Can't wait to play around with it.

no prob .. its pretty easy to use .. i figured it out (enough to make a little clip) without reading anything in about 5 min..

i used my digi cam to take pics of gradual movement at the lowest possible quality setting.


obvious hint - try to anchor your subject fast - and mark its position .. the slightest movements can spoil the effect

Other stop-motion movies...

Well, this year's Oscar winner WALLACE AND GROMIT CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT. Oh wait, that's too new to mention in a thread about "classics."

One of my favorite HARRYHAUSEN films in GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD. I always find the stroboscopic look of stop-motion easier to tolerate in fantasy films where everything is make-believe.

MYSTERIOUS ISLAND is good, too; in fact, any of the Harryhausen flms are worth watching for the effects alone.

How about Jason and the Argonaughts...I love the skeleton fighting scene