#go motion

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Building and animating Vermithrax Pejorative - Dragonslayer (1981)

[preciselywibble]

Something struck me about this scene: It's stop motion that has motion blur. It's been given the name "Go Motion", and there are a couple of different ways of achieving this, some old-fashioned techniques include "bumping" (a person nudges the model at the right time), or smearing petroleum jelly over the lens to match the areas that should be blurred. Modern programmable puppets can be linked to the camera shutter and move while the photo is taken.

In the sequence shown above, the train, Gromit, and the camera are all moved in sync over a 1-2 second exposure creating the extreme blur of the background.

[thinkbolt]

The Mascot (1933) dir. Wladyslaw Starewicz

Buy me a coffee!

[fuckyeahjurassicpark]

This is what full body velociraptors in Jurassic Park could’ve looked like before Steven Spielberg decided to go the CGI route.

Phil Tippet go-motion test circa 1991

[atomic-chronoscaph]

The Rancor - Go-Motion by Phil Tippett and Tom St. Amand - Return of the Jedi (1983)

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)

[the-chill-remains]

Symposiums - Reverse Shot

Dragonslayer

The study of a movie year, neither here nor there, in between cinematic renaissances.

[roguetelemetry]

Phil Tippett animated Ed-209, Vermithrax Perjorative and the taun tauns in Empire Strikes Back. 2020 gave him time to go back to a project that he had brewing since the 90s, Mad God. Looks fucking amazing.