Excerpt from King Kong Prequel by Eric Kessler

[cartoonballoons1]

Your very first stop motion--ever? Wow! Nice--great sets, too. I started with GI Joes 30 years ago. I still have my Kong ball-and-socket armature, but I never did do the full puppet. Did you build this one? It looks awesome! Very impressed. Kong is the movie that brought me to Hollywood to work in movies.

[TenderTrap86]

This is really good. Stop motion is so awesome. True art.

[theshadow1932]

Wow, I am SO far beyond impressed. Great work. The ONLY criticism I could make would be that your blue sky looks a little too flat and a little too strongly colored. You say that you're going to add backgrounds, so maybe I'm mistaking your blue screen for a sky. If so, sorry.

Keep it up,

Norm

[codzilla12]

I have two of that same T-rex XD

[parnala86]

its dumb

[BobbyProFilms]

willis o brien would be happy xD

[BobbyProFilms]

lolz i noticed u put some veloceraptor sounds at parts

[mujawooja]

Great sets and some great animation of Kong.

Look forward to more.

[JesseRex1]

king kongs growl was a leopard growl and a walrus growl, I have those sounds on I MOVIE 09.

[JesseRex1]

this is the video that inspired me to make my feature length stop-motion movie!

[KingCesar10121]

can nyou make it in black & white, & give it even more of a 30's glossy feel to it?

[MHavenger34]

Extremely Awesome =D

[scappimiller]

Thank you so much for making this. This is great!

[Kingkongkessler]

thanks scapp, this was my first attempt at stop-motion, none of this will be in the movie-but it was fun doing it

[Gragorathegiantsnowb]

Hi kessler, nice video I love the stop motion!

I just uploaded a video the other day with a stop motion model I made roaring and walking around, check it out when you get the chance.

[Kingkongkessler]

thanks Gregora, I saw it already-nice job

[reddalek555]

What happened to that red t rex? does he kill it?

[KingKongFan]

This was brilliant.  I really love stop motion animation. Your videos are just great, looking forward to more...soon.

[Kingkongkessler]

thanks KKfan

[codedshadows133]

nice

[Kingkongkessler]

thanks

[Kingkongkessler]

thank you very much

[Critterm8tor]

woah!!!! wher'd you get a kong puppet???

[Kingkongkessler]

Jeff Yagher made the puppet and Tom Brierton made the armature

[mariogarv]

Very cool! this is a great fan work! i woul like to see one about Kong fighting agains the planes in the Empire State, or rampage in the city too >=)

[Kingkongkessler]

thanks, eventually I will get to that, but I have to finish up my movie first

[pylgrym]

Stupendous, as usual the art gets better and better....E-man don't forget to post a B & W vision of this!!

And don't forget the lines:

"A dinosaur, eh""

"Yes, Jack! a prehistoric beast!"

[Kingkongkessler]

thanks Pylgrym

will do

[matbergman]

That's a beautiful Kong puppet. 1:05 to 1:10 is some really nice character animation. And the original soundtrack remix is such a smart idea.

[monsterguy85]

is awsome work how did u make the whole thing up it looks like robot chicken

[HarleyRays]

Where on earth did you get those stop-motion puppets!?

[THEDUBOX]

lol

[CJKONGS]

Well done from a fellow KongIsKing member!

[tommywhiteboy]

all i know is that you use barbed wire...

[danarrow]

Eric's Kong has a multi-joined metal armature, just like the original Kong.

[tommywhiteboy]

i gotta ask....how do you make figures like this?

i need to know...cus i might do something like this

[packraptor1]

Nice job using a Jurassic Park T.rex.

[pastorZ]

Nice job!!

[bobmrmonster]

Hey- That was better than the original! And definately better than Jackson's!

[spidergremlin]

Kong has been built and animated excellently. Great work.

[pylgrym]

Stupendous Homage to the greats: Willis O'Brien and Marcel Delgado - not to mention the great Max Steiner!

[blaisingm]

Where on earth did you get the kong stop motion puppet?? It's far better than the one Peter Jackson's crew came up with when they were doing the remake! Please provide insight on this fantastic model!

[danarrow]

Please see my comments in response to the same question on the Kong vs. Pre-historic Vulture video.

[jbartexas]

Very interesting and ambitious video!! Great attention to detail in sets and the sync with the Kong sound track. The Kong model is the most authentic I have seen...I must know where it came from. Did you construct it? Keep up the good work.

[Cybopath]

Kool, I think being in Black and White would really ad something.

[BloodKong]

That was The best stop motion anamation i have ever seen

That was great Like the 33 kong And the music from the 33 Even the stroy line From 33 That was very very good do a 2nd version mate So The T-Rex and kong fight :)

U derserve this mate 5/5 

Did u use a DV cam ??

And did u use a program Like Stopmotionpro or istopmotion?

great work

[nittyranks]

Kess that is incredible (EmpireState)

[clamairy]

Awesome, Kess! I love how you made his fur move, just like 33 Kong!

[pisces4256]

Love it, {{{Kess}}} -- Alanna Smithee :)

[Viceroy2500]

Great stuff Kess!!!!