a dinosaur tail or two

[MrColigings]

What are they made of? I tried it with modelling clay and it broke.

[tims44]

@MrColigings Hi there, These models are made with wire armatures, with cushion foam glued on and carved to the shape of the animal. Then a latex skin is made and glued on with latex.Look under animator cybercontroller's channel for a video which shows this process more or less. Type in how to make a stop motion dinosaur and one of his videos will appear near the top.

Thanks for watching.

[MrColigings]

@tims44 Thanks.

[prodprod]

When I used to do these things (many, many years ago, alas) I also did my share of plesiosaurs -- because you could animate them flat on the ground, it was really easy to make them "walk" and you didn't have to deal with trying to tie them down to the table top (I never did get to the point where my models (mostly clay or rubber on wire) got that sophisticated.

[gusbest1]

Fantastic Tim did you see my new spider pit test?

[Issacgrimnebulin]

Since when did pliesiosaurs (who were not dinosaurs) eat plants?

[NABACLIDUS]

NICE.... I Ike this...have you done anymore? Music is fab aswell.

[crysisfan64]

That animation was one of the funniest . you showed it to art classes today the pleisiorus.

[gilberto2168]

love this animation

[Dinobot2468]

lock ness monster 0:23

[RomneyGack]

Definitely reminds me of the "Crater Lake Monster". Good job!

[JesseRex1]

it reminds me of the Ghost of slumber mountain :D

[JesseRex1]

cool!

[tims44]

Thanks Googambyx.

[Moseslawgiver]

Your wife did the music, huh?

Tell her that she is very talented.

And so are you:)

[tims44]

Thanks Moseslawgiver,

However that was my niece who performed the music when she was in the eight grade. The film was made when I was in my early twenties.

Thanks for watching,

Tim

[thebreakfastmachine6]

hey terrific video! did you use the pleisiosaur armature for the lake monsater in "Fish Tales"? both the models are amazing looking. the t rex reminds me of a t rex in a book i have.

[tims44]

Thanks thebreakfastmachine,

No the models from the two films are different. The one from Fish Tales no longer exists, the rubber went bad and I had to throw him out. The one from this film, made in the eighties is still with us. Strange.

Thanks again for watching,

Tim

[Godzilla170]

Oh yes, forgot to ask, do you keep your models and armatures if the rubber rots?

[tims44]

Thanks Godzilla170,

Most of those old models are gone now. Many just had wire armatures. The two from this film still survive to this day however, but cannot be moved anymore.

Thanks again for watching,

Tim

[Godzilla170]

Great film! Just like Willis O Brien's! Your models and sets are fantastic!

[SuperMegalosaurus]

Very nice work, and great music too. It seems that every T-Rex has to scratch its nose at least one time in every stop motion movie, Willis O'Brien style!

Please excuse me if there are some mistakes in this message, English is not my native tongue.

[tims44]

Willis O'Brien's work inspired me to do stop motion, so no surprise there.

I'm glad you liked it.

Thanks for viewing.

[GameStub]

This stop motion is classic! Thanks.

[tims44]

Your welcome, GameStub,

This film was a lot of fun to make. I'm glad you liked it.

Thanks for watching.

Tim

[Blendre]

Awesome! Thanks for making this.

[tims44]

Your welcome, thank you for watching.

I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Tim

[baragon2001]

love the t-rex he looks like the 1974 godzilla

[tims44]

Thanks. He does kind of look that way. One of my close friends mentioned that when I made him in 1984.

Thanks for watching.

[reddalek555]

what did you use for skin?

[tims44]

The models have wire armatures covered in ordinary cushion foam. I sculpted skin textures on a slab of clay, then made a plaster mold of them. I poured liquid latex in the molds and when that cured, pulled out the now rubber skins and glued them onto the models.

[Mality]

I respect the time and craftsmanship that went to this...something totally lacking in today's world of computer-animated junk. The animals here had real personality!!!

[tims44]

Thanks so much for the kind words. Stop motion always has that same effect on me. I'm not sure why. You start on the first frame and work your way to the last frame, with no tweaking of frames inbetween. Maybe it is that total spontaneous aspect of the work, that the personality of the animator comes thru.

[blueyoshi36]

great job!

[tims44]

Thanks.

[reddalek555]

HOW DID THEY BOTH DIE?

[tims44]

I just wanted to end film. No real reason.

[reddalek555]

oh. your a legend!

[reddalek555]

i bet the plesiosaur was hard to animate!!! ha ha but you did realy well!! :B

[tims44]

The whole film was a lot of fun to make.

I hope you finish your model, I would love to see your animation.

Thanks for the comments.

[reddalek555]

weve just got some latex and is working really well!! i will leave a comment telling you when its done on your account! oh, and that video looks like the old lost world! ive got that and its pretty good.

[reddalek555]

the plesiosaur is awesome! i am planning to make a plesiosaur model for stop motion and should finish it in the christmas holidays

[gwangi09]

Great job. I made a few of my own stop-mos in the late 70s early 80's on 8mm film. Wish I could find them. But still, not as good as these. Great job! Harryhausen would be proud!

[tims44]

Thanks, kind praise indeed.

[biffmercury]

Another excellent animation you did. Makes me think of Harryhausen's allosaurus for his EVOLUTION film he made. I've got that issue of Cinemagic and that's a great photo of Danforth and Roger Dicken with the pleisiosaur model. How extensive is the background? Looks like a huge miniature set.

[tims44]

Thanks for the kind words. The set does not go much further than you see in the opening shot. It was probably 7 feet deep and 5 feet wide. The models are not huge, the t- rex is around 8 inches high and the pleiiosaur around 15 inches long. Thannks again for the kind words.

[blaisingm]

Nice dinos. Good to see something different like a Pleisiosaur. The only time I've ever seen that dino ever get respect was in "The Crater Lake Monster". An old 70's film about a lake with a killer stop mo Pleisiosaur.

[tims44]

Thanks to all for the kind words.

"Crater Lake Monster" is one of my favorite movies. I am refering to guilty pleasures obvously. But the inspiration for the Pleisiosaur actually came from a picture I saw in Cinemagic magazine of Roger Dicken and Jim Danforth with the Pleisiosaur sculpture from "When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth", another guilty pleasure. I hadn't seen the film at that time, just some photos.

[mesozoicisland22]

Cool Video, I loved the Pleisiosaur!

[drewnosaurus]

very cool... are those puppets made from latex?

[tims44]

The models are built up using cushion foam glued to the armature and trimmed. Skins and heads were sculpted in clay and molded in laytex and applied to the models.

[drewnosaurus]

thanx a lot:)

[stinkpotbaby]

Yes, in SuperDinomation. Fun movie.

[blaisingm]

This reminds me of the original Lost World 1925.

[hughlooks]

And to think, just about five years later, they started coming out with computer S-F/X programs.

[richragsdale]

really fun stuff!

[hinza007]

Nice and peaceful ending. Music fit in just perfect. Good job. so you posted the long movies after all? ;P