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Here is a short animation piece inspired by Ray Harryhausen's drawing of an allosaur climbing over huge granite letters that he sketched as a proposed poster design for "One Million Years B.C." (reproduced on page 82 of "The Art of Ray Harryhausen").

Thank you Mr. Harryhausen, and may you enjoy a wonderful birthday!

Mark Sullivan

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[gizmo102188]

Wow, amazing work! I'm trying to get into stop-motion myself, where did you learn to make puppets like that?

[589como]

@gizmo102188 @gizmo102188

Hi Giz,

I used to buy Cinemagic magazine back in the '70's. It had some helpful articles about making stop motion puppets. A good source nowadays is

is the stop motion forum site.

There is at lot of information in the puppet construction forum folders.

Good luck, have fun!

[589como]

@gizmo102188

@gizmo102188

Dear Giz,

I used to buy Cinemagic magazine back in the '70's. It had some helpful articles about making stop motion puppets. A good source nowadays is

the stop motion animation forum site. You should be able to google it (Youtube doesn't seem to allow URLs in replies).

There is at lot of information in the puppet construction forum folders.

Good luck, have fun!

[589como]

Hello folks,

Thanks for the kind comments!

Rmir72, yes the allosaur was a "build up" type of model made by friend Rocco Gioffre. He glued pieces of foam rubber on to the armature. I hope to use the dimetrodon puppet in another project, someday..

Mark

[gizmo102188]

@kezadrone Oh...Cool! :D

[kezadrone]

@gizmo102188 This is Mark Sullivan. The guy who created the matte paintings for Rain man and Lord of the rings to name a few and the stop-motion sequences for House 2 the second story.

[Artdecovampire]

I am in awe of the quality of this piece. I think its time stop motion was revisited by the major companies and use it for a re-make of The Lost World. Having animated articulated toys and Aurora Pre-historic scenes models I think I might be inspired eneough to go and build a decent puppet myself

[axis3d]

That is absolutely great work! The look and feel of it is perfect and captures the O'Brien / Harryhausen flavor. The slight bit of go-motion blurring to the allosaur adds to a contemporary stop-motion feel. Definitely not enough of this type of work being made these days. Please post more if you have it!

[gizmo102188]

@589como

cool, thanks!

[gizmo102188]

@589como

Cool, thanks you very much!

[TheCGIMaster]

hmm either thats extremely amazing stop motion or thats cgi :D