Kali motion blur test

This is a clip from the golden voyage of sinbad where he fights the 6 armed statue Kali. I added motion blur to see how well it would affect the illusion of movement. While it adds alot to it, sadly Harryhausen did not shoot Kali at a full 30 fps (28 I think) so there are jerky parts because of double frames in the shot I'm finding ways to remedy this though. Anyway I did this as a way to show that stop motion should not be ignored as a special effects artform as the results can be as good if not better then cgi in some cases.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Kali
• Stop
• motion
• animation
• harryhausen

[Changoyomi]

this is cool, man... I love this flick so much... what was your method to retouching this scene? it looks so fucking awesome... so real... I agree with keeping stop-motion around... it's like another element to create illusion (movies), the first element...

[R1N6MAN]

I used a plugin for After Effects called REEL Smart Motion blur.

[Capng123]

This is some fine work. Lucas of course attempted to remedy this in-camera with his "go-motion" technology but ultimately we wound up living in CGI land.

I think with reprocessing like this and using computer assistance a la Nightmare Before Christmas that stop motion is still as valid a filmmaking tool as it ever was.

[albee1000]

This is really quite good! Kali does sort of have a surreal 3D quality. Have you ever thought of doing a sort of side-by-side comparison, so people can see the difference?

Good job!

[tims44]

Hey there Caping123,

Sorry about mentioning the framerate. Sometimes I am just too picky, I wasn't really trying to show you up or anything like that, from reading your posts I am sure you know what you are talking about.

Anyway Ray did shoot most of his stuff on ones since it had to match live action footage which of coarse is shot on ones.

Best,

Tim

[Capng123]

I meant there were only 12 images, "12fps" was a poor choice of words on my part.

[tims44]

Ray shot almost all of his animations on ones. That is 24 moves he had to make for one second of film. This scene is done on ones. Just because someone shoots on twos does not change the playback framerate of 24 fps.

[Capng123]

As an animator he's most likely shooting "on twos" ie every pose is shot on two frames, so in reality it's 12fps making the movements even more static. On the other hand he could be shooting "on ones" but with 18fps film. Depends on the studio and the budget too.

[akiratubo]

Looks great!  Good work.

[monkeyjb1988]

Nice work R1N6MAN. I would like to use stop-motion for visual effects, but I assumed it would be laughed at due to the slight strobing. This proves that Stop Motion is effective. Thank you (Yeah, I'm that amazed).

[wolfgar45]

this is just to show that swords don't work on swords.

only the tip of your limbs work.