Film Will Vinton’s Coming!!!!!
posted by January 29 at 11:07 AM
onWill Vinton is the most amazing stop-motion animator to ever live.
Perhaps you remember these commercials?
But look at this:
Wallace and Gromit ain’t got shit.
Will Vinton is coming to the Northwest Film Forum this Saturday Feb 2 at 3 pm. He will speak and then they’re gonna show a bunch of his really early work. It is the Children’s Film Festival, so if you like to watch your movies with no accompanying gurgles, yelps, or “Mommy!”s, this show isn’t for you.
Also—I went to see The Robber Hotzenplotz at the CFF last weekend. I’m sure no one else in SlogLand saw it, but it was pretty amazing, until they started using computer animation for a crocodile-hybrid dog thing that looked terrible and was completely unnecessary to the story. Why did they feel the need to make a children’s film longer? Cut it off twenty minutes earlier and cut out the CGI and it’s a masterpiece.
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If you think that's amazing, you should check out Bruce Bickford. He will blow your mind.
That was fantastic.
Uh, did you just dis Wallace and Gromit? I'm comin' over there, Spool...
#1: Bruce Bickford is more psychedelic, but I think his actual physical animation is rougher. Vinton is amazing because his clay barely looks like clay.
Dammit! I'll be attending the Science Fiction Short Film Festival at Cinerama on the 2nd. Too... much... nerdery!
Will's the shit and The Adventures of Mark Twain is a great movie, but smack yourself repeatedly for dissing W&G.
please don't forget ray harryhausen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9kmjW73-v4
holy crap! I knew I recognized that face:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FnN9ltkHSw
Thank you @6. Vinton is good, but he's not quite in Harryhausen's league.
#6 & #8: The main difference between Harryhausen and Will Vinton is that Will Vinton can make believable people. Pioneers in animation always start with things and creatures--it is way easier to blow someone's mind with a creature. Ray Harryhausen didn't even really try to make people.
I will never forget watching Will Vinton's Christmas Special as a kid. Amazing stuff!
I will never forget watching Will Vinton's Christmas Special as a kid. Amazing stuff!
Claymation Christmas is awesome!
Sorry. I remember the California Raisins Christmas Special. Baaarf.
why would he try to make people when you can use real people and then concentrate on making medusa come to life? sorry, but i think medusa kicks ass over stop motion old man anyday. besides, he kind of pioneered stop motion after willis o'brien.
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