{"id":11344,"date":"2011-08-30T07:32:32","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T11:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=11344"},"modified":"2011-08-05T13:26:09","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T17:26:09","slug":"harryhausens-creatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=11344","title":{"rendered":"Harryhausen&#8217;s Creatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man, do I love me some Ray Harryhausen.  I&#8217;ve seen occasional comments&#8211;largely from people too young to remember what movie special effects looked like before the advent of CGI&#8211;that his creatures look rather clunky, and they are admittedly not as smooth as today&#8217;s computer animations.  What makes his work so amazing, though, is not only the technical artistry (you guys, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stop_motion_animation\">stop-motion animation<\/a> is <em>hard<\/em>) but also how memorable his characters were.  The bit in <i>Jason and the Argonauts<\/i> when the skeletal Children of the Hydra attack (around 3:25 in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5yYeZMx1Y7U\">this clip<\/a>) haunted my childhood.<\/p>\n<p>Some kind soul has compiled a collection of all of Harryhausen&#8217;s stop-motion work in chronological order, from harpies to giant walruses.  They are just splendid.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"349\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/U9kmjW73-v4?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/U9kmjW73-v4?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><i>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\">BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man, do I love me some Ray Harryhausen. I&#8217;ve seen occasional comments&#8211;largely from people too young to remember what movie special effects looked like before the advent of CGI&#8211;that his creatures look rather clunky, and they are admittedly not as smooth as today&#8217;s computer animations. What makes his work so amazing, though, is not only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11344"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11876,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11344\/revisions\/11876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}