He was a stop motion animator from 1915-1962 who used models as his technique.”was responsible for some of the best-known images in cinema history,” and is best remembered for his work The lost world (1925), King Kong (1933) and Mighty Joe Young (1949), for which he won the 1950 Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.
Clay Models: Unlike most clay figures used for animation, clay models have an inner metal skeleton designed to allow them realistic movements and expressions.
Build-Up Models: these type of models are more expensive and detailed than clay models. they are made by building up pieces of foam on a metal skeleton it to create a body, and then either brushing on several layers of liquid latex on top, or casting soft rubbery skins and attaching then to the padded armature.
“Casted” Models: this type of models are the most expensive type used in the industry and are longer-lasting than the other types. these models start as clay sculptures that on top of them a 2 (or more) part mold is made in order to reproduct all the details of it. then the mold parts are assembled with an armature inside of them, and are filled with a liquid material (foam latex, silicone rubber, urethan foam, etc.) that then forms a soft rubbery “flesh” over the skeleton.
Silent shorts:
Edison Studio’s Conquest Pictures (half-reel shorts):
- Morpheus Mike (1917) (Made in 1915)
- Prehistoric Poultry, The Dinornis of Great Roaring Whiffenpoof (1916)
- The Birth of a Flivver (1917) (made in 1916)
- R.F.D. 10,000 B.C.: A Mannikin Comedy full-reel short (1917)
- Curious Pets of Our Ancestors (1917)
I really like the way how he does all his shoots very smoothly. it can be seen that the animation was done by professional person.
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