Willis O’Brien
Willis O’Brien was an excessive artist pioneer of
American stop motion, who was born in California in 1886. O’Brien held a number
of jobs and hobbies during his developmental years. His careers that consisted
of serving as a guide to studying the forms of life in Creater Lake region as
well as being a sculptor and illustrator. One day, while constructing models
with his colleague O’Brien thought idea that he recognized that he could
animate the prototypes on the same techniques that cartoonists used to animate
drawings by constructing a prototype then moving its part frame by frame at a
time to create the illusion of movement, he could give the prototypes a
cinematic life. Through this method of stop motion animation had been invented
and used already.
On the
day he got back the first printed footage of
King Kong 1933 in motion he noticed that the fur covering the
puppet moved because it was disturbed by his fingers during filming. In my
opinion, Willis O’ Briens work stands out great in terms of usage of techniques
and movement which takes a lot of time moving a figure frame by frame, it’s
also interesting the way the figures move to give it an illusion of movement.
Willis O’Brien, available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grMo5-2Y5oc&feature=related
Willis O’Brien, available at: http://silentmoviemonsters.tripod.com/TheLostWorld/LWOBIE.html
Willis O’Brien, available at: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0639891/bio
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