Posted on 04/14/2021 8:03:46 AM PDT by mylife
What if the 1963 movie Jason of the Argonauts had smoother stop-motion animation for its effects scenes made by the famous Ray Harryhausen? I used an AI program to interpolate the scene to a higher frame rate to see what that would look like.
You liked a similar video I did about 1933's King Kong, so I thought I'd do a sequel of sorts. What do you think of the results?
✨ Programs used: -I used Flowframes with RIFE to interpolate the framerate from 23.98 fps to 191.74 fps and then used FFMPEG to reduce that back to 60 fps. Flowframes is free and you can find it here: https://nmkd.itch.io/flowframes
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Daffy Doodles (opening): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78PQCMOB3zo
you have to see the film but the band was great too.
He better not mess with Rudolph.
I have been watching The X Files (1993-2002) on Hulu and notice that it is in widescreen format. I doubt the original was in widescreen.
Other old TV programs in some venues are simply zoomed up and cropped to fit the widescreen format. That deletes a lot of peripheral content.
The software technology is vastly improving the quality of older programs. And those older programs seem to be getting a significant amount of play. I watch more of them than the newer TV programs.
Stop that!!!
What if the 1963 movie Jason of the Argonauts had smoother stop-motion animation for its effects scenes made by the famous Ray Harryhausen? I used an AI program to interpolate the scene to a higher frame rate to see what that would look like.
You liked a similar video I did about 1933’s King Kong, so I thought I’d do a sequel of sorts.
No real difference. I remember taking my 10 year old to see Peter Jacksons ‘King Kong.’ We both are huge Kong fans and were looking forward to it. When we got out of the movie, I asked him what he thought. My son was disappointed. He said “Honestly dad, the original was much better.” I asked him why? He said that the black and white version made Kong more real. This is why moviesa are being ruined by computers. You can make it all look so realistic, but you can’t give pixels soul.
Its not as if the original is lost.
They’re Greeks. They all look Hispanic.
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The stop motion animation when 1984’s Terminator endoskeleton rose out of the fire is still awesome.
Don’t forget the American Indian who washes upon the shore! Gota include one of everyone!
Since it is a fantasy why not include time travelers from other eras!
[I can almost see the Argonauts bending each other over a beached dingy.]
“Beach Blanket-biters” with Frankie and not-Annette-Funicello.
That was stop motion?? Awesome!
***Other old TV programs in some venues are simply zoomed up and cropped to fit the widescreen format.***
Remember 1968 when GONE WITH THE WIND was re-released in wide screen? Trimmed at top and bottom some of the soldiers lost their heads.
Based on tv today Jason would be Jessica and a lesbian with a troop of Amazons:-)
Doesn’t look any different to me......................
And Yoda! It could be like a stupid Marvel movie.
Eh, it looked ‘cool’ and unreal and very active.
In the day it look amazing (be amazed) especially knowing it was one man’s handiwork.
Computer effects are cold and resemble a video game. Pow pow pow.
It needs a sequel. They never made it back home or faced the battle
I saw a slight difference but the fact that sometime the stop animation positioned the models body/limbs where it would not be in a smooth curving motion and the technique used did not address that, it just filled the gaps in between. To render the statues movement more natural an AI engine would have to be trained to take wire frames and to make them move smoothly and naturally and the another AI would render the 3 dimensional statue over the wire frame shot by shot. Is Harryhausen the man that the sushi restaurant got its name from in the computer animation movie 'Monsters, Inc.'?
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