My father completely detests Ray Harryhausen stop-motion mythological movies, would you believe that?

@Leucrotta They seem completely opposed to you in a lot of ways, so yeah that tracks.

Stop-motion mythological movies sound pretty cool!

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@topaz Here's the fight with the skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts. This is from 1963 and for reference animated at 24 fps.

youtu.be/dqRjDGAJ5dc?si=muyU_H

@Leucrotta Oh, Greek mythology!

*eyes CRT speculatively* I bet I can do shenanigans to make it match a multiple of 24fps, avoid juddering, :3

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@Leucrotta (we run it at 70Hz most of the time which means even 60fps stuff judders)

@topaz Yeah; if you have anything interacting with live action you can't cheat, and you have to draw/move stuff 24 times each second. All this is Harryhausen himself animating (as well as he did the sculpting, made the armatures, etc) - so it's pretty incredible to me.

@Leucrotta Yeah, wow. We've never seen live action stop motion combo before.

@Leucrotta and I guess the guys had to stand still while they moved the skeletons, too!

@topaz Nope, the skeletons are composited in! They're about 1/6 scale.

@Leucrotta flailing your sword against nothing is nothing new, I see :3

@topaz I should probably NOT link the worst fight choreography I've seen in a movie, where the opponents are kinda randomly slashing and stabbing at points only vaguely near each other.

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