Stop Motion Works's video: West of Kashmir 1996 FX tests

00:01 -- Outdoor India village scene 00:22 -- Special effects - forced perspective, foreground miniatures 00:42 -- Matte painting, distant castle & background composited live action rear projection 00:59 -- Matte painting, distant castle & background composited live action rear projection 01:04 -- Stop motion effects - encounter with giant baboon-like creature, test scenes, rear projected live action, split screen combined with stop motion puppet Before the onslaught of all the current excess of Computer FX & Animation ... back about 1996, this 'proof of concept' tests were done by Jim Danforth, a special effects master & veteran using traditional & classic visual FX techniques. Here demonstrated - matte paintings, foreground forced perspective miniatures, and of course, stop motion creature character effects composited using rear screen projection. Ray Harryhausen's name is the most recognizable as one of the pioneers of special effects visual imagery, before CGI. Jim Danforth's name may not be as well known to the general public, but one might consider Jim Danforth (after Ray Harryhausen) also a master of traditional special visual effects. Jim Danforth - A prolific career in special effects. going back to 1960 https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0199453/ This was from a Japanese produced/authored, special effects DVD _____________________________ SUBSCRIBE & Click on NOTIFICATIONS BELL so that you will receive update notice when there are new posts/videos _____________________________