What if One Million Years B.C. Had Smoother Stop-Motion?

[@DocJerky]

This actually shows how good the original stop motion was!

[@companyfunnyvideo5260]

This tells how youre wife divorced you

[@Laffinty8908]

For it to be so fluid and not janky is extremely impressive to their attention to detail.

[@TheBootyman94]

All they needed was a camera to capture at a higher resolution

[@josephnash2081]

Part of the charm of Ray Harryhausen's Stop motion was the "uncanny valley" feel of his creations. For example, the metal giant Talos in the move "Jason and the Argonauts" was more scary because of it.

[@martabachynsky8545]

I think it would be better to not smooth the Talos' movements because "robots" in movies look better with a jerky motion; it seems more realistic (for the lack of a better term).

[@nayyarrashid4661]

Oh yes. I always felt an eerie uneasiness watching those and I wondered why is that.

[@TomSchreck-n1t]

That makes it look real!

[@exonut2477]

Smoothing the animation just shows you how well the artist got all the movement right. Amazing

[@m4xw311studios]

This needs to be like an anniversary re-release

[@JamesDTaylorSTL]

That looks SO much more realistic!

[@nicholasmorsovillo2752]

After watching videos like this I'm surprised no one has actually thought of doing this with this classic films.

[@joeyperkins888]

Cause it looks horrible compared to the original.

[@luckystriker7489]

I like this. I don't think it detracts from the original efforts of the stop-motion artists. If anything, it enhances their work. Nice!

[@iwannabesomewhereelse]

That's so cool! This combination of real and digital work is better than most of the modern cgi

[@matthewmacdonaldchannel1]

Having grown up on films like these, and worshipping the ground Ray Harryhausen walked on, I find your enhancements give this work a less uncanny feel. In particular, the allosaurus’s tail is mesmerizing now, while it was “really neat” in the original. And the pterodactyls’ wings are now, well, beautiful. I agree with the commenter saying you should talk to the distros about commissioning fully modified films. I would buy them in 4K. Well done. 😊

[@daegnaxqelil2733]

easy to say a a tasteless old man

[@Sol-Cutta]

Me too

[@rodritoxd2366]

I will always love movies with stop motion dinosaurs (especially if it's Ray Harryhausen)

[@rubeng370]

Being a 24 year old, I still am amazed by stop motion. They are awesome and shockingly Robocop was the last movie to have it. Before Jurassic Park canceled Stop Motion for CGI

[@HArryvajonas]

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[@calebclendenin7073]

RoboCop was not the last movie to have stop motion. There are still live action movies made containing stop motion and there were still a handful in the 90s.

[@HArryvajonas]

@@calebclendenin7073 To his point, that time frame of movies was the last time big studios used stop motion as a substitute for practical effects. In a sense, it was the pinnacle of the technology being used in that manner in live action movies. Since that time, it has been utilized for more artistic expression, as opposed to simulating real world characters and objects. The mid 1990s was the end of its use in that regard and probably the high point in its technical application. Miniatures on the other hand, are still in regular use and I am always surprised when I find out they are used, because they are rarely noticeable in modern movies.

[@cesarmorales9138]

1:29

[@bryal7811]

These look fantastic

[@MrSupergenius]

Smoothing out Ray Hs stop-motion is like smoothing out the brush strokes on the Mona Lisa

[@infographie]

Excellent

[@philiptonymcgrawjrthephilm1570]

I Love to See The Beast From 20 000 Fathoms and The Giant Behemoth and Dinosaurus and King Kong Vs Godzilla and Planet Of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Beast with smooth stop Motion blurr

[@HArryvajonas]

Is there any talk of this being applied to officially remaster old movies with stop motion? People have been producing these remasters for several years now, and they have all been quite impressive. I hope movie studios take advantatge of this upscaling tech. I think, the Robocop remaster benefits the most, out of the handful I am aware of.

[@emptycore896]

I hope they don't. The AI smoothing really detracts from the visible labour involved. It'd be like replacing the Mona Lisa with a 4k print, or plastering the pyramids. The dynamation was on 24s to match the footage - now it looks like everything is moving faster than the people. Don't George Lucas the old films.

[@lennydaiglejr3094]

I have to say, I like the results, particularly with flying creatures.

[@00Resev]

Oh wow, that actually looks really nice. This doesn't often work that well with stop animation, but in this instance its blended really well. The thing is, i can't tell how much of it is Cap's work making it look that much better, and how much can be attributed to the original animation, which is very detailed. (Stop motion is a PITA to do, but this example seems well above average (lighting is meh, but that's expected)).

[@CaptRobau]

It is a great movie to be working off of. When making it I realized the end result was very nice because while there are a lot of interactions between people and dinosaurs, they are usually on either of the screen (left/right, top/bottom). That made it easy to mask it so that the people could run in the normal framerate and the monsters at the higher framerate. This reduces the soap opera effect I've had in previous movies where people and monsters are both on screen couldn't be masked out. People never look at higher framerates. Luckily here I could separate the two.

[@joeydaniel3053]

@@CaptRobau but wouldn't it look a bit off if the humans and dinosaurs have both different fps? I think it would be more obvious that the dinosaur were inserted rather than giving the illusion that both parties are in the same world

[@takodachi8283]

That's the thing with these old stop motion, it really benefits from a higher frame rating without losing that stop motion feeling.

[@takodachi8283]

@@joeydaniel3053 It's already obvious with so motion.

[@ktrimbach5771]

It doesn’t really change much for me. The fantastical nature of the beasts is what set them apart.

[@Laufield]

Stop motion and 120 fps looks realistic than CGI 😮

[@NoahCallenberg]

That‘s because stop motion uses real objects

[@Fleischkopf]

ohe of the rare cases where the interpolationmethod actually works realy well. but sometimes it seams, that the textures on the dinosaurs are getting a little to smooth

[@stevemuzak8526]

So much better than original.

[@sbbinahee]

Im struggling to eee any any difference to be honest...

[@scalz420]

thats sick bro

[@newbienoobframebyframe4108]

Honestly. While the improved versions look indeed better. The originals actually hold up really well...

[@wolvenar]

It's much better, but I can still note a little jerkiness here and there. Particularly when the stop motion object is larger. Then again I grew up with stop motion in all sorts of movies and shows and enjoy it.

[@HankMeyer]

You should go to the offices of the various companies that have distribution rights for movies that have these stop motion sequences, and propose re-releases with these enhancements.

[@matthewmacdonaldchannel1]

Completely agree, and said so in my comment. :)

[@martabachynsky8545]

This is really great! If this were fully modded, the giant spiders should remain regular stop motion (I seem to remember them, or was there only one?). The reason is: have you ever watched how spiders move? They look like real-life stop motion to me.

[@spiritof6663]

Is it just me or am I not detecting too much difference between the originals and the AI-tweaked scenes? I can see a little bit of difference, but not much.

[@worksofarn429]

Those time's stop motion looks more realistic than today's CGI's 😮😮😮

[@Beowulf_93]

those animals looks more authentic than cgi.

[@Si-Al-Ti]

If only they had the power of AI back in the 60s.

[@spyhardman]

I think it would be interesting if you pulled back a bit with these experiments. The stop motion in most movies looks jerky because it's shot on twos (every other frame), so it's half as smooth as the other elements. Essentially, there's a mismatch between the actors running around at 24 fps and the creatures moving at 12 fps. I'd be curious to see what it would look like if you got the monsters up to 24, matching the rest of the film, rather than cranking everything up so high. The result would be closer to what we might have gotten if they had spent twice as long working on those original shots. The super smooth look that you're shooting for is not to my taste, but I realize that's a more subjective thing. I'd love to see you revisit Robocop for instance, and make those ED-209 shots actually match the rest of the movie as originally shot, with everything going at a full 24. Anyway, I appreciate the effort that goes into these things. I've messed with some of those tools, and I know that there's a lot of fiddling around if you want a decent result. :)

[@trevormoffat4054]

Surely Lucas must be eyeing this for another re-release of Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Those imperial walkers could be looking much more realistic,.. and the Tauntauns.

[@oluhamilton2121]

RH did a stellar job. Re-interpreting it has a way to go.

[@lucassalomon3144]

Some people may not like this, but i think it serves as a way to highlight how good people animating this stop motion were. Watching this so smoothly you can see better the great flow in the movements. I don't know if this would be considered cheating nowadays as a way to enhance stopmotion in a big production. But I sure hope so they start using tools like these to complement the great work they do.

[@sharptoothtrex4486]

Rest In Peace Raquel Welch

[@brucedavis3816]

Tomak the first bad boy!

[@ReviveHF]

Can you do the same for The Witches 1990 version?

[@dennisscott2396]

It would make the movies look a lot better 😁😊

[@dennisscott2396]

Thank you friend i really appreciate it 😁😁😊😎

[@dennisscott2396]

Thank you again my friend 😁😊

[@limmeingo3428]

Can you upload if The Animal World (1956) had smoother stop motion or The Valley of Gwangi with smoother stop motiob

[@CaptRobau]

I will do more Ray Harryhausen movies in the future. I'll be sure to keep those two movies in mind when I make another.

[@jwallaby7895]

Seeing Raquel Welch run around in higher franerates is quite a welcome upgrade! 😉

[@DavidRTribble]

Hay, what about the film "Caveman", with Ringo Starr?

[@tidepoolclipper8657]

Like with OG King Kong, they feel less like animals and more like rather advanced animatronics. I feel that 30 to 90 fps would prevent them from looking too unnatural with their movements.

[@YarDarkwood]

Wow how far can interpolation go? I've seen some time crunched anime that was just forced to use animation key-frames. Could that be bumped up?

[@CaptRobau]

Do you have examples of such anime? I can try.

[@masaicla]

I ❤them all😈👽🦖

[@Modernnannenginemarineengine]

What what the original was hyper cool. Harry house Hausen was the master. Just look at THE SKELUNGTONS FROM HASON ARGONAUTS

[@momo.ru-kun]

What if you fixed the whole film and released it instead?

[@markosmkpteam490]

0:25 que decia la gente en el cine....cuando veia que el fondo se movia ? no se sentia estafada ? claro que no...sabian el esfuerzo que los cineastas ponian en esas peliculas....y lo que importaba era el contexto en si, y no " un cable que se vea " o un dinosaurio que se movia raro...hoy en dia, lloran porque a superman se le nota el bigote " quitado " por CGI....

[@teresas8173]

I prefer the original

[@RyDaCol]

How was this dpme

[@KusanagiMotoko100]

Primal Rage.

[@alexprost7505]

помню смотрел это мелким, там к пешерным людям попала сэкси блондинка из другого племени) сейчас бы это кино сняли в другом жанре)

[@OtherWorldExplorers]

The original capture seems to have some warping going on. Particularly around where the stop motion creature is and where the action is. Particularly the rocks in the pterodactyl scene. Just watch the rocks and you'll see what I mean. That being set aside I do like the 120 frames per second better. It still contains that charm of stop-motion but not nearly as jerky.

[@CaptRobau]

The warping could be a result of the production process of the stop-motion, as it is a regular transfer of the movie itself. Anyway glad you like the high frame rate experiment. I thought it turned out well myself too.

[@asapumasidum2722]

If in 1992 ILM knew this software, Steven Spielberg would have accepted stop motion animation, instead it did not know it and S. Spielberg ordered it to use CGI 3D models animated by stop motion animators. James Cameron did not know this software, if not he would have used it in the BD of Terminator where Terminator, when it is without flesh, moves according to classic stop motion animation. What a pity.

[@tengkuadam1399]

Well to be fair to them, the company that made this was founded in 2005 and they only released the Video AI Enhancer in 2020.

[@Appreciation-Community]

Let me get a reboot of the dinosaur arcade fighting game Primal Rage with graphics like this please.

[@c.d.rstudios4691]

Primal rage is ace

[@nskgamer4878]

А человеков засмуфить не подумали? Куклы то теперь плавно двигаются, а люди всё так же в 24 фпс)

[@Clay3613]

It doesn't work for me, they move too fast and jerky compared to weightiness of the original.

[@companyfunnyvideo5260]

WHO CARES

[@Nicola_Bailey]

The added motion blur just makes the dinosaurs appear out of focus which looks awful. For some of the scenes the difference was not that legible either.

[@EndreBarathArt]

somehow the original is more dramatical

[@laveyanist]

Well, I really don't like AI interpolation 'fixing' animation and giving higher framerates to shit, I think it looks bad and ridiculously awkward. But at the very least, thank you for finally telling me what fucking movie it was I saw as a kid with the triceratops fight

[@bernardmolan2976]

Evan at eight times smoother and motion blur it still looks bad.

[@robertrodriguez7087]

The "smoothing" is pushed waaaay too far. It's bad enough when people have "tru-motion" turned on on their TVs. Having it just be on part of the frame makes it even more distracting. I do think these processes can work well with stop motion, but this just feels like pushing things as far as they can go just for the sake of it. I do wonder what it might look like on some of Phil Tippet's stuff though, like Dragonslayer, or Robocop 2.

[@Sol-Cutta]

Not that much in them

[@eXcommunicate1979]

First

[@giorgospapoutsakis5271]

Nobody cares

[@Reven-xm3gb]

Evil dead with smoother stop motion?

[@jackowen5822]

100th comment

Don't notice a difference

[@Pottasium92]

Somehow the "smooth" one kinda look more lifeless than the original

[@companyfunnyvideo5260]

T_T bruh hes making stop motion better

[@mr.b9613]

​@@companyfunnyvideo5260no it's not, smoother is not better, it gives off the soap opera effect terribly. Adding frames doesn't make stop motion better, correctly using motion blur and frame interpolation does

[@chelsvinomedved]

This sucks in both ways

[@companyfunnyvideo5260]

And its you