If this video had stopped at the first 10 seconds, I would still have upvoted for the ILM dude with the Ray Harryhausen tshirt.

*quality

Actually it is called Animation, and Cyrus is a master of it. Although it is probably a mixture -- nobody is a purist anymore.


From Wiki:
Animation
A style and a technique where you imitate film characters being animated by stop motion. The technique of moving rigidly and jerky by tensing muscles and using techniques similar to strobing and the robot makes it appear as if the dancer has been animated frame by frame. This style was heavily inspired by the dynamation films created by Ray Harryhausen, such as The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (1958).

And if you look at the list of male contestants, you'll see Cyrus having given himself the label of "animation."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_You_Think_You_Can_Dance_%28U.S._season_9%29#Top_20_Finalists

A Tribute To The Master of Stop-Motion: Ray Harryhausen has been added as a related post - related requested by PlayhousePals on that post.

Nod to Ray Harryhausen @ 1:00!!

>> ^dag:
I enjoyed the original when I was a kid. I remember the special effects for Pegasus being especially good at the time.


I still watch the original, along with Ray Harryhausen's other great works:

Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
Jason and the Argonauts
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
One Millions Years B.C.
Mysterious Island

I'm a big fan...

Ray Harryhausen's rejects

Automatic upvote for Ray Harryhausen!

Ray Harryhausen is the man!

where was Ray Harryhausen when ya needed im'??

"Well ol' man Johnson could have died in any one of five ways. His neck and back were broken, chest was crushed, his skull was fractured.... and here's one for Sherlock Holmes....there was enough formic acid in him to kill twenty men."

Converse to the opinion we simply tagged Ray's name on the film, Ray was indeed quite involved; he had final approval on all creative aspects of the film, including character design, script and VFX.
Would'nt be right any other way; the man is, well, Ray Harryhausen, right? Who would'nt want him to have a say?
The Pit and the Pendulum is the first of several EA Poe shorts planned to be Executive Produced by Ray Harryhausen in the near future. more on the films blog, www.thepitandthependulumshortfilm.blogspot.com
New Trailer in may, 2007, and the DVD release in June, 2007.

Other adaptions include:
--The New Gulliver (1935): Russian film by Aleksandr Ptushko about a Soviet schoolboy who dreams about ending up in Lilliput. Notable for its intricate puppetry and a decidedly strange twisting of Swift's tale in favor of Communist ideas. This was the first film to contain stop motion animation in nearly its entire running time.

--The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960): The first live action adaptation of Gulliver's Travels, but also incorporating the stop motion animation of Ray Harryhausen. It was directed by Jack Sher and starred Kerwin Mathews.

--The Adventures of Gulliver (1968): This animated series was directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. Young Gary Gulliver, voiced by Jerry Dexter, searches for his missing father in the land of Lilliput.

--Gulliver's Travels (1977): Live action/animated musical film directed by Peter R. Hunt and starring Richard Harris featuring the Lilliput voyage only.

--Gulliver's Travels (1979) : Animated cartoon made in Australia that was seen on Famous Classic Tales on CBS. It starred Ross Martin as Lemuel Gulliver and features two voyages.

--Gulliver's Travels (1992): Animated television series starring the voice of Terrence Scammell.

--Gulliver's Travels (1996): Live-action television mini-series starring Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen. In this version Dr. Gulliver has returned to his family from a long absence. The action shifts back and forth between flashbacks of his travels and the present where he is telling the story of his travel and has been committed to an asylum. It is notable for being one of the very few adaptations to feature all four voyages, and is considered the closest adaptation to the book, despite taking several liberties.

(from Wiki)

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