MORE PRE-CGI MODEL STUFF...

[jingle_jangle]

[cjj]

Man, what a lot of work! CGI has really changed all that stuff. Cool vid, thanks for posting it!

[deaconblues]

Fascinating...so much creativity. Thanks for sharing.

[jps]

Man, what a lot of work! CGI has really changed all that stuff. Cool vid, thanks for posting it!

How about this kind of pre CGI stuff?

[brycycle]

or this!:

http://www.fantasticmrfoxmovie.com/

i'll take a 'convential' Wes Anderson animated feature over Avatar any day of the week.

[jingle_jangle]

Big Wallace and Gromit fan here. My daughter tells me I look like Wallace...

I originally moved to LA back in the late '70s to work in the movie industry, doing effects. I interviewed with two of the big effects houses and was quickly (dis) abused of this notion. The owners--buddies and heavy competitors for the same business--were both complete jerks. Uh-uh.

So...eventually I went on my own, met some cool people in the prop biz, and ended up contributing to lots of movies. While we're on the subject of Avatar, a chair that I built back in the early '90s turned up in one scene. It's a modified version of the chair I did for Batman Returns, which also is seen in one of the Austin Powers films. I also did stuff for Demolition Man and the Revenge of the Nerds series and worked on Knight Rider and Airwolf.

Great cinema/TV, all of it...

Now everything's CGI. Sadly, Aardman's warehouse space in Bristol, UK was destroyed by fire a few years back, so much of the history of W & G is lost forever...

[jps]

My daughter tells me I look like Wallace......

Gromit is the better looking of the two.

[jwilli]

Cool info, Paul! As Johnny Carson would say, "I did not know that!"