Todd Terry is one of the most legendary house producers of all time, creati… Read Full Bio ↴Todd Terry is one of the most legendary house producers of all time, creating a distinctive Todd Terry sound that is instantly recognizable on any dancefloor. From the late '80s, Todd Terry has been producing and performing music, mainly in the more club-oriented style of house music. Classics like Weekend and House Is A Feelin' are known by most lovers of house music and still played by many a DJ worldwide.

Terry's productions can be described as a varied collection of samples blending the sounds of classic disco, the more introspective Chicago sound pioneered earlier in the decade, plus plenty of hip-hop attitude and sampling piracy.[citation needed]

Much of Todd Terry's early work in the late 1980s is considered a milestone in the development of both progressive and modern deep house. Todd Terry has been responsible for releasing two of the most respected crossover remixes of the house era: "I'll House You" by the Jungle Brothers and "Missing" by Everything But the Girl by the mid 1990s.

Among his fans, Todd Terry is known as Todd the God, God Terry, Todd Godrry, Godd Gerry (or, occasionally, simply God, because he might be a Five Percenter, but this is unconfirmed).

Todd's tracks "Something Goin' On'" and "Keep on Jumpin'" were both UK Top-10 hits as well as Us Hot Dance Music/Club Play #1s, with the vocals provided by Jocelyn Brown and Martha Wash. Freestyle diva Shannon was the featured vocalist on the Top Twenty hit "It's over Love" in 1997.

In 1999 Todd Terry released Resolutions, successfully embracing the then-still avant-garde Drum-n-Bass aestethics.

Terry also has several aliases such as Swan Lake, Orange Lemon, Royal House, Amy Studt, Black Riot, CLS, Masters at Work (although this moniker he gave to Kenny "Dope" Gonzalez & "Little" Louie Vega), Dredd Stock, House of Gypsies, Limelife, Hard House, Tyme Forse, Gypsymen.

Todd Terry became one of the best-paid DJs in both Europe and the United States. He normally performs on four turntables, mostly playing his own tracks.

In October 2004, Weekend by the Todd Terry Project appeared in popular video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, playing on House music radio station SF-UR.

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We have lyrics for these tracks by Todd Terry:

A Day In The Life I read the news today oh boy About a lucky man…
Abduction The story you're about to hear is true to all…
All That I Got I'm giving you all that I got The very best of…
Back 2 the Beat JC got the disco lights‚ The strobe lights The party lights …
Bango Let's go Bango Bango Bango Let's go Bango Bango Bango Let'…
Beat Like This Beat like this Beat like this Beat like this Beat this Beat…
Black Again Making house black again Making house black again Making hou…
Blackout time to blackout no doubt…
Bounce Come on come on Come on come on Come on come on Come…

Break Down Break Break Break Break it down Can you break it down Break…
Can U Dig It Let's all get funky Can you dig it Let's all get funky Can…
Change Coming at me on a Sunday morning My God My God It…
Da Bango Let's go Bango Bango Bango Let's go Bango Bango Bango Let'…
Day in the Life I read the news today oh boy About a lucky man…
Dimension Dimension Dimension Dimension Dimension Dimension Dimension…
Don't Stop The Party No pares No pares No pares No pares…
Enough is Enough It's raining, it's pouring My lovelife is boring me to tears…
Everybody So everybody that gets on it So everybody that gets on…
Figure of Jazz Can you feel what I'm feeling Get into it Get into it Get…
Fly Doo doo doo-doo Doo doo doo-doo Doo doo doo-doo Doo doo doo-…
Front 2 Back JC got the disco lights‚ The strobe lights The party lights …
Get Down Lately I'm skipping along the street And I ask myself why I'…
Get It Up Give it up Give it up Give it up Give it up Git Git Git Git…
Get On Lately I'm skipping along the street And I ask myself why I'…
Get Up Dub Lately I'm skipping along the street And I ask myself why …
Gets You Off So everybody that gets on it So everybody that gets on…
Give Yourself to Me I'll keep you dancing I'll keep you dancing This elevation …
Go House Go house Go house Go house Go house Go house Go house Go ho…
Gypsy Dance I'm down with my gang I'm down with the gang I'm down…
Hear the Music Dance to this Dance to this Dance to this Dance to this…
Hold On I MISS THAT I MISS THAT I MISS THAT I MISS THAT BEAT…
House is Back House is back house is back House is back house is…
I Need Air I need you I need you I need you I need you Right now I…
I Wanna Go Bang I wanna go bang, I wanna go bang, I wanna…
I'm Feelin It It's the feeling It's the feeling It's the feeling It's the …
It's Gonna Work Out Don't mess with my man Don't mess with my boy Don't mess…
Jack the Tek Jack the teck Jack the teck Jack the teck Jack the teck Jac…
Jump Up in the Air Let Tell you a little something about house music Jump up…
Jumpin Ooh yeah ooh yeah yeah yeah yeah Ah, oh, come on,…
Keep Pumping It Up Gotta keep on pumping it up cause I love it Gotta…
Let Me Go Let me tell you something Let me tell you some Let me…
Love Is Gone Love and feel Love and feel Love and feel Love and feel Love…
Love To Love UUU Ahh, love to love you baby Ahh, love to love you…
Music Never Stops The people never stop dancing, the music never stops The peo…
My Joy Why you tellin me I'm never gonna survive But once…
Samba Bila Bila Bila Bila Bila Bila Donda sumba lumba samba Donda…
Set It Off Set it off Set it off Set it off Set it off Set it…
Shake Shake shake shake Shake shake shake Shake shake shake Shake …
She Got That I'm giving you all that I got The very best of…
Something Goin' On Hey, Hey, Feelin′ good in every way, Hey, Hey, Feelin' good …
Something Going On Hey, hey Feelin' good in every way Hey, hey Feelin' good in …
Something Going On (Loop Da Loop mix) Lauper Cyndi Miscellaneous What's Going On Mother, mother Th…
Something Going On 2022 Hey, hey Feelin' good in every way Hey, hey Feelin' good in …
Stress It Come on young girls hear dis I want your bubbles I know…
Sum Sigh Say What's going on here? Huh What's going on here? Huh What's g…
Sume Bah Sume bah Sume bah Sume bah Sume bah Push push in the bush P…
Sume Sigh Say What's going on here? Huh What's going on here? Huh What's g…
Tell You Somethin' Let me tell you something Let me tell you some Let me…
The Beat Beat like this Beat like this Beat like this Beat this Beat…
The Freak Show Break break break break Break break break break Do it do it…
The One I need you I need you I need you I need you Right now I…
This Will Be Mine This Will Be Mine This Will Be Mine This Will Be Mine This…
Trigger I'm not optimistic I'm realistic I'm not optimistic I'm real…
Turn It Up Give it up Give it up Give it up Give it up Git Git Git Git…
Voices In My House Voices in my head Voices in my head Voices in my head Voices…
Weekend What we gonna do here is go back I can't take…
When You Hold Me I MISS THAT I MISS THAT I MISS THAT I MISS THAT BEAT…
Work Make make it work Make make it work Make make it work Make…
Yo Yo what Yo what Yo what Yo what You got to keep them dancin…
You and Me I MISS THAT I MISS THAT I MISS THAT I MISS THAT BEAT…
You Don't Know I'm a rebel with a cause and I'm coming with…
You Don't Know Me You don't know me You don't know me You don't know me Can't…

You Get Down Lately I'm skipping along the street And I ask myself why I'…

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Most interesting comment from YouTube:

@crwydryny

23w↑12

@@Voltaic_Fire well technically they do.
Practical effects rely on a wide range of technologies. Materials (a foam rubber alien head from the 60s isn't going to stand up to a modern silicon latex mask with inbuilt animatronics). Lighting, camera technology, even chroma key technology to superimpose images (such as what was done in alien 3 to superimpose the stick puppet alien onto the video of the actors)

With modern technology it's possible to produce higher quality miniatures, smaller robotic parts or even remote controlled puppets.

The Jason and the Argonauts example used in this video holds up pretty well but if done with modern practical effects would be much more realistic. As modern lighting rigs are better suited for lighting the shots, modern materials allow for a more realistic look, and modern chroma key technology allows for better blending that film was made by just 30 years after the first use of chroma key, we've had 90 years to refine the technique.
Modern camera capable of filming at higher speeds allow for much smoother stop motion by filming and playing back more frames

That said, while it does age, it doesn't age as badly as CGI.
Look at the space combat scenes in DS9 or Babylon 5 which were ground breaking for the mid 90s but now look terrible.
Where as Jason and the Argonauts while the green screen and stop motion is obvious it still less jarring despite being 60 years old. Compared to CGI less than 20 years old.

Though interesting fact I learned recently the reason that CGI is so prolific today is because practical effects and 2D artists are unionised thus require a living wage for their work while CGI artists don't have a union thus are severely underpaid by studios (usually being paid 80% industry standard minimum wage)

All comments from YouTube:

@YarolYarol

3y↑3.6K

The Skeletons looked better, but there's something about the jerkiness of the bronze statue in the original framerate that made it more menacing.

@lyokianhitchhiker

3y↑385

Because it emphasized its nature an an unnaturally mobile construct?

@wyvernharries4788

3y↑76

Id have to agree with that.

@MicahMicahel

3y↑61

@@lyokianhitchhiker because it seems to be in another time zone there's a desirable strange effect.

@CthulhuWaitsDreaming

3y↑89

Exactly what I thought. I preferred the 8x skeleton but the original statue.

@burra007

3y↑48

Uncanny valley. A rare case such trope works in it’s favor

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@milanstragier6142

24w↑1.1K

For a movie from 1963, this is still unbelievably far ahead of its time and so well done

@c4lmchor

17w↑35

unreal to think about. we can't even use a 10-15 year old device without getting frustrated. and they did all of thie shit in 1963!

@jeng3000

17w↑11

That's what happens when people are allowed to create something to the highest quality and integrity capable. It's something all groups workin on endeavors need to understand. Your work will be diminished the minute you are forced to compromise a lot and make major concessions in your craft.

@chloesmith4065

16w↑8

It's still one of the best stop motion sequences of all time

@yarpen26

14w↑5

Even long after I forgot the name of the movie, I still had so much footage stuck in my head, particularly the skeletons and of course Gorgon who terrified the shot out of me. This movie is such a treat to 8-12 year old boys.

@kingexplosionmurder9436

10w↑1

It’s not ahead of its time at all. In fact it’s within its time.

Blade Runner, 2001, Avatar, Inception. Those films are ahead of their time, and pushed boundaries

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@thelazarusheart86

28w↑1.5K

So weird how lower frames and 'unnatural' movement actually seems natural, while increasing the frames and making everything more 'realistic' actually pushes it in to the uncanny valley.

@snowthelegowolf4230

28w↑61

Stop motion is a really impressive art form of giving weight behind a 6-inch figure

@ArtificerOfWar

27w↑21

@@snowthelegowolf4230 and the gravity of how much time it took to get three seconds of footage, like the stop motion animation/claymation of James and the Giant Peach, just a couple seconds took weeks to get.

@MrSpacelyy

27w↑21

Normal cinema was (or is?) 24 fps, works fine.
Some movies were shot at 60 fps.
Although it should look better. It sometimes looks weird.

Especially action scenes.

@shermano1ai

26w↑7

Agreed on that! The mind accepts that it's vfx and lets the filmmaking do the rest of the storytelling.

@breakfasthole3851

26w↑5

@@shermano1aiI was thinking the same thing. The viewer's imagination is filling in the gaps, kind of like in cartoons with limited animation frames. It's an effect that works. Those same animations look less realistic when the movements are smoothed out with the method used here.

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@bgpapa4178

24w↑352

the jerky stop motion is a huge part of the charm and depth of the characters. they are all much more menacing in the original, especially the bronze giant and skeletons. they just felt other-worldly and trigger the uncanny valley enough to make you uneasy just looking at them. and all these years later, this still holds up incredibly well. it gives me just the same feeling now at 35 as it did when i was 6. i love it

@HappyBeezerStudios

20w↑4

Yeah, the reference points for the interpolation are still jerky stop-motion references, so the interpolated animation feels a bit off.
But it works really well for the skeleton fight.

@CatholicIrish

13w

Came to say this!!

@locinolacolino1302

13w↑2

@@HappyBeezerStudios Yeah, the effectiveness of the interpolation is really a testament to the quality of the original animation, looks far better than the attempts making anime and cartoons smoother.

@damsen978

I guess it's up to preference because i'd rather pick the smoothed ones. It just looks better imo

@crwydryny

28w↑322

Crazy thing is these stop motion effects still hold up pretty well today

@weatheranddarkness

24w↑12

The compositing has aged poorly though. Didn't match lighting very well.

@Voltaic_Fire

24w↑10

Practical effects do not age, it is that simple.

@crwydryny

23w↑12

@matthewsheppard7050

23w↑5

Just this guys opinion but HD makes older productions look less real.@@crwydryny

@matthewsheppard7050

21w

Talos's movements were terrifying. A living colossus is perfect for stop motion. @@leetabern1940

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@ItsIntelligentDesign

25w↑183

It’s not the frame rate that’s the issue. It’s the inconsistencies between many of the poses. Which is not to disparage Harryhausen at all – the team did amazing things with the tech available at the time. But filling in the “missing” frames doesn’t accomplish much because the creatures still jump around and move in unnatural ways. Adding frames doesn’t solve that issue, and in many ways exacerbates it

@Trikipum

16w↑13

Yeah, adding frames like this just makes it more noticeable..

@A31Chris

16w↑7

I would take this over the CGI of the 2000 remake any day. While unnatural it still seems really alive. The new CGI remake was flat and dull and nowhere near as creepy.

Maybe unnatural but still alive looking is a perfect combo

@001variation

16w↑1

Let's see the AI touch-up

@AwesomeBlackDude

15w

@@001variation I believe you're looking at (ghost animator) David Anderson, Willis Cook and Ray harryhausen AI touch up. 😅

@jacobkeating3306

14w↑1

Yeah I’m not sure why everyone’s takeaway seems to be that there’s some sort of superiority in the lower-framerate footage.

If this footage was filled with 120 meaningful frames per second, 120 unique frames of fluid movement from the figure, I think it would look much better.

However, taking the original and just putting it at 120 frames per second is like playing Nintendo 64 on a 4k TV—the more advanced technology is not leveraged, and the so the output is worse.

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@Fickets

3y↑35.3K

The original of the statue works so well because that’s how I’d imagine a bronze statue to move like.

@countersphere2924

3y↑507

Ikr!

@dru1432

3y↑663

Couldn't agree more.

@claymcdermott718

3y↑212

Exactly

@Diathon1

3y↑122

Absolutely

@metalheadmaniac8686

3y↑126

you are a 100% correct

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@537monster

31w↑130

I just love how the skeletons in this movie would go on to inspire one of the most basic enemies in found most RPG’s.

@melvinfrooks

25w↑11

Reminds me of Spinal from Killer Instinct

@accountreality1988

22w↑18

funny how here they are predicted as strong, none of our main heroes being able to kill one of them. the skeletons besting two before the main of the film just about escapes with his life. while in other media they are seen as basic easy to kill enemies.

@maxpflughoeft6806

13w

@@melvinfrooksspinal was based off of the argonaut skeletons explicitly

@LusciousTwinkle

12w

And circle triangle!!!!

@flyingsodwai1382

11w

Skeletons, Giant Rats and Kobolds. The nightmare fuel for lvl 1 adventurers everywhere.

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@maxencedworaczek602

15w↑14

Proof that an active understanding of the rules of animation is more important than frames per second. Ray Harryhausen was really a great.

@scarecrowsurprise

29w↑27

The original harpies look like they have weight behind their wings, the smoother ones look like flying enemies from the first level of a 90s platformer

@dddglobe36

14w↑1

Yep like out of Birdemic!

@qownson4410

18w↑18

The statue is so terrifying. What a cool scene!

@Brainhorn

29w↑45

I like how smoothing it out actually makes it look more fake

@ytmndan

Not for the skeletons. The skeletons looked 10x better at 120 fps. The bronze statue looked like a guy in a suit at 120 fps. That can be a good or bad thing as far as realism goes.

@derianardor

3y↑11.4K

Makes you realize just how impressive this movie was when it came out. It's really not bad even on original form

@josemoreno3334

3y↑54

Yep.

@AAAFilm-yt7gx

3y↑181

I remember watching this as a kid, I didn’t think it could get any better. This was one of the ones that blew your mind as a kid because he loves spooky stuff and then to see the skeletons come to life was amazing. This is just enhancing the heck out of it and it’s glorious.

@StanKelley

3y↑90

@@AAAFilm-yt7gx Yep I was 10 in 1963, nothing better than this for a Saturday morning at the movies. Unless it was Annette- be still my heart.

@mystic7splace

3y↑27

@@StanKelley Holy crap, are you ME!?! ;-)

@Sabaelos

3y↑26

I think some are bad but for the time its great. However, the skeleton one in the end was actually pretty great

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@literacylabyrinth4018

30w↑19

Ray was a master first class animator, unsurpassed genius. So glad he got an honarary Oscar given to him.

@IanMorgan-cw1tn

19w↑21

It does add a realism but it really shows how amazing Ray Harryhausen was. Without modern technique was able to create something so close. Legend.

@CIS101

27w↑8

I was amazed when I first saw these movies as a child. Ray Harryhausen will always be a legend.

@Anguawolf007

21w↑8

The scene with the boat and statue behind looks menacing in the original. Smoothing it out somehow makes it stand out more that it is a blue screen effect.

@forestcitytrivia9167

14w↑1

Before Star Wars THIS was the movie that blew people's minds.

Harryhausen is a legend.

@jim8045

3y↑3K

I remember a documentary years and years ago, where Ray H. intentionally made the Bronze statue move kinda herky jerky to show that he was in fact made of metal. Both look great, but I prefer the original tbh.

@MadDragon-lb7qg

3y↑49

Agreed!

@DANT98

3y↑208

I agree. Smoothing makes it look like a dude in a suit. The jerky movements for the statue makes sense. I think the smoothing works great for the other parts.

@SheitlQueen

3y↑36

I agree, prefer the original

@sodapopbrosky

3y↑4

Same!

@dorianleakey

3y↑41

He wouldastill have liked this option though, i am sure.
It does convince me the most effective effects mix the pratical and digital, these minitures had weight, CGI often doesnt.

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@Dopeymanthing

28w↑1

So glad my dad made me watch this as a kid, one of the greats.

@Turd_Rocket

25w↑3

I'm so glad this was made so recently. At the very least it shows how impressive a lot of the effects were for their time, and how high this film set the bar for fantasy visual effects. Great that young people today can discover movies like this through such videos, to give them an idea of the great work of artists back then and the progression of visual effects through the decades. (:

@gloomioozi

16w↑4

I think Ray Harryhausen would agree, the jerkiness of large objects definitely gave it mass thus making it more scary, also the jerkiness worked better with the skitterish of the skeletons, but everything else looks like a huge improvement. RIP Harryhausen you were a movie wizard.

@Aneiriko

13w↑2

One movie i used to enjoy seeing my dad watch. Rip pops

@bpnsirdiealot

24w↑2

One of the greatest movies ever made and the reason so many got involved in Special Effects in the first place.

@leokimvideo

52w↑1.5K

If it moves too smoothly it's going to look naft. The original has a feeling of weight and size

@aeu569

49w↑43

This is a valid point. Some scenes could be smoothed and slowed down, don't you think?

@karlkarlsson9126

49w↑60

Stop-motion creates robotic movements (scarier) and adds as an effect, while the Smooth version looks like a normal person doing mo-cap.

@zach6372

45w↑4

based leokimvideo. nice to still see you on youtube.

@andyknowles666

44w↑22

100% this. they absolutely nailed the mass / heaviness with the original, making it super smooth loses that realism rather than adding to it.

@watamatafoyu

44w↑11

@@andyknowles666Making the whole picture smooth (generating entire frames) gives it that news broadcast look.

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@ebenadams4212

13w↑2

Ha. Interesting. Also, haven't seen this in forever and was surprised to feel that same terrified, nightmarish, almost sick feeling I got when I first saw this as a kid. Thanks for the memories!

@flossbee

26w↑2

This was the Gladiator/300 of its time. A wonderful movie that I always set aside time to watch as a kid whenever it aired on local television. The special effects amazed me!

@MrBlx4life

19w

THIS is how you use modern technology to enhance and further core creativity and ideas 💡. More please 😊

@hexxon77

30w

This is a masterpiece of special effects. Still looking amazing.

@Q-BOT

Ray Harryhausen was a legend. This movies art direction was really cool.

@MadonnaSaigon

3y↑2.3K

Funnily enough it’s the slightly jerky animation that gives its the terrifyingly timeless appeal

@hammersandnails1458

3y↑58

Particularly the skeletons.

@homersimpson7068

3y↑43

Loved the original jerkiness of Talos, I thought it suited someone who may not have moved for decades, not sure on his feet. All the Ray HH films still fill me with wonder, there is something mythic about them that a lot of modern films, with better special effects just don't have, they seem, 'over-real'.

@MasterQueef88

3y↑5

True.

However, when I look at the comparison, I can easily see the age of the movie and to see the smoother stopmotion makes it seem like the original work was way ahead of its time in the visual effects aspect. It gives it another vibe that is also interesting.

@Loriddian

2y↑9

Same with the original terminator movie

@grilledsleaze

2y↑10

Agreed, it feels so much more menacing that way

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@miroslavbudinov2198

28w↑7

Wow, in this case the smoothness actually makes the stop motion look out of place 😃 While the original actually fits well with the live people.

@Daark_Karma

28w↑5

it's interesting how the high fps just feel out of place, like bronze statues felt like normal people moving with no regard for weight, and the flying creatures felt way too floaty

@shivin1962

27w↑1

24 fps is there to make the tv/film an "experience". Watching in super smooth fps felt like i was watching a home video on VHS

@unoreversecard3211

25w↑1

Wow, they did an awesome job with this movie back in the day!

@okkefaber9993

26w

okay that scene of them fighting the skeletons looked so hilarious

@richardzryd5118

2y↑8.7K

The original bronze statue was intentionally made to have stilted animation in order to simulate metal having a tough time deforming in order to move. Ray even expressed his frustration with executives that couldn't understand this.

@Blox117

2y↑212

if metal deforms it hardens and eventually breaks. the executives were right

@morganbrowning867

2y↑1.3K

@@Blox117 yea and irl statues don’t come alive.

@seriousgranpa

2y↑85

Its not about stiffness but smoothness

Ps it still looks stiff

@Dilaudid281

2y↑26

I dunno, the Terminators move around just fine

@MatthewBAlexanderJr

2y↑209

@@Dilaudid281 terminators have joints

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@mrhaag

10w

You managed to take something that was great and make it ok.
Kudos.

@Rat_King_Reviews

9w↑1

I remember as a child being obsessed with the skeletons at the end and wanting them as action figures 😂

@twilighttime952

20w

One of the greatest films. The effects were outstanding.

@jodasial

22w

Omg! Childhood dream come true! Thank you so much! I wish we had visual effects like these nowadays...

@Novak596

22w↑1

Those skeletons in the original scene where absolutely fantastic i was not expecting that

@Adrian-vy5vn

3y↑823

The jerky movements give a creepy and supernatural feel to the 'monsters" in this movie

@mr.badguy8500

2y↑9

It’s probably the Uncanny Valley effect.

@BerryTheBnnuy

2y↑11

Yeah, the staccato movement of the stop motion makes it feel like there's an unnatural force imposing itself on the natural world in a violent fashion, and the smoother animation just makes it look like an awkward metal man who hasn't moved in a while so he's a bit stuff and needs some time to loosen up... Which really takes the edge off of it.

@stevenadams1795

2y↑4

I agree. Like they are forced to move in a world that is supernatural to them ( the skeletons)

@DreadPirateRoberts121

2y↑9

Exactly, this isn’t an improvement, it’s a slap in the face to artistic intent

@nature.rbeauty2255

2y↑2

That’s the magic 🪄 of special effects lol 😂 it is so life like 👍🏿 🍿🥤🎬🎥😎😍.

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@lucretiakillingsworth8644

22w

Thank you for showing me what I've wondered for over 20 years

@SynthD

11w

The smoother version just feels like something I’d see in an adult swim short.

@Cantbuyathrill

25w

The "smoothing" takes all the creepiness out of it. Reminds
me of the madness of coloring old black&white movies that was
so newfangled in the 80s. Never took hold, thank God.

@lhs66

30w

Perfect. Restore these classics

@ScoutSniper3124

23w

Well, I don't know if it's that much better, but you did convince me to watch the original again.

@Ronin-ke5wm

3y↑1.9K

I think the appeal of the original is just how 'jerky' the movements of things are. Its that unnatural jerkiness that makes the monsters that much more terrifying

@peterpereira3653

3y↑41

Exactly that sir!

@buttbuttson737

3y↑122

Plus it makes a lot more sense for monsters like the Colossus to be stiff moving, as he's made of metal.

@myoungho12

3y↑56

That’s exactly what I thought. The mechanical movements reminds me of antique terminators. But the bigger question is how this video was recommended to me...

@yashbalaji3262

3y↑17

The only one improved is the skeleton fight imo

@KairuHakubi

3y↑7

i find both versions creepy for different reasons..

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@rud5101

22w

It's fun for me to get into the mindset of seeing the animations as cutting edge visual effects that barely existed at the time, even though they look wonky relative to what movies we're used to seeing today.

@montpassant

26w

well...they did it . The statue looks so relax, suave....so smooth.

@Danphiroud

14w

I like how the statue becomes more unnerving, creepier and overal scarier with the smoother movement

@STRANGEANATOMYBAND

There’s something to be said for growing up with film and now having to adjust to everything being digital. People say film feels more natural even though it isn’t, it’s just what we are used to when it comes to moving pictures.

But also, as smooth as the update looks, there is still some sort of digital artifact occurring, similar to when you watch a TV with all the picture sharpening settings turned on. Almost like a super thin line is drawn around the moving figures, making them look like they don’t belong to the surrounding image. It’s almost imperceptible but on a subconscious level it drives me absolutely crazy.

@johnkeviljr9625

18w

How fun! A great movie either way, but the enhancements are great. Thank You.

@GeneralTantzu

2y↑775

The slightly unnatural movement of the monsters is what makes them so great and distinct.

@markpercy4277

2y↑11

Totally agree

@brian4544

2y↑7

Agreed.

@irish66

2y↑20

The smooth version loses all sense of menace, at least for me.

@jhoover33

2y↑14

Don’t like the smooth version at all the original one the shuttery movement of them and an unreal nature and a real weight to them

@billhensley8324

2y↑5

Exactly that was the magic of stop motion

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@MyJob-zl5de

30w

A masterpiece. Who makes movies like this anymore. No computer.

@percyvolnar8010

26w↑1

I love how everything feels 'Alive' at 60 fps with frame interpolation.

@turbonerd6552

20w↑3

The original has a place in my heart. The smoother version seams wrong. Like the magic is to good ❤😂

@user-pq8on8bx9g

13w

Any time y'all do this, it just shows how lower framerates often appear more realistic.

@johncallaghan8696

16w

Awesome. One of the best. Steve 👍

@Thisisaweirdthing2makeusdo

3y↑450

Blows my mind that they achieved this in 400AD, just crazy.

@brokeandtired

3y↑12

I would be impressed too...as 400AD was after the fall of the ROMAN Western Empire.

@porterhouse_

3y↑20

....more like 1200BC

@alrick3000

3y↑4

It must have been the wind

@advancedraymondology2914

3y↑5

@@brokeandtired yeah, duh. It was a period piece. Like Mad Men to us.

@lumethecrow2632

3y↑4

Saying this happened in 400AD is like saying the Middle ages happened in 2020

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@chickenfist1554

26w

I used to love watching the original as a kid when it came on at Christmas.

@RAMelloh-ij5sl

27w

It was pretty amazing for its time and is still view-worthy as made.

@alyours2889

24w

One of the greatest cinematic achievement ever in view of the period it was created in!

@marcosgonzalez4207

23w↑1

If you're wondering, the statue is making the same move, but the video was altered to be on a high frame rate

@colbyneblett8454

3y↑1.4K

The original shots of that statue still hold up. I can only imagine how impressive that was back then.

@bobh.6108

3y↑63

I remember seeing it on the "Big Screen", paying something like $1.50 to get into the matinee. Man that was impressive Ray Harryhausen was the George Lucius of his time. All the classics "had to have Harry" doing the stop animation. It was brutal work, time consuming, but when they finished, you really knew in your heart that colossus was coming for you. It was going to come out of the screen and get you. If it was Harryhausen you made sure to take your crap before going into the theater.

@bobwallace9814

3y↑28

Not only the movie itself but most theatres of that day were large gold leaf ornate interiors with a huge balcony. An organ player played a large pipe organ before and after the shows. The seats were red velvet and there were box seats up along the sides. There were cartoons first before the main show and an intermission to hit the can and buy more stuff from the concessions. The sound systems were surround sound and loud. A 10 cent bus ride got your there. A whole day of adventure for young kids.

@bobh.6108

3y↑11

@@bobwallace9814 We didn't have the organ, and we had a good sound system it wasn't surround sound yet; The THX sound hadn't made it to us. but the rest yes, they were built as "stages" and the screens could be lowered and tied in place, and you could actually walk behind the screen on the stage. Those were they days, 10 cent boxes of candies. Juju bees were the best, they lasted the longest.

@Ouchimoo

3y↑5

In my animation class my professor used this movie as an example of good animation even when frames are limited. Then he found a shot from a stop motion movie that's godaweful simply because someone who wasn't good at animation worked on the shot. It is amazing!

@LegendKingY2j

Idk, i don't like it but for those poor fictional effects it works good

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@thequestion8697

15w

This movie looks awesome. Totally gonna watch it later.

@rafaelramirez1507

19w

You couldn't get any smoother than this , and what's amazing is that we're in 2023 and this classic was made in 1961 😮

@Saintbow

27w

This movie brings back memories. Back in the 80's, our teachers would let us watch this movie for story time.

@r.a.w.talentart

30w

My favourite fantasy film, as if by magic, made even better, wow, thank you

@JimCutler

11w

Really good idea. Cool results.

@MrPresidentGeek

2y↑4.1K

The smoother effects kind of look neat, but, at the same time, it makes the creatures look more like they aren't actually there.

@jonathanwaters206

2y↑76

Cool not alone in thinking that

@blastermaster5039

2y↑12

I agree.

@twodollarking8009

2y↑47

It literally looks the exact same to me but as the title says "smoother" it still looks clunky but a little smoother.

@bouhhgz1969

2y↑1

So does the original tho, its just more even movement

@Mr-tu4cj

2y↑27

Yeah the smoother version looks a lot more fake despite being smoother, probably because it's AI

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@malcolmabram2957

29w

It is an outstanding movie. Gripped me as a kid. Still grips me now.

@Lee-jh6cr

16w

This scared the crap out of me when I was a kid, but I watched it - through my fingers!

@Fred-vy1hm

18w

I don't see enough of a noticeable difference to even pick this up if I were watching it in the movie back to back.

@Nefylym

28w

nice work! that giant, Talos, was just reading about him in some research on greek myths. man Ray really outdid himself in this and clash of the titans, such great memories

@Foudedanse

3y↑1.2K

The second that statue turns his head is terrifying at any speed.

@stonewallperformance

3y↑25

Especially with the creeking sound effect!

@anthony8721

3y↑13

Yeah I forgot how creepy that one scene is. Wtf happened to movies these days lmao

@CarlNiemi

3y↑7

Yeah, that head turn awakened some long-repressed terror, yikes.

@eirschu8973

Yessssssss this is pure horror

@CarlNiemi

3y↑2

@@stonewallperformance the really brutal brass music that kicks in when he turns is what really gets me

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@Steve-gc5nt

30w

I'm more than happy with the job that Mr Harryhausen did.

@ZuoKalp

14w

Fits into the uncanny valley before and after the smoothening. Still awesome.

@TheReZisTLust

29w↑1

You can feel the statue's rusty limbs struggling to move in the original

@SSegal

30w↑1

Only the harpies are improved. In the original the wings move so fast they strobe, the new interpolated version added blurs to the wing motion. Jim Danforth tried to fix this problem in When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth by taking multiple exposures for every frame. At ILM they created Go-motion and got very effective motion blur.

@user-th6lw6vy4b

21w

My father showed me this film so many times when i was child and he still epic !
More epic thant 99,99% of the film now

@MemeMan91

3y↑1.9K

the skeleton movement was actually pretty good in both original and 8X

@MysticWolf1223

3y↑64

I remember reading somewhere that the skeleton fight scene took like 3 months to complete

@TonyDracon

3y↑8

both look the same

@Novusod

3y↑10

Jason and the Argonauts (original) had some top notch special effects for the day.

@PoofyKittyPants

3y↑2

@@Novusod Yeah my understanding was when it came to the Greek action film craze it was clash of titans for the best movie but Jason and the argonauts for special effects.

@l3esme568

3y↑1

Hell yeah it is harry is amazing at this stuff

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@spiritualconsiderations

13w

Amazing film in its day and still has some of that ominous feel it had.

@chuck-norris

13w

"It must be the wind"

- famous last words

@Pyrela

13w↑1

The origin of, "Must have been the wind."

@ibl3comanticlights

25w

That was really amazing

@glennschadow-gw7qc

11w

Leave it as it is ,,,, absolutely a brilliant movie 😊

@bachelorchownowwithflavor3712

3y↑3.3K

It is a testament to Harryhausen's genius that the higher frame rate really doesn't make the animation look any better.

@dhtango

3y↑181

true!! i take the original. i see very little difference.

@Aquascape_Dreaming

3y↑158

Exactly. The only slight improvements are the gargoyles and the skeletons when they are fighting, but it's minimal at best.

@richierottweiler923

3y↑110

I’m glad someone said it, because i was thinking that very thing myself. The only difference i could see, especially with the skeletons, was that their movements were faster with the higher frame rate. I’ve always liked liked Ray Harryhausen’s work, always

@lifesavid

3y↑8

Agree.

@RavenCloak13

3y↑88

Looks worse overall cause looks even more fake. Like bad 3D models overlaid because you can see where the green screened out the monsters and people more.

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@stephengris2988

10w

Super cool! Everyone is commenting about how the original looks more natural, and I think they’re right - if someone cared to really go for this, the “perfect” version of this concept would be a blend, where the stop motion gets smoothed out but the frame rate on the rest of the footage stays cinematic - three ways I could imagine doing that. 1) Interpolate up, then go back down to 24fps (questionable) 2) superimpose the higher frame rate stop motion over the lower frame rate film (somewhat effective, since the jerkiness of the stop motion is what makes it look less realistic) 3) a blend, where you interpolate the footage, superimpose, but select what frames you want to keep for the smoothest animation (maybe minor digital adjustments to scale and position too).

@RobertIsraelKabakoff

17w

Saw the film in the theater when I was kid. Unforgettable. Terrifying. Took a bad acid trip about twelve years later, the dragon teeth skulls came alive. Fun.

@rkh7169

27w

I watched this move hundreds of times as a kid.

@lapinakawaii5010

3y↑1.4K

My God, the special effects of this movie are incredible for being from '63

@Massivecarcrash

3y↑67

The soundtrack as well. The use of atonal effects is really effective.
"Must have been the wind"
Screeeeech BWWUAAA BWUAAAA
nah fuck that.

@angelbasiliorodriguezbusto2065

3y↑6

Hola, Piña 😬👌

@ro32643

3y↑18

@@Massivecarcrash Don't forget the percussions with the skeletons

@DCL4793

2y↑1

Estás en todos los canales, piña

@awesome346

2y↑1

Jesus loves you!

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@bensisko4651

30w

This scared the crap outta me when I saw this as a kid!

@rosssandeman6883

10w↑1

Wow. I often wondered why it is that old films I like seem very distant and peculiar. From the way they speak to the language they use, this just goes to show that when it looks more smoothly, they look more human

@teminternetemmordor7178

15w

That and the original Titans Duell are the best ones...seriously i really like that clunk owl, she is very funny.

@mrmustangman

16w

amazing how you did this.!!!!

@davidsalucco56

it's perfectly fine the way it is

@emptee5941

3y↑132

I don’t know why, but by making it smoother, it almost makes it like one of those cheesy 3D animation attempts that fails to make it realistic.

@brianstone6463

3y↑5

It's a prime example of the Uncanny Valley.

@CrimsonRayne

3y↑3

As a whole we all got used to shitty 24 fps for "cinematic reasons of immersion" when the human eye is so much better.. even cheap walmart TVs are 120hz. Movie business is lazy

@tba113

3y↑1

Something about the harpies made me think of those old '90s-era FMV light-gun arcade games. I guess it's the same idea of them trying to get live actors to react to animated monsters they're planning to add in later.

Whatever the reason, a bullet counter on the side of the screen and a score tally at the top would fit right in.

@dreamlandnightmare

26w

The extra frames make the live actors look like they were shot on video, and it makes the stop motion characters look like CGI.

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