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bobzilla		#81	[-]
Jul 26 12 4:13 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	trog338 wrote: I Love the original MJY. The remake had some good things in it but in the end is far too preachy and the ferris wheel sequence dosen't hold a candle to the orphanage; which I think is one of the alltime great works of special effects. It really gets to me everytime Jill urges Joe to go back up and get the girl on the ledge. Hmmm, I never thought about it but maybe that's why I became a Firefighter I have a fascination with the small model of Joe. I've seen group shots of the models where it's barely visable and seems to come up to about the knee of the main models. Such wonderful things have been said about it. Marcel Delgado said that it "worked like a watch" Does any one know exactly what shots were done with this little guy? Are there any clear stills of it. In an interview with Delgado he said that it had been stolen. Hey, trog, neat avatar. Where is it from and is there a full version of it somewhere?
trog338		#82	[-]
Jul 26 12 7:27 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Thank you. That is a detail from a drawing that I did. The original was lost in hurricane Katrina. I will post the whole drawing next week. I'm on my daughters computer and don't have access to it at the moment. If you go to Kongisking.net and to the fan art section you can see it there under Trog338.
bobzilla		#83	[-]
Jul 26 12 9:14 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I looked it up, but it's under trog388. That tyrannosaur has such great detail. Are these done in pencil?
trog338		#84	[-]
Jul 26 12 10:55 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Yep, all pencil.
trog338		#85	[-]
Jul 31 12 2:50 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Here is an image of the full drawing.
bobzilla		#86	[-]
Jul 31 12 9:09 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	That's great work! Thanks for posting it. I'm trying to get myself motivated to start drawing again. I take forever to finish a drawing. I still have a half finished drawing of an Olympic diver on my board from the '96 Olympics!
Tim Smyth		#87	[-]
Aug 8 12 12:59 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	trog338 wrote: I have a fascination with the small model of Joe. I've seen group shots of the models where it's barely visable and seems to come up to about the knee of the main models. Such wonderful things have been said about it. Marcel Delgado said that it "worked like a watch" Does any one know exactly what shots were done with this little guy? Are there any clear stills of it. In an interview with Delgado he said that it had been stolen. Stolen is such a harsh term, let's say it disappeared along with several other items, ans probably happens a lot on movie sets. I think some long shots of the strong man scene have the tiny Joe, and I heard that the close ups of just the face from the beautiful dreamer sequence used it, but this is from my memory reading from the memory of somebody else. I will look into it later today. Tim
Gaira		#88	[-]
Aug 8 12 1:17 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Where are the group shots of all the models?
trog338		#89	[-]
Aug 9 12 2:22 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I can't find any online. I've seen them in Ray's books as well as Famous Monsters of Filmland. There are several shots that contain the larger models as well as some human puppets. Some of the text point out that the small model is in these shots; and you can kind of make it out but nothing clear.
Aupperle		#90	[-]
Aug 9 12 10:58 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Gaira wrote: Where are the group shots of all the models?
skull island escapee		#91	[-]
Aug 10 12 4:04 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	IMAGE SAVED to my permanent dimensional animation archives, for posterity, onto shiney disc. Many thanks, Jim! PS: just saw some cool archive pics of you on Ray Harryhausen /Tony Dalton's 'Century of Animation' hardback [UK title]. 'the horror..............THE HORROR!' Cartoon-strip blog here [updated regularly]: http://zoomertoonsrabsmith.blogspot.com/
trog338		#92	[-]
Aug 10 12 6:14 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Ah yes! thanks Jim. The small Joe is between the two seated human figures left of center.
trog338		#93	[-]
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bobzilla		#94	[-]
Aug 10 12 7:06 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Man, I almost didn't see that little guy hiding there!
horrorfilmx		#95	[-]
Aug 10 12 7:10 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Me neither, and I've seen that still a dozen times! One of the most remarkable things about Joe Young is that Harryhausen did some of the finest work of his long career on his very first feature. Honestly, I'll take Joe over Medusa any day.
Aupperle		#96	[-]
Aug 10 12 9:50 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	skull island escapee wrote: IMAGE SAVED to my permanent dimensional animation archives, for posterity, onto shiney disc. Many thanks, Jim! PS: just saw some cool archive pics of you on Ray Harryhausen /Tony Dalton's 'Century of Animation' hardback [UK title]. Glad I could help out. Funny, I've had this photo for several years but I never examined it closely enough to see the little Joe until the subject came up here. Sort of like the mystery of the larger Kong armature in that it was hiding in plain sight all the time. I know there are at least a couple other group shots of Joe out there so perhaps someone will be able to post those too. I was really so happy to get a mention in Ray's and Tony's book. Made me feel like I was getting some sort of life time achievement award to even be included with a company of heroes like that. Last Edited By: Aupperle Aug 10 12 10:00 AM. Edited 1 times.
BijouBob8mm		#97	[-]
Aug 10 12 1:29 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	It was a well-earned mention, Jim; you do great work. You know, it wasn't until recently that I knew you'd worked on two of the "Frog & Toad" shorts. I used to own 16mm prints of those.
Gaira		#98	[-]
Aug 10 12 2:37 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Thanks for that shot Jim!

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