Uploaded November 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
In the years that followed between 1964 to 1989, Toho would steer clear from putting stop-motion in their visual effects. Sometimes they would fake it. Remember when I talked about “Godzilla Raids Again”, where I talked about how they faked stop-motion. Well, they did again in “Mothra vs. Godzilla” (1964) and again in “Godzilla vs. Hedorah” (1971). Speaking of which, it said that the flower wilting in that 1971 trippy film was stop-motion. That what it said on page 356 of “Ray Harryhausen: Master of Majicks Volume 1”, by Mike Hankin. Page 358 of this said, stop-motion was used in “Godzilla 1985” where Godzilla’s eye opened after being struck by lightning. We don’t know if that is true or not. Moving on, when “Godzilla vs. Biollante” was going into production, the special effects team was going think if stop-motion would be the right choice to do the entire effects with stop-motion. After seeing the footage, it turns out that using men in suits and a big prop. To read more about it, there’s link below.
archive.org/details/cinefantastique_1970-2002/Cinefantastique%20Vol%2031%20No%201-2%20%28Feb%201999%29/page/n125/mode/2up
Enjoy.
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(For research and archival purposes only.)
#StopMotionRarities #GodzillaVsBiollante #KoichiKawakita
In the years that followed between 1964 to 1989, Toho would steer clear from putting stop-motion in their visual effects. Sometimes they would fake it. Remember when I talked about “Godzilla Raids Again”, where I talked about how they faked stop-motion. Well, they did again in “Mothra vs. Godzilla” (1964) and again in “Godzilla vs. Hedorah” (1971). Speaking of which, it said that the flower wilting in that 1971 trippy film was stop-motion. That what it said on page 356 of “Ray Harryhausen: Master of Majicks Volume 1”, by Mike Hankin. Page 358 of this said, stop-motion was used in “Godzilla 1985” where Godzilla’s eye opened after being struck by lightning. We don’t know if that is true or not. Moving on, when “Godzilla vs. Biollante” was going into production, the special effects team was going think if stop-motion would be the right choice to do the entire effects with stop-motion. After seeing the footage, it turns out that using men in suits and a big prop. To read more about it, there’s link below.
archive.org/details/cinefantastique_1970-2002/Cinefantastique%20Vol%2031%20No%201-2%20%28Feb%201999%29/page/n125/mode/2up
Enjoy.
All copyrights acknowledged.)
(For research and archival purposes only.)
#StopMotionRarities #GodzillaVsBiollante #KoichiKawakita
