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- >K> The Snow scene in Empire Strikes Back was go motion, I believe that's when
- >K> they developed it. King Kong is an example of stop motion. Compare the
- >K> two and you'll see a difference. K> K> Jeff Kasunic K>
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- >Jeff, the difference between those two is in budget, since both films used
- >stop-motion only.
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- >ILM did not use go-motion until Dragonslayer, in 1980. Other ILM films
- >later used it, like ET, Poltergeist, etc.
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- >Gonzalo Garramuno
- >ggarramuno@sicoar1.sicoar.com
- >Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- ILM did use a go-motion technique in Empire on the tauntauns. Altho'
- puppet and rider were fully hand-animated via stop-motion, the puppet was
- attached to a rod and motor which controlled the overall y and z movement of
- the puppet so as to give motion blur when shutter was opened.
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