Favourite Stop motion animation moment or film

[Bo8a_Fett]

Ok I've put this thread here to prevent the flood of "thats not sci-fi/horror etc" posts that would be inevitable in the sci-fi or horror sections.
Now that stop motion has making a bit of a comeback what with "Robot Chicken" and others such as "Wallace and Gromit", I thought it would be nice to have a thread about it.
I've always loved Ray Harryhausen's work so I'll kick off with
fav film
The First Men in the Moon
and moments include
Jason and the Arganauts skelenton battle
Empire Strikes Back AT-AT attack
Dragonslayer the dragon herself (go-motion I know but the computerised version of stop motion)

[Mikey]

TALOS fist turns his head from his pedestal.

CHILLING !!!!!!!!!

[Bo8a_Fett]

Talos is my all time favourite model from Harryhausen.......He is awesome....the sounds that go along with his movements make that scene soooooooooo good.
The Ymir also from ...miles to earth was good

[monkey tennis]

Medusa in Clash of the Titans, she is sooo scary. The rattlesnake noise those eyes, that was one magic moment in Cinema.

I also like The Amazing Mr Bickford, it was just grose.

[Mikey]

Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger was the first Harryhausen movie I ever seen new in the theatre.

That makes this movie magic to me.

[The Bat]

When We first see Gwangi!! He's My "all-Time" favorite T-Rex!!

[thunderbolt]

Nightmare Before XMas, Dinosaurus!, King Kong, and anything Gumby!!!

[garagesale]

Rudolph on the Island of Misfit Toys

[kingdom warrior]

1.Jason and the Argonauts-The whole movie.
2.King Kong original loved the battle on top of the Empire state building
3.The year without a Santa Clause- Cold Miser/Heat Miser songs
4.Mad Monster party- Little Tibia It's the Mummy scene
5.Nightmare before Christmas/Corpse bride love these movies
6.Rudolph the Rednose Reindeer- We're a couple of Misfits scene
7.Davey and Goliath
8.Santa Clause is coming to Town.
9.Gumby
10.Clash of the Titans......Oh Hell all of Harryhausen's movies....

[thunderbolt]

^^^Those damn Tim Allen Santa movies have ruined the ability of people to spell Claus correctly.

[Hector]

King Kong atop the Empire State Building.

[kingdom warrior]

^^^Those damn Tim Allen Santa movies have ruined the ability of people to spell Claus correctly.

I do it on Purpose lol!

[jds1911a1]

CG has eliminated alot of the old Stop motion but I still love Davey and Goliath, gumby, and all the Rankin Bass Holiday specials. and for today robot chicen

as a purist who prefers the original versions of the Star wars trilogy all these have great stop motion moments

[Mikey]

CGI sucks ......

Even the lastest stuff......

They still can't get the proper FLOW OF MOVEMENT correct.

It still looks like glorified video game animation--- not much better than Last Starfighter.

It's a shame everyone embraces it today -- mostly because they don't know any better.

The studios love CGI cause it's as cheap as hell to produce.

It costs the price of one computer nerd with a computer.

[Bo8a_Fett]

Wise words there...did you know they actually approached Ray Harryhausen to do the ATATs in Empire...he turned them down.
CGI is only workable if they get Flow of movement (as type1kirk has mentioned), and the feeling of wieght ...otherwise it just looks wrong...the cheaper the budget , the cheaper the cgi looks.
In reverse something like "Caveman" can be a cheap looking film with some pretty damn good stop frame in it. Harryhausen always said the budget on most of his movies was very tight indeed...but look at the results. I suppose it was his love for doing it RIGHT rather than for the money.