History of Animation 2

Godzilla 1954 

Going from the last blog of King Kong 1933, now going onto the eastern equivalent. I feel as though it is important to talk about this movie, as it took what Kong did, and went about it in a similar fashion. Although this was not as revolutionary in it's effects, and it provided a different way of having miniatures integrate with live action. This time using large suits with miniature cities. The special effects were revolutionary in the East. Originally they wanted the film to be stop motion like King Kong was, but the budget simply was not there, so the decision was made to use rubber suits instead. These special effects were done by Eiji Tsuburaya, arguably the Japanese equivalent of Ray Harryhausen, specialising in giant monster battles and movies. The sense of scale was done using the cinematography however, filming from low angles to make something seem much larger than it actually was.

Shin Godzilla 2016 

Just showing how Japanese special effects have updated. A reboot of Godzilla was made in Japan last year titled "Shin Godzilla". And instead of using rubber suits, it was completely computer generated. This shows how 60 years can completely the cinema industry. Something that is notable for me, is that before, one man was responsible for the special effects, such as O'Brien, and Tsuburaya, whereas now, a huge team are responsible. I feel like this says something about the production time of a movie these days, trying to get the entire production done in a year, where as before movies were made as passion projects, and really took the time to gain the desire effects before it was released, rather than sticking to the deadline of releasing.