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Danny Donahue

2 years

If you haven't seen it yet, you can watch my dinosaur short film HELL CREEK right here: This is a thread about how I made it! 🧵👇

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GODZILLA 8mm Found Footage // Analog Horror, 1954

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It's become a cliche because it's true: we may never again see films of this scale make use of such a wide array of filmic techniques.

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This oversized suit on stilts to sell a Hobbit's scale in The Fellowship of the Ring is pretty sweet.

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I miss those well exposed night scenes with cobalt blue moonlight.

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GODZILLA VHS Found Footage // Analog Horror I'd love to make a kaiju movie one day, but for now I'll make 47 seconds of one.

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There's been no shortage of praise for Jurassic Park's VFX over the last 30 years, but it still blows my mind how right they got it the first time out of the gate with brand new technology. The dinosaur animation rivals anything contemporary. Such power and weight.

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GODZILLA SIGHTING 12/10/2022

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This @PhilTippett sequence from DINOSAUR! (1985) is one of the best directed pieces of dinosaur media ever. The shot design is fantastic. That pan/big fast dolly move on the Deinonychus behind the branches is one of my favorite shots in anything ever.

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It's dialogue like this that all screenwriters aspire to

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Acrocanthosaurus Atokensis for a personal project

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Hypothetically, if I were to adapt my feature screenplay for HELL CREEK into a graphic novel, would people be interested in reading it?

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Something the Heisei Gamera movies do better than the Godzilla movies of the era is get the camera *in* the model sets. Angles that feel more human in perspective — like you’re a bystander watching. Even with suits that aren’t Godzilla quality here, it really helps sell the FX.

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Here's motion blur added to the stop motion raptor test footage. Incredibly convincing in my opinion. Even if CG hadn't taken off, Jurassic Park would have looked phenomenal.

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I added a little post motion blur to Phil Tippet’s stop motion rex test for Jurassic Park and it looks so cool! The CG that ILM did is obviously incredible, some of the best used CG in history, yet I don’t think people realize how amazing that stop motion might have looked —

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The atmosphere and texture and sheer scale of John Gurche's paleoart is off the charts

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Saurophaganax breakfast

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King Kong is funny to me because they go to an island filled with actual dinosaurs and are like "this extra large monkey is the coolest thing here, we'll take that."

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It's not talked about as much as the other aspects of the film, but the production design of Jurassic Park is iconic. I wanted to live in these sets when I was a kid. Hulking industrial concrete/steel structures with a sort of "safari" flair set dramatically against the jungle.

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These Doug Henderson images are like a happy place for me.

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I storyboarded this movie! Excited for everyone to see it!

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From the writers of A Quiet Place and producer Sam Raimi, #65movie is coming exclusively to movie theaters March 10.

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Favorite dubbed lines from GODZILLA VS KING GHIDORAH: 1.) This line gets right to the point. There IS a dinosaur and it IS attacking his boys, so it gets big points for clarity.

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AI "art" isn't progress. It's a direct assault on the little bit of magic that's left in this world.

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Multiple studios are exploring using AI to generate scripts based on books and other public domain IP. The studios reportedly plan to hire writers to rewrite those AI scripts when the writers’ strike ends. (Source: )

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The Spinosaurus animatronic in JP3 was wild. I’m so used to seeing BTS footage that looks completely different from the final product, but this just looks like a dinosaur wrecking a plane without color grading.

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Rough allosaurus animation doodle

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I added a little post motion blur to Phil Tippet’s stop motion rex test for Jurassic Park and it looks so cool! The CG that ILM did is obviously incredible, some of the best used CG in history, yet I don’t think people realize how amazing that stop motion might have looked —

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I want to remake the shit out of Carnosaur

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Hoping someone eventually figures out time travel and goes back to find that dinosaurs looked like this

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One of the all time coolest pieces of movie poster art

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The Stan Winston raptor-pants in Jurassic Park 3 are so cool. Makes this moment feel incredibly real and scary.

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I love CG, but I sure miss the days when every measure was taken to get creature effects in camera and only then did the filmmakers turn to carefully crafted CG. Here’s the crocodile from Lake Placid.

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120 Million Years Ago… Graphic novel style ink test. #paleoart

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Giganotosaurus sketch from last year

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I still haven’t seen When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, but man are the visual effects top notch for the time. Incredible animation and compositing. Also I would unironically love a modern cave-people vs dinosaurs movie.

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Also Spielberg's shot choice. Just an understated panning wide, hidden behind the log with our characters. Grounded. Nothing flashy. And that tree -- did they knock down a tree on set or is that a CG tree? I can't even tell. It's seamless.

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Currently on a little Godzilla kick. Noriyoshi Ohrai's poster art is incredible.

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Putting an end to this debate right now. T. Rex vs Spinosaurus and who would actually win according to SCIENCE:

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This awesome shot from Disney's DINOSAUR feels like it owes a lot to the JP Rex ambush. Also a fantastic sense of scale and weight and animalistic power, but to me it still doesn't top the Rex moment from years prior.

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Buckle up, nerds!

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The new Godzilla vs Kong needed more fight choreography like this

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As someone who did an immense amount of actual artwork for this film over the span of 2 years, this really made me chuckle. If I had only known that making art was as simple as ctrl+C, ctrl+V!

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Secret prompting hack: watch a movie with audio description turned on It’s what blind people use to watch movies & the descriptions are often really good prompts Works great for text-to-image, but it'll work even better for text-to-video This prompt came from "65" on Netflix

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spike tail

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Godzilla visits New York. Considering switching my post workflow over to Davinci and testing out Fusion as a compositor.

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Eevee light experiments. Incidentally I would chew up a Turok movie

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advertise your account with one image

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advertise your account with one image 👻

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I think this is my favorite shot that I’ve ever filmed.

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Gamera...

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I love CG, but man I miss 90s dinosaur documentaries. Give me moody shots of museums/skeletal mounts, paleontologists talking emphatically about bones, 2D animation and stop motion recreations, old dino movie clips, dig sites, paleo-art, etc.

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YouTube link!

Godzilla 8mm - Found Footage / Analog Horror

Music: 'The Old Ones' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.auMade using Blender 3D, rendered in Eevee

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These are the nostalgic dinosaur media aesthetics I crave

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Kaiju rampage. Winding down after a day of horror movie storyboards

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My all-time favorite movie monsters. What are some of your favorites?

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My all-time favorite movie monsters. what are some of your favorites?

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@malolisica I have a friend who told me his parents not only don’t remember how many times they got Covid but remember it being “mild” despite the fact that they were hospitalized and almost died from it.

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Science proves Godzilla is fake

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This was one of the very first renders of the Saurophaganax model that I made for my HELL CREEK short. I was testing a variety of things including the subsurface scattering on the neck quills.

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Spielberg has shot many sweeping camera moves & sustained takes, but this one from JAWS is special. Camera barely moves, but he blocks the actors around the barge to do the job of a moving camera. Confident enough to play much of it in wide, but also in profile. The shit I love.

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Petition to make dinosaur documentaries do shit like this again

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The Golden Gate Bridge sequence in Godzilla is great, but I'm also a big fan of the brief bridge moment in Pacific Rim.

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Horrendous on every level. This nonsense completely ruins the essence and intent of the painting -- removes the quiet, pensive, lonely intimacy, and I'm not just talking about the Lovecraftian abominations the AI added. It utterly robs the soul from the piece.

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4. Hopper, Nighthawks Immediately offscreen, an absolute NIGHTMARE of a waiter waiting with other patrons at the bar

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@jimmadseni Yeah it definitely looks better than a lot of its contemporaries. Some of the best day-for-night I’ve ever seen.

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While making HELL CREEK I experimented with a number of patterns and colorations for the Saurophaganax. This is a rough example done in a few minutes to test more vibrant colors. Ultimately I decided it made more sense to make it camouflaged in its environment.

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@mark11850248 @wecarryon2 Brain damage from Covid summed up in a comment.

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@nohomelikeplace 90% of the people who were posting the “mask for others” stuff at the start of the pandemic were worried they might be the “others” and wanted everyone to keep them safe. Now that they’ve convinced themselves they’re safe, they’ve stopped pretending to care about anyone else.

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I want to see a modern take on a cavemen vs dinosaurs movie. And by see I mean make.

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The interiors feel subterranean: control rooms, maintenance tunnels, labs, even the central showroom feels cavernous. It's a wonderful mix of high tech and primeval "stone". Everything decorative is very specific, from tiger stripe cars, to the JP font, to concrete shapes.

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@ronstauffer @thehill Your feelings are meaningless compared to actual scientific data on the subject, but it's also fascinating to see you suddenly trust the government because they happened to align with your opinion.

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FIRE IN THE SKY has what is probably the best alien abduction sequence ever put on film.

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I thought the T. Rex from the 90s Land of the Lost looked real as hell when I was a kid

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The Lost World makes great, but different use of its sets and props. The ruins of the worker village always filled me with a sense of wonder and mystery. The mobile RV lab is an incredible extension of Jurassic Park's chunky, unique tech. It all feels very branded. Very specific.

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If I got the chance, my Jurassic Park sequel pitch would be the Rogue One of JP. It takes place on Isla Nublar DURING the events of the first film and centers on a few park workers, vets, and technicians who are operating out of back-end facilities on other parts of the island...

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This is the best Godzilla roar in history. 🔊 Sound ON 🔊

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Production design often gets glossed over when assessing a film's merits, but it's incredibly important to telling your story and immersing your audience. Jurassic Park is near the tip top of my list of films that use the design of spaces/props/etc. to their fullest potential.

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What a deep sorrow it is to witness the unfolding death of art and art careers.

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Every single one of these videos is AI-generated, and if this doesn't concern you at least a little bit, nothing will The newest model: (Remember Will Smith eating spaghetti? I have so many questions)

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@John_Grosjean As far as I know. They built stop motion armatures that were wired up for CG data input that he could animate -- almost like motion capture. I don't know how much they were actually used, but his animation expertise definitely played a critical role in the success of the effects.

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This is a trip. @AArtist135 pointed out that a gallimimus clips right through the T. rex neck in this Jurassic Park shot. And yet, the moment is so captivating and powerful that I've never noticed it once in the past 30 years. Strive for greatness, not perfection.

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The devil is in the details too. Here's some great examples of props or pieces of set that all feel unique and perfectly crafted for the world of the film. Door locks, the shotguns and cattle prods, night vision goggles, the raptor transport cage.

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@sufferingnatsci Honest answer: they're people who trust scientific data above peer pressure and the government's "it's over" propaganda. Growing masses are ending up disabled by Long Covid and for many that's a truly horrifying, eye opening experience. Makes you realize covid is not mild.

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2.) This one actually might be my true favorite. This is exactly what I’d say if I just roundhouse kicked a dinosaur. Badass.

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Because doing so would require acknowledging the catastrophic failure of our society's response to a monumental health crisis and at this stage of the pandemic most Americans are very complicit in that failure.

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Why can’t Americans remember and mourn COVID Deaths (2+ Million People so far) like we do September 11th Deaths (2,996 People)?

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@digital_duck I know Chris P. Bacon personally and he would not make this up.

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If AI wins, artists may be the first domino to fall, but we won't fall alone. The shockwave will go through most every industry. Just look at film production -- the actor/writer strikes shut the business down. Imagine what happens if they're replaced by AI: 1/

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To this day this is still my favorite depiction of stegosaurus.

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To put it into perspective, if Allosaurus was the "Lion of the Jurassic"- Stegosaurus was the Lion Tamer, moving and shifting with its whip with quick reactions.

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A couple frames of stop motion animators accidentally captured on film while making THE LOST WORLD (1925)

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Here's a glimpse of my storyboards. This was a very fun movie to draw and I couldn't have been more into the subject matter. @beckandwoods are wonderful directors to work with.

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From the storyboard to the screen, see the world of #65MillionYearsAgo come to life with #65movie – now available to buy or rent:

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@palomamcclain I'm actually fully on board for both.

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2022 was the worst year of my life. Covid took so much. Above all else I want restored health for my family in '23. Time permitting, I'll gently pursue some creative goals for the new year: new screenplays, a Hell Creek graphic novel, new CG skills, maybe a comic. To a better '23

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Behind the scenes photo of the raptor pants

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Checkmate nerds! Here's MORE scientific evidence that Godzilla is not real.

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@realchasecurtis MFW its impossible to tell

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@We_Are_SSD Because worrying about a rare airplane malfunction doesn’t involve the nuisance of having to wear a face mask into Whole Foods.

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@delta_area ’s Godzilla V. Gamera fan animation has about the coolest looking rendition of Gamera out there IMO.

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Make no mistake, AI is a corporate weapon designed to eliminate humans from the creative process and it's being advertised as a "fun tool for artists".

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@TheIanMMA I started it on Jan 10th and have worked on it very casually every other day or so up to today. I didn’t model anything for this one so it went much faster in that regard.

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Part of what makes GODZILLA ‘54 so effective is Honda/Tamai’s shot design. Lots of low angle human perspectives, foreground objects/structures for scale and context, deep shadows and hard backlight. Wonderfully composed for scale and disaster and menace.

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@Coolio_Art @TalesofKaimere It's 100% a suit. You can't see it well in this gif, but look at the stabilized versions of it -- there's a big crease in the thigh that folds horizontally with every step and completely defies the musculature of the leg. The butt doesn't move either and looks like a diaper.

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@PhilTippett Also check out that incredible "handheld" shot that follows the dolly shot. It looks incredibly real. The way the Deinonychus writhes around and snaps at us is so creepy. The motion blur really sells this stuff.

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Some of the 90s Gamera effects look so cool. Love that they weren’t afraid to get a little bloody too.

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#PortfolioDay - I’m Danny, I’m a storyboard artist, filmmaker, writer, and visual effects artist

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Do we have a term for this old school pop paleo aesthetic? Caves and bones and desert rock formations mixed with jungle. It feels like a cartoonish blend of conditions dinosaurs would have lived in with conditions fossils are found in now. It’s goofy, but I really like it.

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