This one is mine
FarScape is amazing for a lot of reasons.
While not a special effect, I always loved the Muppet Show for its antics in particular. They did so much with practical effects, and they did it amazingly well.
Please enjoy one of my personal favorites, The Windmills of Your Mind.
I’m also going to nod at Peter Jackson’s “Meet the Feebles” for being a methed out seedy underworld puppet variety show movie. The effects are super campy and cheap. It’s spectacular low budget grade b nonsense that will make you go “what the fuck did i just watch?”.
Chilly Down with the Fire Gang from the film Labyrinth
Bonus: the entire thing was choreographed by Cheryl McFadden, a.k.a. Gates McFadden, a.k.a. Dr. Beverly Crusher
The Dancing Doctor indeed
Also, two of the fireys are played by the coolest of Cats, Danny John Jules from Red Dwarf.
I got her autograph at Dragon Con and she said that they paid her garbage for that gig, but that she loved hanging out with David Bowie.
I would also love to have been able to hang out with David Bowie
I was going to say Farscape! Glad to see it was your example :)
When I was little I was obsessed with the movie Labyrinth, and the trolls of it in particular.
The idea of having a whole gang of friendly trolls hidden and waiting in my bedroom walls, for when I needed comforting, was something I wished for often.
Hoggle is my example of why most CGI characters in live-action movies are unnecessary. Hoggle is an incredible feat of puppetry combined with the performance of the actor inside the suit, and if that can be accomplished in 1986, then don’t tell me that a practical character can’t be done today.
L3-37 from Solo is a great example of how to merge practical with CGI. You get the actors real performance, the human actors on set get something real to interact with, and then CGI can fill in some of the gaps and do the things that physically can’t be done in reality.
Yes to all of that!
L3-37 was the only character I really liked seeing in Solo, that photo is great :-)
what the hell. i never watched farscape and was not expecting gory horror shit. add a warning, OP, shit. i didn’t need that added to my nightmares.
Mahna Mahna.
Makes me my other half crack up when she’s got the giggles. Which reminds me i need to make a new ringtone and swap out the woodchuck song on her phone…
The Swedish Chef is another good one. There are stories about when they were filming and even the studio crew were trying not to make noise while laughing.
I was a big fan of all the hidden shit in labrynth, the shots where you’d see one thing and they’d shift perspective to show you something else, like the rock face or the hidden passages. Thats still enthralling to me because they are very very good visual illusion effects.
The helping hands were also great. I wish they’d done a little bit more with those, maybe in other places, and not just the oubliette scene.
I love Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas.
Aside from still being amazing for what they were able to do, it was also the test that established that they were able to make full length feature films.
It’s simple and early, but I love this bit from the Ed Sullivan show back in 1967.
The pilot on Farscape, and the Martians on Sesame Street.
I guess I’m old school, but I just love Kermit the Frog’s range of facial expressions, especially when he’s interacting with Miss Piggy.
The OG 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. I think it still holds up. It’s a great movie.
dunno.
i like gonzo and fozzy. and rizzo, when he shows up.
That part in the Dark Crystal where they cast the Chamberlain out. Sooo many moving parts, a large area to cross, lots of interaction. I’m amazed they pulled it off. I wonder how many takes it took.
