Hello!

This link might work for you or it might not … It did for me and I’m not sure why. The New York Times yesterday saw fit to give a special article to a Charles Band production … one that’s been in production for either 31, 49, or 56 years depending on when we believe it was begun. Live action was filmed for David Allen’s The Primevals back in 1994, but the creation of its miniatures and stop-motion models was underway in 1978. I personally watched Randall William Cook sketch a key scene illustration for the show in 1975, and it’s been established that Allen and Dennis Muren filmed footage for their ‘Raiders of the Stone Ring’ project back in 1968.

David Allen and animator Chris Endicott were able to animate quite a lot of footage before Allen’s death from cancer in 1999, but even then they knew that Charles Band’s funding had fallen through; the shoot in Romania had reportedly suffered from budget compromises as well. Through a Herculean effort, Mr. Endicott kept the project alive and organized the completion of the special effects, at least enough to put the movie in reasonable shape for release. I interviewed Endicott around 2009, when he was animating new scenes for Primevals on his downtime from his busy day job as an an-demand digital effects animator.

An impressive promo was put out a while back, and The Primevals finally made the rounds of some convention screenings. According to the article, written by Christopher Kuo, a Blu-ray is coming out presently. It’s also available to stream.

I hope this opens for you:

How Stop-Motion Yetis Emerged From Film Hibernation.Thanks for reading! — Glenn Erickson