Gorey Tripod of Horror - War Of The Worlds Explained
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- Опубліковано 13 жов 2024
- Gorey Tripods of Horror War Of The Worlds Tripods Explained: The Edward Gorey Tripod is a video by pupbenny about this subject. Edward Gorey was an American artist that did the illustrations for a 1960 new release special edition book of H. G. Wells The War Of The Worlds. Gorey's Tripods in the drawings are some of the most creepy versions ever and he delves into the horror aspect of HG Wells story. These pictures and their depiction of the Martian Tripod Fighting Machines is one of the most iconic versions and are still very fondly remembered today. They're really quite advanced creations from the civilization of Mars and are nothing like what human technology can develop, at least to that degree of advancement. Even the 3D models I made I found very difficult to rig and control properly lol. This is noticable in the video and images I think, the legs bent and twisted in odd ways I found difficult to control making them look kind of weird. Of course, presumably if I'd spent more time on it I could've done it better. Those tentacles are hard to control!!
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There HG Wells The War Of The Worlds, including The War Of The Worlds 1953 film, The Great Martian War 1913-1917, Jeff Wayne's Musical Version Of The War Of The Worlds and even Steven Spielberg's 2005 War Of The Worlds starring Tom Cruise as well as many indie games and art and war of the worlds games have included direct adaptions of this tripod. I found a War Of The Worlds game that's a nice adaption and it certainly makes a nice change from FOX's War Of The Worlds and the BBC's War Of The Worlds that we've gotten lately. The War Of The Worlds 1913 game is a worthwhile, fun and nicely stylised adaption of H G Wells The War Of The Worlds.20:42 02/09/2023 14,354
Just a heads up. The Cthulhu illustration at 0:35 is actually by John Kenn Mortenson, who has a very similar style to Gorey. Gorey never illustrated Lovecraft as far as I know.
Ah apologies! Thank you for letting me know of this mistake, I'll pin this comment so people know.
I grew up with the Great Illustrated Classics version of the novel, and it had an illustration for every single page. As a little kid, I could look at those illustrations for hours. They were my first introduction to how tripods looked.
Edward Gorey's Tripods are quite an iconic, stark design and definitely one of the most creepy versions of the Martian Fighting Machines from H.G. Wells story.
the cat that edward gorey was holding was to much cute and the best part of the photo ♥❤❤❤❤
The eyes and their arrangement on the bodies of the tripod machines reminds me of a close-up view of the two main large eyes of a wolf spider. Very creepy!
Any vid that gets it the phrase "fantastical whismey" is already 5 stars, in my book. Another entertaining and engrossing analysis!
Haha, thank you Cal! :D
Leave it to Pupbenny to bring back obscure tripod designs into the public consciousness.
oh man this gave me a wave of nostalgia, i have a soft spot for this design! the gorey illustrated version was the one i would get from the library as a kid. it's definitely in the top 3 best designs alongside jeff wayne's and the ones from the 2005 film.
I think I like these more than Correa's. They are somewhat ethereal, but in more of a malevolent way. Alvim's are great but I love Gorey's style quite a bit.
I'm a professional model maker (retired) and over the years I built up a collection of WotW Martian fighting machines, all built to the same scale. So far I have built;
1898 original version from Pearsons Magazine.
1906 Corea version.
1953 movie version.
1955 version from Classics Illustrated.
1968 Buffalo Radio version.
1976 Jeff Wayne version.
2005 movie version.
I may add this one.
For me the best designs for the tripod are the og wells, Jeff Wayne, the 2005 tripod and the Martian Heron from the great Martian war
Out of all the old illustrations/depictions of the Tripods, I still like the Alvim Correa ones the most. These ones are fine, I guess.
Very nice video, definitely earned a sub, love these designs. If I may, I suggest covering the machines and canceled adaption by Ray Harryhausen, one of if not my favorite interpretations.
Thank you very much! :) The Harryhausen one is actually my next video, should be coming out this (or next) week. :) Was actually intending to release it before the Gorey one but I just ended up finishing this one first. From what I've seen, not many people seem to know about the Harryhausen one, you're literally the first person I've seen mention it in a comment. (Actually, just checked my comments and only one other person has 3 weeks ago.)
@@pupbenny yea, me and some friends have a sort of cult following of that machine, I actually have a few hard to come by images of the Martians, including a restoration of an unfortunately extremely low quality picture from a documentary on the man himself.
Little fun fact that’s not well known about it; the saucer is allegedly able to spin, this would balance it (spinning objects are always more stable because funni physics). And there was meant to be a part of the movie where a Hindenburg esc disaster happens, the Martians burn an airship (you can actually see this referenced in the famous colored composite often thrown around.
All in all, a design definitely worth exploring
@@starry3459 I've included the spinning in (not very good, but hopefully somewhat reasonable) animations for a 3D model I've made of it, so I'm glad I caught that detail! :) It does seem very difficult to find information about this project, so it's nice that there are people taking such a detailed interest in it. Hopefully everything in the video will be accurate. It's a great shame the film didn't get made, the scene of the airship getting destroyed would've been really interesting to see.
@@pupbenny 100% real shame, but we did get 53 instead so not a total loss
@@starry3459 I said it'd be my next video but might be delayed slightly, I got distracted with the War of the Worlds Siberia trailer that got released and wanted to do a video on that, but the Harryhausen one should be finished soon, I overestimated how long I wanted to spend finishing it up it seems haha, sorry.
I hope sometime you can do a video or videos on the handling machines, as I think they dont see enough love in the adaptations.
I hope to soon! It's a shame most adaptations seem to just merge their concept with the tripods as they're really quite interesting.
This was the first version that I first read decades ago. Thank for
bringing it to light.
This and Spielberg's are my most favorite Tripods...❤
Pupbenny speedrunning to do a video on every artist who has ever depicted the tripods
Seems like it. XD
Edward goreys fighting machine looks like a flying saucer like plate on legs and with arms on it's body.
I definitely love this design.
Another great illustration of this subject was the Classic Illustrated Comics version of the War of the Worlds. A review of this artwork would be welcome.
That's another one I want to get around to, I'm hoping to get a copy of it soon if I can so I can do a full review of it. :)
The way the legs are often positioned reminds me of the Jarrell tornado of 1997, especially the one with the _Thunder Child._
I think I wouldn't have given much thought to these designs before your perspective, and if someone had made fun of them I probably would've been swayed toward that view, but your enthusiasm for how menacing they are is appreciated. What I like is that they have similar eyes to Jeff Wayne's version but are significantly more organic looking, and distinctly alien. You wouldn't assume people would make these.
I remember this book design. The boom I have is so old, it'll probably become dust If not careful with it
A great examination with some really astute observations. The closing comments are highly valid too. For me, as a naval history enthusiast, perhaps the one thing which would betray the date (as not being the first, from the late 1890s) would be the bow of the Thunder Child: Not the forward-slanting ploughshare bow of a late 19thC ironclad, but rather a post-WW2 backward-raked clipper bow.
Nice video.
Ironically, aside from the 2005 movie, that artwork cover was my first exposure to what has now became my obsession (╥﹏╥)
what's the music at the end of the video?? anyways, cool video!
I've got a couple of Gorey's books, The Haunted Tea Cosy and The Gashlycrumb Tinies
YESS THE KING UPLOADED AGAIN
I know Wells loved Correa, but I think Gorey overall managed to do the most accurate drawings of the Tripods as described in the book.
We definately need an animator that will use this style of drawing as animation's part (like frames made of self-redrawing lines), and use it as analog horror...
One thing about any depiction of the fighting machines I've found, is they always seem enclosed. If I'm recalling correctly, in the book they're described as open, with the Martian fully visible, hence why the one that was hit at Weybridge was described as being splashed to the four winds.
I've yet to see anything that illustrates them this way.
I always imagined the red weed seeds being sprayed from the fighting machines and it looking like how when you but your hand on the part of the sink that the water comes out of it sprays everywhere maybe that’s why the sky looks purple or it could be night time
I like how the times the fighting machines are outlined they resemble a mangled ufo with legs.
Also another great video favourite explanation channels
Thank you very much! :) It's funny you say that because the next one I'm doing a video on I literally describe them as looking like "flying saucers with legs" lol.
That’s what I all ways thought that to
yo my guy make a jeff wayne tripod video i love these
Will do! :)
I’ve always thought this design looked like jellyfish.. or in how my brain sees it a Flying saucer with legs and tentacles coming out of it, but that’s just me
12:52 Ok this Desktop Wallpaper goes Hard
I think that Cuneo did the best depictions of the tripods.
I wonder if Remy Abode was influenced by Gorey's design of the martians when he made the Gemini Home Entertainment series; His Woodcrawlers and Skinwalkers have very similar arthropod/cephalopod characteristics.
classic pupbenny upload W
Thank you haha! :)
These martians are like the reapers from Mass Effect.
But at last word of the world against #zoophila unlike #masseffect made humans shipping alien catman and other humanidoanimals and not alien like Zelda even because Zelda still human looking just with longer airds same as the human with wings, I am very glad they taking this game down ,better alien game's like oddworld war of worlds dead space
5:48 this martian looks friendly and goofy but even though its not
My only critic is the basket in the back of the tripod.
why does the gorey tripod look like a ufo with 3 legs?
I was thinking the same thing
will you do the jeff wayne tripod
Yeah, eventually! :)
The bug eyes idea is cool but I think it might just be the paint swatches
1:02 K IS FOR KATE WHO WAS STUCK WITH AN AXE! 😊
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@@AnimatorAOfficial Yes
Well now you gotta to do an explained vid on other versions of the tripods sometime
You know, I’ve been watching your work for a while, and I am curious if you would ever make a video on your thoughts of doctor, who may be some of the weeping angels are the Dalex or the Cyberman or the Sun Torrens or the Zions or the Master or the audiobooks by big finish or what are your thoughts also on Doctor Who being owned on Disney+, and other things of that nature, it’s not Doctor Who, then something in that sub genre of science fiction I’m very curious
Although yes, I have noticed you’ve watched Doctor Who stuff before I would like you to cover it even more detail is what I mean
Can you do the Lou Cameron tripods?
Yeah I hope to get around to them soon! :)
1950s or 40s are my favorite tripods
1:16 *I die*
LOL I found that picture very funny.
I was in the tripod in the book! Inside the tripod!
"Fing," "fink" even "Funderchild." Good Lord man, use your tongue.
My question is, where’s the heatray located?
That's a really good question, I was wondering that too. I probably should have brought this up as a criticism as he seems to have kind of just forgotten about this seemingly.
@@pupbenny It could be hidden somewhere in the hood, or it blasts from something that comes out like in the 2005 movie?
I always assumed it was out of their eyes. Kind of like how the Heat Ray in the 1953 machines is used as both a device to scope and check out areas and also as a weapon.
Yet another tripod i feel "eh" about
Yeah, a lot of people feel they're unimpressive and it's fair to see why.
Wait... did Gorey inspire American television serial Mystery Theatre on PBS?
Addendum, I did just look PBS Mystery on YT and Gorey did do the animation for them.
I'd listen to this dude talk about anything
Ha, thank you!
I think you should do the illustrated classics edition the war of the worlds
8:28 you forgot about 1 in the backround one of them looks like hes raising his arms
Hold up...wait a minute, where do the gorey tripods shoot there heat ray? I predicted they shoot the heat ray out of there eyes, or maybe they sprout a extra tentacle with the heat ray attached to it? I don't know
I think the 2019 is awesome
Aren't they are cyborg giant aliens in 2006 movies
I might be stupid but where? are the heat rays
Littlest characterisation? There’s a fair bit
what's that outdo music?
@pupbenny what do you like more oddworld or war of the worlds?
That's an interesting question! In general I think I would say oddworld.
When I was a kid in the 80's that was the copy of the book I checked out from my local library.
does anyone ever ask were the hell the heat ray is on it
Where's the heat ray
With me, they look like UFOs with tentacles
what if the tripods eyes are the Martians eyes there are like 2 holes for there eyes
Gorey drew Cthulhu?
reminds me of jumping spiders
CATS movie catching strays 🤣
Wheres the heat ray
7 views gang
Guess like with Correa I'm in the minority again, these just look goofy.
1:14 i die
12:57