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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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...
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
Fighting machine no heat Ray handling machine Edward gorey 2:49 7:02
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.
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.
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!
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.
pics or it didn't happen
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 ♥❤❤❤❤
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.
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.
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
By „og Wells” are you referring to the Alvin Correa design (5:38)?
@ yes
I like the dark horse comics tripod by d'israeli
@ don’t think I’ve ever seen them
@@jakerooke174 if you Google them, they look kind of skeleton-like
This was the first version that I first read decades ago. Thank for
bringing it to light.
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.
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 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 definitely love this design.
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.
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. :)
I remember this book design. The boom I have is so old, it'll probably become dust If not careful with it
YESS THE KING UPLOADED AGAIN
This and Spielberg's are my most favorite Tripods...❤
The way the legs are often positioned reminds me of the Jarrell tornado of 1997, especially the one with the _Thunder Child._
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.
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
5:48 this martian looks friendly and goofy but even though its not
I think that Cuneo did the best depictions of the tripods.
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
1:02 K IS FOR KATE WHO WAS STUCK WITH AN AXE! 😊
💀
@@AnimatorAOfficial Yes
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...
Ironically, aside from the 2005 movie, that artwork cover was my first exposure to what has now became my obsession (╥﹏╥)
I've got a couple of Gorey's books, The Haunted Tea Cosy and The Gashlycrumb Tinies
12:52 Ok this Desktop Wallpaper goes Hard
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.
why does the gorey tripod look like a ufo with 3 legs?
I was thinking the same thing
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
classic pupbenny upload W
Thank you haha! :)
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.
0:27 i love the cat
yo my guy make a jeff wayne tripod video i love these
Will do! :)
will you do the jeff wayne tripod
Yeah, eventually! :)
The original Godzilla designs intentionally add eyes which look upwards. It was added to give Godzilla an indifferent emotion to the carnage below.
1:16 *I die*
LOL I found that picture very funny.
My only critic is the basket in the back of the tripod.
what's the music at the end of the video?? anyways, cool video!
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.
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
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.
Can you do the Lou Cameron tripods?
Yeah I hope to get around to them soon! :)
Yet another tripod i feel "eh" about
Yeah, a lot of people feel they're unimpressive and it's fair to see why.
Well now you gotta to do an explained vid on other versions of the tripods sometime
1950s or 40s are my favorite tripods
The bug eyes idea is cool but I think it might just be the paint swatches
I was in the tripod in the book! Inside the tripod!
8:28 you forgot about 1 in the backround one of them looks like hes raising his arms
I think you should do the illustrated classics edition the war of the worlds
I'd listen to this dude talk about anything
Ha, thank you!
what's that outdo music?
does anyone ever ask were the hell the heat ray is on it
Littlest characterisation? There’s a fair bit
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
"Fing," "fink" even "Funderchild." Good Lord man, use your tongue.
I might be stupid but where? are the heat rays
I think the 2019 is awesome
Where's the heat ray
Aren't they are cyborg giant aliens in 2006 movies
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
what if the tripods eyes are the Martians eyes there are like 2 holes for there eyes
@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.
Gorey drew Cthulhu?
Wheres the heat ray
With me, they look like UFOs with tentacles
reminds me of jumping spiders
1:14 i die
Guess like with Correa I'm in the minority again, these just look goofy.
1:40 "he was attempting to be autistic" :p
12:57
CATS movie catching strays 🤣
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