Ray Harryhausen, Visual Effects Master, Dies Aged 92 49
New submitter Diakoneo writes "According to the BBC, 'Visual effects master Ray Harryhausen, whose stop-motion wizardry graced such films as Jason and the Argonauts and Clash of the Titans, has died aged 92. The American animator made his models by hand and painstakingly shot them frame by frame to create some of the best-known battle sequences in cinema.' Some of my fondest cinematic memories from my youth are from Ray Harryhausen."
He provided inspiration (Score:2, Interesting)
Tribute to Ray Harryhausen (Score:5, Interesting)
http://www.malevole.com/mv/misc/tribute/ [malevole.com]
Re: He provided inspiration (Score:2, Interesting)
Was he the inspiration for the restaurant "Harryhausen's" in Monsters Inc.?
Re:Wait! (Score:3, Interesting)
Weekend at Harryhausen's?
Re:In his honor... (Score:4, Interesting)
You put the skeletons from Jason and the Argonauts up against the sword-fight with the skeleton pirates in Pirates of the Caribbean and some of it is almost shot-for-shot, it was a pretty strong inspiration.
Also: Bubo.
King Kong (Score:4, Interesting)
We had one of the 3 armatures from King Kong in our closet for several years.
My brother, Jim Danforth, knew Ray Harryhausen and did similar puppet animation
in the '60, such as "When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth" and "The 7 Faces of Dr. Lao".
Harryhausen was a house hold word in our family.
Will be missed (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Stop motion done right (Score:5, Interesting)
Stop-motion Jurassic park would have been like CGI Star Wars. Get it, Lucas?
Jurassic Park was originally going to be stop-motion in wide shots (or really, go-motion like the walkers from Empire Strikes Back) and Phil Tippett was hired to oversee this. The results just weren't what Spielberg was hoping for, and then the CGI dinosaurs started to look amazing...