Harryhausen
Ray Harryhausen is the greatest artist in stop-motion animation. With a career that spans 40 years of cinema, he became a by-word for innovation, excitement and entertainment in the world of special effects and film fantasy.
Born 1920 in Los Angelas, Harryhausen from an early age was fascinated
with stop-motion animation due to seeing King Komg at the agee of thirteen. Ray Harryhausen was given an opertunity to pursue
a dream and learn from the greatest of animators, Willis O’Brien. American Film magazine, (June 1981 p 49) “I had a magnicficent two year period while working on Mighty Joe Young with Obie”, “covering the long perproduction and photography. He was so involved in production problems that I ended up animating about eighty-five percent og the picture”.
After ganing vital experience with Willis o’Brien and having completed studies at the University of Southern California in painting, drama, sculpting, anatomy and photography. Ray Harryhausen produced a series of......
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