Thursday, 25 October 2012

Ray Harryhausen - Developer


Ray Harryhausen is one of the most successful stop motion animators in history. Many things inspired him from a young age such as king kong by Willis O'Brien and visits to the Grauman's Chinese Theatre.

Once he owned a camera he created stop motion animation films and took his interest in this subject further and studied photography and editing at university. Through doing this, he came up with the idea of creating a film. However his first idea was a flop as his idea on a film about an unusual creature, was unrecognised. His second attempt consisted of dinosaurs as one of the main aspects, which happened to be good quality although it was filmed in a garage. Stop motion animation pioneer George pal, recognised Rays work and hired him to create puppetoons.

From then on, Ray Harryhausen worked on a number of films. He created films which have been recreated today. This shows that his work has inspired and developed ideas into the modern world.

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