RIP Ray Harryhausen

AndyG

AndyG

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The guy was a God! RIP.

Best one for me has got to be Jason and the Argonauts skeletons either that or the Vishnu statue from sinbad
 
airhead

airhead

Coffin Dodger / Keymaster
May have to do a marathon this weekend. I'll be laid up on the couch (minor surgery).

Some of the stuff looks hokey now, but it was cutting edge then.
 
Chrispy

Chrispy

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Growing up and watching things like "Movie Magic", I always wanted to be in special effects. I must have watched all the Harryhausen films at least once. Besides Clash of the Titans, I liked Sinbad as my favorites just for the amount of monsters in them. I always thought I'd grow up and make detailed models for movies... then computers came in around the mid 90's. But even just before then, the stop-motion monster technique was still in the works with such movies like "Evil Dead 3: Army of darkness". Harryhausen started a special effect that has now morphed into it's own category of animation, with such movies as "Coraline" taking it to new heights with computer in-betweens and 3-d. Even at the most base level, I still catch robot Chicken any time I can. And all this is thanks to one man and his poseable gorilla obession.

You will surely be missed, Ray.
 
Zab

Zab

Almost Perftec! Aw, crap.
92 is a good run. He inspired so many people (I work in TV partly due to his influence). Ironically there seems to be a resurgence of mini set building for mock ups and digital mapping in the FX business. I though that digital platforms would wipe out his legacy, but I guess even now you can't have one without the other. Thanks for all the nightmares & inspiration Ray!
 
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ozymandias

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Sadly missed but will not be forgotten. His work had so much more character and style than much of the CGI today.
 
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