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Ray Harryhausen, special effects pioneer, dies at 92
Entertainment Weekly
Ray Harryhausen, whose dazzling and innovative visual effects work on fantasy adventure films like The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (1958) and Jason and the Argonauts (1963) augured the explosion of effects-driven cinema over the last 30 years, died in ...

Film's Mr Special Effects Ray Harryhausen Dies at 92

IBTimes.co.uk
A statement from the Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation said: "The Harryhausen family regret to announce the death of Ray Harryhausen, visual effects pioneer and stop-motion model animator. He was a multi-award winner which includes a special ...

Visual effects icon Ray Harryhausen dies

3News NZ
A statement issued by his relatives reads, "The Harryhausen family regret to announce the death of Ray Harryhausen, Visual Effects pioneer and stop-motion model animator. "Ray's influence on today's film makers was enormous... Steven Spielberg, James ...

RIP Ray Harryhausen, Monster Innovator and Visual Effects Legend

io9
Here's a list of just a few of the modern day masters that lined up to contribute to the documentary Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan: James Cameron, Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson, Nick Park, Phil Tippett, Terry Gilliam, Dennis Muren, John ...

RIP Ray Harryhausen 1920 – 2013

HorrorMovies.ca
It comes with great sadness that we report the unfortunate passing of the special effects legend Ray Harryhausen. Ray was truly a pioneer, an expert in his field, and a iconic figure who gave us some utterly breathtaking stop-motion effects. His works ...


Visual effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen dead at age 92

Reuters
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Influential visual effects maker and animator Ray Harryhausen, who brought monsters, skeletons and mythological beasts to life for movies like "Jason and the Argonauts" long before computers took over the job, died Tuesday at ...

Ray Harryhausen, Special Effects Legend, Has Died - MTV Movies Blog

MTV.com (blog)
Special effects legend and inspiration for many of today's most innovative directors, Ray Harryhausen has passed away at the age of 92. The iconic effects wizard created groundbreaking techniques that brought giant and horrifying monsters to life on ...

Ray Harryhausen, special effects guru behind 'Clash of the Titans,' 'Golden ...

New York Daily News
During a four-decade career — his last official film as a visual effects coordinator was 1981's “Clast of the Titles” — he earned a life-time achievement Academy Award and stoked the imaginations of filmmakers including Steven Spielberg, James ...

Ray Harryhausen, Cinematic Special-Effects Innovator, Dies at 92

New York Times
Ray Harryhausen, the animator and special-effects wizard who found ways to breathe cinematic life into the gargantuan, the mythical and the extinct, died on Tuesday in London, where he lived. He was 92. His family announced his death. Often working ...

Visual Effects Pioneer Ray Harryhausen Dies at 92

Hollywood Reporter
Visual Effects Pioneer Ray Harryhausen Dies at 92. 10:37 AM PDT 5/7/2013 by Duane Byrge. 707. 183. 0. 10. 0. Email; Print. Comments. Ray Harryhausen. Stop-motion legend developed many of the techniques that have become today's industry standards.

Hollywood reacts to death of visual effects guru Ray Harryhausen

Los Angeles Times
Except for "Titans," Harryhausen, who was 92, worked on all the special effects himself. "I don't have a crew," he told The Times in an interview a few years ago. Any given effect, he said, could take months for him to complete -- like the classic ...

Ray Harryhausen, visual effects master, dies aged 92

BBC News
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 ...

Ray Harryhausen, visual effects master who thrilled and terrified generations ...

The Independent
The visual effects pioneer, who worked on films including Clash of the Titans and Sinbad, influenced directors from Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson to James Cameron as well as Wallace & Gromit creator Nick Park. His death was announced by the Ray ...

Ray Harryhausen, Visual Effects Legend Passes Away

G4 TV (blog)
Certainly, no single person has had as a profound effect on the imaginations of visionary filmmakers in the last century as Harryhausen did with his groundbreaking, masterful, and visually compelling stop motion animation. Forever changed after being ...

Visual Effects & Stop-Motion Legend Ray Harryhausen Passes Away

Flicks and bits
The family of Ray Harryhausen has just announced on Facebook that the multi-award winning visual effects and stop-motion legend passed away today at the age of 92. The full statement can be read below. Our sincere condolences go out to Ray ...

Legendary Visual Effects Pioneer Ray Harryhausen Has Died at the Age of 92

Complex.com (blog)
Specifically, Harryhausen redefined the visual effects medium through some of the greatest stop-motion animation of all time, work that never feels dated, only timeless and awe-inspiring. The imprints he's left on cinema are vast. Long before the days ...


Visual effects gamechanger Ray Harryhausen dies at 92 (video)

Press-Register - al.com
Harryhausen's stop-motion images still feel like a breath of fresh air in 2013, in an age of an ongoing computer-animated special effects nightmare. The man will be missed, but with filmmakers like Wes Anderson, Henry Selick, Tim Burton, Pixar's crew ...

Special Effects Pioneer Ray Harryhausen Dead at 92

We Are Movie Geeks
The Harryhausen family regret to announce the death of Ray Harryhausen, Visual Effects pioneer and stop-motion model animator. He was a multi-award winner which includes a special Oscar and BAFTA. Ray's influence on today's film makers was ...

Visual effects legend Ray Harryhausen dies at 92

The Week Magazine
The news of Harryhausen's death was announced by The Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation, a charitable organization devoted to archiving, preserving, and restoring Harryhausen's decades of visual effects work. "Harryhausen's genius was in being ...

Ray Harryhausen, visual effects pioneer, dies at 92

Digital Spy
The visual effects pioneer was known for creating some of the most iconic animated scenes in cinema history, including the famous skeleton sword fight in 1963's Jason and the Argonauts. Ray Harryhausen arrives for the UK film premiere of 'King Kong' ...

RIP Ray Harryhausen

Deadline.com
Special effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen, whose work influenced filmmakers such as Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, Peter Jackson and George Lucas, died today in London. He was 92. His family announced the death via The Ray and Diana ...

Ray Harryhausen Dies At 92 - ScreenCrave

ScreenCrave.com
Academy Award winning visual effects innovator and creator Ray Harryhausen, whose stop-motion animation (called Dynamation) revolutionized special effects in film and allowed for whole new worlds and characters to be portrayed onscreen, has died.

Ray Harryhausen, Stop-Motion Animation Pioneer, Dies at 92

Wall Street Journal (blog)
This note was posted on the Facebook page of The Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation: “The Harryhausen family regret to announce the death of Ray Harryhausen, Visual Effects pioneer and stop-motion model animator. He was a multi-award winner ...


Action Figure Insider
We here at AFi are saddened by the passing of special effects legend Ray Harryhausen. I personally had the opportunity to meet the man twice, hear him lecture once and see some of his legendary models in person. His work continues to be an inspiration ...

Farewell, Ray Harryhausen The master of stop motion passed on at 92

Austin Chronicle (blog)
In a brief statement release this morning via Facebook, The Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation announced, "The Harryhausen family regret to announce the death of Ray Harryhausen, Visual Effects pioneer and stop-motion model animator." ...

ANIMATION PIONEER: Ray Harryhausen with one of his skeleton warrior models

The Northern Echo
The legendary visual effects master and stop-motion model pioneer was a regular visitor to the North-East, often taking part in the University of Teesside's annual Animex International Festival of Animation. He also received an Honorary Doctor of ...

Ray Harryhausen Dies Aged 92

The Quietus
Ray Harryhausen, the pioneering American visual effects creator and master of stop-motion animation has died aged 92, report Coming Soon. Harryhausen passed away earlier today in London, where he had lived since 1960. After first experimenting with ...

Ray Harryhausen Passes Away

Comic Book Resources
Ray Harryhausen, the visual-effects legend famed for his stop-motion work on such films as Mighty Joe Young, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad and Jason and the Argonauts, passed away this morning in London. He was 92. The announcement on the Ray and ...

RIP Famed Stop Motion Animator Ray Harryhausen (1920 – 2013)

Indie Wire (blog)
Ray Harryhausen, a hugely influential animator and visual effects trailblazer, has passed away at the age of 93, his family announced today. With his pioneering use of stop motion animation, Harryhausen contributed memorable creatures to "Mighty Joe ...

Ray Harryhausen dies aged 92: master of stop-motion animation

The Guardian
He began to experiment with a borrowed camera, working around the fact that it did not have a stop-frame mechanism, and he showed his experiments to Willis O'Brien, who had done the visual effects for King Kong. O'Brien's verdict – that Harryhausen's ...

FX Maestro Ray Harryhausen Dies at 92 - Breitbart

Big Hollywood
Special effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen didn't need computer wizardry to bring his nightmarish creatures to life. All he required was a camera capable of shooting a single frame of film at a time. His boundless imagination took care of the rest ...

Obit: Ray Harryhausen

Screen International
The visual effects godfather and producer, whose creations made famous the Sinbad films and Jason And The Argonauts, has died aged 92. Harryhausen was born in Los Angeles in 1920 and developed an early passion for dinosaurs into a penchant for ...

Visual effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen dies

CBC.ca
Ray Harryhausen, a pioneer of visual effects and stop-motion animation who influenced a generation of animators, has died. He was 92. His family announced that he died Tuesday at Hammersmith Hospital in London. Harryhausen worked in both the U.S. ...

Special Effects Legend Ray Harryhausen Dies At 92

Geeks of Doom
Ray Harryhausen, a master of the arts of stop-motion and visual effects in film, has passed away at the age of 92. Born in 1920, it was when Harryhausen's parents took him to see the original King Kong in 1933 that he was inspired to become the man ...

Ray Harryhausen Dead: Visual Effects Legend Dies At 92 Years Old (VIDEO)

Huffington Post
Ray Harryhausen, the visual effects pioneer who worked on classic films including "Mighty Joe Young" (1949), "It Came From Beneath The Sea" (1955) and "Jason and the Argonauts" (1963) passed away today, according to a statement from his family.

Ray Harryhausen, special effects legend and stop-motion master, dies at 92

NOLA.com
Biographer and longtime friend Tony Dalton confirmed that Harryhausen died today (May 6) at London's Hammersmith Hospital, where the special effects titan had been receiving treatment for about a week. Dalton said it was too soon to tell the exact ...

Ray Harryhausen, visual effects pioneer who ruled before era of CGI, passes away

Daily News & Analysis
Legendary Hollywood visual effects pioneer and stop-motion model animator Ray Harryhausen passed away on Wednesday, according to the Internet Movie Database. He was 92 years old. Harryhausen, who was born in Los Angeles and worked for more ...

Legendary visual effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen dies at 92

Straight.com (blog)
He was originally inspired by the effects in the 1933 classic King Kong after seeing it at age 13. He made his mark in fantasy and adventure films such as Mighty Joe Young (which won the Academy Award for best special effects), It Came From Beneath the ...

Ray Harryhausen dies: Visual effects pioneer of 'Clash of the Titans' and ...

Zap2it.com (blog)
ray-harryhausen-dies-clash-of-titans-medusa.jpg Ray Harryhausen, a legendary and profoundly influential figure in the world of Hollywood special effects, died today (May 7) in London at the age of 92. The news was announced by his family via Facebook.

Ray Harryhausen, Visual Effects Legend, Dies

Hollywood.com
Long before the days when computers could bring any conceivable image to life on the big screen, we had Ray Harryhausen: a visual effects pioneer who championed the realization of breathtaking scenes, creatures, and worlds in the early days of ...

Stop-motion and visual effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen dies at the age of 92

The Verge
Ray Harryhausen, a special effect guru who created some of the most memorable visual effects sequences in early Hollywood films like Jason and the Argonauts, died today at the age of 92, reports The New York Times. Harryhausen was perhaps best known ...

RIP Ray Harryhausen, Special Effects Legend

Den of Geek (US)
He was an innovator in stop-motion special effects, and has won numerous awards for his contributions to the film industry. He is best known for his work on 1949's Mighty Joe Young and 1955's It Came From Beneath The Sea. He is revered by many whom ...

Hollywood special effects master Harryhausen dies at 92

AFP
LONDON — US-born "king of stop-motion animation" and special effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen died aged 92 in London on Tuesday, his family announced. Hollywood tributes flooded in for Oscar-winner Harryhausen, who is best known for his work on ...

Special Effects Legend Ray Harryhausen Has Passed Away at Age 92

First Showing
Filmmakers like Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, Peter Jackson and George Lucas are household names, but they might have never become the filmmaker's they are today with Ray Harryhausen. The special effects legend was responsible for ...

Special effects mastermind Ray Harryhausen dies

Catholic Online
Computer generated imagery - or as it is called, CGI, has given movies of today an unlimited palette in which to sketch fantastical sights to movie audiences. It wasn't always that way. In the case of movie special effects mastermind Ray Harryhausen ...

Ray Harryhausen Dies: Visual Effects Legend Responsible For Star Wars Dead ...

Latin Times
The family used the official Facebook page of the Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation to make their announcement writing, "The Harryhausen family regret to announce the death of Ray Harryhausen, Visual Effects pioneer and stop-motion model ...

Ray Harryhausen, Movie Effects-Maker, Dies At Age Of 92 - Huffington Post

Huffington Post UK
Ray Harryhausen worked on some of the greatest special effects films of the 1940s and 1950s. "The Harryhausen family regret to announce the death of Ray Harryhausen, visual effects pioneer and stop-motion model animator," the family said in a statement.

Ray Harryhausen dead: Movie veteran dies aged 92

Mirror.co.uk
A statement posted on his official Facebook page read: "The Harryhausen family regret to announce the death of Ray Harryhausen, Visual Effects pioneer and stop-motion model animator. "He was a multi-award winner which includes a special Oscar and ...

How to create a lifelike tiger with technology

TechRadar UK
Visual effects has completely revolutionised cinema. And while occasionally you end up with films that use special effects as a commodity, that do nothing to enhance the experience, occasionally they are such an essential part of the film's narrative ...

Hollywood effects wizard Ray Harryhausen dies at 92

Tucson Citizen
The man responsible for all those and much more, Hollywood special-effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen, died Tuesday in London at the age of 92. His family announced his death via The Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation Facebook page.


New York Times
Though his on-screen credit was often simply “technical effects” or “special visual effects,” Mr. Harryhausen usually played a principal creative role in the films featuring his work. He frequently proposed the initial concept, scouted the locations ...

Visual Effects Pioneer Ray Harryhausen Dead at 92 - VOA

Voice of America
“Ray has been a great inspiration to us all in special visual industry. The art of his earlier films, which most of us grew up on, inspired us so much,” said Star Wars creator George Lucas in a statement. “Without Ray Harryhausen, there would likely ...

Ray Harryhausen, a special effects whiz who wowed a generation

Los Angeles Times
Greek warrior Jason (Todd Armstrong) travels to the farthest ends of the earth in search of the legendary Golden Fleece, in this glorious adventure featuring some of Ray Harryhausen's most memorable visual effects. (American Cinematheque) ...

Visual Effects Pioneer Ray Harryhausen, Famous For 'Mighty Joe Young' And ...

Starpulse.com
Iconic visual effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen passed away on Tuesday in London at the age of 92. Harryhausen's stop-motion animation inspired numerous filmmakers, from Peter Jackson to George Lucas, who once said, "Without Ray Harryhausen, there ...

Ray Harryhausen, Special Effects Legend, Dies At 92 - The Inquisitr

The Inquisitr
Ray Harryhausen, special effects legend and stop-motion animation pioneer, has died at the age of 92. The FX wizard's death was announced on the Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation Facebook page. Ray passed away from natural causes in London ...

Ray Harryhausen's 5 Greatest Special Effects Monsters

Hollywood.com
Considering what a vast legacy he left for generations of special effects artists, it may surprise you to learn that Ray Harryhausen, who died in London May 7 at 91, was only credited for his groundbreaking effects wizardry on 13 feature films: from ...

Ray Harryhausen, Pioneering Visual Effects Artist, Dies At 92

International Business Times
According to the New York Times, Harryhausen was often credited only for his special effects roles, but he actually contributed much of the creative vision behind many films he worked on. Harryhausen would frequently scout for filming locations and ...

IN MEMORIAM: Special Effects Pioneer Ray Harryhausen

Big Shiny Robot!
When we think about pioneers in the visual effects industry, we think about Dennis Muren, Phil Tippett, or Stan Winston. At least, I do. I fell in love with their work and followed their careers even before CGI became the norm in the effects industry ...

Industry Mourns Passing of Visual Effects Guru Ray Harryhausen

SHOOT Online
In contrast to the millions spent on digital effects today, Harryhausen made his magic on a shoestring. His first effort, "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms" (1953), cost $250,000 for the entire film. He commented wryly in 1998: "I find it rather amusing ...

Special effects master Harryhausen dies

The Australian
Special effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen, best known for his work on Clash of the Titans, has died. Source: AAP. US-BORN "king of stop-motion animation" and special effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen died aged 92 in London, his family has announced.

RIP Ray Harryhausen: Legendary Visual Effects Pioneer Dead at 92

ScreenCrush
Before the age of computers and digital effects, Harryhausen was bringing impossible characters and monsters to life with his bare hands. He gave personality to clay. He squeezed emotion of model figures. Today, we can look at special effects and say ...

Ray Harryhausen, special effects pioneer, dies at 92 (VIDEO)

GlobalPost (blog)
Ray harryhausen dies Enlarge. Special-effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen poses with a Medusa from his 1981 film "Clash Of The Titans" at the Myths and Legends Exhibition at the London Film Museum on June 29, 2010 in England. Harryhausen died on May ...

Hollywood special effects master Harryhausen dies at 92 - FRANCE 24

FRANCE 24
US film producer and special effects creator Ray Harryhausen poses for photographers on June 29, 2010 next to his creation Medusa, which appeared in the film Clash of the Titans, at the London Film Museum in London. US-born "king of stop-motion ...

Tributes paid to Ray Harryhausen, visual effects 'giant'

BBC News
A host of directors have paid tribute to visual effects guru Ray Harryhausen following his death at the age of 92. Britain's Nick Park said he was "one of the true greats", while George Lucas said that without him, "there would likely have been no Star ...

Hollywood Mourns Visual Effects Expert Ray Harryhausen's Death

AceShowbiz
Ray Harryhausen, who is known as the legend of special effects stop-motion animation, passed away at the age of 92 on Tuesday, May 7 at Hammersmith Hospital, London, after receiving treatment for a week. His death was confirmed by Kenneth Kleinberg, ...

Dead at 92: Special Effects Titan Ray Harryhausen

Alt Film Guide (blog)
Long before the computer-generated imagery of Jurassic Park, Avatar, The Avengers, and Iron Man 3, there were special-effects wizard Ray Harryhausen's painstakingly created stop-motion models, which graced dozens of movies from the late '40s to the ...

Special effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen dies - She Knows

SheKnows.com
Best known for stop-motion animation, Harryhausen's painstaking work was photographed one frame at a time. Although he was often credited for only "technical effects" or "special visual effects," the wizard generally had a much more involved role in ...

Ray Harryhausen, a giver of special effects and stop-motion guru is no more

Desimartini
The man who created some of the most incredible and magical visual effects sequences in Hollywood films like Jason and Argonauts, died yesterday in London at the age of 92. King Kong, one of the first films to use the technique of stop-motion was ...

Special Effects Trailblazer Ray Harryhausen Dies, Aged 92

Contactmusic.com
Ray Harryhausen, the mastermind behind some of Hollywood's most iconic and groundbreaking special effects, has died aged 92. The screen icon worked on such visionary films as Clash of the Titans and Jason and the Argonauts and went on to influence ...


 Legendary VFX And Stop-Motion Pioneer Ray Harryhausen Passes Away Aged 92
Comic Book Movie
Legendary VFX And Stop-Motion Pioneer Ray Harryhausen Passes Away Aged 92. Legendary visual effects pioneer and stop-motion model animator Ray Harryhausen has sadly passed away at the age of 92. Hit the jump to read the official statement, ...


VFX Legend Ray Harryhausen Dies at Age 92

I Am Rogue.com
VFX Legend Ray Harryhausen Dies at Age 92. Tuesday, 07 May 2013 08:51 Written by Jordan DeSaulnier · Video · Add new comment. Rate this item. 1; 2; 3; 4; 5. (0 votes). VFX Legend Ray Harryhausen Dies at Age 92. Truly sad news today. The Ray and ...

Hollywood Pays Tribute To Ray Harryhausen

Hollywood Reporter
Joe Letteri, four-time Oscar winner and senior VFX supervisor at Weta Digital. “In many ways Ray Harryhausen was the icon of an era where visual effects were done practically, painstakingly and perfectly. Before ones and zeros, before motion control ...


VFX Global (blog)
VFX Legend Ray Harryhausen Dies. By Kristy Barkan, May 7, 2013; View Articles. A Facebook post by the Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation this morning conveyed some very sad news: Ray passed away in London earlier today. Below is the post in ...

VFX Pioneer Phil Tippett On Ray Harryhausen: 'The Guy That Everybody Was ...

Hollywood Reporter
In the following tribute, Tippett, a VFX pioneer in his own right and now principal of Tippett Studio, praises Harryhausen, who died Tuesday at the age of 92, for both his creativity and for the guidance he freely offered the next generation of ...

VFX Pioneer Phil Tippett On Ray Harryhausen: 'The Guy That ...

Malaysia Sun
Visual Effects Pioneer Ray Harryhausen Dies at 92 In the following tribute, Tippett, a VFX pioneer in his own right and now principal of Tippett Studio, ...

MyFox Philadelphia
Visual effects and animation Hollywood innovator Ray Harryhausen died Tuesday in London, the Los Angeles Times reports. He was 92. Visual effects and animation Hollywood innovator Ray Harryhausen died Tuesday in London, the Los Angeles Times ...

Visual effects master Ray Harryhausen dies at 92

PanARMENIAN.Net
PanARMENIAN.Net - 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, BBC News reported. The American made his models by hand and ...

RIP, RAY HARRYHAUSEN: Inspired as a child, the special-effects titan ...

Washington Post (blog)
“All those animators and visual-effects artists whose lives were changed by their first viewings of 'Jason and The Argonauts,' or 'The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad,' have gone on to transform the way movies are made. Each of them trying again and again to ...

Tributes flood in for visual effects legend Ray Harryhausen

Purple Revolver
Following the death of visual effects legend Ray Harryhausen the movie world has been in mourning and paying tribute to his exceptional and pioneering work. Harryhausen, who died at the age of 92, had lived in the UK for several decades and was best ...

Watch: 40-Minute Tribute & 1-Hour Documentary on Late Special Effects Legend ...

The Film Stage
A true visual effects legend was lost today as Ray Harryhausen, the stop-motion master behind the creatures in such classic matinee movies as Jason and the Argonauts and The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, passed away at the age of 93. Harryhausen plied his ...

Monster man: effects guru Ray Harryhausen dies at 92

The Week UK
RAY HARRYHAUSEN, the Oscar-winning visual effects guru who terrified a generation of children by bringing skeletons and dinosaurs to life, has died at the age of 92. Here are five things you might not know about the master of stop-motion animation: ...

Ray Harryhausen, a master of special effects in films, dies at age 92

Washington Post
LONDON — When Ray Harryhausen was 13, he was so overwhelmed by “King Kong” that he vowed he would create otherworldly creatures on film. He fulfilled his desire as an adult, thrilling audiences with skeletons in a sword fight, a gigantic octopus ...

Ray Harryhausen dies at 92; special-effects legend

Los Angeles Times
Ray Harryhausen, the stop-motion animation legend whose work on "The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms," "Jason and the Argonauts" and other science fiction and fantasy film classics made him a cult figure who inspired later generations of filmmakers and ...

Ray Harryhausen videos: Poetry in stop-motion in five highlights

Los Angeles Times
Over the course of his imaginative and painstaking career, the stop-motion animation wizard Ray Harryhausen created some of the most dazzling effects to grace the silver screen, and all without the benefit of computer-generated imagery. Following are ...

Revealing the complexities of Ray Harryhausen's special effects

Los Angeles Times
By Dennis McLellan. 10:40 a.m. PDT, May 8, 2013. The work of special-effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen, who died Tuesday at 92, was chronicled in a 2004 memoir he wrote with British film historian Tony Dalton titled “Ray Harryhausen: An Animated Life.” ...

Ray Harryhausen, Stop-Motion Film Innovator, Dead at 92—Twitter Tributes ...

E! Online
Ray Harryhausen, you'll be sorely missed. The Hollywood visual effects pioneer, famed for his stop-motion animation techniques that brought to life fantastical creatures like a hibernating dinosaur in 1953's The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms and terrifying ...

RIP Ray Harryhausen: Ten great movie monsters created by the late special ...

Entertainment Weekly (blog)
Cinema lost a living legend today with the passing of Ray Harryhausen, the maestro of stop-motion special effects. Inspired as a teenager by King Kong, Harryhausen spent his career creating monsters drawn from myth and pseudo-science that took hold of ...

Ray Harryhausen, animator who inspired many, has died

Columbus Dispatch
Influential visual effects maker and animator Ray Harryhausen, who helped create monsters and other animated creatures for movies including Jason and the Argonauts and The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, died yesterday at the age of 92. Harryhausen, who ...

Ray Harryhausen: Movie stop-motion master crafted magic

Chicago Tribune
If Ray Harryhausen had designed only one sequence in his cinematic career, any one of his real lulus — let's start with the skeleton army battle in “Jason and the Argonauts” from 1963 — he'd still be the master of stop-motion animation special effects.

Ray Harryhausen matched JMW Turner for special effects genius

The Guardian (blog)
Ray Harryhausen's cinematic masterpiece Jason and the Argonauts is so deeply written in my childhood memories that when I watch it as an adult (and I do, regularly) I can scarcely match it to the images I recall seeing on a black-and-white television ...

Ray Harryhausen, stop-motion animation master, dies in London at 92

The Guardian
Directors including George Lucas and Lord of the Rings' Peter Jackson credit Harryhausen with inspiring their work. Lucas once said there would be no Star Wars without Harryhausen, and Jackson said: "The Lord of the Rings is my Ray Harryhausen movie.

Ray Harryhausen, Stop-Motion Pioneer Whose Work Inspired Star Wars, Dead ...

Wired (blog)
Harryhausen's passing was announced today on the Facebook page of The Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation, which is dedicated to preserving his work. “The Harryhausen family regret to announce the death of Ray Harryhausen,” the post read. “Ray's ...

Ray Harryhausen, RIP: Remembering a movie magician

The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
Ray Harryhausen passed away Tuesday, at 92. At least, that's what the news stories said. But it's hard to believe. After all, this is the maker of monsters. The man who gave us giant squids attacking San Francisco, and flying saucers crashing into ...

Curator recalls 'hoarder' Ray Harryhausen

BBC News
Visual effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen, who has died at the age of 92, left around 50,000 artefacts and pieces of memorabilia from films including Jason and the Argonauts and Clash of the Titans. Tony Dalton, his friend, biographer and curator of the ...

Special effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen dies at 92

CNN
(CNN) -- Ray Harryhausen, the stop-motion animation and special-effects master whose work influenced such directors as Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson and George Lucas, has died, according to the Facebook page of the Ray and Diana Harryhausen ...

RIP Ray Harryhausen 1920-2013

YouTube
Published on May 7, 2013. R.I.P Buddy, RIP Ray, I grew up watching your films on TV and no one can forget that... TCM Remembers Ray Harryhausen Clash of the Titans Trailer (1981) Ray Harryhausen R.I.P. Ray Harryhausen - The Reel Deal Episode 110 ...

'We lost a legend': Ray Harryhausen remembered by Depp, Abrams, del Toro ...

Entertainment Weekly (blog)
As news spread Tuesday that Ray Harryhausen had died at age 92 there was an especially emotional reaction from sci-fi, horror and fantasy filmmakers — a community with a deep and formative affection for the old-school effects wizard and the work he ...

Visual effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen dies

CBC.ca
Ray Harryhausen, a pioneer of visual effects and stop-motion animation who influenced a generation of animators, has died. He was 92. His family announced that he died Tuesday at Hammersmith Hospital in London. Harryhausen worked in both the U.S. ...

Ray Harryhausen, legend of animation in stop-motion film, cult hero, inspiration

Buffalo News
LOS ANGELES – Ray Harryhausen, the stop-motion animation legend whose work on “The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms,” “Jason and the Argonauts” and other science fiction and fantasy film classics made him a cult figure and an inspiration to later ...

Farewell, Ray Harryhausen

Irish Times (blog)
If you enjoyed any sort of animated dinosaur or mythological being in films of the 1940s or 1950s then you will have enjoyed the work of stop-motion master Ray Harryhausen. He did his business on films such as The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, Jason and the ...

Ray Harryhausen Complete Creature Compilation

YouTube
Report. Published on May 7, 2013. A tribute to the late, great Ray Harryhausen: A compilation of his amazing animated creatures from movies like Clash of the Titans, King Kong, Jason and the Argonauts, Mighty Joe Young, and The 7th Voyage of Sinbad.

Ray Harryhausen: Movie Legend Dies Aged 92 - Sky News

Sky News
Special effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen - the "king of stop-motion animation" - has died at the age of 92. Ray Harryhausen Dies Ray Harryhousen with a model of Medusa. The Oscar-winner is best known for his work on the 1963 film Jason And The ...

Ray Harryhausen, the visual effects master who thrilled and terrified ...

The Independent
His death was announced by the Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation in a statement. Harryhausen, who was described as “truly unique in the history of movies as a special effects technician” by director John Landis, brought models to life - from ...

animated life of Ray Harryhausen

Telegraph.co.uk
Ray Harryhausen and I came of age, cinematically, 60 years apart. Harryhausen had his epiphany at the age of 13, when his aunt, a nurse, was given tickets by a man she was caring for to "a movie about a gorilla". It was a day Harryhausen would never

Special Effects Master Ray Harryhausen, Dead At 92

Forbes
Ray Harryhausen, the special effects artist who name has become synonymous with stop-motion animation, has died at the age of 92. No cause of death has been given. Harryhausen created the effects for such ground-breaking movies as Mighty Joe Young ...

Visual effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen dead at age 92

GMA News
LOS ANGELES - Influential visual effects maker and animator Ray Harryhausen, who brought monsters, skeletons and mythological beasts to life for movies like "Jason and the Argonauts" long before computers took over the job, died Tuesday at age 92, his ...

Ray Harryhausen, special effects pioneer was 92 *

LA Observed
Ray-Harryhausen-cyclops.jpg Ray Harryhausen, the creator of stop-motion special effects in Hollywood pictures, has died in London, his family announced on Facebook. From The Guardian: "In an era before CGI, Harryhausen used clay monsters and ...

Ray Harryhausen dies - Post-Gazette Blogs - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Pittsburgh Post Gazette (blog)
Harryhausen's legacy lives on, courtesy of Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, Peter Jackson, George Lucas, John Landis, Nick Park and countless others. He planted the seeds for their love of movies and the sorts of effects now accomplished by computers

Ray Harryhausen dies aged 92: 'His legendary work will live on forever'

Coventry Telegraph (blog)
Ray Harryhausen with Medusa copyrighted.jpg Ray Harryhausen, the special effects master famed for such fantasy classics as Jason and the Argonauts, One Million Years BC, Clash of the Titans and three Sinbad films, has died at the age of 92.

Relive Ray Harryhausen's Movie Magic in Four-and-a-Half Minutes (Video)

Hollywood Reporter
Long before computers allowed filmmakers the achieve the impossible, effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen -- who died at age 92 on Tuesday -- brought fantastical creatures to life using cutting-edge stop-motion animation techniques. our editor recommends ...

Ray Harryhausen - 1920 - 2013 - FemaleFirst

FemaleFirst.co.uk
Ray Harryhausen was a true pioneer and icon of cinema as stop motion animation special effects lit up the big screen for decades. He enjoyed a forty year career working on some of the most loved movies and bringing some of the most iconic characters to ...

Ray Harryhausen's work 'inspired'

BBC News
The American animator and special effects master, Ray Harryhausen, has died at the age of 92. Mr Harryhausen brought to screen fabulous monsters and fight scenes in films such as the Sinbad series and Jason and the Argonauts. Peter Lord, co-founder of ...

Ray Harryhausen, Master Of Stop-Motion Animation, Dies

WBUR
Ray Harryhausen, who brought sword-fighting skeletons to the 1963 movie Jason and the Argonauts and was known as the master of stop-motion animation for his work on that and other films such as Clash of the Titans and The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, ...

Ray Harryhausen (1920-2013)

Moviehole
James Cameron. Steven Spielberg. John Lasseter. Rick Baker. Peter Jackson. No, the category isn't Oscar winners. It's a list of people whose careers were influenced by one of films true legends: Ray Harryhausen. Harryhausen, whose career spanned six ...

Hollywood effects wizard Ray Harryhausen dies at 92

WCSH-TV
The man responsible for all those and much more, Hollywood special-effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen, died Tuesday in London at the age of 92. His family announced his death via The Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation Facebook page.

Fade Out: Ray Harryhausen (1920 – 2013)

Film School Rejects
Ray Harryhausen was a luminary who nurtured the growth of countless imaginations. He was that rare filmmaker who was an active part of the evolution of the art form, taking his place both as the inspired and the inspirational. “When I first saw King ...


Hollywood pays tribute to 'giant' of special effects
Newcastle Herald
Influential visual effects maker and animator Ray Harryhausen, who brought monsters, skeletons and mythological beasts to life for movies like Jason and the Argonauts long before computers took over the job, died Tuesday at age 92, his family said.

Filmmakers Pay Tribute To Special Effects Pioneer Ray Harryhausen
Starpulse.com
Several of Hollywood's stars and moviemakers have paid tribute to visual effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen, who passed away in London at the age of 92 on Tuesday. Iron Man director Jon Favreau and Star Trek Into Darkness star Simon Pegg were among ...

Hollywood special effects master Harryhausen dies at 92 - The Straits Times
Straits Times
Ray Harryhausen, a special effects master whose sword-fighting skeletons, six-tentacled octopus, and other fantastical creations were adored by film lovers and admired by industry heavyweights, has died. He was 92. Biographer and longtime friend Tony ...

Ray Harryhausen, special effects pioneer, dies at 92 - ABC-7.com WZVN News ...
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Hollywood's special effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen passes away at 92
Indiantelevision.com
Hollywood's special effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen passes away at 92. Indiantelevision.com Team (8 May 2013 7:07 pm). Mumbai: Ray Harryhausen, the genius who brought characters alive long before computer generated imagery (CGI) ruled visual ...

Ray Harryhausen, Special Effects Master, Dies at 92
The Takeaway
Call it "Rex appeal." Tributes are being paid to Ray Harryhausen, visual effects creator, writer, and producer, and stop-motion dinosaur legend. He died last night at the age of 92. His legacy includes special effects classics such as "Clash of the ...

World's Greatest Effects Guru Ray Harryhausen Dies Aged 92
Contactmusic.com
Ray Harryhausen, a visual effects guru often considered to have been the finest in the movie business, has died aged 92. Best known for his pioneering work on Star Wars, Jason and the Argonauts and Clash of the Titans, Harryhausen made his models by ...

Raquel Welch Wigs vs. Ray Harryhausen Monsters - Alt Film Guide
Alt Film Guide (blog)
Without Charles H. Schneer as producer, Ray Harryhausen created the visual effects for the 1966 camp classic One Million Years B.C. — though, admittedly, his work in that movie played second fiddle to Raquel Welch's physical effects as a blonde ...

Stop-Motion Pioneer Ray Harryhausen Passes Away Aged 92
Big Gay Picture Show
The foundation released the following statement, 'The Harryhausen family regret to announce the death of Ray Harryhausen, Visual Effects pioneer and stop-motion model animator. He was a multi-award winner which includes a special Oscar and BAFTA.

Six Essential Stop-Motion Animation Films from Ray Harryhausen
Paste Magazine (blog)
Indeed, you could look long and hard without finding another visual effects artist so famously associated with one particular field of innovation. Harryhausen was the acknowledged grand master of stop-motion animation, inventing his own process along ...

Animator who revolutionised industry dies
Aljazeera.com
Born in 1920 in Los Angeles, Ray Harryhausen, the visual effects animator who made a career of injecting the fantasy into fantasy films, has died in London. Harryhausen brought monsters and mythological beasts to life, sculpting then shooting clay ...

Ray Harryhausen: Movie Legend Dies Aged 92
Key 103 Manchester
Special effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen - the "king of stop-motion animation" - has died at the age of 92. Sky News. © 2013 Sky News, all rights reserved. Special effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen - the "king of stop-motion animation" - has died at the ...

Tributes Flood In For Ray Harryhausen, Dead At 92
Entertainmentwise
The legendary film-maker, lauded for his visual-effects techniques before the days of computer animation, died of natural causes. Edgar Wright, the director behind Shaun Of The Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World's End, said: "I loved every single frame of ...

RIP Ray Harryhausen
Faux Magazine
Visual effects & stop-motion genius Ray Harryhausen, whose work featured in such classic films as Jason and the Argonauts, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad & Clash of the Titans, has sadly passed away aged 92. His work defined stop-motion's development in the ...

VFX Pioneer Phil Tippett On Ray Harryhausen: 'The Guy That Everybody Was ...
Hollywood Reporter
"Ray Harryhausen's passing signals the end of a very special era in filmmaking. He was the guy that everybody was inspired by to do visual effects work. He was the singular creative person, so he inspired a lot of singular artists. A craftsman who ...


Ray Harryhausen: Pixar's Pete Docter on the monster king
Los Angeles Times
In the 2001 Pixar movie “Monsters, Inc.,” Mike, the one-eyed green orb voiced by Billy Crystal, takes his scaly, snake-haired girlfriend Celia out for sushi at a local haunt called Harryhausen's. The name of the restaurant was a nod to a man who ...

How Ray Harryhausen's animation has the edge on CGI
The Guardian
I'm moving house at the moment and I've been giving away lots of books. Almost all of them, in fact. But I kept a hold on Ray Harryhausen and Tony Dalton's incredible history-meets-how-to, A Century of Model Animation. I don't have any kids, yet, but I ...

The genius of Ray Harryhausen
New Zealand Herald
Email; Print. Movie blogger Dominic Corry praises the genius of the late special effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen and names his best creations. Ray Harryhausen manipulates a figure of a serpent-like monster for stop motion animation, circa 1965. Photo ...

Movie FX legend Ray Harryhausen dead at 92
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Special effects creator Ray Harryhausen poses for photographs with an enlarged model of Medusa from his 1981 film 'Clash Of The Titans' at the The Myths And Legends Exhibition at The London Film Museum on June 29, 2010 in London, England.

Hollywood took exactly the wrong lessons from Ray Harryhausen
Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
If you want a picture of the future of entertainment, as George Orwell almost wrote, imagine a gang of cowboys fighting a dinosaur – forever. Following the death of animator Ray Harryhausen, clips of his marvellous stop-motion creature features have ...

RIP Ray Harryhausen
NewsOK.com
Special effects master Ray Harryhausen has died, according to an Associated Press story. He was responsible for developing special effects that were groundbreaking at the time, including the skeleton fight in “Jason and the Argonauts” and the process ...

Ray Harryhausen, special effects pioneer, dies at 92
KHOU
His family released the following statement: “Ray's influence on today's film makers was enormous, with luminaries; Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, Peter Jackson, George Lucas, John Landis and the U.K.'s own Nick Park have cited Harryhausen as ...

A Tribute To Ray Harryhausen
Scified
“Thank you, Ray Harryhausen, for entertaining and inspiring me and so many others. We were mesmerized by the soulful monsters you brought to life and the fantasy worlds you created. Today, it takes an army of CG artists to impress a movie audience in ...

Daily Bite: Ray Harryhausen, John Gotti Biopic, and The Butler
The Irish Film Television Network
Special f/x legend and stop-motion animation pioneer Ray Harryhausen passed away yesterday morning in London at the age of 92. Decades before the digital vfx revolution, Harryhausen was creating f/x-driven stories and pioneering effects that influenced ...

Stop-motion animation legend Ray Harryhausen remembered - HitFix
HitFix
I've written about Harryhausen as part of the Film Nerd 2.0 series, and today when my sons got home from school, I let them break with convention. Normally, there's no TV until after dinner, but while they were having their snack, I told them they ...

In Memoriam: Ray Harryhausen
Mania
I feel quite fortunate to have first caught Ray Harryhausen as he was meant to be seen – a summer matinee at my neighborhood theater – before he retired from moviemaking. The movie was Clash of the Titans (the good one), and I was nine. I can't imagine ...

Film animation pioneer Ray Harryhausen's career – in pictures
The Guardian
Ray Harryhausen, the man who pioneered the use of stop-motion special effects in Hollywood, has died at the age of 92, his family announced on Tuesday. In an era before CGI, Harryhausen used clay monsters and mythical creatures to bring life to ...

Special Effects Pioneer Ray Harryhausen Dies At 92
This Is Fake DIY
In 2010, the London Film Museum launched one of the biggest exhibitions of his life's work: Ray Harryhausen - Myths and Legends, and with his friend and biographer Ray Bradbury, treated the press to a candid Q&A, where he spoke of the effect the above ...

Jon Favreau leads tributes to Ray Harryhausen
Starpulse.com
Pegg branded Harryhausen "an inspiration and a legend", adding, "His influence cannot be measured and has shaped cinema as we know it", and his Hot Fuzz co-star Edgar Wright tweets, "I loved every single frame of Ray Harryhausen's work. He was the ...

Ray Harryhausen, special effects pioneer, dies at 92 - NBC Right Now/KNDO ...
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Ray Harryhausen, Stop-Motion Animator, 1920 – 2013
Toon Zone
Ray Harryhausen and Skeleton Warrior Legendary stop-motion animator Ray Harryhausen passed away on May 7, 2013, in London at the age of 92. He was born in Los Angeles, CA, on June 29, 1920, and his love for stop-motion animation began after ...

Farewell to Ray Harryhausen
Nuke The Fridge
Caliburn24 here with news of the passing of a film legend, Ray Harryhausen, at age 92. His films are the hallmark of stop motion animation. One of his early films was Mighty Joe Young (1949) in which he was able to work with his hero, Willis O'Brien ...

Film effects pioneer Harryhausen dies, aged 92
Deutsche Welle
Harryhausen's death in London, which he had made his home, was announced by his family on Tuesday along with a tribute to his work. "The Harryhausen family regret to announce the death of Ray Harryhausen, visual effects pioneer and stop-motion model ...


Special-effects titan Ray Harryhausen; ballet legend Frederic Franklin: A&E deaths
OregonLive.com
The late science fiction author Ray Bradbury, a longtime friend and admirer, once remarked: “Harryhausen stands alone as a technician, as an artist and as a dreamer. ... He breathed life into mythological creatures he constructed with his own hands.” ...


RIP, Ray Harryhausen, Master of the Handmade Fantasy
Phoenix New Times
... the early 2000s, just as computer-generated special effects were becoming radically sophisticated and also were, increasingly, becoming the chief selling point of big-ticket movies, I more and more often found myself invoking the name "Ray Harryhausen.



Chris Hicks: Pioneer filmmaker Ray Harryhausen paved the way for your favorite ...
Deseret News
One filmmaker I was very excited to meet was Ray Harryhausen, the great stop-motion animation artist whose many film works brought realistic dinosaurs and a variety of other gigantic, threatening creatures to the big screen, many of them wreaking havoc ...


Ray Harryhausen | Special-effects whiz, 92 - Philly.com
Philly.com
Ray Harryhausen, 92, a special-effects titan who at age 13 was so overwhelmed by King Kong that he vowed he would grow up to create otherworldly creatures on film, died Tuesday at London's Hammersmith Hospital, where he had been receiving treatment ... 


Stop motion effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen dies at 92
Pakistan Daily Times
Stop motion effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen dies at 92. The name Ray Harryhausen probably isn't familiar to the average moviegoer, but fans of today's science fiction and fantasy films owe a debt to the legendary effects wizard, who died on Tuesday at ... 


There be Dragons: Ray Harryhausen dead at 92
Fall River Herald News (blog)
Yesterday I was saddened to learn of the death of one of the greats in cinema, Ray Harryhausen. From my earliest days the creatures he created were part of my own creative toolbox, first in play and eventually art. I was probably the only kid on my ... 


Hooray for Ray
Stuff.co.nz (blog)
And now, Ray Harryhausen has died - a figure all wrapped up in my childhood like letters through a stick of rock. Harryhausen was the stop-frame animation genius behind pretty much every monster in every film from the 1940s through to the 1980s.

Film legend Harryhausen dead at 92
Altoona Mirror
Film legend Harryhausen dead at 92. May 8, 2013. By Cassandra Vinograd , The Associated Press. Save |. LONDON - When Ray Harryhausen was 13, he was so overwhelmed by "King Kong" that he vowed he would create otherworldly creatures on film.

Every Ray Harryhausen Creature In One Video
DrJays.com Live
Special effects creator Ray Harryhausen died yesterday at the age of 93. Harryhausen was the undisputed master and pioneer of stop-motion animation, the dominant form of effects in movies until the growth of CGI in the 80′s. And thanks to an intrepid ... 


Sony Movie Channel Airing Ray Harryhausen Marathon
FEARnet.com
The creators of the documentary, which took ten years to complete and had its US premiere on SMC last month, worked closely with the Ray and Diana HarryhausenFoundation to cover the full history of Ray's career, from his early days in Hollywood to the ...


Ray Harryhausen Dies At Age 92
Uinterview.com
The Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation is “devoted to the protection of Ray's name and body of work as well as archiving, preserving and restoring Ray's extensive collection," and the foundation's Facebook page offered a number of acknowledgements ... 


CONCENTRATED RAGE UNDER A MAGNIFYING GLASS: Underground ...
FANGORIA
It doesn't matter that I never managed to become a stop-motion animation special effects monster movie maker myself. You see, because of Ray Harryhausen, that's what I desperately wanted to be when I grew up. It doesn't matter that his medium's been ...


Ray Harryhausen Dead at 92
High-Def Digest
Harryhausen's incredible work can be seen in numerous films including 'Jason and the Argonauts,' the original 'Clash of the Titans,' and all four films in the 'Ray Harryhausen Collection' to name but a few -- all currently available on Blu-ray ...


RIP Ray Harryhausen - His ten best stop-motion monsters
Tech Digest
ray-harryhausen.jpg Ray Harryhausen, the special effects wizard who brought life to dozens of the silver screen's most memorable stop-motion monsters has died aged 92. An industry legend, his work went on to inspire modern monster movie kings such as... 


Our Video Tribute to Stop-Motion Master Ray Harryhausen
Film School Rejects
Battling statues, lassoing dinosaurs, flying high on the back of a horse, watching a two-headed bird hatch, releasing the Kraken, sword-fighting with skeletons, staring into the eyes of Medusa. We will miss Ray Harryhausen, but we will celebrate with ...


Remembering the titan
Yahoo! News
That's the profound first maxim of studio animation—or it used to be, in the days of Ray Harryhausen, the peerless stop-motion man who died today at 92. Today, of course, there's Pixar. Harryhausen made his name counterfeiting motion, making inanimate ...


Animator, visionary filmmaker dies at age 92 leaving long legacy of movie magic
Tyler Morning Telegraph
Ray Harryhausen, genius animator and visionary filmmaker, is dead. At age 92, Harryhausen leaves behind a legacy of magical and influential work that remains every bit as distinctive today as it was when he first created it. Generations of filmmakers ... 


Tia Sharp: CCTV Taken Hours Before She Died
KL.FM 96.7
Ray Harryhausen: Movie Legend Dies Aged 92. Special effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen - the "king of stop-motion animation" - has died at the age of 92. Ray Harryhausen: Movie Legend Dies Aged 92. Special effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen - the "king of ...


Ray Harryhausen innovator of visual effects
Guardian Express
Ray Harryhausen, innovator of visual effects in film, passed away on May 7, 2013, at the age of 92. His work in films such as The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (1958) and Jason and the Argonauts (1963), were milestones of the development of special effects, ...

Visual effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen dead at 92
UPI.com
LONDON, May 8 (UPI) -- Visual effects pioneer and stop-motion model animator Ray Harryhausen has died in London, his family announced on Facebook. He was 92. "He was a multi-award winner, which includes a special Oscar and BAFTA," noted the ...


Sudan Vision
Ray Harryhausen: Movie Legend Dies Aged 92. Special effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen - the "king of stop-motion animation" - has died at the age of 92. The Oscar-winner is best known for his work on the 1963 film Jason And The Argonauts and 1981's ...

Ray Harryhausen, special-effects legend, dies at 92
Gloucester Daily Times
Ray Harryhausen, the stop-motion animation legend whose work on “The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms,” “Jason and the Argonauts” and other science fiction and fantasy film classics made him a cult figure and an inspiration to later generations of filmmakers ...

In praise of Ray Harryhausen

TG Daily
Although both of those films took special effects to new levels, Harryhausen's stop motion animation innovations were the foundation that modern effects were built on. (In fact, there's stop motion in Star Wars with the chess scene, and the spaceships ...


R.I.P., Ray Harryhausen
Grantland
The stop-motion animator and visual-effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen died this week, at 92. He worked in a down-market corner of the trade, creating monsters and mythical beasts for cheesy sci-fi and sword-and-sandal films. He was the closest thing ...


RIP Ray Harryhausen: His 10 Best Creature Designs - WhatCulture!
WhatCulture!
A pioneer of the stop-motion special effect known as Dynamation, wherein animated creatures are blended into a live-action setting, his influence can truly be seen passed like a torch from one generation to the next. As both stars and studios paid ...


Ray Harryhausen, Special Effects Pioneer, Dies At 92
Geek Smash
Before the world of CGI entered the film industry, there was one man that revolutionized and defined visual effect. This man was Ray Harryhausen. From his debut films with George Pal to his final film, Ray Harryhausen brought magic and visual strength ...



Buffalo News
“I had seen some other fantasy films before, but none of them had the sort of awe that the Ray Harryhausen movies had,” Lucas said in “The Harryhausen Chronicles,” a 1998 documentary written and directed by film critic and historian Richard Schickel.

Ray Harryhausen, special effects pioneer, dies at 92 - 14 News, WFIE ...
14 News WFIE Evansville
Celebrities weighed in on Twitter Tuesday about Harryhausen's death. Seth Green, whose show Robot Chicken uses the old-school stop-motion animation technique, wrote: "Thank you Ray Harryhausen for influencing us more than you could ever know." ...

Special-effects master Ray Harryhausen dies
The Courier-Journal
LONDON — Special-effects legend Ray Harryhausen, who thrilled audiences with skeletons in a sword fight, a gigantic octopus destroying the Golden Gate Bridge and a six-armed dancing goddess, died Tuesday. He was 92. Biographer and longtime friend ...

Harryhausen tributes - Bayoubuzz.com
Bayoubuzz
Harryhausen tributes Ray Harryhausen , the stop-motion animation and special-effects master whose work and influence was far-reaching, poses in front an enlarged model of Medusa from his 1981 film "Clash of the Titans" in London in 2010. Harryhausen ...

Shock-O-Rama: Monsters of the Minds Eye
Mania
These are the sort of questions I asked myself as I thought about the true impact that Ray Harryhausen had on my imagination growing up. There's an entire segment of me that would be irrevocably lesser if not for the work of this wonderful man ...

Hollywood Minute - May 8, 2013 - Ozarks First
OzarksFirst.com
Special effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen has died at the age of 92. An expert of stop-motion effects, Harryhausen was known for his his work in sci-fi movies, including "Clash of the Titans" and "Mighty Joe Young." The special effects master was awarded ...

The Tyranny Of Liberal Pancakes
Esquire (blog)
Sure, they were all as solid and inflexible as those iron giants that the late Ray Harryhausen dreamed up for Jason And The Argonauts, but they at least had substance to them. One of them, old Bill Buckley, founded the National Review, which once stood ...

Link Riot: R.I.P. Ray Harryhausen
NextMovie (blog)
Link Riot: R.I.P. Ray Harryhausen. By NextMovie Staff | May 8, 2013 | 7:00 AM. Ray Harryhausen. • A salute to the filmmaking pioneer whose journey to a better place was no doubt done in stop-motion. [Film.com]. • It's Getting Hot in Here: See all the ...

Animator who revolutionised industry dies
PakistanToday.com.pk
Born in 1920 in Los Angeles, Ray Harryhausen, the visual effects animator who made a career of injecting the fantasy into fantasy films, has died in London. Harryhausen brought monstors and mythological beasts to life, sculpting then shooting clay ...

Wednesday Video Spotlight: RIP Ray Harryhausen
NewsOK.com (blog)
In this Saturday, May 15, 2004 file photo Ray Harryhausen visits the Empire State Building in New York. Ray Harryhausen, a special effects master whose sword-fighting skeletons, six-tentacled octopus, and other fantastical creations were adored by film ...

How Ray Harryhausen made a difference to filmmaking
Den Of Geek
Ray Harryhausen was about 13 years old when he saw the original King Kong in 1933. He loved it so much that he went back and saw it again and again, and became fascinated by the process of stop motion animation. He began experimenting with the ...

Screenshot jigsaw puzzle #35 - Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning Herald (blog)
Second, I've departed from my usual writing about games to commemorate the passing of a great idol of mine, the legendary animator and special effects artist Ray Harryhausen. He was a pivotal part of my life growing up, and he inspired a lot of ...

A Bloody Good Time 05.09.13: Ten Horror Movies That Should Become TV Shows
411mania.com
Before we get started this week I'd like to say a bit about Ray Harryhausen. Obviously there's not much else I can say that I haven't said in last month's tribute (which, if you must read, you can find here). I'm glad that I was able to write a proper ...

Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion animation thrilled moviegoers
Globe and Mail
Ray Harryhausen, the animator and special-effects wizard who found ways to breathe cinematic life into the gargantuan, the mythical and the extinct, died Tuesday in London, where he lived. He was 92. Often working alone or with a small crew, Mr.

Remembering Monster-Maker Ray Harryhausen
NPR
Ray Harryhausen, who died Tuesday in London at age 92, became fascinated with animation after seeing King Kong in 1933. He went on to create some of the most memorable monsters of old Hollywood, from dinosaurs to mythological creatures.

6 Things You Never Knew About Ray Harryhausen - WhatCulture!
WhatCulture!
The creature work of Ray Harryhausen was groundbreaking, and all too real to me. I truly believed that Bubo, the golden owl, existed somewhere in the world, and it made me smile. I was shaking when the Kraken was released, terrified for the citizens of ...

Special Effects Wizard And Science Fave Ray Harryhausen - R.I.P. - Science 2.0
Science 2.0 (blog)
Visual effects master Ray Harryhausen, whose stop-motion wizardry - he made his models by hand and painstakingly shot them frame by frame to create some of the best-known animated sequences in cinema - became famous in movies from "One Million ...

Ray Harryhausen Death: Special Effects Community Loses Gem - PolicyMic
PolicyMic
His name was Ray Harryhausen. I say “we” because in my youth I longed to be one of these geniuses. Ray sadly passed on May 7 but I just learned of it this morning. This man made an indelible impression on me in a major way. My personal affair with ...

Sony Movie Channel Adds a Ray Harryhausen Tribute Marathon to ...
Dread Central
Sony Movie Channel Adds a Ray Harryhausen Tribute Marathon to Programming on Saturday May 11th We're still reeling from the passing of special effects legend Ray Harryhausen, and he is already sorely missed. As a means to pay tribute to the man, ...

The father of modern fantasy - a personal memorial for Ray Harryhausen - The Age
The Age (blog)
Ray Harryhausen was not just a special effects technician, but a visionary artist whose work shaped popular culture for decades to come. I was six. I'm not sure what woke me up, but I suspect it was hearing my name mentioned in the next room. I lay in ...

Harryhausen and the Expressively Imperfect World
New Yorker (blog)
The death of Ray Harryhausen, earlier this week in London, was, perhaps, more robustly noticed than is often the case for nonagenarian special-effects men whose work was largely confined to B and even C pictures, most of them made more than half a ...

Harryhausen's poetry in stop-motion something to behold - Hamilton Spectator
Hamilton Spectator
LOS ANGELES_ Animator Ray Harryhausen, who brought monsters and dinosaurs and all manner of critters to life, has died in London at the age of 92. His work sparkled in feature films from Mighty Joe Young (1949) to Clash of the Titans (1981). For films ...

Podcast: The Greatest Escape (Guest: Oscar-Winning Producer Walter Mirisch)
Film School Rejects
Plus, with so much news landing, Geoff and I offer opinionated insight and some insightful opinions on Ray Harryhausen, the future of a potential Downey-less Marvel, a delayed Jurassic Park IV, and the best trailers of the week. For more from us on a ...

Sony Movie Channel bids farewell to Ray Harryhausen with marathon
Los Angeles Times
Master stop-motion visual effects artist Ray Harryhausen died Tuesday at age 92. There have been multiple farewells and remembrances of the man who brought so many mythical monsters to life on the big screen, but Sony Movie Channel is saying farewell ...

Harryhausen's Films Were Notable For More Than Visual Effects
Forbes
Apropos my colleague Carol Pinchefsky's nice post about the passing of cinema special effects master Ray Harryhausen this past week, I did not realize until a few years back that Harryhausen co-produced a film that was also a ground-breaker in ...

Ray Harryhausen: Remembering the Wizard of Stop-Motion
FanSided
Before there was CGI there was Ray Harryhausen. Before there was even George Lucas there was Ray Harryhausen. Before there was Ray Harryhausen there was Willis O'Brien, the man who created King Kong. O'Brien almost single-handledly invented the ...

The B-Movies Podcast #119: Go, My Dragons, Go!
Crave Online
Swordfighting skeletons and monsters from beyond the stars get the B-Movies Podcast treatment when hosts William "Bibbs" Bibbiani and Professor Witney Seibold pay tribute to the late, great Ray Harryhausen. That's some good geekery right there. They're ...

EDITORIAL: A master of movie marvels
The Northwest Florida Daily News
How many special-effects designers are bigger celebrities, more beloved and admired, than the actors who starred in their movies? We can think of only one, and his name was Ray Harryhausen. Over five decades, Harryhausen fashioned tabletop models of ...

Bottom line
The Augusta Chronicle
Ray Harryhausen, who died Tuesday at age 92, was as much a pioneer of movie special effects as Daniel Boone was for America's frontier. He resurrected an army of skeletons in 1963's Jason and the Argonauts; summoned a dragon in 1958's The Seventh ...

Ray Harryhausen, film animator
Financial Times
Ray Harryhausen, who has died aged 92, belonged to an age when adventure fantasy cinema was itself an adventure – and might have been a fantasy, in terms of successful execution, but for pioneers such as him. In a pre-digital era, special effects ...

Ray Harryhausen and Andrew Simpson
The Sunday Times
Ray Harryhausen, who has died aged 92, was a special-effects maestro whose pioneering stopmotion animation techniques brought monsters to life on screen in countless films, from Jason and the Argonauts to Clash of the Titans. Stop-motion animation ...

Sony Movie Channel Honors Filmmaker Ray Harryhausen with Afternoon ...
Broadway World
To pay tribute to the legendary Ray Harryhausen's remarkable achievements, Sony Movie Channel has revised its schedule to include a special TV marathon, today, May 11, highlighting the filmmaker's career. Harryhausen, who died yesterday at the age of ...

Best movie magic is still done by DIY
Express.co.uk
STEVEN SPIELBERG, James Cameron, Terry Gilliam, Peter Jackson and George Lucas were quick off the mark last week to pay tribute to special effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen, who has died at 92. All called him an "inspiration". By: Roger Lewis ...

How Ray Harryhausen Changed My World (and Yours, Too)
The SunBreak
And the architect of that movie–special effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen–died at the age of 92 on Tuesday. Harryhausen was never a household name, but his impact can't be overstated. Throughout the 1950s, '60's, and '70s, his films represented the ...

My remarkable meetings with visual affects genius Ray Harryhausen
Daily Echo
Oscar-winning Ray, who was the cinema's greatest exponent of special visual effects, was in Southampton in 1974 to lecture to members of the city's film theatre on the art of animation. A gentle, kind man, Ray, whose wife Diana came from Winchester ...

Ray Harryhausen, RIP: 5 Things You Didn't Know About The Master Of Visual ...
iTech Post
Legendary actress Fay Wray (R) and special effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen visit the Empire State Building May 15, 2004 in New York. Credit:Reuters / Jeff Christensen. The world of cinema lost a titan of the industry's aesthetic and historical heritage ...

THE RAY HARRYHAUSEN SUPER-8 TRIBUTE SHOW Debuts May 18th at ...
We Are Movie Geeks
I'm a big Ray Harryhausen fan and almost all of his films, with the exceptions of BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS, VALLEY OF GWANGI, and THREE WORLDS OF GULLIVER have been made available in the Super-8 Sound format (I've never run across a ...

The Slow Genius of Ray Harryhausen
Film School Rejects
Ray Harryhausen, in an effort to improve the concert of live-action and animation, reversed the process and created a technique that was called “dynamation.” Instead of matting the humans into an artificial reality, he matted the artificial creature ...

Passing Of A Legend: Ray Harryhausen, 92
Airlock Alpha
"You see so much special effects (in today's movies) that you rather get tired of it," Harryhausen said. "What we tried to do are stories. They forgotten how to do stories today. I see so many special effects. All you get is an explosion every five ...

A master of movie marvels
The Star Democrat
We can think of only one, and his name was Ray Harryhausen. Over five decades, Harryhausen fashioned tabletop models of marvelous beings - dinosaurs, space aliens, mythological creatures - out of latex and jointed metal skeletons. He brought them to ...


Cinefantastique Spotlight Podcast: Tribute to Ray Harryhausen
Huffington Post
It is not an understatement to say that, for many who work within the industry of fantastic film and those who cover it, Ray Harryhausen was one of the key godfathers of the Sense of Wonder. In such films as Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, The Seventh ...


Stop motion gods: In memory of Ray Harryhausen
Nerd Reactor
The temple flickers in shades of black and red, our hero waits behind a pillar for what seems like ages. The guardian of this fetid palace slithers among the crumbling remains of her prey, searching for her next victim. Armed with sword and shield, our ...


Pixar's Peter Docter pays tribute to Ray Harryhausen
Yahoo! Movies UK
Ray Harryhausen, the special effects and animation king, died last Tuesday in London at the age of 92. Harryhausen helped to create the boisterous and decadent worlds of 'Jason and the Argonauts,' 'Clash of the Titans,' and 'The Beast from 20,000 ...


The Last Voyage of Ray Harryhausen
Blogcritics.org (blog)
Ray Harryhausen unleashed much more than the Kraken in the visual effects industry. He unleashed wonder and inspiration. Ancient legends like Titans or the mythical foes of Jason and Sinbad miraculously burst onto screens breathing new life into the ...

Ray Harryhausen: Gods and Monsters
Memphis Commercial Appeal (blog)
Ray Harryhausen, 92, the beloved and influential special effects innovator and monster-making genius who died May 7 at his home in London, seemed to be a very modest and unassuming man, yet he was the master of what might be the most essentially ...

Ray Harryhausen, 1920-2013
FEARnet.com (blog)
ray harryhausen Beloved, modest, and incredibly influential monster-making innovator Ray Harryhausen died May 7th at his home in London. He was 92. The sculptor and stop-motion genius brought bizarre creatures to life in The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms ...


Film great Harryhausen was father figure, friend
Omaha World-Herald
A nationally known film historian, he is a frequently cited expert on the careers of composer Bernard Herrmann and stop-motion animator Ray Harryhausen, whose work on “The Mysterious Island” so thrilled him back in 1961. More than that, amazingly, ...


Letters: Ray Harryhausen, Waldo Lake, Portland arts tax, Dalai Lama's message ...
OregonLive.com (blog)
Ray Harryhausen, a giant of movie special effects for decades, died last week at 92. Anyone who was a kid in the '50s and '60s remembers the cyclops in "The 7th Voyage of Sinbad" or the giant statue that comes to life to menace "Jason and the Argonauts ...


Stop-motion guru Ray Harryhausen left a legacy of unforgettable movie moments
Deseret News
With the passing of Ray Harryhausen on Tuesday, the film community lost a legend. The stop-motion guru whose pioneering techniques are still used today arguably contributed more to the advancement of special effects than anyone in the pre-digital age, ...


Craft: The light of Ray has shone over BN native's career
Bloomington Pantagraph (blog)
Like so many, we grew up immersed in the teeming fantasy vistas of the great cinema conjurer Ray Harryhausen, who died last week at 92. Every chance we got, we ate, drank and breathed “Jason and the Argonauts,” “Seventh Voyage of Sinbad,” ...


Harryhausen had a 'special effect' on film
Toledo Blade
BY KIRK BAIRD BLADE ENTERTAINMENT COLUMNIST. Despite industry acclaim, including a lifetime achievement Academy Award in 1991 and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Ray Harryhausen is unknown to most moviegoers. But not to Alan Davis.

Kingswood author pays tribute to film legend and friend Ray Harryhausen
This is Surreytoday
AN ALMOST three-decade labour of love is ending for an author who set out to write a biography of film legend Ray Harryhausen. Last Friday Mike Hankin put the final touches to his three-volume encyclopaedia on the American animator, who died on ...


The Line it is Drawn #139 – A Comic Book Tribute to Ray Harryhausen
Comic Book Resources
... this week, the theme is to team-up/mash-up comic book characters with Star Trek characters! Read on for the sketches that came about courtesy of the last question/challenge! Mash-up comic book characters with the films of the late, great Ray ...


Creature Features: Cinematheque pays tribute to Ray Harryhausen
Los Angeles Times
“The King of Stop-Motion: Ray Harryhausen Remembered” opens June 6 at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica with 1958's “The 7th Voyage of Sinbad,” directed by Nathan Juran and starring Kerwin Matthews and Kathryn Grant, who became Bing Crosby's ...


Islander's tribute to movie legend
Isle of Wight County Press
The visual effects pioneer, famous for movies including Jason and the Argonauts, The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms and Clash of the Titans, died last week aged 92. Close friend and biographer Tony Dalton, of Freshwater Bay, told the County Press this week ...
Special effects legend Ray Harryhausen: An appreciation
People's World
Stop motion animation is a visual effect achieved by taking stills of three-dimensional articulated models that are painstakingly moved a fraction of an inch between shots. When the resulting film is run, the effect of independent motion is created ...


Geek Shall Inherit Episode 072 – Remembering Harryhausen
Action Figure Insider
Like many in the community this past week we were saddened by the news of the passing of the legendary Ray Harryhausen. Also like rest of the world we were captivated by the man's work our entire lives. Jason and I both had the opportunity to meet the ...

Ray Harryhausen and Chris Marker: Remembrance of movie masters past
Globe and Mail
Ray Harryhausen died last week at age 92, and at the beginning of a summer movie season, which would be virtually unrecognizable without him. As a towering master of in-camera special effects, and a maker of movie monsters like no other, Harryhausen ...


Effects master Harryhausen dies
Bedfordshire News
Effects master Harryhausen dies. Special effects wizard Ray Harryhausen has died aged 92. When Ray Harryhausen was 13, he was so overwhelmed by King Kong that he vowed he would create otherworldly creatures on film. He fulfilled his desire as an...

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