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Title: RIP Ray Harryhausen Post by: Numtini on May 07, 2013, 01:45:26 PM I'll be honest, I didn't realize he was still alive, but a real end of an era (http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/05/07/181931429/ray-harryhausen-master-of-stop-motion-animation-dies). One of the first fantasy films I ever saw was a double feature of Golden Voyage of Sinbad and Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger at the Quaker Drive-In.
Title: Re: RIP Ray Harryhausen Post by: TheWalrus on May 07, 2013, 10:07:18 PM WOW! I had no idea he was still alive either, and I just finished a giant report on special effects a couple months ago. I figured dude was long dead from some of the pictures I'd seen.
Title: Re: RIP Ray Harryhausen Post by: DraconianOne on May 07, 2013, 11:55:30 PM Took the kids to see an exhibition of his models at a film museum in London last year. They couldn't care less (being 6 and 3 at the time) but I was in heaven. A great man.
Title: Re: RIP Ray Harryhausen Post by: Lakov_Sanite on May 08, 2013, 06:16:04 AM Clash of the titans was the movie that begun my love for all things fantasy and science fiction. He was a pioneer.
Title: Re: RIP Ray Harryhausen Post by: 01101010 on May 08, 2013, 07:36:25 AM Man, the Sinbad movies were really my first taste of movie monsters... the Cyclops being about the coolest thing ever to my childhood self. Then Clash of the Titans... yeah. Great man.
Title: Re: RIP Ray Harryhausen Post by: WayAbvPar on May 08, 2013, 09:12:43 AM Clash of the titans was the movie that begun my love for all things fantasy and science fiction. He was a pioneer. This. I had gotten into D&D a year or two before, but when I saw COTT for the first time (at a friend's birthday party, if memory serves) I was completely hooked. The stop-motion stuff gave the fantasy creatures a more otherworldly feel than smooth CGI does. Title: Re: RIP Ray Harryhausen Post by: apocrypha on May 09, 2013, 02:03:52 AM (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/31210803/misc/harryhausen.gif)
:heart: Title: Re: RIP Ray Harryhausen Post by: HaemishM on May 09, 2013, 08:01:23 AM The original Clash of the Titans, with all its herky-jerky stop motion and bad matte paintings was still loads better than the overloaded CGI-infested shitbox that was the new Clash of the Titans movie. Harryhausen was a fucking genius and he will be sorely missed.
Title: Re: RIP Ray Harryhausen Post by: Signe on May 09, 2013, 08:13:55 AM (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/31210803/misc/harryhausen.gif) :heart: I can tell by your avatard that the two of you are related. I love Jason and the Argonauts. It's so old and yet I love it so much. ESPECIALLY the skeletons! Title: Re: RIP Ray Harryhausen Post by: apocrypha on May 09, 2013, 11:52:50 PM I can tell by your avatard that the two of you are related. Haha yeah, I like the synergy between those two gifs :) Title: Re: RIP Ray Harryhausen Post by: Lantyssa on May 10, 2013, 06:20:51 AM I can tell by your avatard that the two of you are related. I love Jason and the Argonauts. It's so old and yet I love it so much. ESPECIALLY the skeletons! I remember being amazed at the skeletons.Title: Re: RIP Ray Harryhausen Post by: Shannow on May 13, 2013, 06:49:21 AM And now I know why the Sushi restaurant in Monsters Inc was called HarryHausen's.
Title: Re: RIP Ray Harryhausen Post by: Ratman_tf on May 14, 2013, 12:51:53 AM A part of me wishes they'd take Harryhausen's skeleton from his corpse and animate it. :drill:
Title: Re: RIP Ray Harryhausen Post by: Sir T on May 15, 2013, 03:33:04 PM A lot of people didnt like stop motion (me included) but it was a lot more realistic than the CGI they are using today.
Regardless, the man was a genius. He actually worked on the effects on Jurassic park as a consultant on the special effects, which is probably why those stand out as being so damn good compared with today. He did say though, when seeing a mockup of a bunch of dinosaur skeletons running on the computer, that he was out of a job, :( |