Ray Harryhausen 1920 - 2013

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Good innings!
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Always loved that skeleton army.

RIP Ray.
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Aw man, I miss those stop-motion effects that he was so good at. CGI makes things too easy.

A sad loss. RIP Ray
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markfiend wrote:Aw man, I miss those stop-motion effects that he was so good at. CGI makes things too easy.

A sad loss. RIP Ray
Stop motion looks more real because, well, it is. A true giant (or possibly cyclops) of the film industry and cited as a major influence by pretty much everyone in special effects.
Any more of that and we'll be round your front door with the quick-setting whitewash and the shaved monkey.
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So, Ray Harryhausen has stopped motion

I thought his stuff was absolutely wonderful

A true trail-blazer. As you say overtaken by CGI but there doesn't seem to be much art in it now

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A vanished art and one of the true greats; many's the weekend afternoon spent in front of the old VCR. I'll be digging out the original Clash of the Titans to commemorate this - so long Ray!
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Another who shaped our childhoods is gone
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He came to our school to give us a talk when I was 13. I was utterly transfixed. He seemed a very humble bloke who just loved what he did and found himself lucky enough to have a hobby for a job.
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