Ray Harryhausen

so i see you've been introduced to my "significant other". Its about time he posted something! whats the point in having another administrator if they don't do anything? So anyway, here's some more stuff from me. So i thought its about time that i mentioned the innovative (for lack of a stronger work) work of Ray Harryhausen. I'm talking about the guy who is a cult legend for being a forerunner in stopmotion animation. The guy responsible for the famous living skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts. Harryhausen was first inspired by the work of Willis O’Brien in king kong, when he couldn't figure out how the ape was made to move. After discovering the world of stopmotion, Harryhausen began making his own models and, borrowing a friends 16mm camera, began working to making a realistic movement. A man obsessed with dinosaurs, most of his early work was of a prehistoric theme. His most famous work, of course, was on Jason and the Argonauts in which he created this famous fight scene (Please ignore the dialouge as its dubbed in another language, but you get the idea) .
This early stopmotion animation was created with out the ability for Harryhausen to see his process as animators can today. This meant that if Harryhausen were to stop work at the end of the day in the process of shooting the scene, he would have to take note of the direction each character was moving in order to stop confusion when returning to finish the scene. A truly inspirational man, check out Harryhausen's official site.

statue of medusa character from Jason and the Argonauts
statue of the skeleton characters from Jason and the Argonauts
The man himself, Ray Harryhaussen