Greetings,
Yesterday 7.5 was another sad day for the world of cinema, one of the biggest contributors to the world of special effects, Ray Harryhausen passed away.
Much like Roger Ebert I wasn't privileged to know Mr. Harryhausen in person and unlike Mr. Ebert my encounters with he's work are virtually non-existent. I did saw Jason and the Argonauts once and I liked it, especially the stop motion puppetry.
And that was Mr. Harryhausen's specialty: Stop motion puppetry. I don't consider myself as a movie maker or anything like that but I did once do an animated movie with my Lego's, this movie has long since been lost so I can't upload it anywhere or share it with you, needless to say it wasn't that good. But I can safely say that animation through stop motion wasn't easy, except for Mr. Harryhausen.
Mr. Harryhausen has influenced so many movie makers from Steven Spielberg to Terry Gilliam and Jason and the Argonauts is Tom Hanks's favorite movie of all time, as it is one of many favorites of James Rolfe, I seen it only once, but I can say that it was a good movie.
On this sad day we can safely say that Harryhausen was acclaimed in he's life time winning many awards including Gordon E. Sawyer award and has a star on Hollywood walk of fame. Despite Mr. Harryhausen's death he's legacy will live on in the movies he made and in modern movies with digital special effects - for better and the worse.
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