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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: bradistani on May 07, 2013, 11:59:10 AM
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Ray Harryhausen, visual effects master, dies aged 92 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22441567)
a true legend, RIP.. his spectacular effects still piss all over most of the cgi rubbish we have today.
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/4856e210c078cb401a5e091b9b4a7a7b/tumblr_mmfywfsvmX1qziqbpo1_1280.jpg)
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Well he wasn't going to make Lawrence of Arabia 2
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rip
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Talented and inspirational guy.
R.I.P.
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A bald guy that don't lift who cares.
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8)
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A bald guy that don't lift who cares.
got enough of those on this forum already
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Now this was very sad for me. The man was an absolute genius. :'(
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yeah, he shared his ample gifts with humanity, thanks Ray, you were friggin awesome dude..
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Didn't he do the original King Kong? Fuck, that shit was made in 1933, dude had to be older than 92.
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Is he related to shawn ray.
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Didn't he do the original King Kong? Fuck, that shit was made in 1933, dude had to be older than 92.
no
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lolol at naming that one pic "cswol"
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goodbye
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his spectacular effects still piss all over most of the cgi rubbish we have today.
That's what pisses me off about the Star Wars prequels. The original Special-Effects from the 1970's look so dead on real, but the new shit done on computers looks like absolute fake garbage. Why these idiots couldn't have had Industrial Light and Magic use the same techniques from the original movies is beyond me.
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Ray Harryhausen, visual effects master, dies aged 92 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22441567)
a true legend, RIP.. his spectacular effects still piss all over most of the cgi rubbish we have today.
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/4856e210c078cb401a5e091b9b4a7a7b/tumblr_mmfywfsvmX1qziqbpo1_1280.jpg)
wow he looks great for 92, actually he looks half his age tops!!!!11
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RIP, always liked his creations and stop motion animation.
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3,2,1.
THE BEEF
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RIP Ray
http://insidemovies.ew.com/2013/05/07/ray-harryhausen-dead/
Ray Harryhausen, special effects pioneer, dies at 92
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 London on May 7 at the age of 92, according to his Facebook page.
Born in Los Angeles in 1920, Harryhausen began his love affair with stop-motion animation early after watching the seminal effects movie King Kong (1933). He started making his own stop-motion films in his family’s garage while connecting with a burgeoning science-fiction fan community in L.A., including life-long friend Ray Bradbury, who would become one of the pre-eminent sci-fi authors of the 20th century. Harryhausen, meanwhile, won work under a succession of filmmaking pioneers, including visual effects guru George Pal on Pal’s popular Puppetoons shorts, director Frank Capra on the Army Motion Picture Unit during World War II, and finally Kong animator Willis O’Brien on the 1949 giant gorilla film Mighty Joe Young, which won an Oscar for its special effects.
Harryhausen quickly became a sought-after effects artist in his own right, working on studio adventure films that culminated with The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad in 1958. Filled with expertly rendered and designed visual wonders, the film climaxed with an iconic fight sequence between the title hero and a sword-wielding skeleton, a spectacle that Harryhausen topped five years later with a whole horde of warring skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts. The sequences revolutionized how actors could interact with stop-motion effects, a process Harryhausen called “Dynamation.”
Harryhausen’s effects work continued through the 1960s and ’70s on films like the 1967 Raquel Welch movie One Million Years B.C. and The Golden Voyage of Sinbad in 1974, ending with the 1981 mythological epic Clash of the Titans. In 1992, he received the Gordon E. Sawyer Award for Technical Achievement at the Scientific and Technical Achievement portion of the Academy Awards. At the event, host Tom Hanks said, “Some say Citizen Kane is the greatest motion picture of all time. Others say it’s Casablanca. For me, the greatest picture of all time is Jason and the Argonauts.”
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A true legend in my industry and inspired me to do what I'm doing today. Never had a chance to meet him, but a few friends who did said he was a great guy to hang around and shoot the shit with, was always very personable and loved seeing what people were doing.
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RIP
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His artwork greatly influenced modern bodybuilding.
(http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=477657.0;attach=517359;image)
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Sad news. Loved Jason and The Argonauts (19_?) where Jason fought all those skeleton soldiers. Great stuff. That must have been a pain in the ass to do.
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Janie FTMFW :P
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RIP
His Medusa from Clash of the Titans scared the shit of me as a kid!
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Well he wasn't going to make Lawrence of Arabia 2
part 1 wasn't much good either, very overrated in my humble opinion.
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RIP
His Medusa from Clash of the Titans scared the shit of me as a kid!
x2 - great flick!
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Willis O'Brien...the guy Harryhausen learned from. Willis O'Brien:
This was from Son of Kong. Willis O'Brien also did King Kong.
Harryhausen was Willis O'Brien's protege.
Harryhausen had great respect for Willis O'Brien.