In a sad day for the visual effects industry, innovator Ray Harryhausen has passed away.
Raymond Frederick Harryhausen was born in Los Angeles on June 29, 1920, the only child of doting parents, Fred and Martha, who encouraged his fascination with dinosaurs, fantasy fiction, movies and art. He found his life’s work when, as a teenager in 1933, he saw “King Kong,” one of the first two feature films to use stop-motion, the other being “The Lost World” (1925), both the handiwork of the pioneering animator Willis O’Brien.
“My work, and therefore to a large extent my life, have been tied to a specific film and the man responsible for it,” he wrote in his 2003 autobiography (written with Tony Dalton), “Ray Harryhausen: An Animated Life.”
via Ray Harryhausen, Cinematic Special-Effects Innovator, Dies at 92 – NYTimes.com.
