a sad day for (movie) nerds - Ray Harryhausen, the man who perfected stop-motion animation, died today. Even though computer animation has long surpassed dynamation (his term for stop-motion), I've always thought that stop-motion had a definite charm. I can only guess at how many people he inspired.
http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/2013/05/0...1-reuters.html
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Asked in 2010 which of his creatures was his favorite, Harryhausen told the Star-Ledger newspaper in New Jersey, ”Oh, I couldn’t tell you that. The rest of them would get jealous.“
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This is still one of the coolest sequences on film: