The Art of Ray Harryhausen

About this book

As one of the most highly acclaimed stop-motion animators in movie history Ray Harryhausen was responsible for the dinosaurs animals mythological creatures and aliens in such classic films as The 7th Voyage of Sinbad King Kong Jason & The Argonauts and War of the Worlds. These extraordinary creatures stole scene after scene from human actors and this book shows how he developed them.When writing his autobiography An Animated Life Ray Harryhausen and Tony Dalton realized that they were working with a collection of art too extensive to share in one book. As a result this companion volume lets readers explore the hoard of artwork that Harryhausen has preserved in his London home.Reproduced to the highest standards this artwork includes preliminary sketches elaborate drawings of key scenes and storyboards all produced as he prepared to undertake the laborious task of animating each creature. Also shown here are the tiny elaborately artic