A Tribute to Ray Harryhausen

September 19, 2002 9:35 PM

A Tribute to Ray Harryhausen - Stop-motion skeletons... Flash... and Fridays.
posted by Stuart_R (9 comments total)

and poor ray is rolling in his grave right about now...
posted by LuxFX at 10:00 PM on September 19, 2002

See also Kafkaesque's great August 2002 Harryhausen post and the respective thread.
posted by MiguelCardoso at 10:12 PM on September 19, 2002

and poor ray is rolling in his grave right about now...

Or, you know, he might be, if he were dead.
posted by toddshot at 10:20 PM on September 19, 2002

Yeah, I never meant it as a posthumous tribute, yet everyone assumes the poor guy's dead already (I'm reasonably sure he's still alive..?).

(old stop-frame animators never die, their movements just get jerkier and less realistic...)
posted by malevolent at 11:26 PM on September 19, 2002

Very cool, malevolent, and very funny. Well done.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 11:45 PM on September 19, 2002

Speaking of Harryhausen...
posted by Rattmouth at 11:59 PM on September 19, 2002

HA! well my bad, I had assumed wrong! But knowing that he's alive now, I wonder how he reacted to his reference in Monsters, Inc.
posted by LuxFX at 6:16 AM on September 20, 2002

*cough* ... More stop-motion.
posted by MintSauce at 10:01 AM on September 20, 2002

I wonder how he reacted to his reference in Monsters, Inc.

Let me just shift into name-drop mode here for a minute...

One of my best friends is an animator at Pixar, and from time to time they have guest speakers. Hayao Miyazaki recently, Dave Goelz from The Muppets a while back, and a couple of months ago, Ray Harryhausen himself. I never heard about any details from his talk, but I think once can assume that means he was pleased.
posted by toddshot at 2:13 PM on September 20, 2002