WILLIS H O’BRIEN AND RAY HARRYHAUSEN

Discover as much as you can about Willis H O’Brien and Ray Harryhausen
in 10 minutes. Write your findings in the text box below
Ray created the sketlon sword fight sequence in Jason and the Argunouts in
1963.(his most popluar film)
Famous for his imaginative stop motion special effects which are showed in
fanstasy films such as Arbain Nights Stories and Greek Mythological.
Willis H ‘ O Brien is famous for his ground breaking work on King Kong. Howver he
did created the designs for the film.
Both specialists in Special Effects.
Willis O Brien won an Oscar for SFX
Willis pioneer in motion picture which means films.
Ray was in commerical so he had to rush some of his work.
HarryHausen BAFTA and ADG outstanding contribution to ciemea.

Tutor Explanation
O’Brien and Harryhausen were pioneers of special effects and hailed as the
masters of stop-motion animation.
Their key works laid the foundations for special effects in Hollywood up until the
advent of computer generated special effects.

MODEL ANIMATION
 What were some of the animators’ key works?

The Dinosours and the The Lost Worlds King Kong

Missing Link
Jason and The Argonauts Clash of Titians

What do you think about the aesthetics of models. How would you describe how
they look. What do you think of them compared to modern day special effects?

MINIMUM 200 WORDS

The aesthetics of HarryHaussen works is more detailed because of the works of

Jason and the Arganauts than the works of Willis O Brien. They compared today as
in the models of today are more fluent and smooth within how they make the
models than back in those times you can still see slow moments that would need
to make the models move also it’s very clever how they make real life actors or
actresses to interact with the models.
I particularly like the Clash of Titans because the sounds this made the aesthetics
more real and help make an atomsphere and creates tensison for the audience. I
feel like todays animation models have advanced a lot within how the make them
more realistic especially when they come to killing and eating people such as King
Kong, back in those days you could make out what was real and what was model
such as the women getting eaten in the 1963 film. Today they would make it more
realistic and make it so that the real actor is getting eaten.
Models of today have certainly envoled from those of yesterday and how they
make them more interactive and realistic. However would we be this far without
Willis and HarryHaussen. Real life models from manturie models

MODEL ANIMATION
Can you think of any influences these animators have had on future filmmakers?

 Tim Burton
 Peter Jackson
 Steven Speilberg – Jaws
 John Carpenter
 Guillermo del Toro
 David Lynch

Jurassic Park / Stars Wars / Nebula Transformation in GotheG

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