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
Born March 2, 1886 in Oakland, california, U.S. unfortunatly died in 1962
November 8 with a age of 76. He was an active motion pictures specilist from 1915
to 1962. Raymond Fredrick Harryhausen was born on the 29th of june, 1920 in los
Angeles, California, U.S died at 92, may 7th 2013 in London, England, UK and was
active as a art designer from 1939-1980;2002. Wills o brien made various films but
was well known for his film “King Kong vs Godzilla” as the same with ray he has
made lots of animated films but was well known for “The 7th Voyage Of Sinbad”.

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 intil the advent of computor generatede special effects.

What were some of the animators’ key works?

The dinasour and the The lost world King kong.
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Jason and the argonauts Clash of the titans

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?

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Aesthetic animation is really realistic for its time e.g. jason and the argonhunalts in the
60s that sort of animation was really well known and looked realistic and still looks
good to this day. It also gives a sense of realisum as the actors play along with the
animated skeltons. As for the King Kong today it is easy to notice that when the Kong
grabs th3e woman with hisbare hand you can clearly see that she goes from a actor to
a animated woman but was made in 1933 so people were genually amazed by the
technology back then and was an absolutly great hit and is very well known and there
has been lots of remakes. The usual pupose of aesthetic animation is to give a look of
realiaty to the audience and to make them feel like all this animation isnt animation it
is real. The one main rule of animation is to give animation a smooth texture and to
give it a realistic look to it because if animators are not consistant their animation will
genually not look realistic and will look as if it took them 5 minutes and it gives a bit of
a rough edge to it.

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

 Tim burton
 Peter Jackson
 Steven spielberg
 John Corperter

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  Guilimero del torro
 David lynch

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