The Harryhausen Foundation announced that a new movie is in the works which will combine CG effects with the stop-motion work that made Harryhausen famous.
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In The Morning Watch, check out a VFX test for Ray Harryhausen's pitch to adapt War of the Worlds back in 1949, plus watch the movie alphabet and more.
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Stop-motion effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen died today, with his passing confirmed by his family. The filmmaker, who retired from features in 1981, leaves behind a relatively small but incalculably influential body of work. In films produced between 1955 and 1981 his stop-motion animated skeletons, dinosaurs, and other beasts almost universally became icons of sci-fi and fantasy filmmaking.…
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Class is in session. Put away your cell phones, sit up straight, and watch this video that'll teach you the history of computer generated characters in movies. Beginning with the stop motion animation in the original King Kong and the films of Ray Harryhausen, to how those films influenced massive jumps like Young Sherlock Holmes,…
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Two current projects have their roots in the work of Kong creator Merian C. Cooper. One is a long-stalled feature film originally conceived by Cooper and Ray Harryhausen, the other is a prequel to King Kong. Let's take a look at them in turn. Variety report that War Eagles was co-developed by Cooper and Harryhausen…
Read MoreEditor's Note: This is the debut post by Kevin Kelly, who will be offering his expertise in geekdom in a new /Film daily blog feature called GeekBomb. Welcome Kevin to /Film! Neil Gaiman's Coraline opens this weekend, and it's directed by Henry Selick, one of the few modern masters of stop-motion animation. Although he was…
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