“I’m proud that we’re leaving a trail of inspiration, instead of desolation.”

For over 50 years, Ray Harryhausen single-handedly animated the most captivating stop-motion creatures in movies such as Mighty Joe Young, The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, Earth vs. The Flying Saucers, Jason and the Argonauts, and of course, Clash of the Titans. He’s an animation legend and inspiration to countless animators and filmmakers the world over. This is a one part interview.

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SHOWNOTES

• 00:00 The Intro Voice
• 00:05 Theme Song by DJ Sweettooth (Joe Moshier)
• 00:51 Intro
• 03:41 Clash of the Titans
  
• 04:57 Seeing King Kong as a child
  
  
  
• 06:35 Willis “Obie” O’Brien
• 08:05 Experimenting in stop-motion
  
• 08:23 Working on George Pal’s Puppetoons – Article at Cartoon Brew
  
• 09:36 Army, Special Services Division
  
• 10:23 Fairy Tale projects
  
• 10:48 Art Training – Dor?© at Wikipedia, O’Brien at Wikipedia, World of John Martin, Michelangelo at Wikipedia
• 12:09 Developing technical skills
• 13:00 Might Joe Young
  
• 15:00 Planning animation
• 16:00 Fairy Tales
  
• 17:11 Tortoise and the Hare
  
• 18:29 Making living characters / Working alone
• 20:21 Swordfighting skeletons
  
• 21:38 Involvement in the films – Purchase the Harryhausen artwork at Every Picture Tells a Story
  
• 23:59 Task of animating everything
  
  
• 26:22 Clash of the Titans
  
• 27:58 The legacy of Harryhausen
  
  
• 29:27 Conclusion and feedback info – Link to Voicemail
• 29:50 Support Clay for charity – Link to donation page
• 30:18 Internet Movie Database
• 30:37 Conclusion
• 30:52 7th Voyage of Sinbad trailer
  
• 32:29 Jason and the Argonauts trailer
  

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