curiosities & inspirations
Ray Harryhausen
Ray Harryhausen
(Los Angeles, June 29, 1920 - London , May 7, 2013)
was a film producer and special effects creator of the U.S. .
He is considered a master of one-step technique with which it has entered fantastic creatures and monstrous in films with actors in the flesh .
In one of the scenes of the classic 1963 Columbia Pictures fantasy feature film " Jason and the Argonauts ," the king Aeëtes sowing the teeth of the Hydra after praying to the goddess Hecate, producing a skeletal warrior from each. Jason and two of his men must fight the skeleton soldiers .
all the visual effects were created by Ray Harryhausen who has created a form of entertainment
stop-motion model known as " Dynamation ."
His most memorable works include animation on Mighty Joe Young ( 1949) ,
with his mentor Willis H. O'Brien, who won the Academy Award for special effects ; The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) , his first color film , and Jason and the Argonauts ( 1963)
featuring a famous sword fight against seven skeleton warriors .
His last film was Clash of the Titans (1981).
(Los Angeles, June 29, 1920 - London , May 7, 2013)
was a film producer and special effects creator of the U.S. .
He is considered a master of one-step technique with which it has entered fantastic creatures and monstrous in films with actors in the flesh .
In one of the scenes of the classic 1963 Columbia Pictures fantasy feature film " Jason and the Argonauts ," the king Aeëtes sowing the teeth of the Hydra after praying to the goddess Hecate, producing a skeletal warrior from each. Jason and two of his men must fight the skeleton soldiers .
all the visual effects were created by Ray Harryhausen who has created a form of entertainment
stop-motion model known as " Dynamation ."
His most memorable works include animation on Mighty Joe Young ( 1949) ,
with his mentor Willis H. O'Brien, who won the Academy Award for special effects ; The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) , his first color film , and Jason and the Argonauts ( 1963)
featuring a famous sword fight against seven skeleton warriors .
His last film was Clash of the Titans (1981).
The Vitruvian Man is a drawing in pencil
and ink on paper (34x24 cm) by Leonardo da Vinci, dated to 1490 and preserved in the Cabinet
of Drawings and Prints at the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice.
Famous representation of the ideal proportions of the human body, shows how it can be harmoniously inscribed in the two figures "perfect" circle and square.
and ink on paper (34x24 cm) by Leonardo da Vinci, dated to 1490 and preserved in the Cabinet
of Drawings and Prints at the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice.
Famous representation of the ideal proportions of the human body, shows how it can be harmoniously inscribed in the two figures "perfect" circle and square.
