Tag: Ray Harryhausen
Ridley Scott Earns VES Lifetime Achievement Honor
The Visual Effects Society will honor multiple award-winning director-producer Sir Ridley Scott with the VES Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his enormous contributions...
Ray Harryhausen Items Going to Auction
John Nicholson’s Auction House (johnnicholsons.com) in Surrey, U.K. will on October 17 be offering up a collection of personal memorabilia from acclaimed special effects...
Everything Old is New Again, Part 2: ‘Godzilla’
In a summer filled with old, familiar characters getting high-tech, big-budget, cinematic reboots, the venerable Godzilla looks to stand fire-breathing-head-and-shoulders above just about everyone....
Stop-Motion Armature Kits Sell Well for U.K. Maker
Westley Wood, a director and producer for CITV in the U.K., has found success in his spare time by offering armature sets endorsed by...
A Century of Dinos
What is it about dinosaurs and animation?
One could argue that animation is the perfect method of bringing them to life onscreen, which is why...
In Memoriam: 2013
We lost many of the talented men and women who contributed to the animation and vfx world in 2013. As we look back at...
Bradford Animation Fest Open for Submissions
The Bradford Animation Festival--the U.K.'s longest running toon fest--is now open for submissions for its 19th edition, taking place in the centrally located city...
Remembering Ray
In 2002 I received a call from my editor at the Los Angeles Times, asking if I would be interested in interviewing Ray Harryhausen....
Stop Motion Legend Ray Harryhausen Dies at 92
Visual effects icon Ray Harryhausen, whose stop-motion creations brought many monsters alive in movies such as Jason and the Argonauts and Clash of the...
Barry Purves Ascends With ‘Plume’
British writer/director/animator Barry C. Purves has been making outstanding stop-motion shorts and directing children’s series such as Postman Pat and Fifi and the Flowertots...
Harryhausen and Westley Wood Launch Armacreature Kit
Ray Harryhausen and The Ray & Diana Harryhausen Foundation have made an exclusive deal with www.animationtoolkit.com to bring a high-quality steel joints armature making...
Stop Motion Casts a Spell on SpongeBob
How the talented team at Screen Novelties brought a familiar 2D toon to 3D life in It’s a SpongeBob Christmas! special.
You can call it...
Win Tickets to Sony’s Special ‘Surf’s Up’ Screening
We have five pairs of tickets to give away for the special Sony Pictures Animation’s 10th Anniversary screening of the movie Surf’s Up at...
Anniversaries 2012
5 Years
Still Loco for Toons
It seems like just yesterday that we began hearing whisperings of the Latin American animation market’s emerging promise, and a...
Wallace & Gromit’s Charity Auction Set for Nov.
The children’s charity, Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Appeal, will hold an online animation art auction from November 1st to the 10th. The event, which...
Stan Lee to Receive VES Lifetime Achievement Award
Entrepreneurial comic-book legend Stan Lee has been selected by the Visual Effects Society’s board of directors as the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient. Lee...
Ray Harryhausen Talks Technique
There are legends, and then there are legends, and then there is Ray Harryhausen. The genius behind such stop-motion animation classics as The Seventh...
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