Baby boomers and Gen Xers are all familiar with the sensational films of stop-motion master Ray Harryhausen. In those pre-CGI days, animating moving creatures was done the hard way, capturing one frame at a time and minutely moving armatured miniatures for the next split second frame. It was a painstaking process that could take months of work to create a few seconds of film. While the techniques were developed by his mentor Willis O’Brien who created the original King Kong, Harryhausen would further develop and elevate those techniques to mesmerize audiences decades later.
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