The Evolution of Ray Harryhausen's Stop-Motion Animation

[@CaptRobau]

What is your favorite Harryhausen movie?

[@ThiloAdamitz]

Clash of the Titans. But I've watched all his movies from the 50s, 60s, and 70s over and over again as a child/teen when they were on TV in the late 80s and early 90s.

[@CaptRobau]

I never saw a lot of Ray in my childhood in the Netherlands. Don't remember it being on. They probably were but I don't remember.

[@outlawi132]

I guess mine would be the valley of gwangi. It made such an impression on me when I saw it. That was 1976 lol

[@msg4925]

Clash of the Titans!

[@TheCyberDruid]

Clash of the Titans, but The 7th Voyage of Sinbad is a close second. Thank you for mentioning The Golden Voyage of Sinbad as I've never watched it :)

[@qikqbn77]

Was fortunate enough to grow up in the 70's and mesmerized watching all of Harry's amazing Sinbad work in the movie theatres. I went on to have a long and wonderful career in animation myself and met Harry on a few special occasions. Truly a legend in movie making history.

[@dreamguardian8320]

Stop-motion animation was truly magical animation, almost as magical as 2D hand-drawn animation. It sure would be nice to have that kind of animation again. In fact, it would be nice to have both stop-motion and 2D back again.

[@scottgamble7767]

Look up Full Moon features THE PRIMEVALS. If you don't know about it, It was begun by animator and eventual director David Allen in the early 70's as RAIDERS OF THE STONE RING (and yes, long before George Lucas "invented" RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK). In the late 70s, work on the project continued and was elaborated into THE PRIMEVALS, with an evolved storyline. Production halted again, and full production commenced yet again in the early 1990's under Allen's direction for producer Charles Band. Unfortunately, Director Allen died of cancer before all of the VFX and stop-motion animation could be completed. However, producer Band and Allen's "right-hand man" Chris Endicott, along with a sizeable group of VFX professionals, who were "Allen devotees", completed the film over an eight year (or so) period. It was released into the film festival circuit last year, online this past summer (2024), and onto DVD & Blu-ray in September. It is truly the last of this kind of film and stars Juliette Mills, as an archeologist in search of a Yeti who finds an ancient race of Lizard men and remnants of the devolved Alien race that fathered them. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rYObgoiobtZ8f6csi=IiE0xwNuCI-CvWgX

[@JuiceTube82]

Definitely a great honor to this special effects master.

[@CaptRobau]

Glad you liked it!

[@animateangus]

I enjoy all his films, but in my opinion his work alongside Willis O’Brien and Pete Peterson for “Mighty Joe Young” is one of the best examples of stop motion character animation.

[@GregBreden]

The complexity of the work when he smashes up the theatre is astonishing. All the wreckage falling is so meticulously done but to have Joe stumbling around a bit drunk while he does it was such a brilliant bit of character detail.

[@KingTutChannel]

True!

[@ХалимаДжалазова]

Очень хорошие фильмы никому не секрет что СССР покупал лучшие фильмы производства США поэтому мы с удовольствием шли на эти фильмы а седьмое путешествие Синдбада это вообще супер

[@ElectricIguana]

An underappreciated master of his craft.

[@charlesbradshaw5183]

This guy has some of the most smooth stop motion I’ve ever seen, it’s hard to believe these came out in the 50s and 60s

[@sagelight7777]

Mighty joe young really has amazing animation and effects

[@andrewprescher5235]

A very nice survey of Harryhausen films and his career.. it is especially nice to see clips from his earlier and seldom seen works.

[@a.v.1396]

I love his consept about Greek mitology creatures,

[@F-Los]

I'm still in awe of how beautiful his work is. To see it all back to back like this is so wonderful. Thanks for making this awesome video!

[@davidk6269]

Growing up, I absolutely LOVED Ray Harryhausen's special effects! I would watch spell-bound all his amazing creatures!!

[@micra6641]

Without The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, there would never have been Godzilla!

[@IncredibleFulk1]

Without Ray Bradbury’s Fog Horn, there might never have been Godzilla or even The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms.

[@micra6641]

You're absolutely right, since Bradbury and Harryhausen were friends too

[@4124V4TA-SNPCA-x]

Without The Lost World there would be no King Kong, TBf20kF, Godzilla or Gwangi. The world doesn't works like this. Movies and creators influence other creators and their movies but those - a version of them - could still exists. Just maybe not exactly the way we know it.

[@alekskot9240]

this video is great! I remember almost all of those movies from my childhood, but never realised how much hard work and love needed to be for making them. Never realised who was the artist behind all of it. I must wach them all again. You should be proud of your tribute

[@CaptRobau]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@Multi_ToBi]

I love the man! Ever since I saw "Seventh Voyage" on TV in 1966...he was the best!

[@merrillmilner8717]

God bless Ray - he was a pioneer in the Golden Age of Cinema.

[@DMDvideo10]

I'm a big fan of Ray's work and movies. I watched them all as a child and adult. I even dabbled in stop motion through out the 80s and made a short film called the Cyclops vs the Ymir.

[@D-doggy77]

His films especially Clash of the Titans and the Sinbad movies are a part of my childhood. I love his work.

[@mrwil11]

Always loved how his Medusa looked and moved , loved his work 💙🙌🤩

[@DanFiebiger]

I knew Harryhausen. He stopped working on his final fairly tale film cuz he got busy on "Beast" for Warners and then his interest stayed with only feature length movies until his retirement. All four of Harryhausen's 1960s movies Columbia didn't do as well at the box office as everybody hoped (until decades later on video). That, along with too many other box office failures at Columbia (most of Columbia's Three Stooges movies didn't do as good as hoped, for example) brought in the new management who didn't renew Harryhausen's contract. In general, a nice tribute!

[@tomfitzpatrick7335]

This guy's a legend

[@Dontuween]

Yes, Ray and Charles Schneer would have clashes with Columbia Pictures studio heads over financing, and, thanks to this video, it just dawned on me that after "First Men in the Moon", it would be almost a decade when they would again release another movie at Columbia, "The Golden Voyage of Sinbad".

[@MrCjosue24]

Jason and the Argonauts will always be my favorite Ray Harryhausen film

[@BeatlesOasisFan]

These look a lot better than modern CGI. We should go back to a mixture of CGI and practical effects.

[@jameshopkins5702]

Definitely one of the masters of all time always making awesome fight scenes with other monsters not because it was easy, but because it was hard. Expanded the imaginations of millions of children.

[@lorddracula-kn6bz]

I love Ray Harryhausen Movies.

[@OtherWorldExplorers]

Absolutely loved this!!

[@CaptRobau]

Thanks that means a lot!

[@a.t.6322]

I have always felt that mighty Joe Young was his greatest work. Absolutely love that film.

[@kingcosworth2643]

I was born in '81 and as a child that Medusa scene from clash of the titans burnt into my memory, I loved it.

[@zengram]

Clash of the Titans Jason and the Argonauts Sinbad

[@triplehate6759]

One thing I do find funny about Harryhausen's career: despite how dismissive he was of suitmation (one of my few genuine quibbles with him, since I like and appreciate that as well as stop-motion), not only did he play a major part in inventing the kaiju genre with The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (inspiration for Godzilla), his very last monster, the Kraken from Clash of the Titans, is essentially a kaiju (massive size, coming from the sea, capable of destroying an entire city at a time, stated as being able to withstand an army and immune to conventional weapons that ultimately requires the use of an oddball, outlandish means to defeat it, etc.)

[@paulbowler5345]

Fantastic video, really enjoyed it. 😃👍

[@CaptRobau]

Thank you very much!

[@HermitKing731]

Wasn't that the name of the restaurant in Monsters inc? Must have been an homage.

[@vivianmcalexander8753]

Absolutely fantastic! Thank you for making this video! I loved every minute of it!

[@21opps]

My favourite thing he worked on was Jason and the Argonauts. That’s what made him well known

[@followerofjulian1652]

2:40 "Earth vs. the Flying Saucers"! The movie's storyline was suggested by the bestselling 1953 non-fiction book by Maj. Donald Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space. Keyhoe's descriptions of UFO reports and Air Force investigations were used to give a realistic background to a fictional story. Keyhoe's recounts of descriptions of UFOs with a stationary central cabin and rotating slotted outer disk inspired the design of the saucers in the movie.

[@1950Grendel]

Recorded Jason last night. Big fan of Talos.

[@msherer260]

Thank you for this, find stop-motion monsters to be in their way just as good and maybe a little better than CGI. King Kong has never been as real as the stop action Kong. And Harryhausen's work with "Mighty Joe Young" can be called excellent. Today we have fantastic CGI but no one seems to bother with the script/story. All the films Harryhausen put stop-motion monsters in had stories that put today's CGI heavy monster films to shame.

[@vksasdgaming9472]

Godzilla Minus One is great counter-argument.

[@lauracibelesbalcazarvillag9067]

5:12 Malcolm in the middle intro

[@albers1]

What a fucking genious. I remember watching the Sinbad movie in the 90s as a kid. The sword fight. It was SO scary.

[@schallrd1]

Genius at work.

[@Саид-ш1я]

Времена СССР мы смотрели много фильмы сказки,Кашея,бабы Ягу, Руслан и Людмила создатель Александра Роу замечательный талантливый человек был .Но помню 80год в кинотеатре шёл фильм Золотое путешествие Цындбада и 7ое очередь был огромный а билеты стоили 25копеек иногда 10к. Я был в шоке от увиденного это было нечто пичетляюший зрелище,спасибо Рею и создателям фильма шедевра ❤❤❤❤🧚🎉

[@dennissmith5807]

I met Ray at a convention in 1981. My 14 year old self wasn’t ready for someone of his magnitude.

[@MANNY100123]

I'ma day late but this was an excellent video! Thank you!

[@CaptRobau]

Better late than never :)

[@williamwhitman4889]

That guy simply just had the coolest toys. More, he made them himself, wow.

[@claymationgloves3662]

A LOT of people make their own figures my guy.

[@TANG3RINE95]

Great video thank you!

[@CaptRobau]

You're welcome!

[@jerrybailey5797]

Not even cgi can live up to Ray Harryhausens stop motion creations

[@limmeingo3428]

Films and animated creatures: Mighty Joe Young (1949) - Mighty Joe Young The Beast from 20,000 Fanthoms (1953): - Rhedosaurus It Came from Beneath The Sea (1955): -It (Giant Octopus) The Animal World (1956): - Brontosaurus (Mother and one of her hatchlings) - Allosaurus - Stegosaurus - Ceratosaurus (two of them) - Triceratops - Tyrannosaurus Rex Earth vs. The Flying Saucers (1956): - Flying Saucers 20 Million Miles to Earth (1958): - Spacecraft - Ymir - Elephant The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958): - Cyclops - Serpent Woman (Naga or Lamia) - Roc (Parent and Hatchling) - Skeleton - European Dragon The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960): - Squirrel - Crocodile Mysterious Island (1961): - Crab - Phororhacos - Cephalopod - Bee Jason and thr Argonauts (1963): - Talos - Harpies - Hydra - Skeletons First Men in the Moon (1964): - Moonship - Space Sphere - Moon Cow - Kate Calender's Skeleton - Selenite - Grand Lunar One Million Years B.C. (1966): - Brontosaurus - Archelon - Allosaurus - Triceratops - Ceratosaurus - Pteranodon - Rhamphorhynchus - Pteranodon Hatchlings The Valley of Gwangi (1969): - Horse - Eohippus - Ornithomimus - Pteranodon - Styracosaurus - Gwangi/Allosaurus/Tyrannosaurus Rex The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973): - Homonicus - Figurehead - Kali - Centaur - Griffin Sinbad and The Eye of The Tiger (1977): - Ghouls - Baboon - Minoton/Minotaur - Hornet - Walrus - Troglodyte - Guardian of the Shrine Clash of the Titans (1981): - Vulture - Pegasus - Calibos - Bubo (Mechanical Horned Owl) - Dioskilos - Medusa - Scorpions - Kraken

[@CrazyGamerDragon64]

It's kind of funny, Tomoyuki Tanaka & Ishiro Honda were inspired by "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms" (& King Kong) as inspiration for Godzilla although Honda was thinking of using a giant octopus as the main creature, after Godzilla was released I read that Harryhausen felt like Toho had ripped off his idea of the Rhedosaurus for Godzilla & the next year he released a movie about a giant octopus that attacked a city.

[@bukurie6861]

Ha🌟rryhausen was an American-British animation and creator!Great emotion to see...so beautiful📸🌏

[@StarFoxPlanet2018]

Before Cgi and Vfx There Was the One and Only Ray Harryhausen The King 👑👑👑👑👑

[@momamario]

Maybe it's a consequence of the increased film clarity, but does anybody feel like the compositing is less hidden in Clash of the Titans and Voyage of Sinbad? The earlier movies look amazing in the way they combine stop motion and live action. I seriously have a hard time telling where the foreground ends and background begins. The stuff in the 70s and 80s has a little bit more obvious greenscreen going on.

[@G1Grimlock94]

Rest in Peace Ray Harryhausen

[@isaacland249]

I wish he still made stop motion movies after clash of the titans so he could do stop motion for beetle juice and ghost busters and more RIP rayharryhausen

[@kyro-jaxxsonofkosmos23]

He started a great suhi restaurant I heard...

[@Kryssthealien]

I've seen Jason and the Argonauts and Clash of the Titans as a kid. This was as good as "Avenger end game" at the time...

[@Саид-ш1я]

Гений ,изобретатель великий создателю поклон 🎉7ое путешествие Цындбада также Золотое путешествие,фильмы детства и молодости Шедевр 🎉👍✨❤

[@angelikaluft2515]

Rest in Peace Ray Harryhausen🥀🖤

[@ghostgoji9532]

Fun Fact about Ray’s The War of the Worlds Test Footage: The Scene that he made was his version of the chapter from the book “The Cylinder Opens” I say this because the footage was taken from some auto-biography on Harryhausen himself, the narrator said that it was “The climax where the Martian invaders succumb to bacteria”, even though it’s mirroring the dialogue from when the narrator first meets the Martians, the Martian falls out of the cylinder, it topples over the brim.

[@Pontos87]

It is like seeing them in Diablo 4 :D That is a cool ode to Ray 4:21

[@pedromacedo194]

Quando eu era criança achava que o Troglodita era um ator ! Excelente trabalho!

[@G1Grimlock94]

RIP Ray Harryhausen 1920-2013

[@Nockturnmortem]

3:10 something about this scene... I just can explain. Its almost like a i have dreamed the whole thing... so strange.

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

Great video...👍

[@southsideman4891]

That you for the video. Thanks to Mr. Harryhausen for his work.

[@CinemaGatesPictures]

I want to bring all this stuff back from my studio.

[@RickyRisnandar]

more convincing than cgi 2000 cgi imo, except for jurassic park

[@anthonycodona1399]

BY this genies man in stop motion can't

[@jackcarvis3668]

Earth vs The Flying Saucers

[@dalhaval283]

i remember watching these moves and getting scared sht, they looked so realistic and weird at the time

[@marcdelente2456]

pas facile comme question je les aiment toussent passionnément mais puisqu' il faut en choisir un Jason et les argonnautes. un chef d oeuvre absolut de sont oeuvre.

[@zachgbrennan]

Beast from 20000 phantom is my favorite

[@brianh5803]

While Ray was amazing and have every movie we all seem to forget Phill Tippet....Empire, Dragon Slayer he perfected motion blur for stop motion

[@j.dmetalhead7517]

"Where did it all begin?" Well it actually started with the release of King Kong in 1933 a young and impressionable Ray Harryhausen saw it and was smitten by stop motion photography. NOT in 1940 Ray had already been dabbling in stop motion before the Evolution of the world.

[@artpipe]

👍

[@joaovitorfarinabraga690]

he was the james baxter of stop motion animation

[@galtafaggiopicturesinterna4774]

1:09

[@cristinanogueira8998]

1956 earth vs the fiying saucers

[@darkhound_inc]

4:05 the creator of Pokemon never gave credit to Ray, shame.

[@TimeAxisMedia]

I'd like to see the same treatment applied to a Willis O'Brien video.

[@jakobhernsater]

he made is last movie then he was 82!!!!

[@anthonycodona1399]

Beat him hes amazing the way he makes created this monsters thy look a lote better than cenputeriest and cool 😎 and amazing the way micheal Jackson lookit when he wos body popping he lookit the same amazing cool looking stop motion

[@hendrianjayyy7395]

Imagine someday in the future all the cgi we watched is in the compilation like this

[@kenny4898]

You forgot godzilla 1954-1955

[@Jarred-J254]

Why got to admire his work and the legacy that he left during the golden age of Hollywood, I would say that a lot of the stop motion did not age well for a live action movie, IMO it looks too cartoony now and when looking at movies like the classic Star Wars trilogy those uses of puppets and stop motion look far more smooth and clear why here the stop motion is clearly obvious and ruins the scene a bit and in some modern movies CGI looks a lot more realistic when done right like say Avatar and Jurassic Park. Again not bashing his work as it was ahead of its time for the time period but nowadays it's something a person could easily do with a camera at home and there is movies now that have more realistic looking creatures that put some of these to shame.

[@marcbr2585]

mimimi...

[@haha-kq6rz]

Clash of the Titans was the absolute worst Harryhausen film by far. Not only did Harryhausen break most of his own rules, but every special effect in the film was of the lowest quality. I was embarrassed for Ray while watching it as a kid. I watched it again recently and it was even worse than I remembered. The difference in quality between this and 7th Voyage is remarkable.

[@WilliamT1964]

I'm sorry to say it, but I think "Clash" is probably Harryhausen's worst effort.

[@eldesgraciado6690]

No way. Medusa is awesome.

[@eldesgraciado6690]

Kremlin dome????

[@kathrin-mariasamarrastehle6538]

[@somedude2342]

Amaxing by 2002