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| | Ray Harryhausen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The work of pioneer model animator Willis O'Brien (and his animation assistant, Pete Peterson) in Kong inspired Harryhausen to work in this unique field, almost single-handedly keeping the technique alive for three decades as O'Brien's career sadly floundered for most of his life, until his death in 1963. |
 | | Harryhausen prefers not to compare his work with special effects animation in live action films to the animated films of Tim Burton, Nick Park, Ivo Caprino, Ladislav Starevich and many others, which he sees as pure "puppet films", and are more accurately (and traditionally) called "puppet animation". |
 | | Model animated characters interact with, and are a part of, the live-action world, with the idea that will cease to call attention to themselves as "animation", which is different from the more obviously "cartoony" and stylized designs and puppet-animation stop-motion processes in movies like Chicken Run and The Nightmare Before Christmas, etc. |
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