Ray Harryhausen 1920- 2013

RayOne of my biggest heroes and influences since I was a kid and my babysitter Susan took me to see “Jason and the Argonauts” has been Ray Harryhausen. He was a master of animation,  stopmotion and special effects in so many movies for so long a time.

He added so much character and life to the little rubber puppets that inhabited the worlds he created.

He acted through his dolls in a way that you rarely see in CGI.

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 From Mighty Joe Young, to alien flying saucers , to an army of skeleton warriors and even a hydra and Kali, herself, he brought them all to life, by hand one frame at a time.

I became a film maker because of Ray, made my own stop motion monster movies in my basement. Sewed my own  dinosaur puppets to animate and majored in animation, widely because of him.

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I recorded and watched  “Clash of the Titans” EVERY DAY for 3 years when I was a kid.  All because of Ray.

Ray passed away, today at 93.

He will be missed. God bless, sir.

http://www.rayharryhausen.com/biography.php

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Phineus : Magician for Hire is the brainchild of creator Barry Linck. Phineus was created in 1987, of then a high school senior after reading too much of Matt Wagner's "Mage", too much Dungeon's and Dragon's and watching too much of John Carpenter's "Big trouble in LittleChina". Over the interviening years Phineus changed from angellic savior, to reluctant hero, to art student who finds he is a mage, until, in 1991, for a comic class at Edinboro University, he became part of a Husband and Wife paranormal investigations team, with Phineus' sidekick and wife Sara. Barry produced and self published from 1993 to the present 33 comics with our erstwhile heroes, garnering a small but rabid fan following.

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