Visual effects master Ray Harryhausen, whose stop-motion wizardry graced such films as Jason and the Argonauts and Clash of the Titans, has died aged 92. The American animator made his models by hand and painstakingly shot them frame by frame to create some of the best-known battle sequences in cinema.His death in London was announced in a statement posted on Facebook by the Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation. "Harryhausen's genius was in being able to bring his models alive," it reads. "Whether they were prehistoric dinosaurs or mythological creatures, in Ray's hands they were no longer puppets but became instead characters in their own right." [READ THE FULL ARTICLE]
