Frasi di Ray Harryhausen

Ray Harryhausen è stato un produttore cinematografico, effettista e animatore statunitense.

È considerato un maestro dell'animazione a passo uno, tecnica con la quale ha inserito creature fantastiche e mostruose all'interno di film girati con attori in carne e ossa.

Harryhausen preferiva non paragonare il proprio lavoro nei film in live action con i film di animazione di Tim Burton e Nick Park, che lui vede semplicemente come “film di pupazzi”. Harryhausen fu capace, insieme ad altri animatori, di inserire realmente l'animazione a passo uno all'interno dei film in live action. I personaggi da loro creati interagiscono con il mondo circostante in cui l'azione si svolge, e ne fanno davvero parte. Wikipedia  

✵ 29. Giugno 1920 – 7. Maggio 2013
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Ray Harryhausen: Frasi in inglese

“I am often asked if I would have liked to have been involved with Jurassic Park. The plain answer is no. Although excellent, it is not with all its dollars what I would have wished to do with my career. I was always a loner and worked best that way. Since the very beginning I fought and struggled under constant pressure to keep the design and final result within my hands. As time moved on this became more difficult, until I was forced to bow to the fact that my method of working, in the financial sense, was no longer practical. Model animation has been relegated to a reflection, or a starting point for creature computer effects that has reached a high few could have anticipated. However, for all the wonderful achievements of the computer, the process creates creatures that are too realistic and for me that makes them unreal because they have lost one vital element - a dream quality. Fantasy, for me, is realizing strange beings that are so removed from the 21st century. These beings would include not only dinosaurs, because no matter what the scientists say, we still don't know how dinosaurs looked or moved, but also creatures of the mind. Fantastical creatures where the unreal quality becomes even more vital. Stop-motion supplies the perfect breath of life for them, offering a look of pure fantasy because their movements are beyond anything we know.”

Ray Harryhausen & Tony Dalton (2003), An Animated Life, Aurum Press, p. 8

“I am often asked if I would have liked to have been involved with Jurassic Park.”

The plain answer is no. Although excellent, it is not with all its dollars what I would have wished to do with my career. I was always a loner and worked best that way. Since the very beginning I fought and struggled under constant pressure to keep the design and final result within my hands. As time moved on this became more difficult, until I was forced to bow to the fact that my method of working, in the financial sense, was no longer practical. Model animation has been relegated to a reflection, or a starting point for creature computer effects that has reached a high few could have anticipated. However, for all the wonderful achievements of the computer, the process creates creatures that are too realistic and for me that makes them unreal because they have lost one vital element - a dream quality. Fantasy, for me, is realizing strange beings that are so removed from the 21st century. These beings would include not only dinosaurs, because no matter what the scientists say, we still don't know how dinosaurs looked or moved, but also creatures of the mind. Fantastical creatures where the unreal quality becomes even more vital. Stop-motion supplies the perfect breath of life for them, offering a look of pure fantasy because their movements are beyond anything we know.
Origine: An Animated Life (2003), p. 8

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