Ray Harryhausen & Ray Bradbury bid each other goodbye.

(Ray Bradbury now honored by 2007 Pulitzer Prize Committee with a Special Citation for his contribution to American literature.) This video: After a long day of signing and speaking in Santa Monica, California, October 10th, 2006, Ray Harryhausen and Ray Bradbury say there goodbyes for awhile...

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  Film & Animation

[furryisthenewedgy]

Two Rays of light!

[kuhnigget]

CGI will go the way of 3D. Ray Harryhausen is first and foremost an artist, not a technician. Just because you can use a piece of software, doesn't mean you have vision. Good on you, Karloff, for recognizing that.

[locos de la galaxia monguer]

You od animations really? Thats great

[Autumn CS]

Two great, inspirational men. They both will be very much missed.

[postdesrapides]

I've Loved to watch Harryhaused since I saw my first Stop-Mo Film in the early 60's as a six year old. I really dug King Kong's fur moving from his fingers ruffling the fur. That mad it a little more alive. I used to get his magazine in the 70's and read them til they fell apart. Bradbury is another Giant in Sci-Fi although he says that the only Sci-Fi he ever wrote was Farenheit 451 and the rest are fantasys, Egytian style myths and fairy tales. God Bless their imaginations and artistry

[cha5]

I love just about everything these two great men have given us.

[ML Tharme]

I love both these guys, i just hope that one day ill be able to bring amazment and excitment to thousands of people through my animations like Ray Harryhausen, Ray Bradbury (for the story) and Willis O'Brian

[WonderWomandc]

I can't fathom this ! My fav writer and my fav imagineer ! My two fav Ray's !

[darliegoddess]

I'm a professional animator and you both made the point brilliantly.

[sqdblue]

toucee, and good point.

[kuhnigget]

Good point. The technical aspects of CGI have far outpaced the artistry. The whole appeal of stop motion, as RH himself has pointed out, is that it is obviously "not real." There is an element of fantasy about it: you know it can't be real, but there it is. And because it's not something you can re-render over and over again, all the little nits and tics of the animator's manipulation are there on screen, only adding to the personality of the animation.