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Ray Harryhausen died in 2013?


I remember as a kid and even older seeing so many movies that depended on his stop-motion animation process called "Dynamation" for their special effects. I don't recall ever seeing it mentioned that he died or any tribute to him.

Ray Harryhausen was a man who fired up the imagination of tens of millions and led to so many special effects being invented and playing a part is so many movies.

Wikipedia states that: In November 2016 the BFI compiled a list of those present-day filmmakers who claim to have been inspired by Harryhausen, including Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson, Joe Dante, Tim Burton, Nick Park, James Cameron, and Guillermo del Toro.[4] Others influenced by him include George Lucas,[5] John Lasseter,[6] John Landis, Henry Selick,[7] J. J. Abrams,[8] and Wes Anderson.[9]

Tim Burton considers his satiric science fiction movie Mars Attacks! (1996) to be a tribute to Harryhausen, especially in a scene in which one of the hostile Martians' flying saucers chops down the Washington Monument by crashing into it, just as Harryhausen had done in his movie Earth vs. the Flying Saucers in 1956.

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I think there was a TV special where they paid tribute to him.

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