Daniel Robert Epstein: Ray Harryhausen

Awesome interview. He's just about the friggin' luckiest person in the world to me right now -- meeting Ray Harryhausen? That's beyond my realm of thought, it's so cool.

[Edited on Jan 31, 2005 by The_Cameo]

that was awesome, Harryhausen is one of my heroes, i love that a interview with him has a place on this site.

Haryhausen is one of my heros, as well. The man was a visionary for his time, and his work still has more heart and soul than anything to come out the Hollywood special effects houses today.

Harryhausen is definately one to look up to. He did movies right, paying attention to the most minute details. and also, come on, his claymation effects are just down right freaking cool as hell to watch. remember sinbad's fight with the sheeva statue? my favorite swordfight of any movie.

WHOA!!! HARRYHAUSEN!!! THAT IS SOOO COOL!!! Great interview

i had no idea ray harryhausen was alive. wow.

Ray Harryhausen! That's excellent.

Rick Baker worked with Harryhausen way back when and now my friend Bill works for Baker. I love that most of the new guys still say CGI will never fully take over special efx.

Harryhausen is so the man. I didn't even know he was still alive until now.

Clash of the Titans and Jason and the Argonauts are two of my childhood faves. Great interview.

I am such a Haryhausen fan! I own so much stuff related to Harryhausen from movies to toys! I missed stop animation films.

ditto-i wasn't aware he was still around.
his accomplishments have been astounding and he sounds like a charming man.
thanks for the interview.

harryhausen was my first creative idol, that interview was an absolute joy to read...

..now i'm inspired to sculpt me a dinosaur!

Such a legend. This is the first time I've said this, but thanks for the article DRE! Now try and get Bradbury or Ellison!

makes me wanna become a stop motion animator....

beware the Kraken!

my ex-wife used to work at tippett studio, and ray was there speaking with the animators, he and phil tippett are old friends. well e was signing autographs, and i was able to have a clash of the titans poster signed. he 's a genius.

best interview ever on this site

A genius! Here's the brief time I saw him at SDComiccon.

This man's work has captivated me for quite some time now. I'm so glad SG had a chance to have this interview. Great stuff!

i second said statement.

sweet. i grew up with clash of the titans and i freaked out when i saw his name in the credits on ELF (he did th epenguin's voice). this is one of those interviews that makes me smile and just plain makes my day.

thanks sg & dre.

Fine article!

I had the pleasure of meeting Ray in the home of the two young animators who finished his Tortoise and the Hare project here a couple of years back (the mutual friend that introduced Ray to these young geniuses was my employer at the time), and have to admit that I was more starstruck meeting him than I've ever been with the more mainstream celebrities I've worked with.

Ray was amazingly spry for a man of his years --- I guess that a lifetime devoted to breathing life into your fantasies will afford that to you.

Kudos on an amazing interview! The breadth and quality of the interviews on SuicideGirls really was a really unexpected surprise when I joined... DRE does a terrific job.

I saw HH at a teleconference at the University of Lethbridge, he is such an interesting fellow.