Ray Harryhausen

Description by OLDIES.com:

In this companion volume to An Animated Life, the focus is not on the movies themselves but on the vast hoard of artwork that Harryhausen has carefully preserved in his London home, much of which is published here for the first time. Reproduced to the highest standards, this artwork includes preliminary sketches and elaborate drawings of key scenes and carefully plotted storyboards, all produced as he prepared to undertake the laborious task of animating the wondrous creatures that stole scene after scene from the human actors. Also depicted here are the tiny, elaborately articulated models that Harryhausen created to play these roles and the bronzes which he cast to preserve their forms in perpetuity. The stunning array of images in this book is a tribute to the vast scope of Harryhausen's imagination and artistic skills. It is a collection that no one interested in special effects or cinema history can afford to be without.