雷·哈里豪森（Ray Harryhausen），于1920年生于洛杉矶，但他职业生涯中大部分的杰作都是在英国完成的。退休之后，他又以极大的热情推动着雷与黛安娜·哈里豪森基金会的运作。这一基金会的成立目的有三：让更多人知晓雷·哈里豪森的大名；讲解传授他的独门动画技艺与特效 艺术手法；妥善保存他手中难以计数的珍藏。2013年，他在英国与世长辞。

托尼·道尔顿（Tony Dalton），曾是一位电影发行宣传员兼影史专家，现在则经营着自己的档案研究公司。他与雷·哈里豪森相识已有30多年，并和雷合著了他那本极为成功的自传《动画人生》，该书也是由Aurum出版社发行的。

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As one of the most highly acclaimed stop-motion animators in movie history, Ray Harryhausen was responsible for the dinosaurs, animals, mythological creatures, and aliens in such classic films as The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, King Kong, Jason & The Argonauts, and War of the Worlds . These extraordinary creatures stole scene after scene from human actors, and this book shows how he developed them.

When writing his autobiography, An Animated Life , Ray Harryhausen and Tony Dalton realized that they were working with a collection of art too extensive to share in one book. As a result, this companion volume lets readers explore the hoard of artwork that Harryhausen has preserved in his London home.

Reproduced to the highest standards, this artwork includes preliminary sketches, elaborate drawings of key scenes, and storyboards, all produced as he prepared to undertake the laborious task of animating each creature. Also shown here are the tiny, elaborately articulated models that Harryhausen created to play enormous roles, and the bronzes 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 do without.