Stop Motion Animation and Ray Harryhausen

Ray Harryhausen is one of the great stop motion animators of the last century, using stop motion animation (although, they often referred to it in those days as 'special effects') in films such as Mighty Joe Young (1949), The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) and Jason and the Argonauts (1963).

Harryhausen with Medusa's head, a character he animated in the 1981 movie, Clash of the Titans.

One of his most famous, and widely regarded as his best work, stop motion animations is this scene from Jason and the Argonauts;

To coincide, the second and first years were put into groups to plan and create our own short stop motion animation. My group (Scheree, Jasen and I) created this story, aptly named 'Monsterzzzap', where a monster attempts to eat a jelly fish and is consequently electricuted;

I was was the Director, and also drew the post-it panels for the monster from the bite of the jellyfish onward.