Willis O'Brien
Willis O'Brien was born on March 2 1886 and passed away on Novermber 8 1962. He was an irish american and he pioneered motion picture special effects. Willis started his career as a cartoonist for the San Francisco Daily News. He was also a professional marble sculptor; Willis had a gret array of skills in art and construction. In 1933 his first wife had shot and killed their two sons and later turned the gun on herself, she survived but later died from cancer and tuberculosis.
O'Brien was hired by th Edison Company to produce several short films with them, all of which had a prehistoric theme. Willis' first Hollywood venture was "The Lost World" which was released in 1925. Willis had many ventures using stop motion including King Kong (1933), Son of Kong (1933), The last days of Pompeii (1935) and Mighty Joe Young (1949). O'Brien is an accredited Technical Creator and has won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.
Ray Harryhausen
Ray Harryhausen was born in LA, California on June 29 1920 and is an american film producer. He is also a special effects creator and has created a brand of stop motion model animation which ois often called Dynamation. He also worked on Mighty Joe Young with Willis O'Brien. Befoe the popularity of using computers in camera stop motion and CGI (Computer Generated Imagery) movies used many different approaches, one of these was the use of stop motion. This technique was first used in The Lost World and more famously, King Kong. Willis O'Brien's work influenced Ray in this field of animation. Harryhausen can draw a distinction between films that combine special effects animation with live action and films that are entirely animated such as the films of Tim Burton, Nick Park, Henry Selick, Ivo Caprino and many others.
Jan Švankmajer
Jan Švankmajer was born on September 4 1934 and he is a Czech surrealist artist and filmmaker. His work uses various media and he is best known for his work involving the medias surreal animations and features. His work has inspired artists such as Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam and many others. Some of his major trademarks include very exaggerated sounds, which in turn create very strange effects in eating scenes. He uses fast stop motion when people walk or interact. He often uses clay in his animations and food is his favourite medium. He continues to make animations in Prague.
The Quay Brothers
The Quay brothers are identical twins and were both born on June 17, 1947. They're influential stop motion animators and both won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design for their work on the play "The Chairs" in 1998. The twins reside and work in England after moving here in 1969 to study at the Royal College of Art. Most of their work features puppets made of doll parts and other materials. The pairs best known work is "Street of Crocodiles" which was based upon a short novel by Bruno Schulz.
Tim Burton
Tim Burton, born August 25, 1958 is an American film director. He is famous for many dark & quirky themed movies including Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare before Christmas, Corpse Bride, Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and many other blockbuster movies also. Burton has directed 14 films in 2010 alone. When Burton was young he made many stop motion films in his garden. After Burton graduated from Burbank High School he attended the California Institute of the Arts and studied Character Animation. After he graduated from CalArts he was hired at Walt Disney Productions' animation studio where he worked on many productions such as The fox and the Hound and The Black Couldron.
Aardman Animations
Aardman Animations, also known as Aardman Studios or simply Aardman is an academy award winning british animation studio, based in Bristol. The studio is famous for creating many stop motion films using clay including Wallace and Gromit & Chicken Run. They have also entered the computer animation industry from 2006 with Flushed Away.
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