Ray Harryhausen

Ray Harryhausen is an American film producer and stop motion animator, most notable for his work in films such as Mighty Joe Young (1949) and Jason and the Argonauts (1963). Jason and the Argonauts features a sample of his best work in a very famous sword fight between three live action men and seven animated skeletal warriors. Harryhausen was inspired to pursue the field of stop motion animation through the work of Willis O'brian in the 1933 film King Kong.