Willis O'Brien was a famous stop-motion animation and special effects pioneer. He's most known for his creation of King Kong using stop-motion animation. The film had an incredible effect on its audience as they hadn't seen anything else like it before. His talent came from experimenting with models, connecting them with rubber and bringing them to life. This all came from his interest in Sculpturing. This lead to him creating several films, inspring other film makers and animators like himself.
Jan Svankmajer
Jan Svankmajer is a surrealist film producer, who was born in Czech Republic in 1934. He is most famous for his surrealist films associated with food, which are sometimes disturbing and not to everyone's taste. However, his work is still massively famous and has inspired other animators like Terry Gilliam and the Brothers Quay. Svankmajer has many awards for his originality. This is one of his pieces of work "Breakfast"
Ray Harryhausen
Ray Harryhausen is one of the most successful stop-motion animators in history, hugely inspired by Willis O'Brien from a young age. He created stop motion films the moment he had his own camera, taking his interest further, studying it at university. Whilst he was there, he came up with the idea of creating a film; his first of which was a failure and went unrecognised However, his second film was recognised by George Pal and hired him to create puppetoons.
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