Billboard Books is set to release The Art Of Ray Harryhausen, a companion to its best-selling autobiography, Ray Harryhausen: An Animated Life. We first reported on this when Harryhausen announced the project at the San Diego Comic-Con in July (www.animationmagazine.net/article.php?article_id=4224). Due to hit retail in March with a forward by Oscar-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson, the book spotlights the impressive body of concept drawings and other pieces of art created by the father of modern visual effects.
Featured in the book are previously unpublished photos, production drawings and elaborate stoyrboards from the production of such classic fantasy films as The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, Jason and the Argonauts and Clash of the Titans, to name a few. In addition, there will be essays by Harryhausen and co-writer Tony Dalton, and frame -by-frame deconstructions exploring the stop-motion animation process and how Harryhausen’s ground-Breaking effects were achieved.
Harryhausen, who makes his home in London, will retrun to the U.S. to promote the release with book signings. The Art of Ray Harryhausen consists of 240 pages featuring 211 color and 75 black-and-white illustrations. The hardcover will be available from Billboard Books in March for the suggested retail price of $50.
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