A pioneer shares his memories and insights on the technique he defined<br /><br /><br /><br />&amp;#8226; Completes the best-selling trilogy that began with<i>Ray Harryhausen: An Animated Life</i>&amp;#40;&amp;#8220;Terrific!&amp;#8221;&amp;#8212;<i>Publishers Weekly</i>&amp;#41; and<i>The Art of Ray Harryhausen</i>&amp;#40;&amp;#8220;Highly recommended.&amp;#8221;&amp;#8212;<i>Library Journal</i>&amp;#41;<br /><br /><br />&amp;#8226; Never-before-published photos!<br /><br /><br />&amp;#8226; Traces the history of stop-motion animation from the 1890s through<i>Chicken Run</i>and beyond<br /><br /><br /><br />This lavishly illustrated tribute to the stop-motion animation&amp;#8212;the technique behind special effects for more than half a century&amp;#8212;traces the history of the genre through the eyes of the industry&amp;#8217;s greatest pioneer. From crude model animations in the 1890s, through the first animated feature and into the computer age, Ray Harryhausen and his co-author, Tony Dalton, reveal the patience and ingenuity of animators and explain the development of the technology. The insights of Harryhausen, the pioneer whose name is indelibly linked with stop-motion, add a rich extra dimension to this history, packed with cinematic monsters, fantasy creatures, the imaginings of Tim Burton and Aardman, and much more. Never-before-published stills and photos of the artists at work, sketches and storyboards for projects both realized and abandoned, and a host of recently unearthed memorabilia makeA Century of Stop-Motion Animationa must-have for all fans of animation and film.