Post #678735 by Tiki Shark Art on Mon, May 20, 2013 5:56 PM

Aloha tiki Tribe!
While I'm painting pal trees I was re-sketching some buildings , perhaps this will solve my artist-block.

Oh and I must pause here in my art tiki-central-blog-thingie and note with a sad sigh that a childhood hero has passed on. Ray Harryhausen, the greatest name in art direction and special effects when I was a kid, - and I think the ONLY art director ever to have his name added onto a movie to make it a bigger draw - he was a huge influence on me. I still have a bunch of his movies on DVD. There is something he could really catch in his stop-motion that no one else really could. It has a strange magical look and feel. I even think a darn sight better than some of the cheap CGI that is flooding the fantasy film s today.

Ray Harryhausen's "The Children of the Hydra's Teeth"

... from "Jason and the Argonauts" - one of the greatest action moments in fantasy film history.
Aloha Ray!
(I raise a Mai Tai, here's to you - hope you're in that big special effects shop in da' sky!)

Brad (Tiki Shark) Parker
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