Mummified Remains wrote:
FANTAMATION wrote:
Let's not forget the contribution of Arthur Hayward and his masterful sculpting of Rays Dino's for that film as well as most of the Dino's in Gwangi
If you Google image "Arthur Hayward" you'll get a few shots of the OMYBC Allosaurus, so it's certainly no secret. George Lofgren seems a more unsung hero, very few photos of him exist yet he supposedly created all of Ray's models up to and including FIRST MEN IN THE MOON. Of course it was Ray who brought the models to very convincing life. Hayward may have had the sculpting chops, but his stop-motion work falls far short of Ray's technique , and as already stated Ray did wonders with models somewhat less than realistically rendered for THE ANIMAL WORLD.
I'm not really sure how much sculpting George Lofgren did for Ray. It was many, many years ago that I asked Ray about Lofgren's contributions and the only puppet that Ray mentioned was the 7th Voyage dragon. Ray said that he sculpted one side and then gave it to Lofgren who then finished up the other side. Being so long ago I don't remember the full context of my question to Ray and if we were talking only about 7th Voyage it could still mean that Lofgren could have built puppets on the other early films. I know that many of use assume that Lofgren worked on the puppets up through 7th Voyage (the films made in the U.S.) but I don't recall where that information originally surfaced. Perhaps this is covered in the Mike Hanken books on Ray. I found one place where Mike Hanken says that Lofgren assisted Ray but nothing more specific (though perhaps I missed other mentions). Let me know if you have a source with more info.