vayapues wrote:
FANTAMATION wrote:
Arthur Hayward may have experimented with stop motion briefly but that's all he did regarding animation. He was, however, responsible for sculpting and molding the majority of puppets for Ray starting from Mysterious Island all the way through to Gwangi....... which was when Ray and Arthur had their falling out from Arthur claiming to have done some of the animation for Gwangi which was just an all out lie.
My understanding about Ray's disaffection from Arthur Hayward revolves around Gwangi, but in a different way: that Hayward made "unauthorized" images of the Gwangi puppet available on one or more occasions to a published in a magazine or book -- I forget if the publication in question was a natural history magazine for children or something like that. I'm sure someone around this joint will know.

Yes, as seen in Jim's post it was Gwangi's appearance on and in Animals that broke up that creative partnership.  Hayward did not clear the pics with either Harryhausen or Charles Schneer, something considered a breach of trust.  Master of the Majicks, Vol. 3 states that the two had a phone conversation in 1993 (or soon after) and "that whatever animosity they had experienced was now totally a thing of the past."