Fantamation, late thx for posting that Hayward article! Never had the chance to read it until now.

It has, of all things, the unexpectedly endearing tone of "bumbling amateur experimenter with ciné-camera." Odd, yes -- his omission of names like O'Brien, Harryhausen, et al, not to mention of key works like KONG -- but then the article is a personal, not a historical one, & I have the feeling his historical knowledge was scant (though he does at least mention LOST WORLD). It may well be that he sidestepped mention of Harryhausen to disassociate himself, out of pure modesty, from his own formidable professional association with the latter. Speaking of humility, nowhere in the article, nor, I think, on the credits for those book & mag covers, does he ever credit himself directly for those gorgeous sculptures. (BTW not sure if that is the Gwangi elephant; anyway, note that the latter was sculpted not by Hayward but by Museum paleontologist/artist Barney Newman -- about whom an interesting P.S., see http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/doing-the-t-rex-stretch-67990004/?no-ist .)

Finally, the article is an interesting companion to that priceless British Pathé newsreel doc about Hayward's work:

Re the ANIMAL WORLD sculpts, it's been a long time since I saw that footage, but for some reason my memory is that they may've been done a disservice by having been shot with relatively flat lighting, as much for speed & economy as anything else. (Not hard to imagine, if all those publicity pix of Allen crashing the animation setup could talk, you'd hear him exhorting Ray, Obie & the sculptor to "hurry the **** up, guys, time is money!") Maybe I'm wrong about the lighting; but I wonder if Ray himself was DP on the sequence or if Allen imposed someone else, much as he hired outside artists to do the dino sculpts. I mention it because one of the striking things about Obie/Harryhausen -- completely apart from the animation itself -- is how their incredible miniature lighting, pin-sharp focus, & camera angles sell the texture & details of their animals to look absolutely convincing. When you see how little the cyclops armature is, it hits you that Ray's ability to make him look really big is some kind of miracle. The ANIMAL WORLD dinos, as I recall, just did not have that same authority.