William Fischer is an author at Collider. Born and raised in Nebraska, he latched onto moviemaking at a young age and has been chasing it ever since. William holds a BFA in film from the University of ...

Producer and animator Ray Harryhausen, who invented a kind of stop motion model animation called ‘dynamation’ and created special effects for classics such as Jason and the Argonauts and One Million ...

In an age where extraordinary worlds and creatures can be created at the push of a button, there's a danger that old-school techniques like stop-motion animation may fall by the wayside in the face of ...

If you grew up with after-school sci-fi matinees on Channel 5's "The Big Show," a totem of ’70s childhood in Middle Tennessee, you quickly learned to watch for the name Ray Harryhausen. It guaranteed ...