![]() ![]() ![]() To an eight year old Randy Cook, watching these cinematic miracles he knew this was the way he wanted to go and he ‘foolishly hoped to emulate Harryhausen’. Instead Harryhausen, particularly in the influential ‘Seventh Voyage of Sinbad’, used a fully animated Cyclops and a sword wielding skeleton. Or else they were represented, in the eyes of a young Randy Cook, by the ‘recognisably and disappointingly human’. In the 1950s fantasy creatures in feature films had normally been portrayed by blowing up insects (in the film sense!). Randys animated history is an encapsulation of the recent history of animation itself.Īt an early age as a precocious kid in California, Randy was ‘lucky’ to encounter the work of Ray Harryhausen. He is also the animation genius who breathed life into the Gollum character from Lord of the Rings. Randy Cook is that rarest of creatures, he is a triple Oscar winner. ![]()
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