Ray Harryhausen was an American born British visual effects creator who was widely recognised for his work on iconic classics such as Clash of the Titans (1981), The 7^th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) and Jason and the Argonauts (1963). His passion for visual effects started at the age of 13 with viewing of Merian C. Cooper’s and Ernest B. Schoedsack’s 1933 classic King Kong. Harryhausen would watch this film a further 80 times over the course of his life. The reason Harryhausen’s work remains so influential is because it showed what could be accomplished at a time when special effects were still extremely primitive, and future visual effects artists would look at this and be inspired to produce their own work, such as Nick Park and Tim Burton. Extremely similar to the way Quentin Tarantino would look at someone like Scorsese and his body of work and be inspired to produce his own work. Even at the relatively young age of 29, Harryhausen was shown to have extreme potential and passion in his work, particularly in the film Mighty Young Joe (1949), which won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. Harryhausen’s audience would be suited to a much younger audience, as his body of work whilst intense at times is not as dark as animation similar to it, and it always borders on the fantasy genre rather than horror.