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Jim Danforth
James Danforth (born July 13, 1940) is an American stop-motion animator, known for model-animation, matte painting, and for his work on When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970), a theme-sequel to Ray Harryhausen's One Million Years B.C. (1967). He later went on to work with Ray Harryhausen on the film Clash of the Titans (1981) to mainly do the animation of the winged horse Pegasus.
Danforth has been nominated twice for an Academy Award for Visual Effects for George Pal's 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964), and for When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970).
Danforth's first professional job was in television as a sculptor and artist for clay-animation pioneer Art Clokey, who had previously produced the beloved children's series Gumby (1957-1969) during the 1950s.
Danforth was subsequently hired by the special effects company Project Unlimited and assisted a team of effects technicians on George Pal's celebrated 1960 feature-length science-fiction film, The Time Machine (1960), which won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects for that year.
Working with two other animators and a team of artists and technicians at Project Unlimited, Danforth did the model-animation effects for the fantasy film Jack the Giant Killer (1962), a film very similar to The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958), with both films having a similar story, the same director, Nathan Juran, and the same two lead actors, Kerwin Mathews and Torin Thatcher.
Danforth continued working at Project Unlimited to animate the dragon in The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962).
In 1963, Danforth was hired by movie special effects pioneer Linwood G. Dunn to animate miniature versions of the comedians in the finale-sequence of Stanley Kramer's all-star comedy, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963). He also animated the miniature firetruck ladder for that sequence.
Danforth returned to Project Unlimited to produce effects and create monsters for the original 1963-65 TV series The Outer Limits. Some of his brief animation effects were for the plant creature at the end of the episode "Counterweight". Although often given credit for the title alien insects for the episode "The Zanti Misfits," they were actually animated by Al Hamm. In 1964, he was an un-credited prop maker for Star Trek's first pilot, "The Cage."
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Jim Danforth
James Danforth (born July 13, 1940) is an American stop-motion animator, known for model-animation, matte painting, and for his work on When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970), a theme-sequel to Ray Harryhausen's One Million Years B.C. (1967). He later went on to work with Ray Harryhausen on the film Clash of the Titans (1981) to mainly do the animation of the winged horse Pegasus.
Danforth has been nominated twice for an Academy Award for Visual Effects for George Pal's 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964), and for When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970).
Danforth's first professional job was in television as a sculptor and artist for clay-animation pioneer Art Clokey, who had previously produced the beloved children's series Gumby (1957-1969) during the 1950s.
Danforth was subsequently hired by the special effects company Project Unlimited and assisted a team of effects technicians on George Pal's celebrated 1960 feature-length science-fiction film, The Time Machine (1960), which won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects for that year.
Working with two other animators and a team of artists and technicians at Project Unlimited, Danforth did the model-animation effects for the fantasy film Jack the Giant Killer (1962), a film very similar to The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958), with both films having a similar story, the same director, Nathan Juran, and the same two lead actors, Kerwin Mathews and Torin Thatcher.
Danforth continued working at Project Unlimited to animate the dragon in The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962).
In 1963, Danforth was hired by movie special effects pioneer Linwood G. Dunn to animate miniature versions of the comedians in the finale-sequence of Stanley Kramer's all-star comedy, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963). He also animated the miniature firetruck ladder for that sequence.
Danforth returned to Project Unlimited to produce effects and create monsters for the original 1963-65 TV series The Outer Limits. Some of his brief animation effects were for the plant creature at the end of the episode "Counterweight". Although often given credit for the title alien insects for the episode "The Zanti Misfits," they were actually animated by Al Hamm. In 1964, he was an un-credited prop maker for Star Trek's first pilot, "The Cage."