Ray created a brand which was around stop-motion and model animation which was known as 'Dynamation'. Working alongside Willis O'Brien within the film King Kong which could of inspired for him to work in the unique field. Most of O'Briens projects weren't ever realised, Harryhausen achieved considerable success. Within his films, model characters would interact with the live action world, with the overall idea of being considered as 'animation', rather than 'cartoons' which would be perceived as things such as 'Chicken Run' etc.
In 1947 he was actually hired as an animator assistant for 'Mighty Joe Young' (1949), where in the end Harryhausen ended up doing the mass of the animation, where with O'Brien ended up focusing on the overall technical problems within the film. Within this film as well as King Kong, Harryhausen was using his dynamation technique. This technique allowed the live action to be split which enabled the model to be inserted within the action as well as appear to interact with the actors.
Tim Burton considers his movie, Mars Attack which was released in (1996) to be a tribute to Harryhausen. Harryhausen's stop-motion sequence Sinbad which helped to inspire a generation of filmmakers which included Tim Burton.
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