Ray Harryhausen

Raymond Frederick "Ray" Harryhausen (born June 29, 1920) is an American visual effects creator, writer and producer. He created a brand of stop-motion model animation known as "Dynamation. He is known for his works on monsters in films, because of that, the resturant Mike and Shelia went into in Monsters, Inc. was named after him. He also did the animation for Mighty Joe Young with Willis O'Brein, which the 1998 film by the same name is a remake of.