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in his teens,Ray learned a lot about special effects himself.
He did experiments with special effects in his backyard.
He made models and studied photography.
At the age of 19,he had an idea for a film about a creature from Jupiter.
He never made the film,but he made all the sketches,or drawings, for the film and created a model of the creature.
4 The First Big Project
His first big project was called Evolution.
He planed to make a history of the beginning of the world.
His favorite part was making models of dinosaurs, ancient extinct reptiles.
He also made a wooly mammoth--an extinct type of elephant--covered with fur.
Ray used fur from one of his mother's coats to make the model.
He never completed this project,but he used the models for it.
Later,he went to get jobs,and he look the models with him to show his work
5 Career Success
In the 1950s,movie audiences loved science fiction.
In 1953,Ray made a movie called Beast from 20,000 Fathoms.
In the movie, a giant octopus destroys the Golden Gate Bridge.
To save money,he made the octopus with only six ten-tacles,or arms.
Moviegoers didn't notice.
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Ray went on to make many important movies.
He made The Voyage of Sinbad, Jason and The Argonauts,and,his last movie,Clash of the Titans.
These are all movies about great legends.
In the word of special effect,Ray is a legend,too.