Talos Awakes depicts Talos, kneeling on his plinth, head turned, as he was when he first came to life in the 1963 cult classic film Jason and the Argonauts.
Talos Awakes
Bronze sculpture on a granite base
41 H x 24 W x 33 D cm
Edition of 9
Sold out
Talos Awakes miniature
Half size bronze sculpture on a oak base
22 H x 13 W x 17.5 D cm
Edition of 50
£3,300
Finishing Ray Harryhausen’s sculpture
Ray Harryhausen had started work on this sculpture in the 1990s; he had made the plinth for Talos to kneel on but had not sculpted the figure.
The plinth was loaned to Raven Armoury by the The Ray & Diana Harryhausen Foundation to mould. For the figure we worked directly from the original animation model. Talos was first scanned and printed in very high resolution.
Restoration and repositioning
I then carried out a painstaking, sympathetic restoration of the 3D print. Once restored I carefully repositioned Talos into required kneeling stance, with meticulous attention to detail at every stage.
The whole project took us several years to complete (see The Making of Talos Awakes).
The Making of Talos Awakes
Simon and I wrote a series of illustrated posts documenting the mammoth task of bringing our Talos Awakes sculpture to life.
Talos Awakes is the only sculpture to have been made directly from the original animation model
These sculptures were hand made by Raven Armoury in association with The Ray & Diana Harryhausen Foundation.
Based on effects characters created by Ray Harryhausen for a Charles H. Schneer Production.
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Frozen in Time
A reproduction of the Talos animation model, captured in March 2014 for the Talos Awakes project.
Children of the Hydra
Skeleton warriors spawned from the teeth of a Hydra from Jason and the Argonauts.
Talos
A half size reproduction of Ray Harryhausen’s Talos, sculpted in the 1990s.