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He began his first big project EVOLUTION, which was to be a history of the world's beginnings using stop motion animation. His favorite part was to be about dinosaurs and he began his footage with them. This was an most ambitious project, but blinded by the aspiration of youth, Ray set to the task of on animating  the 16mm film.  Seeing the footage today hardly looks like the work of a young man working in his families garage.  It is ambitiously animated and features a  fellow student friend of Ray's encountering the prehistoric world.  The only existing model from this film is a wooly mammoth that was never animated.  The mammouth is beautifully detailed and covered with the fur of one his mother's fur coats, one that, Ray jokes, his mother never wore.  The film came to a halt after Ray saw Disney's FANTASIA with contained the Stravinsky RITE OF SPRING segment. The existing footage for the film was not done in vain.  It became useful to show this footage when he began seeking professional work as an animator to let people see what he was capable of.  

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