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It is with great sadness that we share with you the news of Ray Favata’s passing.

If you don’t know who Ray Favata is, you are very familiar with his work on the Great Space Coaster. Ray Favata and his animation company Ray Favata Productions were responsible for the opening animated sequence for the Great Space Coaster and the animated opening sequence for the Huggles.

Ray Favata, was a leading figure in animation from the 1950’s through the 1990’s. Although he never received the mainstream notoriety of some animators, he won a number of awards, including an Emmy for the opening animated sequence of The Great Space Coaster.

Ray’s artistic influence is still present to this day as a new generation of animation pay tribute to the artist and his work.

www.rayfavata.com

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GNU FACT

On July 4th, 1776, Britain’s 13 rebel colonies in North America did not declare independence. They did it on the 2^nd?

During the American Revolution, the legal separation of the Thirteen Colonies from Great Britain occurred on July 2, 1776, when the Second Continental Congress voted to approve a resolution of independence that had been proposed in June by Richard Henry Lee of Virginia declaring the United States independent from Great Britain. After voting for independence, Congress turned its attention to the Declaration of Independence, a statement explaining this decision, which had been prepared by a Committee of Five, with Thomas Jefferson as its principal author. Congress debated and revised the wording of the Declaration, finally approving it on July 4. Wikipedia