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- Will Vinton had studied architecture, and Gardiner was his colleague at the California College of Arts. They both created 'Closed Sundays', a film that would eventually win the award for Best Animated Short at the Academy Awards 1975 (Check the comments for a story about Gardiner's and Vinton's distinct roles in the film).
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Meeting clay animator Bob Gardiner in the Berkeley, California, area in the early 1970s, Vinton brought him to Portland and they commandeered Vinton's home basement to make a quick 1½-minute test film of clay animation (and the supporting armatures) called Wobbly Wino, completed in early 1973.
May 9, 2014 · By 1973, with a full arsenal of production skills under his belt, he began reconsidering the potential of clay. Vinton called Gardiner, who had just completed his degree in California, and talked him into moving to Portland to take part in a clay animation experiment.
James Robbins "Bob" Gardiner (March 19, 1951 – April 21, 2005) was an American artist, painter, cartoonist, animator, holographer, musician, storyteller, and comedy writer. [1][2] He invented the stop-motion 3-D clay animation technique which his collaborator Will Vinton would later market as Claymation, although Bob preferred the term ...
- The Early Days of Vinton
- Vinton Revitalizes Claymation
- Enter: The Knights
- The Decline of Vinton Studios
- The Rise of Laika Studios
- Conclusion
Born in McMinnville, Oregon, on November 17, 1947, as the son of a car dealer and bookkeeper, Will Vinton was an Academy-Award winning filmmaker and animator who is considered the coiner of Claymation for his work of three-dimensional clay figures. Inspired by the counter-culture movement while attending the University of California at Berkely, Vin...
The aftermath was overwhelming. By 1974, large advertising brands and film agencies sought Vinton as a way to distinguish themselves from their commercials. His first project was a Rainier Beer commercial; and while Vinton’s commercial success would be criticized by some as “selling out”, Will learned that commercial work’s financial benefits still...
The studio went on to animate Eddie Murphy’s primetime TV series The PJs, using a medium Vinton pioneered called “Foamation”, in which ball-and-socket armatures were coated with foam latex. This allowed greater sturdiness and lightness for the characters. By the late 90s, Vinton’s studiohad reached $28 million in revenue, was entering a digital mar...
The “PJs’” costs outweighed its poor ratings and after three seasons the show was canceled in 2001. Vinton Studios’ other show, “Gary and Mike”, was canned after a single season, and to make matters worse, the studio’s commercial division was hurt when the 9/11 terrorist attacks resulted in an industry-wide drop in advertising. Management’s questio...
The Knights acquired ownership ofVinton’s life-long work, the M&Ms, California Raisins, and legal trademarkrights to the term “Claymation”, and poured $180 million into the new firmrebranded as Laika. In addition to the animationveterans from Pixar, DreamWorks, and Disney, the Nike executives Knight luredin had no experience in film, with one of th...
I didn’t write this to attack the hardworking animators or any other workers employed in Laika. This isn’t meant to be a slander against them or discourage people from watching their films. But I do think it’s important to acknowledge the darker history behind Laika’s creation, and highlight the nuance in which its creation involved taking away fro...
After graduating in 1970, he moved to Portland. In 1973, Vinton and Berkeley classmate Bob Gardiner began working on a short film using clay-based stop motion animation, a technique that dates to the earliest years of silent films but that languished after 2-D cel animation was invented in 1914.
Oct 9, 2018 · Mr. Vinton and Bob Gardiner, his early partner, helped revive and refine stop-motion clay animation, which was memorably used in the 1950s and ’60s for the sweet, flexible, green-hued...
Oct 10, 2018 · Will Vinton, an Oscar-winning animator who invented the claymation style of stop-motion animation and brought the California Raisins to TV has died in Oregon. He was 70.
