WILL VINTON CLAYMATION ART 1990 Postcard HOWARD LOWERY California Raisin NOID

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This is 1990 Postcard featuring The WILL VINTON ART OF CLAYMATION sale at HOWARD LOWERY GALLERY.
William Gale Vinton
(November 17, 1947 – October 4, 2018)
[1]
was an American animator and filmmaker. Vinton was best known for his
Claymation
work, alongside creating iconic characters such as
The California Raisins
. He won an
Oscar
for his work
[2]
alongside several
Emmy Awards
and
Clio Awards
for his studio's work.
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. Gardiner refined his sculpting and animation techniques while Vinton built a system for animating his Bolex Rex-5 16mm camera and they began work in mid-1973 on an 8-minute
16mm
short film about a drunk wino who stumbles into a closed
art museum
and interacts with the
paintings
and
sculptures
. Completed in late 1974 after 14 months of production, the film combined Gardiner's sculpting skills and comedy writing talent with Vinton's camera skills.
Closed Mondays
won an
Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film
in the spring of 1975, the first film produced in Portland to do so.
[7]
[8]
Vinton and Gardiner parted ways during the production of their second short film,
Mountain Music
completed by Vinton in 1976. Gardiner focused on producing PSA spots for local political issues (eventually evolving into other artistic media such as music and holograms) while Vinton established Will Vinton Productions (later
Will Vinton Studios
) in Portland to capitalize on the animation technology Gardiner had developed for their animated short
Closed Mondays
. Quickly expanding his studio by hiring new animators, Vinton produced dozens of commercials for regional and then national companies.
Following his work on
Return to Oz
, Vinton was hired by the Disney studio to produce animation effects for their
Michael Jackson
Disneyland
-
EPCOT Center
film,
Captain EO
in 1986 (September 12, 1986) and the
Speed Demon
music video for Michael Jackson's musical anthology feature-length film,
Moonwalker
(1988).
Item is 5 X 7.
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