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Will Vinton (born 1948) is an American director and producer of animated films. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the He was born in McMinnville, Oregon, near Portland. McMinnville is the County seat and largest city of Yamhill County, Oregon, United States. Oregon ( is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Portland is a city located in the Northwestern United States, near the Confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers He has won an Oscar for his work, and several Emmy Awards and Clio Awards for the work of his studio. "The Oscar" redirects here for the film see The Oscar (film. The Clio Awards are given to reward creative excellence in Advertising and Design.

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Education

During the 1960s, Vinton studied physics, architecture and filmmaking at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was influenced by the work of Antoni Gaudi. The 1960s decade refers to the years from the beginning of 1960 to the end of 1969 The term architecture (from Greek αρχιτεκτονικήarchitektoniki) can be used to mean a process a profession or documentation Filmmaking is the process of making a Film, from an initial story idea or commission through scriptwriting shooting editing and finally distribution to an audience The University of California Berkeley (also referred to as Cal, Berkeley and UC Berkeley) is a major research university located in Berkeley During this time, Vinton made a black-and-white feature-length documentary film about the California counter-culture movement titled, Gone For a Better Deal which toured college campuses in various film festivals of the time. Black-and-white is a number of Monochrome forms in Visual arts. Feature length is a film term that refers to the length of a Feature film. Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt in one fashion or another to " Document " reality California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. Two more films about student protest followed, Berkeley Games and First Ten Days, as well a narrative short Reply, and his first animation, Culture Shock. The bouncing ball animation (below consists of these 6 frames

Collaboration with Bob Gardiner

Meeting clay animator Bob Gardiner in the Berkeley, California area in the early 1970s, Vinton brought him to Portland and the two commandeered Vinton's home basement to make a quick 1 1/2-minute test film of clay animation (and the supporting armatures) called Wobbly Wino, completed in early 1973. James Robbins (Bob Gardiner ( 1951-04-21 &mdash 2005-04-21) was an Animator who helped pioneer what would become known as Claymation. Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in Northern California, in the United States. This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. Portland is a city located in the Northwestern United States, near the Confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers A basement is one or more floors of a building that are either completely or partially below the Ground floor. Clay animation is one of many forms of Stop motion animation Each animated piece either character or background is "deformable"&mdashmade of a malleable substance Gardiner refined his sculpting and animation skills while Vinton built a system for animating his Bolex Rex-5 16mm camera and the two 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. An art gallery or art museum is a space for the exhibition of art, usually Visual art. Painting (pān'tīng in Art, is the practice of applying Color to a Surface (support base such as e Completed in late 1974 after 14 months of production, the innovative film combined Gardiner's amazing sculpting skills with Vinton's considerable camera skills and Closed Mondays stunned film festival judges around the world. Closed Mondays is an 11-minute Animated film, using animated 3-dimensional clay figures co-created by Will Vinton and Bob Gardiner in 1974 Closed Mondays then won an Oscar for best animated short film in the spring of 1975, the first film produced in Portland to do so. The Academy Award for Animated Short Film is an award which has been given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as part of the Academy Awards every year

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 his constantly-improving animation technology. Will Vinton (born 1948 is an American director and producer of animated films Quickly expanding his studio by hiring new animators, Vinton produced dozens of commercials for regional and then national companies.

Going solo

Still with only a handful of animators, he produced a highly-polished trilogy of acclaimed 27-minute fairy tales in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Martin the Cobbler (1977), Rip Van Winkle (1978, nominated for an Academy Award), and The Little Prince (1979). A trilogy is a set of three works of art usually Literature, Film, or Video games, that are connected and can be seen either as a single work or three A fairy tale or fairy story is a fictional Story that may feature folkloric characters (such as fairies, enchantments]] often involving This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. The 1980s was the decade spanning from January 1 1980 to December 31 1989. The trio of films later were collectively theatrically released under the title Trilogy, then to video as The Little Prince and Friends. 1978 also saw the production of a 17-minute documentary featuring the behind-the-scenes technical processes used by Vinton and his animators. Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt in one fashion or another to " Document " reality Titled Claymation, the term caught on with viewers, and was soon trademarked by Vinton, later to become synonymous with clay animation in general. Clay animation is one of many forms of Stop motion animation Each animated piece either character or background is "deformable"&mdashmade of a malleable substance Clay animation is one of many forms of Stop motion animation Each animated piece either character or background is "deformable"&mdashmade of a malleable substance

The 35mm years

Graduating to 35mm film, other short films were produced during this time: Legacy (1979), Dinosaur (1980), The Creation (directed by Joan Gratz, 1981, Oscar nominated), The Great Cognito (directed by Barry Bruce, 1982, Oscar nominated), and early music videos: a longform "video" called A Christmas Gift for Paul Stookey of Peter, Paul and Mary, and Vanz Kant Danz (1987) for Creedence Clearwater Revival's John Fogerty. 35 mm film is the basic Film gauge most commonly used for both still Photography and Motion pictures, and remains relatively unchanged since its Dinosaurs! - A Fun-Filled Trip Back in Time! is a movie released by Golden Book Video in 1987 under their "GoldenVision" series Peter Paul and Mary (often called PP&M) are a musical group from the United States who were one of the most successful folk-singing groups of the Creedence Clearwater Revival (often abbreviated CCR) was an American Rock and roll band who gained popularity in the late 1960s and early 1970s with John Cameron Fogerty (born May 28, 1945) is an American rock singer Songwriter, and Guitarist, best known for his VHS Video compilations of these films were released in the 1980s as Festival of Claymation and Son of Combo II. The 1980s was the decade spanning from January 1 1980 to December 31 1989.

Vinton, himself no longer actively animating by now, also produced special effects scenes for TV shows and movies, including a sequence for Bette Midler's Divine Madness movie (1980), an Emmy-winning sequence for the Moonlighting TV series (1987), the opening and closing title sequences for the feature comedy film Brain Donors (1992), and his own feature-length movie, The Adventures of Mark Twain (1985). Brain Donors (1992 is an American Comedy Movie released by Paramount Pictures, loosely based on the Marx Brothers comedy The Adventures of Mark Twain, released in the UK as Comet Quest, is a 1985 Stop motion animated film directed by His studio's animation effects for Disney's Return to Oz (1985) were also nominated for a special effects Oscar. Return to Oz is an Academy Award -nominated 1985 film which is the semi-sequel to The Wizard of Oz.

Springing from his work on Return to Oz, Vinton was hired by the Disney studio to produce animation effects for their Michael Jackson multi-media Disneyland-Disneyworld extravaganza, Captain EO in 1986 (September 12, 1986) and the Speed Demon sequence for Michael Jackson musical anthology feature-length film, Moonwalker (1987). Return to Oz is an Academy Award -nominated 1985 film which is the semi-sequel to The Wizard of Oz. Michael Joseph Jackson (born August 29 1958 is an American musician entertainer and businessman Captain EO (alternately Captain Eo) is a 3-D film formerly shown at Disney Theme parks The film stars Michael Events 1213 - Albigensian Crusade: Simon de Montfort 5th Earl of Leicester, defeats Peter II of Aragon at the Year 1986 ( MCMLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar) Moonwalker, also known as Michael Jackson Moonwalker, is a Film released in 1988 by Singer Michael Jackson.

Prominent among his hundreds of now international commercial creations were the California Raisins, the Domino's Noid, and the M&M's Red, Yellow, and Green characters. The California Raisins was a fictional Rhythm and blues musical group composed of anthropomorphized Raisins. The Noid (voiced by Pons Maar) was an advertising character for Domino's Pizza in the 1980s M&M's Chocolate Candies are Candy -coated pieces of Chocolate with the letter "m" inscribed on them produced by Mars Incorporated.

The California Raisins' first big hit was the song I Heard It Through the Grapevine in the first of their series of TV spots for the California Raisin Advisory Board. " I Heard It Through the Grapevine " is a R&B / soul song written by Motown songwriters Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong The California Raisin Advisory Board (or CALRAB) is most notable for the use of The California Raisins to market their namesake product Raisins It They became such a media phenomenon that they went on to star in their own pair of primetime specials for CBS television, Meet the Raisins (1988) and The Raisins Sold Out (1990). Prime Time is the major News analysis current affairs and Politics programme broadcast on Radio Telefís Éireann in Ireland CBS Broadcasting Inc ( CBS) is an American radio and Television network. A couple music albums of songs from the specials, produced by Nu Shooz pop-rock band leader John Smith were released also. Nu Shooz is a 1980s Electronic dance music group fronted by Husband -and- Wife duo John Smith and Valerie Day, based in

CBS also commissioned three more prime-time specials, A Claymation Christmas Celebration (1988, an Emmy winner), The Claymation Comedy of Horrors a 1991 Halloween special, and A Claymation Easter (1992) All were later released to video and DVD. Will Vinton 's A Claymation Christmas Celebration is a 1987 CBS Christmas television special featuring Stop motion

During the 1990s, the Vinton Studios produced the animated series The PJs for the FOX TV network. The 1990s collectively refers to the years between and including 1990 and 1999 The PJs is a Stop motion animated television series created by Eddie Murphy, Larry Wilmore, and Steve Tompkins. The series was conceived and executive-produced by Eddie Murphy, who voiced many of the roles. Edward Regan "Eddie" Murphy (born April 3 1961 is an Academy Award -nominated Golden Globe - Screen Actors Guild Award -winning American Another animated series was produced for the UPN TV network by the Vinton studio, Gary and Mike, now a cult favorite. United Paramount Network ( UPN) was a Television network that broadcast in over 200 markets in the United States and that was in production for over eleven Both series used a refinement in Vinton's style of dimensional animation. Most of the clay figures were replaced by models of moulded foam rubber, eliminating many of the limitations, and maintenance issues, that are inherent with clay, which had been developed by Vinton and his technical teams as far as it could go. Vinton soon coined a new term for this process, Foamation.

The 1990s also flourished as a variety of Vinton's 400 + animators and technicians flowered with new creations and films of their own using the Vinton facilities called the Walkabout Program. The 1990s collectively refers to the years between and including 1990 and 1999 Craig Bartlett created his Arnold Escapes From Church short film (1986, winner of an Oscar in 1987) which later spawned Hey Arnold, a cel-animated series for the Nickelodeon Cable TV Network and generated two more clay-animated short films, The Arnold Waltz (1990) and Arnold Rides a Chair (1991). Craig Michael Bartlett (born October 18, 1956 in Seattle Washington) is an Animator best-known for creating the television series Nickelodeon (commonly referred to as Nick) is an American Cable television network owned by Viacom International, founded in 1977 as Pinwheel

Computer animation

The late 1990s also saw Vinton adding computer animation to his output, used most visibly for his many M&M's character commercials. A short CGI film, Fluffy, directed by Doug Aberle, was created during this time. Computer animation Computer-generated imagery (also known as CGI) is the application of the field of Computer graphics or more specifically 3D computer graphics Other CGI films — some combined with clay and stop-motion animation — soon followed. Vinton also briefly dabbled in a consumer user form of computer animation software called Playmation, co-developed by animation software writers based at a computer animation company, Hash, Inc. , located across the Columbia River in Portland's sister city, Vancouver, Washington. The Columbia River (known as Vancouver is a city on the north bank of the Columbia River in the U Vinton and associates also dabbled in animation for the internet with a series called Ozzie the Elf.

Vinton Studio

By the end of the 1990s, the Vinton studio, seeking funds for more feature length films, had become big enough to bring in outside investors, which included shoe company Nike, Inc. owner Phil Knight and his son, who had worked at the studio as an animator. Nike Inc ('naɪki ( is a major publicly traded sportswear and equipment supplier based in the United States. Philip H Knight (born February 24, 1938) is an American Billionaire, and the co-founder and Chairman of Nike Inc

In 2002, Vinton lost control of the studio he founded after Knight became the majority shareholder and Vinton failed to garner funds for further feature production in Los Angeles, eventually being dismissed from the studio. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West Vinton later sought damages for this and sued for ownership of his name. In 2005 Will Vinton Studios was renamed Laika Entertainment House. LAIKA is an animation studio specializing in Feature films commercials Music videos broadcast graphics and short films Premier animator-director Henry Selick joined the Laika studio in 2005. Henry Selick (born November 30 1952) is an American Stop motion director, producer and writer who is best known for directing

Vinton has since founded a new production facility (with a web site), Will Vinton's Freewill Entertainment, also based in Portland. Vinton is also associated with the Portland branch of The Art Institute in Northwest Portland and maintains an office there as an artist in residence. This article is about the chain of for-profit art schools For the stand-alone art college in Boston see The Art Institute of Boston; for the stand-alone art college in The Creative Artist Agency in Beverly Hills, California represents Vinton for production projects (CAA). Projects include a graphic novel called Jack Hightower produced in tandem with Dark Horse comics located in Milwaukie, Oregon a suburb of Portland. Dark Horse Comics is one of the largest independent American Comic book publishers behind dominant publishers Marvel Comics and DC Comics Milwaukie (mɪlˈwɔːki is a city in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States. Plans exist for a variety of film, TV, and multi-media projects and one short film, The Morning After, the first produced under Vinton's new banner, which combines CGI and live action, was completed in 2005.

Body of work

Feature films

TV series

TV specials

Short films

References

External links

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