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Oct 5, 2018 · PORTLAND, Ore. - Will Vinton, an Oscar-winning animator who invented Claymation, a style of stop-motion animation, and brought the California Raisins to TV, has died in Oregon.
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Jun 17, 2020 · The Early Days of Vinton. 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.
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Jun 11, 2021 · By the fall of 2002, Will Vinton felt as though he had a gun to his head. Oregon’s richest man, Nike founder Phil Knight, had agreed to bail out Vinton’s financially struggling animation ...
Oct 6, 2018 · For Will Vinton, everything started with a lump of clay. During the 1960s, he was an architecture student at UC Berkeley when he became fascinated by the whimsical, organic work of Spanish ...
Soon celebrities were eager to get involved, including the biggest star of them all: Michael Jackson. In 1989, the King of Pop reached out directly to Vinton—the two had partnered on Jackson’s ...
Will Vinton, an Academy Award-winning filmmaker who coined the term Claymation to describe the three-dimensional animated clay figures he used in his work, including the wildly popular California ...
Oct 5, 2018 · Will Vinton, an Oscar-winning master of Claymation who coined the term, has died.He was 70. Vinton’s children announced his death in a Facebook post, writing that he had been battling multiple ...
