James Robbins "Bob" Gardiner (March 19, 1951 – April 21, 2005) was a multi-talented artist, painter, cartoonist, animator, holographer, musician, storyteller, and comedy writer. He invented the stop-motion 3-D clay animation technique which his collaborator

Will Vinton William Gale Vinton (November 17, 1947 – October 4, 2018) 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 a ...

would later market as

Claymation Clay animation or claymation, sometimes plasticine animation, is one of many forms of stop-motion animation. Each animated piece, either character or background, is "deformable"—made of a malleable substance, usually plasticine clay. Tra ...

, although Bob preferred the term ''Sculptimation'' for his frame-by-frame method of sculpting

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clay characters and sets. He and Vinton shared the 1974

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for ''Closed Mondays''. The film was preserved by the

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in 2012. Gardiner took his own life on April 21, 2005, while living at the Everhart Hotel in downtown Grass Valley.

Filmography

* ''Closed Mondays'' (1974), writer, art direction, and sculptimation * ''Mountain Music'' (1975), art direction and sculptimation (uncredited)

Graphic art

Accolades

Gardiner and Vinton won the

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for Best Animated Short in

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for ''

Closed Mondays ''Closed Mondays'' is an eight-minute clay animation film, created by Bob Gardiner and filmed by Will Vinton in 1974. It was produced by Lighthouse Productions, released by Pyramid Films in the United States, and won the Academy Award for Best ...

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References

External links

Bob Gardiner
at Internet Movie Database *
Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary
' (1977), Main Title Animation of

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, at Internet Movie Database *
Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary
' (1977) on YouTube *
Mountain Music
' (1975) on YouTube *
Mountain Music
' (1975) on IMDB {{DEFAULTSORT:Gardiner, Bob 1951 births 2005 deaths People from Torrance, California American animators Clay animators Producers who won the Best Animated Short Academy Award Directors of Best Animated Short Academy Award winners

Filmography

Graphic art

Accolades

See also

References

External links