Will Vinton, who used his and a partner’s revolutionary stop-motion animation process, Claymation, to win an Academy Award with an early cartoon and to create memorable commercial characters like the ...
One of the first (of many) mistakes I made as a young WW staffer in the early ‘90s was calling Will Vinton the winner of Portland’s first Academy Award. It was a throwaway line in an Oscars wrap-up ...
IN THE WANING YEARS of the ’80s, one of the biggest (and most surprising) pop culture phenomena was stop-motion clay animation, or “claymation.” Dinosaurs, singing California raisins, and a weirdly ...