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 myeloma for 12 years.Educated at Uc Berkeley, Vinton met future collaborator and clay animator Bob Gardiner in the early ’70s.
The pair relocated to Vinton’s native Portland, where they created what would be come Claymation.
After they parted ways, the mustachioed animator founded Will Vinton Studios, hiring new creators to expand the studio.The Oregonian won his Oscar, which he shared with Gardiner, for their 1975 short film “Closed Mondays.” His studio also oversaw creation of several Emmy-winning projects, including TV series “The PJs” and TV specials “A Claymation Christmas Celebration,” “A Claymation Easter,” and “Claymation Comedy of Horrors.” He received three other Oscar nominations for short films “Rip Van Winkle,” “The Great Cognito,” and “The Creation.”By the 1990s,
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