Bob Gardiner (animator)
Bob Gardiner | |
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Born | James Robbins Gardiner March 19, 1951 |
Died | April 21, 2005 | (aged 54)
James Robbins "Bob" Gardiner (March 19, 1951 – April 21, 2005) was a multi-talented artist, painter, cartoonist, animator, holographer, musician, storyteller, and comedy writer.[1][2] He invented the stop-motion 3-D clay animation technique which his collaborator Will Vinton would later market as Claymation, although Bob preferred the term Sculptimation for his frame-by-frame method of sculpting plasticine clay characters and sets. Closed Mondays was preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.[3]
Filmography[]
- Closed Mondays (1974), writer, art direction, and sculptimation
- Mountain Music (1975), art direction and sculptimation (uncredited)[4]
Graphic art[]
Advertising poster for Bob Gardiner's multi-media event, January 25, 1979, at Strutters' Hall, Portland, OR.
Advertising poster for Bob Gardiner's multi-media event, February 1, 1979, at Strutters' Hall, Portland, OR.
Advertising poster for Bob Gardiner's multi-media event, July 27-29 & August 3-5, 1979, at The Alligator Palace Vaudeville Theatre, La Conner, WA.
Advertising poster for Bob Gardiner's multi-media event, October 25,1979, at Merchants' Public House, Portland, OR.
Advertising poster for Bob Gardiner's multi-media fundraiser event on behalf of The Food Front, November 28, 1979, at The Earth Tavern, Portland, OR.
Lost mural painted by Bob Gardiner on exterior wall of a Portland repertory theater no longer in business, circa early 1980s.
Accolades[]
Gardiner and Vinton won the Oscar for Best Animated Short in 1975[5] for Closed Mondays (1974).[6][7]
See also[]
- Closed Mondays (2012)
References[]
- ^ James Gardiner Obituary -CA|San Francisco Chronicle
- ^ James Robbins 'Bob' Gardiner -- Oscar winner - SFGate
- ^ "Preserved Projects". Academy Film Archive.
- ^ Oddball Films (2015-11-19). Oddball Films: Tunes and Toons: Animated Adventures in Musicland - Thur. Nov. 19th - 8PM. Oddball Films, 19 November 2015. Retrieved from http://oddballfilms.blogspot.com/2015/11/tunes-and-toons-animated-adventures-in.html.
- ^ 1975|Oscars.org
- ^ "The Portland DIY Clay Experiment That Changed Animation Forever.TV|OPB". Archived from the original on 2019-01-05. Retrieved 2018-09-09.
- ^ Short Film Winners: 1975 Oscars
Bibliography[]
External links[]
- Bob Gardiner at Internet Movie Database
- Bob Gardiner at Find a Grave
- Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary (1977), Main Title Animation of The Rubinoos, at Internet Movie Database
- Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary (1977) on YouTube
- Mountain Music (1975) on YouTube
- Mountain Music (1975) on IMDB
- 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