James Robbins "Bob" Gardiner (March 19, 1951 – April 21, 2005) was an American 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.
He and Vinton shared the 1974 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for Closed Mondays.[3] The film was preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.[4]
Gardiner committed suicide on April 21, 2005, while living at the Everhart Hotel in downtown Grass Valley.[5]
Filmography
- Closed Mondays (1974), writer, art direction, and sculptimation
- Mountain Music (1975), art direction and sculptimation (uncredited)[6]
Graphic art
Accolades
Gardiner and Vinton won the Oscar for Best Animated Short in 1975[7] for Closed Mondays (1974).[8][9]
References
External links
- Bob Gardiner at Internet Movie Database
- 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
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- ↑ James Gardiner Obituary -CA|San Francisco Chronicle
- ↑ James Robbins 'Bob' Gardiner -- Oscar winner - SFGate
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- ↑ 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 Oddball Films.
- ↑ 1975|Oscars.org
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- ↑ Short Film Winners: 1975 Oscars