Talk:Will Vinton

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[edit] Irrelevant information

I'm moving the section on "ambitious employees" here. It seems a little POV to me, and it is irrelevant to an article about Will Vinton. It does however have useful information that might apply to an article about Will Vinton Studios or Freewill Entertainment, or perhaps Claymation or stop motion animation.

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== Ambitious Vinton Studio Employees ==

Mark Gustavson splashed onto the animation scene with his tour-de-force object animation pair of short films, Mr. Resister (1994), and Bride of Resistor (1995), a technique (and character) which evolved from a TV spot created for a local radio station, KINK Radio.

Independently, clay-on-glass animation-painter, Joan Gratz (who had worked for Vinton, directing the Oscar-nominated Creation short in the 1980s) garnered an Oscar for her 1992 short film showcasing famous paintings, Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase.

Radical California clay animator David Daniels reintroduced an old clay animation technique originally pioneered by German animator Oskar Fischinger in the 1920s and 1930s called "stata-cut" animation, starting with his stunning 16-minute Buzz Box short film, made before he joined the Vinton studio, but bringing the technique with him to Portland which dazzlingly added to the Vinton studio animation effects repretore.

Many other excellent short films were made by a variety of Vinton animators and technicians during this period also, some of which are mentioned in the history section of Will Vinton's Freewill web site, and some of which can be found on various independent animation festival compilations released to video and DVD.

Some Vinton animators went on to work on other TV series such as ABC's award-winning Bump in the Night Children's TV series. Those and other Vinton animators graduated to work on major feature film projects, such a Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride and Tim Burton's - Henry Selick's James and the Giant Peach.

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I kept this section in the article when I wikified it because all of these employees were handpicked by Vinton and later went on to great things. It describes how influential the studio and it's employees were and, more importantly, how influential Vinton and his minions were to animation. I agree that it can be included in an article about Vinton Studios but there is already an article about the studio (now known by another name) BrianZ^(talk) 13:41, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Links

Needs more wiki links, especially to individual works that can become seperate articles.

[edit] Help with Bob Gardiner page

I've started the Bob Gardiner page. Any help expanding it would be greatly appreciated, since I'm quite the Wiki amateur. Here's an article about Gardiner that has a ton of info. (Free registration required.) Thanks for your help. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Davidgriner (talk • contribs) 21:46, 2 February 2007 (UTC).