James Robbins "Bob" Gardiner (March 19, 1951 – April 21, 2005) was an American artist, painter, cartoonist, animator, holographer, musician, storyteller, and comedy writer. He invented the stop-motion 3-D clay animation technique which his collaborator

Will Vinton William Gale Vinton (November 17, 1947 – October 4, 2018) was an American animator and filmmaker. Vinton was best known for his Claymation work, alongside creating iconic characters such as The California Raisins. He won an Academy Awards, Os ...

would later market as

Claymation Claymation, sometimes called clay animation or plasticine animation, is one of many forms of stop-motion animation. Each animated piece, either character or background, is "deformable"—made of a malleable substance, usually plasticine cl ...

, although Bob preferred the term ''Sculptimation'' for his frame-by-frame method of sculpting

plasticine Plasticine is a putty-like modelling material made from calcium salts, petroleum jelly and aliphatic acids. Though originally a brand name for the British version of the product, it is now applied generically in English as a product category ...

clay characters and sets. He and Vinton shared the 1974

Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film The Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film is an award given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) as part of the annual Academy Awards, or Oscars, since the 5th Academy Awards (with different names), covering the year ...

for '' Closed Mondays''. The film was preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012. Gardiner committed suicide on April 21, 2005, while living at the Everhart Hotel in downtown Grass Valley.

Filmography

* '' Closed Mondays'' (1974), writer, art direction, and sculptimation * ''Mountain Music'' (1975), art direction and sculptimation (uncredited)

Graphic art

Accolades

Gardiner and Vinton won the Oscar for Best Animated Short in

1975 It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe. Events January * January 1 – Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...

for '' Closed Mondays'' (1974).Short Film Winners: 1975 Oscars
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References

External links

Bob Gardiner
at Internet Movie Database *
Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary
' (1977), Main Title Animation of

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, at Internet Movie Database *
Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary
' (1977) on YouTube *
Mountain Music
' (1975) on YouTube *
Mountain Music
' (1975) on IMDb {{DEFAULTSORT:Gardiner, Bob 1951 births 2005 deaths 2005 suicides People from Torrance, California American animators Clay animators Directors of Best Animated Short Academy Award winners Producers who won the Best Animated Short Academy Award Suicides in California