Showing posts with label Director. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Director. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

The Great Cognito


Long before computers allowed us to morph everything, claymation animator Will Vinton was producing cool shorts like this one with painstaking frame by frame stop motion. Vinton and his studio would later go on to create the California Raisin commercials, and "The Noid" for Domino's Pizza.
He later created several TV specials, and contributed to Michael Jackson's "Captain EO" and "Moonwalker." Now-a-days this sort of short would be done with 3d software. Back in the 70's it was brute force animation with just clay and a camera, and a lot of patience.

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Phil Trumbo




Also teaching at VCU, when I was a student, Phil Trumbo directed the animated sequences in the opening of Pee-Wee's playhouse. See his current reel below.