Will Vinton, who used his and a partner’s revolutionary stop-motion animation process, Claymation, to win an Academy Award with an early cartoon and to create memorable commercial characters like the ...

You may have heard through the grapevine that the 1980s featured a musical group that took the nation by storm in the name of promoting California Raisins, but you may not know the story behind the ...

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The California Raisin Show is an animated television series based on the claymation advertising characters The California Raisins. The show is based on an Emmy Award-winning claymation special, Meet ...

The man who invented claymation was bright and sunny until the very end, his sister said. Will Vinton, an Oscar-winning Oregon animator who created the iconic style of stop-motion animation and ...