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中文名: 威爾·文頓動畫作品英文名: Will Vinton資源格式: DVDRip版本: 美國動畫黏土大師發行時間: 1974年導演: Will Vinton地區: 美國語言: 英語制作團隊: FRAGMENT簡介:


http://willvinton.net/
這是關於他的網站
他的動畫作品很多，不過網上不好收集。期待他的專輯了只能是。
威爾·文頓，1948 年出生在俄勒岡州，70 年代早期進入加州大學柏克萊分校學習物理、建築與電影制作。大學期間拍攝了一部反文化紀錄片《黃粱美夢》（Gone for a Better Deal），該片在影展和校園引起極大反響。威爾·文頓對西班牙建築大師安東尼奧·高蒂十分迷戀，欣賞其藝術作品呈現的流動設計感，受此影響開始黏土動畫實驗創作。畢業後，威爾·文頓正式進入電影制作行業，除了擔任導演工作，也從事編劇、攝影與剪接。在此時期，威爾·文頓個人純藝術創作之余也兼顧商業動畫創作。威爾·文頓執導創作的最知名的商業動畫是加州葡萄干與M M 巧克力廣告片，特別是前一商業動畫廣告產生了極具影響的媒體效應，並衍生出一系列廣告、娛樂商品與電視節目《加州葡萄干電視秀》。
1974 年，威爾·文頓完成九分鐘動畫短片《周一公休》(Closed Mondays) ，該片在1975 年獲得奧斯卡最佳動畫短片獎。此後，他創造了“黏土動畫”（Claymation）一詞來描述且進一步定義自己的作品，並將它正式注冊成為一個商標，變成他的專利。1976 年，他創立了威爾·文頓制作公司，開始探索黏土動畫與立體動畫創作的可能性。1977 至1979 年間，威爾·文頓根據俄羅斯文學巨匠托爾斯泰的文學作品改編創作了《補鞋匠馬丁》（Martin the Cobbler），根據美國文學家華盛頓·歐文的作品改編創作了《李伯大夢》（Rip Van Winkle），根據法國文學家安東尼奧·戴·聖修伯裡的名著改編創作《小王子》（The Little Prince），這三部動畫短片後來集結成三部曲。
1985年，威爾·文頓完成了世界動畫史上第一部全黏土動畫長片《馬克·吐溫歷險記》（The Adventures of Mark Twain）。2002 年，耐克注資威爾·文頓制作公司，威爾·文頓退出公司經營管理，另成立“自由意志娛樂公司”，在專注於原有黏土動畫制作導演之外，開始計算機動畫與Flash 動畫的創作。
威爾·文頓的黏土動畫使用了專業的彩色橡膠黏土或稱塑型土（plasticine clay）技術，他為世界動畫發展做出了傑出貢獻，是黏土動畫與停格動畫（stop-motion animation）領域的奇才，同時也是3D動畫的開路先鋒
引用Will Vinton威爾?文頓
國別：美國
現在全球最知名的黏土動畫創作者是英國的阿曼動畫公司，
但是更早將黏土動畫發揮到極致的該是讓「Claymation」聞
名於世的Will Vinton。這位柏克萊建築系的畢業生，自小
就對拍片有極濃厚的興趣，大學畢業後沒多久，和令一位建
築師所合拍的黏土動畫短片「Closed Mondays」一舉奪得奧
斯卡最佳動畫短片獎，自此聲名大噪。他在1970和80年代拍
了許多精彩的黏土動畫短片和廣告，其中以「加州葡萄乾」
（California Raisins）的系列廣告最為人所熟知。而1985
年的長片《馬克吐溫歷險記》（The Adventures of Mark
Twain），巧妙地結合了馬克吐溫和他筆下膾炙人口的角色
湯母莎耶和哈克，利用可塑性高的黏土素材，創造了一趟變
化多端、趣味橫生的旅程。威爾?文頓的作品充滿美國式的
熱鬧趣味，也令人驚異於黏土素材可隨意拉長壓扁穿洞重生
的驚人可塑性。直到今日文頓仍持續創作新的作品，他的影
響力也可從新一代美國黏土動畫作品（如MTV台的《名人殊
死戰》（The Celebrity Death Match））中清楚看出。（Mao）
◎參考書目
《Clay Animation》Michael FriersonTwayne
《Secrets of Clay Animation Revealed!》
Marc Spess，Lynda Lotman編Animate Clay
Will Vinton (born 1947) is an American director and producer of animated films. He was born in McMinnville , Oregon , near Portland . He has won an Oscar for his work, and several Emmy Awards and Clio Awards for the work of his studio
Education
During the 1960s, Vinton studied physics, architecture and filmmaking at the University of California, Berkeley , where he was influenced by the work of Antoni Gaudi . [ citation needed ] During this time, Vinton made a black-and-white feature-length documentary film about the California counter-culture movement titled, Gone For a Better Deal which toured college campuses in various film festivals of the time. Two more films about student protest followed, Berkeley Games and First Ten Days , as well a narrative short Reply , and his first animation , Culture Shock . [ [1] ]
Collaboration with Bob Gardiner
Meeting clay animator Bob Gardiner in the Berkeley, California area in the early 1970s, Vinton brought him to Portland and the two commandeered Vinton's home basement to make a quick 1 1/2-minute test film of clay animation (and the supporting armatures) called Wobbly Wino , completed in early 1973. Gardiner refined his sculpting and animation skills while Vinton built a system for animating his Bolex Rex-5 16mm camera and the two began work in mid-1973 on an 8-minute 16mm short film about a drunk wino who stumbles into a closed art museum and interacts with the paintings and sculptures . Completed in late 1974 after 14 months of production, the innovative film combined Gardiner's amazing sculpting skills with Vinton's considerable camera skills and Closed Mondays stunned film festival judges around the world. Closed Mondays then won an Oscar for best animated short film in the spring of 1975, the first film produced in Portland to do so.
Vinton and Gardiner parted ways during the production of their second short film, Mountain Music completed by Vinton in 1976. Gardiner focused on producing PSA spots for local political issues (eventually evolving into other artistic media such as music and holograms) while Vinton established Will Vinton Productions (later Will Vinton Studios) in Portland to capitalize on his constantly-improving animation technology. Quickly expanding his studio by hiring new animators, Vinton produced dozens of commercials for regional and then national companies.
Going solo
Still with only a handful of animators, he produced a highly-polished trilogy of acclaimed 27-minute fairy tales in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Martin the Cobbler (1977), Rip Van Winkle (1978, nominated for an Academy Award), and The Little Prince (1979). The trio of films later were collectively theatrically released under the title Trilogy , then to video as The Little Prince and Friends. 1978 also saw the production of a 17-minute documentary featuring the behind-the-scenes technical processes used by Vinton and his animators. Titled Claymation , the term caught on with viewers, and was soon trademarked by Vinton, later to become synonymous with clay animation in general.
The 35mm years
Graduating to 35mm film, other short films were produced during this time: Legacy (1979), Dinosaur (1980), The Creation (directed by Joan Gratz , 1981, Oscar nominated), The Great Cognito (directed by Barry Bruce , 1982, Oscar nominated), and early music videos: a longform video called A Christmas Gift for Paul Stookey of Peter, Paul and Mary , and Vanz Kant Danz (1987) for Creedence Clearwater Revival 's John Fogerty . VHS Video compilations of these films were released in the 1980s as Festival of Claymation and Son of Combo II .
Vinton, himself no longer actively animating by now, also produced special effects scenes for TV shows and movies, including a sequence for Bette Midler's Divine Madness! movie (1980), an Emmy-winning sequence for the Moonlighting TV series (1987), the opening and closing title sequences for the feature comedy film Brain Donors (1992), and his own feature-length movie, The Adventures of Mark Twain (1985). His studio's animation effects for Disney 's Return to Oz (1985) were also nominated for a special effects Oscar.
Springing from his work on Return to Oz , Vinton was hired by the Disney studio to produce animation effects for their Michael Jackson multi-media Disneyland-Disney World extravaganza, Captain EO in 1986 ( September 12 , 1986 ) and the Speed Demon sequence for Michael Jackson musical anthology feature-length film, Moonwalker (1987).
Prominent among his hundreds of now international commercial creations were the California Raisins , the Domino's Pizza Noid , and the M M's Red, Yellow, and Green characters. [ citation needed ]
The California Raisins' first big hit was the song I Heard It Through the Grapevine in the first of their series of TV spots for the California Raisin Advisory Board . They became such a media phenomenon that they went on to star in their own pair of primetime specials for CBS television, Meet the Raisins (1988) and The Raisins Sold Out (1990). A couple music albums of songs from the specials, produced by Nu Shooz pop-rock band leader John Smith were released also.
CBS also commissioned three more prime-time specials, A Claymation Christmas Celebration (1988, an Emmy winner), The Claymation Comedy of Horrors a 1991 Halloween special, and A Claymation Easter (1992) All were later released to video and DVD.
During the 1990s, the Vinton Studios produced the animated series The PJs for the FOX TV network. The series was conceived and executive-produced by Eddie Murphy . Another animated series was produced for the UPN TV network by the Vinton studio, Gary and Mike , now a cult favorite. Both series used a refinement in Vinton's style of dimensional animation. Most of the clay figures were replaced by models of moulded foam rubber, eliminating many of the limitations, and maintenance issues, that are inherent with clay, which had been developed by Vinton and his technical teams as far as it could go. Vinton soon coined a new term for this process, Foamation .
The 1990s also flourished as a variety of Vinton's 400 + animators and technicians flowered with new creations and films of their own using the Vinton facilities called the Walkabout Program . Craig Bartlett created his Arnold Escapes From Church short film (1986, winner of an Oscar in 1987) which later spawned Hey Arnold! , a cel-animated series for Nickelodeon and generated two more clay-animated short films, The Arnold Waltz (1990) and Arnold Rides a Chair (1991).
Computer animation
The late 1990s also saw Vinton adding computer animation to his output, used most visibly for his many M M's character commercials. A short CGI film, Fluffy , directed by Doug Aberle , was created during this time. Other CGI films — some combined with clay and stop-motion animation — soon followed. Vinton also briefly dabbled in a consumer user form of computer animation software called Playmation , co-developed by animation software writers based at a computer animation company, Hash, Inc. , located across the Columbia River in Portland's sister city, Vancouver, Washington . Vinton and associates also dabbled in animation for the internet with a series called Ozzie the Elf .
Vinton Studio
By the end of the 1990s, the Vinton studio, seeking funds for more feature length films, had become big enough to bring in outside investors, which included shoe company Nike, Inc. owner Phil Knight and his son, who had worked at the studio as an animator.
In 2002, Vinton lost control of the studio he founded after Knight became the majority shareholder and Vinton failed to garner funds for further feature production in Los Angeles , eventually being dismissed from the studio. Vinton later sought damages for this and sued for ownership of his name. In 2005 Will Vinton Studios was renamed LAIKA and LAIKA/House . Premier animator-director Henry Selick joined the LAIKA studio in 2005.
Vinton has since founded a new production facility (with a web site), Will Vinton's Freewill Entertainment , also based in Portland. Vinton is also associated with the Portland branch of The Art Institute in Northwest Portland and maintains an office there as an artist in residence. The Creative Artist Agency in Beverly Hills, California represents Vinton for production projects (CAA). Projects include a graphic novel called Jack Hightower produced in tandem with Dark Horse comics located in Milwaukie, Oregon a suburb of Portland. Plans exist for a variety of film, TV, and multi-media projects and one short film, The Morning After , the first produced under Vinton's new banner, which combines CGI and live action , was completed in 2005.
Body of work
作品目錄
Feature films
The Wild , 89 min. (executive producer)
Festival of Claymation , 80 min. (director, producer) compilation of short films
The Adventures of Mark Twain , 86 min. (director, producer), aka Comet Quest (UK: video title)
Shadow Play , 95 min. (producer) live action thriller
Return to Oz , (claymation director, producer) Academy Award Nominee
Gone for a Better Deal , 86 min. (director, producer) live action documentary
TV series
Gary and Mike , TV Series 23:00 x 13 (executive producer) Prime-time Emmy Award Nominee
The PJs , TV Series 23:00 x 52 (executive producer) Prime-time Emmy Award Winner
The California Raisin Show , TV Series 23:00 x 13 (creative director, executive producer)
Klay's TV , TV Series Pilot (director, executive producer)
Slacker Cats , TV Series Pilot (executive producer)
Boyer Brother , TV Series Pilot (executive producer)
Cecille segment for Sesame Street , 4 min. x 8 (producer)
Adventures in Wonderland , (animated segments), 4 min. x 30 (executive producer)
TV specials
Will Vinton's A Claymation Christmas Celebration , 24 min. (director, producer) Prime-time Emmy Winner
Claymation Easter Special , 24:00 (director) (executive producer, producer) Prime-time Emmy Winner
Claymation Comedy of Horrors , 24:00 (executive producer, producer) Prime-time Emmy Winner
Raisins Sold Out: California Raisins II , 24:00 (director, producer) Prime-time Emmy Nominee
Meet the Raisins! , 24:00 (director, producer, executive producer) Prime-time Emmy Winner
Short films
The Little Prince , 25 min. (director, producer)
Martin the Cobbler , 26 min. (director, producer)
Rip Van Winkle , 26 min. (director, producer) Academy Award Nominee
The Diary of Adam and Eve , 24 min. (director, producer)
Closed Mondays , 9 min. (co-creator) Academy Award Winner
Mr. Resistor , 8 min. (executive producer)
Bride of Resistor , 6 min. (executive producer)
Dinosaurs! - A Fun-Filled Trip Back in Time! , 17 min. (director, producer)
Legacy , 7 min. (director, producer)
A Christmas Gift , 7 min. (director, producer)
The Great Cognito , 5 min. (director, producer) Academy Award Nominee
The Creation , 9 min. (director, producer)
Michael Jackson Speed Demon music video, 12 min. (director, producer)
The Morning After , 7:30 (director, producer)
Mountain Music , 9 min. (director, producer)
Wobbly Wino , 2 min. (director, producer)
Culture Shock , 17 min. (director, producer)
Go Down Death , 10 min. (director, producer)
Claymation , documentary, 18 min. (director, producer)
Vanz Kant Danz (John Fogerty music video), 6 min. (director, producer)
The Lost 'M' Adventure (CGI featuring the M M's characters), 12 min. (executive producer)
Xerox and Mylar , 5 min. (executive producer)
The Stars Came Dreaming , 12 min. (executive producer)
Day of the Dead , 8 min. (executive producer)