Bob Gardiner (animator)


James Robbins "Bob" Gardiner was a multi-talented artist, painter, cartoonist, animator, holographer, musician, storyteller and comedy writer, who invented the stop-motion 3-D clay animation technique that Will Vinton would later market as Claymation although Bob preferred the term Sculptimation for his frame-by-frame method of sculpting plasticine clay characters and sets. Closed Mondays was preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

Filmography

Accolades

Gardiner and Vinton won the Oscar for Best Animated Short in 1975 for Closed Mondays.