American artist, filmmaker, and multimedia creator (1951-2005)
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 Gardiner, c. 1978 |
| Born | James Robbins Gardiner
(1951-03-19)March 19, 1951
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| Died | April 21, 2005(2005-04-21) (aged 54)
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James Robbins "Bob" Gardiner (March 19, 1951 – April 21, 2005) was an American artist, painter, cartoonist, animator, holographer, musician, storyteller, and comedy writer.[1][2] He invented the stop-motion 3-D clay animation technique which his collaborator 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.
He and Vinton shared the 1974 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for Closed Mondays.[3] The film was preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.[4]
Gardiner committed suicide on April 21, 2005, while living at the Everhart Hotel in downtown Grass Valley.[5]
Accolades
Gardiner and Vinton won the Oscar for Best Animated Short in 1975[7] for Closed Mondays (1974).[8][9]
Advertising poster for Bob Gardiner's multi-media event, January 25, 1979, at Strutters' Hall, Portland, OR.
Advertising poster for Bob Gardiner's multi-media event, February 1, 1979, at Strutters' Hall, Portland, OR.
Advertising poster for Bob Gardiner's multi-media event, July 27-29 & August 3-5, 1979, at The Alligator Palace Vaudeville Theatre, La Conner, WA.
Advertising poster for Bob Gardiner's multi-media event, October 25,1979, at Merchants' Public House, Portland, OR.
Advertising poster for Bob Gardiner's multi-media fundraiser event on behalf of The Food Front, November 28, 1979, at The Earth Tavern, Portland, OR.
