James Robbins "Bob" Gardiner (March 19, 1951 – April 21, 2005) was an American artist, painter, cartoonist, animator, holographer, musician, storyteller, and comedy writer.James Gardiner Obituary -CA|San Francisco ChronicleJames Robbins 'Bob' Gardiner -- Oscar winner - SFGate 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. The film was preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.
Gardiner committed suicide on April 21, 2005, while living at the Everhart Hotel in downtown Grass Valley.
Filmography Closed Mondays (1974), writer, art direction, and sculptimation Mountain Music (1975), art direction and sculptimation (uncredited)Oddball Films (2015-11-19). Oddball Films: Tunes and Toons: Animated Adventures in Musicland - Thur. Nov. 19th - 8PM. Oddball Films, 19 November 2015. Retrieved from Oddball Films.
Graphic art
Accolades Gardiner and Vinton won the Oscar for Best Animated Short in 19751975|Oscars.org for Closed Mondays (1974).Short Film Winners: 1975 Oscars
References
External links Bob Gardiner at Internet Movie Database Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary (1977), Main Title Animation of The Rubinoos, at Internet Movie Database Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary (1977) on YouTube Mountain Music (1975) on YouTube Mountain Music (1975) on IMDb