Gumbasia

Gumbasia is a 3-minute animated short film released on September 2, 1953, the first clay animation produced by Art Clokey.Gumbasia (1953), Art Clokey’s first claymation short film · The Kid Should See This He used the same technique to create the classic characters Gumby and Davey and Goliath.

Production Clokey created Gumbasia while a student at the University of Southern California under the direction of Slavko Vorkapić. In his father's garage, he worked the clay on a ping-pong table. The film is a surreal short of pulsating shapes and lumps of clay set to jazz music in a homage of Walt Disney's Fantasia.

Gumbasia was created in a style Vorkapić taught, called Kinesthetic Film Principles and described as "massaging of the eye cells". Based on camera movements and stop-motion editing, this provides much of the look and feel of Gumby films.

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