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I watched a documentary about Will Vinton called Claydream a little bit ago and was surprised to see that they snuck in some WIP shots of an AiW Caterpillar story! These are from the Paperboy and the Scary Dog story that first appeared in Boo, Who? (episode 11). It's neat to see all the notes and things on the little paper clapboards. It looks like these were filmed in Feb of 1992, a little over a month before the show premiered on the D*sney Channel.
If you're a fan of Claymation or stop-motion animation, I would certainly recommend watching it. I wasn't able to find it to watch for free, so I rented it from Amazon. It's a love letter to Will Vinton and glances over his career and the events that created Laika studios in Oregon. It doesn't go in depth on a lot (in fact I feel like there might be chunks of information not included due to a lack of proper documentation) but it's still an interesting watch.
#aiw1992#adventures in wonderland#will vinton#claymation#claydream#boo who?#Webster colcord#behind the scenes
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BEST DOCUMENTARIES OF 2022
Documentary as a genre can encompass any medium: feature film, TV mini-series, or even podcasts. Here are my picks for the best Docs of the year:
Honorable Mentions:
Meet Me in the Bathroom Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern
Nothing Compares Kathryn Ferguson
Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99 Jamie Crawford
George Carlin’s American Dream Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio
The Beatles and India Ajoy Bose and Peter Compton
Freedom Uncut David Austin and George Michael
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, A Song Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine
Sidney Reginald Hudlin
10. Back to the Drive-In April Wright
9. Like a Rolling Stone: The Life & Times of Ben Fong-Torres Suzanne Joe Kai
8. Is That Black Enough for You?!? Elvis Mitchell
7. Claydream Marq Evans
6. If These Walls Could Sing Mary McCartney
5. Stutz Jonah Hill
Jonah Hill sits down with his therapist for a doc about the therapist and his approach, that is insightful and thought-provoking.
4. The Pez Outlaw Amy Bandlien Storkel and Bryan Storkel
This profile of a man who smuggled rare Pez dispensers into America in the 90s and made millions is so crazy and outlandish you need to see it to believe it!
3. Moonage Daydream Brett Morgen
Morgen’s doc about David Bowie was made with the Bowie Estate and had some rare footage of the rock legend, but it was really the sci-fi approach to the subject that made this electric!
2. Good Night Oppy Ryan White
The inspirational story of Opportunity, the Mars rover that was expected to live 90 days and explored Mars for 15 years, was the big screen Event Movie of documentaries in 2022!
1. Last Flight Home Ondi Timoner
Ondi turned the camera onto her father Eli Timoner towards the end of his life with a cinema vérité account of the family confronting death. This went beyond a movie or a documentary and was truly an emotional life experience that was captured on film by one of the people experiencing it. Nothing but respect and admiration for Ondi and her brave filmmaking at such a time.
#best of 2022#lists#nothing compares#trainwreck: woodstock '99#george carlin's american dream#the beatles and india#george michael freedom uncut#hallelujah: leonard cohen a journey a song#back to the drive-in#like a rolling stone#is that black enough for you#claydream#if these walls could sing#stutz#the pez outlaw#moonage daydream#good night oppy#last flight home#sidney#meet me in the bathroom#documentary#film geek
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CLAYDREAM:
Man with the moustache
Put claymation on the map
Flew too close to sun
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#claydream#random richards#poem#haiku#poetry#haiku poem#poets on tumblr#haiku poetry#haiku form#poetic#documentary#will vinton#claymation#stop motion#Peter lord#bill plympton#craig bartlett#phil knight#travis knight#jerry beck#marq Evans#Youtube
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HHHHHH I FINALLY AM BACK ON
I GOT TO MEET PEOPLE WHO WORKED ON ADVENTURES OF MARK TWAIN. I GOT TO CHAT ABOUT THEIR WORK ON THE MOVIE.
and most importantly
I MET THE VOICE ACTRESS WHO WAS 1/2 OF THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER'S VOICE. She was also Becky Thatcher but MORE IMPORTANTLY. MYSTERIOUS STRANGER. PLUS she confirmed that Will Vinton (the director & creator) voiced the other half! Even though he's listed under a different name in the credits!
She was so sweet and grandmotherly and I love her so much and she made me feel so much more welcome in a crowd way out of my comfort zone but i was so excited to be there.
I was there at the sort of after party for the documentary Claydream about Will Vinton, and being in Portland, a lot of people who had worked with him were there. 100% if you get the chance to see this film WATCH IT.
#44 the mysterious stranger#the mysterious stranger#number 44#mark twain#the adventures of mark twain#will vinton#claydream#claymation
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Claydream / 2021 — IMDb, TMDb
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10 Greatest Docs About True Creative Mavericks
10 Greatest Docs About True Creative Mavericks
Moulding your destiny, Claydream, to celebrate @AltitudeFilms #animation release here's 10 True creative mavericks @fetchpublicity
This month sees the release of the extraordinary documentary CLAYDREAM, a fascinating and hugely entertaining look at the life of pioneering animator Will Vinton. After winning an Oscar in the mid-1970s, Vinton looked set for a glittering career – he made the first full-length claymation feature film, collaborated with Hollywood megastars and set up a huge studio employing over 300 animators. But…
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I just watched a documentary called Claydream, which details the timeline of the Will Vinton Studios, using the suing of Phil Knight by Will Vinton as a thin framework.
The part that involves you has to do with the part where Knight took over the company, fired Will Vinton, and gave the company to his son - who turned it into Laika. What Phil Knight did was technically legal, just a real asshole thing to do.
Anyway.
I wonder how it would have affected Coraline, if this hadn't all happened. Phil Knight's son obviously has a talent, but what if Will Vinton had been involved.
So, if you didn't know, now you do. It's an interesting, and sad, story that could have gone so many other ways.
Also, if you haven't already, consider watching Will Vinton's The Adventures of Mark Twain. It's pretty amazing.
It is, as Aslan points out, not given to us to know what would have happened.
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Good insight to have. I thought the jailbreak thing wouldn’t work because the claydream profile was shown in the recordings and I didn’t know if that was possible to fake.
it's not possible to fake the snapchat account unless amanda just created an entirely new app to create those videos. all of the username changes under any snapchat jailbreak are local, so someone on the other end will still see whatever username you would normally have. therefore, since amanda was showing us the dms from her perspective, if it was a fake account then we would blatantly be able to see that. unless of course she just created a program to run what she wanted to show but i mean come on we're just looking for excuses if we say that
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INTERVIEW: “ClayDream” Director Marq Evans On New Will Vinton Documentary – Animation Scoop Consumer Culture http://www.animationscoop.com/interview-claydream-director-marq-evans-on-new-will-vinton-documentary/
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It read more to me like he was saying that those messages wouldn't have come from his account because his team (sounds like more than one person, but it could have been a situation where there was one person and the team has grown since) would have seen it.
I don't think it would make sense for it to imply that someone else on the team sent it, because unless they were literally deleting everything and were somehow guaranteed to be the first person to see any response the messages sent, anyone else on the team would have been able seen the exchanges.
I think he said it more for accountability and saying that the messages couldn't have come from those accounts because other people would have seen them.
ohhhh right okay yeah that makes more sense. i guess the implication that would be that the snapchat content they were showing was faked? which can be possible with any username that has an i or an L in it, because it could be CIAYDREAM instead of CLAYDREAM? but he has to see how that is not going to be enough considering he confirmed the insta dms to be true?
#ask#anon#also once we get past this#then there's the discussion regarding engaging in personal conversations with fans#i really really thought he was smarter than that#discourse
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Talking with Marq Evans
In 2017, I interviewed WA-based filmmaker Marq Evans about his documentary The Glamour and the Squalor about influential DJ and tastemaker Marco Collins. In our interview, I was super excited when he mentioned that his next film was going to be a documentary about Will Vinton, the father of claymation and known for such characters as the California Raisins, the Noid, and the PJs. When I was a kid in the 80s, I was a big fan of Vinton’s innovative clay animation, so this project remained on my radar. Sadly in 2018, Vinton passed away at age 70. Evans completed the documentary and after some festivals in 2021 (including Tribeca Film Festival), ClayDream was released by Oscilloscope Laboratories earlier this month to a very positive response. It is one of the most visually enchanting documentaries I’ve seen in a long time.
director Marq Evans
I recently caught up with Mr. Evans via email about ClayDream. This marks the second time I’ve had the pleasure of interviewing Mr. Evans.
Me: When I interviewed you in 2017, you mentioned at the time that you were working on a documentary about Will Vinton. I took an interest immediately because I used to love Vinton’s claymation when I was a kid in the 80s. How did this documentary come together?
Marq E: In 2015 I was finishing up my previous film, The Glamour & The Squalor, and looking for projects. I came across an article called ‘How the Father of Claymation Lost His Company to a Rapper Named Chilly Tee.’ The headline forced me to take a look, and when I saw pictures of Will Vinton and his characters I was immediately interested. I grew up watching the California Raisins and the Noid and watched the Claymation Christmas Special every year. And being from the Pacific Northwest I knew the name Will Vinton and knew of the guy with the great mustache, but I didn’t know his story. When I read this article, it felt like a movie and pretty quickly I got obsessed about making it. I found an email address for Will online and reached out. He got back to me pretty quickly and told me that we could meet, but that he wasn’t interested in doing a film. We hit it off pretty quickly but it took about six months before he finally agreed to the film. By the time you and I spoke in 2017, I would have interviewed him a few times and about 30 other people.
Me: Did you have a favorite claymation from Vinton? I loved California Raisins and the Noid, but my favorite was Festival of Claymation, where the dinosaur film critics Herb and Rex showed various Vinton shorts.
Marq E: I loved all those as well, but my favorite has to be Great Cognito. It just hits on all levels. The metamorphosis of the claymation is great, the writing is sharp, the picture and sound editing is so tight, and the performance is spot on. I just love that show. We’re getting the bonus materials gathered now for the blu-ray release, and I’m happy to say we’re going to be able to include most of the early Vinton shorts with 2K and 4K scans that were preserved by the Academy.
Will Vinton surrounded by his claymation creations
Me: In October 2018, Vinton passed away at age 70. Where was the documentary at that point (mid-production? post-production?)? How closely did you work with Mr. Vinton? Did he see some early cuts of the film before he passed away?
Marq E: We were pretty much done with production when Will passed. In fact, the footage of him getting treatment at the end of the film was the last time I saw him. I knew he was sick, but as you see in the film he never let on to his actual condition, so I didn’t think that would be the last time I saw him. After that, I kind of got away from the project for a few months, just being sad and not knowing exactly which way was the right way to proceed. But then we picked ourselves back up, got a couple final interviews that were important and started to work towards completing the edit. I’m happy that Will got to see a rough cut of about 15 minutes of the film. I know it changed a lot from what he saw, but it was at least in good enough shape for him to like it and feel like his story was in good hands.
Me: This doc is clearly a respectful and affectionate tribute to Vinton and his legacy of work. Was it hard for you to complete the film following the passing of your subject?
Marq E: We took a couple months away from the film just to mourn a bit and be able to come back to it with clear eyes. And I didn’t know how to best tell the end of the story. At first I wrestled with if he should pass away in the film or not. But after he died, it was even more important and urgent to get the film finished and released. One thing I was kind of surprised about when we did release it was that most people have never heard of the name Will Vinton. They know the characters and the work of his studio, but not the man. I’m glad that is changing with this film.
movie poster for Claydream
Me: From a cinematic standpoint, you are documenting a visual medium. So much of Vinton’s work was eye-popping and exploding with creativity. But in addition to being a doc about an animator, it is actually a doc about a business and showing what worked and didn’t work and you framed it through the lawsuit. Can you tell me about the legal challenges you faced in what you were able to show in this doc?
Marq E: We had great lawyers at Donaldson Callif that we worked with every step of the way to make sure we were protected. The deposition footage for the suit between Will and Nike founder Phil Knight is an interesting story. I always knew that part of the story would be in the film, but I didn’t know how we would tell it. It wasn’t until about two years into the project when Will casually asked, “Did I give you the deposition?” I thought he meant a transcript, and then he told me that he had hired people to shoot the whole thing. So he gave me a big box of beta tapes and I had them digitized. I knew when I got the footage back that not only did we have the perfect way to tell that part of the story, but it was also something that was really going to elevate the film.
claymation version of Marq Evans
Me: Your previous doc The Glamour and the Squalor was about Seattle radio D.J. Marco Collins. This one is about a Portland-based animation studio. What do you think it is about the Pacific Northwest that attracts so many artists and creative people?
Marq E: The Pacific Northwest is a great place to be an artist, and I know a lot of people like to point to the weather and say since it’s raining all the time all artists do is stay inside and create. I’m not sure if I really buy into that, but Seattle and Portland have great cultures for artists and there’s lots of like minded people around to collaborate with. And being from the area myself I’m attracted to stories from this part of the world that may be overlooked.
Me: What’s next for you?
Marq E: I have about 10 projects in various phases of development right now, but a few I’m most excited about and that are looking good are a baseball documentary, a true crime story based in Kodiak, Alaska in the 80s, and a Dracula film that is so hard to explain you’ll just have to see it when it comes out!
For info on Claydream: https://www.claydream.film/
#marq evans#claydream#will vinton#interview#california raisins#noid#festival of claymation#a claymation christmas celebration#documentary#the glamour and the squalor#film geek
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Documentary Review: "Claydream" remembers a clay animation pioneer's rise and fall
Documentary Review: “Claydream” remembers a clay animation pioneer’s rise and fall
For a pretty long stretch from the mid-80s into the very early 2000s, animator Will Vinton‘s work was everywhere. The clay-animated California Raisins TV commercials made him a household name. Domino’s Pizzas were menaced by his character, The Noid. He invented the term “Claymation,” and copyrighted it, even though it became short-hand for stop-motion Plasticine-animation. At his peak, his…
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I just posted a review of Claydream! It was super hard for me to express all of my feelings because the documentary itself was a real ROLLERCOASTER RIDE OF EMOTIONS! What I can say is that I really dislike NIKE [and by extension LAIKA], and that Will Vinton deserved so much better.
Woo!! Sounds like an exciting documentary I will ahve to check it out :-)
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Claydream
[3 stars]
Will Vinton was a legend in animation and Marq Evans does an amazing job capturing the man and his journey in the industry. Through interviews, archival footage (including deposition recordings that start the film) you get as balanced a telling of the tale as I’ve seen or heard. Every major player in this story is flawed in personality and action.
And yet, the effect on the industry and…
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