Bob Gardiner (animator)
{{Short description|American artist, filmmaker, and multimedia creator (1951-2005)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Bob Gardiner
| image = James_Robbins_Bob_Gardiner.png
| caption = Gardiner, c. 1978
| birth_name = James Robbins Gardiner
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1951|03|19}}
| birth_place = Torrance, California, US
| death_date = {{death date and age|2005|04|21|1951|03|15}}
| death_place = Grass Valley, California, US
}}
James Robbins "Bob" Gardiner (March 19, 1951 – April 21, 2005) was an American artist, painter, cartoonist, animator, holographer, musician, storyteller, and comedy writer.[http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sfgate/obituary.aspx?pid=3468238 James Gardiner Obituary -CA|San Francisco Chronicle][http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/James-Robbins-Bob-Gardiner-Oscar-winner-2677162.php James 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.{{cite news|last=Nordheimer|first=Jon|title='Godfather, Part II' Wins 7 Oscars|work=The New York Times|date=April 9, 1975|page=28}} The film was preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.{{cite web|title=Preserved Projects|url=http://www.oscars.org/academy-film-archive/preserved-projects?title=closed+mondays&filmmaker=&category=All&collection=All|website=Academy Film Archive}}
Gardiner committed suicide on April 21, 2005, while living at the Everhart Hotel in downtown Grass Valley.{{cite web | url=https://www.theunion.com/news/local-news/an-artists-life-and-sudden-death/ | title=An artist's life and sudden death | date=28 April 2005 }}
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 [http://oddballfilms.blogspot.com/2015/11/tunes-and-toons-animated-adventures-in.html Oddball Films].
Graphic art
{{Gallery
|title=1979 advertising posters by Bob Gardiner
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|height=270
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|File:Poster Strutters' Hall January 1979.jpg|Advertising poster for Bob Gardiner's multi-media event, January 25, 1979, at Strutters' Hall, Portland, OR.
|File:Poster Rev Chumleigh Feb 1979.jpg|Advertising poster for Bob Gardiner's multi-media event, February 1, 1979, at Strutters' Hall, Portland, OR.
|File:Poster Alligator Palace.jpg|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.
|File:Poster Merchants' Public House.jpg|Advertising poster for Bob Gardiner's multi-media event, October 25,1979, at Merchants' Public House, Portland, OR.
|File:Poster Food Front.jpg|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.
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{{Gallery
|title=Lost mural by Bob Gardiner
|width=560
|height=270
|File:Lost_Portland_mural.jpg|Lost mural painted by Bob Gardiner on exterior wall of a Portland repertory theater no longer in business, circa early 1980s.
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Accolades
Gardiner and Vinton won the Oscar for Best Animated Short in 1975[https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1975 1975|Oscars.org] for Closed Mondays (1974).{{Cite web |url=https://www.opb.org/television/programs/artbeat/segment/portland-oregon-will-vinton-claymation-oscar-closed-mondays-california-raisins/ |title=The Portland DIY Clay Experiment That Changed Animation Forever.TV{{!}}OPB |access-date=2018-09-09 |archive-date=2019-01-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190105162645/https://www.opb.org/television/programs/artbeat/segment/portland-oregon-will-vinton-claymation-oscar-closed-mondays-california-raisins/ |url-status=dead }}[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8K3YCFjdvI Short Film Winners: 1975 Oscars]
References
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External links
- [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0306735/ Bob Gardiner] at Internet Movie Database
- [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780601/ Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary] (1977), Main Title Animation of The Rubinoos, at Internet Movie Database
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSz07mB5GuI Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary] (1977) on YouTube
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzZP47nT6Hc Mountain Music] (1975) on YouTube
- [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1718838/ Mountain Music] (1975) on IMDb
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Category:People from Torrance, California
Category:Directors of Best Animated Short Academy Award winners
Category:Producers who won the Best Animated Short Academy Award