{"id":137316,"date":"2018-10-12T10:02:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T16:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/12\/rip-will-vinton.html"},"modified":"2018-10-12T10:02:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T16:02:04","slug":"rip-will-vinton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/12\/rip-will-vinton.html","title":{"rendered":"RIP, Will Vinton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The famous Claymation animator &#8212; most famous for the California Raisins commercials but with a lot of other work to his credit &#8212; has passed away. Thanks, sir, for all the stop-motion wonderment you brought to the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/10\/09\/obituaries\/will-vinton-dead.html'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/T9Q8fgkOBCsluifyfPXYV7JjmjZ3GCWqqP_mRBKPAXpUfQJMD1-ZbDwMGH_y21lih047BpIFhJZsMTdeXBcJ5ExGBXeTbp6vx2dVKe9g-Q5U_r6WItRJqjMpIv_q9q8XofN8Ek0VPnFoc7Q=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/10\/09\/obituaries\/will-vinton-dead.html'>Will Vinton, Revolutionary Animator With Claymation, Dies at 70<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nHe and a partner won an Oscar with a stop-motion technique using clay figures, the likes of which found a wide audience in the California Raisins commercials.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/b1NVgUMyMtK'>Original Post<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The famous Claymation animator &#8212; most famous for the California Raisins commercials but with a lot of other work to his credit &#8212; has passed away. Thanks, sir, for all the stop-motion wonderment you brought to the world. Will Vinton, Revolutionary Animator With Claymation, Dies at 70 He and a partner won an Oscar with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/12\/rip-will-vinton.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;RIP, Will Vinton&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1625,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/12\/02\/rudolph_redux.html","url_meta":{"origin":137316,"position":0},"title":"Rudolph Redux","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 2-Dec-01 8:38pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I grew up on the 1964 Rankin-Bass \"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer\" special, though it's been years since I've seen it. 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