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1. Will Vinton Set to Direct CGI Film “The Quest”


It was announced last week that animation director Will Vinton, creator of the term Claymation and recipient of an Academy Award for his 1974 short film Closed Mondays, has a new film in the works called The Quest, an absurdist outer space adventure written by himself, Andrew Weise and Peter Crabbe. Vinton, who was forced out of Will Vinton Studios in 2002, the company that eventually became LAIKA, has previously directed one animated feature—The Adventures of Mark Twain (1985).

Names attached to The Quest, which will be computer animated, are production designer Bruce Zick (The Lion King, Prince of Egypt, WALL-E) and Monty Python alum John Cleese, who will provide the lead voice. The film will be produced by Will Vinton’s Vinton Entertainment and Gnosis Moving Pictures, a new production company founded by Darius A. Kamali, human rights advocate and associate producer on the 2008 MGM/Weinstein Company animated film Igor.


According to their website, Gnosis “aim[s] to explore the human condition, propagate communal understanding and reflect the creative potential of individual consciousness.” In addition to regular live action and 3D film projects, Kamali has aligned Gnosis with West coast game developers IPFranchise for the creation and distribution of apps, social media games and digital intellectual properties.

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2. ART CLOKEY ‘GUMBY’ DOODLE: Google celebrates birthday of late clay-animation pioneer

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3. Painting With Plasticine and a Little Green Man

What would childhood be without plasticine?  The substance was 
invented in the 1890s by art teacher William Harbutt.


I recently came across this 1958 newsreel clip of his daughter, Miss Olive Harbutt (80), who was a pioneer in the field of painting with plasticine.

PAINTING WITH PLASTICINE

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Plasticine always makes me think of Barbara Reid (and how happy it would make my mother if I ever wrote a book which she illustrated). In this video, Reid demonstrates how to create artwork with plastiscine.



And finally, here's a video in which my son is having fun with plasticine.

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4. Claymation Puppet Workshop


I took an awesome 1 day claymation puppet workshop with Brad Pattullo at my local library. In 5 hours, we were able to build a clay puppet and play around with istopMotion.

My husband came along and he made the dinosaur while I made the duck. There wasn't much time left but we managed to play around and made this.

It definitely wet my appetite for more. Now all I can think of is to build more puppets.

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5. Cartoon Thoughts

I've been thinking about making cartoons and writing down some thoughts. Harry and Silvio really inspires a certain thoughtfulness in me. I'll write more as I can sort out my thoughts but here are a few lines of notes from my sketchbook.


"Use flat, graphic elements and elaborate them to a representation of three dimensional space like portraits of puppetry or claymation."

No one asked but that's a peek into the way I think about these things. I'll probably publish more as things gel.

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6. Thanks to Art, Words, Life:

What is Art?



A Creature_Comforts film from Aardman Studios. Here's another where politicians debate the war in Iraq.

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7. How The G8 Got It Wrong: Or Why Aid Isn’t The Answer

Rebecca OUP-US

Today we are thrilled to have an original piece from Paul Collier the author of The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It. Below, Collier a Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for the Study of African Economies at Oxford University, argues that the G8 did not go far enough in its efforts to assist Africa.

Since the 1960s around a billion citizens of the world have been diverging from the rest of us at an accelerating rate, a trend which will generate unmanageable social pressures. Most of these countries are in Africa, and so it is appropriate that the region should again have been on the G8 agenda during the recent summit in Germany. (more…)

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