I have very sad news for you stop-motion lovers, our legend Will Vinton just died recently. I don't know the cause nor when, but he is no longer with us. May we have his beautiful works of art to remember him by, and may his legacy rest in our memories forever.
It's so crazy to see how other people appreciate Vinton's work. My grandma actually worked for him. She has tapes with almost all of the shorts, commercials, etc. She said she was 10 feet from MJ but didn't bother to approach him because she wasn't obcessed with him.
You forgot to mention that the California Raisins also appeared in the 2012 animated movie "Food Figh- *Everybody points their guns at me* ...never mind.
Moonwalker's creation has always been a fascinating story - there was a lot of spirited collaboration from the artists involved, and lots of legendary names of filmmaking, SFX and animation worked on the various segments. The project was pretty ahead of its time, and wouldn't be out of place in today's media landscape.
OMG! Will Vinton Studios became Laika? How did I not know about this. I have "Mark Twain" and "Coraline" sitting next to each other on my shelf, and I'm only now finding out about this.
Yeah that's what pisses me off about the critics. They bashed that movie just because they compared it to the "original" while saying it's too dark. That is a stupid move because The Wizard of Oz is a book series first, then a movie. In fact , 15:38 best describes my feelings towards them.
I like 20th better, so "not everyone"... you explained what you were talking about in this reply (I didn't even understand the first reply as it was vague to me but I have never gotten into Michael Jackson that much or video games or claymations of him, although, some of his songs were really beautiful. I guess you are yelling? because of the opinion of another youtube patron that likes to express their self in comments. truthfully, and no offence, but saying "You're not letting me have my own opinions!!!!!!!!!!! Oh My God!!!!!!!!" reminds me of an exercise in "Anger Management" Psychologists, overall agree that saying "You are not letting me" or when you are mad at someone saying "You "made" me feel this way" is self defeating. They warn us that nobody "makes YOU" and a better way to carry on a conversation and express what you are feeling is to merely say "that made ME feel." The way the 20th century is seemingly going to the wayside through advertising POs me to the max too. But I have to exercise my "equanimity." Equanimity is a word I learned while googling some feelings of my own LOL. Turns out it is the most honored and difficult seven-fold accomplishment in Buddhism (most people think Buddhism is a religion but it really is more than that ~more a way of life and for very large crowded populations with problems, viola, youtube, facebook, and now all the internet has become ad oriented and they all sem to have "very large crowded populations with problems" You seem like a great person. Don't let the evolution of mankind's poor choices effect you in a negative way to make you filled with anger." ahhh I do notice a lot of folk in replies are angry. We all need to agree to disagree and enjoy our lives instead of wasting precious time bickering in comments/replies on youtube. The practice of being "equanimous" or having "equanimity" as we witness life, war, love, death all around us will help us all be able to "live and let live" not "live and let die" (never did like Wings lol ;) ~Peace out Kieran Stark
Ray Nelson was an animator with Will. He left to form Flying Rhinoceros in 1994. The latter was closed in 2016. He brought me to this video. I made this comment for him. I have some videos made by Ray. I hope he makes some more.
28:17-29:01 It's amazing how Travis Knight somehow went from a failed rapper/mop boy with no animation experience to an acclaimed film director decades later.
Nice usage of Pikachu-mation, Banana-mation and Animation-mation. You really captured the magic of the mediums that have been used in some of the greatest films of all time.
When I was a little kid, like three or four, there was a phase where I had Moonwalker playing on the VCR all the time. I LOVED that movie. It would be fun to go back and have another watch. Thanks for the feature, man. It was a good one.
Laika Studios is the company that was formed from Will Vinton Studios when Travis Knight the son of Nike founder Phil Knight took full control of Will Vinton Studios from Will Vinton and then he closed it and then he founded Laika Studios after Will Vinton Studios closed down.
Another thing to note about Vinton is how he tried to make a stage musical about The Frog Prince, based on a Claymation project that his old company came up with years ago. However, the funding page (which I believe was on Kickstarter) did not meet the goal required and seems to have been scrapped.
the adventures of mark twain is one of the best things i have ever seen in my life. down to the score. The audio mixing. Perfect voice acting. Truly an adventure
Well Travis Knight the son of Nike founder Phil Knight took over full control of the company which Will lost control of his studio to a rapper and son of a father who founded Nike.
Full Voice Cast: The Adventures of Mark Twain James Whitmore: Mark Twain - Chris Ritchie: Tom Sawyer - Michele Mariana: Becky Thatcher - Gary Krug: Huckleberry Finn - Dallas McKennon: Jim Smiley, Multiple Males - John Morrison: Adam - Carol Edelman: Eve - Tom Gassek: Homer the Frog, Multiple Males - Billy Scream: Baby Cain, Multiple Males - Nell Suza: Multiple Females - Andrew Edwards: A Miner - Compton Downes: Another Miner - Craig Bartlett (Future Creator of Hey Arnold): Another Miner - Herb Smith: The Moustache Stranger - Will Vinton: Daniel Webster the Frog - Wally Newman: Captain Stormfield - Wilbur Vincent: The Mysterious Stranger Full Actor List: Return to Oz Fairuza Balk: Dorothy - Nicol Williamson: The Nome King and Dr. Worley - Jean Marsh: Mombi and Nurse Wilson - Piper Laurie: Aunt Em - Matt Clark: Uncle Henry - Michael Sundin: Tik-Tok - Mak Wilson: Billina - Brian Henson: Jack Pumpkinhead - Steve Norrington: The Gump - Justin Case: The Scarecrow - John Alexander: The Lion - Deep Roy: The Tin Man - Emma Ridley: Princess Ozma - Pons Maar: The Leader of the Wheelers - Tansy the Baby Dog: Toto Full Actor List: Moonwalker Michael Jackson: The Movie's Apparent Star - Joe Pesci: Frankie LiDeo - Kellie Parker: Katie - Sean Lennon: Sean - Brandon Quinton Adams: Michael Jackson as a Child
I saw the adventures of mark twain,Black Cauldron and Return to Oz in theaters in the 80s... It scared me for life.... I was a kid... And didn't understand it completely? It was trippy AF. I love and miss the 80s. Nothing can ever compare to the imagination of the time!
Cool look back at this animation icon. I loved Will Vinton's animation growing up and one year for Christmas I even got a Will Vinton Claymation set. It came with some bars of clay and some tools. It was great. My brother and I had a lot of fun building small figures.
OK, I literally LOL'd at your dive bombing. "Dont ask! Michael Jackson's in charge!" People talk about the retrospective Moonwalker as a "vanity project". i don't agree with that assessment AT ALL. Michael was a known Disney/animation fan. I think he enjoyed the idea of exploring those mediums and his own life and work was a great palette for that. And I always thought of Smooth Criminal as Michael Jackson as his idea as a superhero, not really for vanity's sake, again. Or maybe it is, but that doesn't mean it wasn't visionary.
Richard Canipe Sorry about that. My message must have been lost in translation. By " loan" I meant "borrow". Those words are practically synonymous in my language.
Each Part of Animation Lookback: The Best of Stop Motion The First Stop Motion Films: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0gBCaXGTi8c.html Ray Harryhausen: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7lfRbqgpZh8.html (Part 1) & ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1mYZk8fU-88.html (Part 2) Aardman: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-32UrJq8m-0Q.html Tim Burton’s Animation: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QsvrBVwwFyw.html Henry Selick: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BC8TIyuYqVw.html The Independent Stop Motion Films: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HGdF-chMggI.html The Modern Stop Motion Films: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VOCgDyJTFZ0.html The History of King Kong: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--yvcIVTfNWw.html
My favorite of Will Vinton's animation projects is Dinosaurs! A Fun-Filled Trip Back in Time. I saw it on a video tape multiple times in my childhood, and it was second only to The Land Before Time and its sequels in my favorite dinosaur videos. I think I saw some of Will Vinton's work on Sesame Street as well, but this dinosaur project was definitely my favorite. I am also thankful to Will Vinton's studio for giving a start to Craig Bartlett to create Hey Arnold!, one of my sixteen favorite animated television series. Because there were two things I already liked about Will Vinton, I decided I might as well watch The Adventures of Mark Twain. I will accept that movie as a tribute to Mark Twain, but it can get boring at times, and since Dallas McKennon is the only voice actor I legitimately know, I find the voice cast questionable. The same goes for Closed Mondays. I don't recognize the man's voice, and the story can get boring.
To be honest, the "Don't Ask, Michael Jackson." is a strange thing to say. An oddly equivalent to saying if something isn't understood in science, we can say "God did it." (i guess MJ of the gaps here, lol) Over exaggerated comparison, but you. I mean, yeah, the movie was weird, but if you look at it carefully, it isn't a film in the traditional sense, even MJ didn't want to treat it as such, it was an innovation to him. This is really just a collection of ideas brought to life by camera as way for Michael to express his artistic vision and over the top imagination while enjoying his success and poking fun at his success and at the media coverage of his life. I did get a bit of a negative vibe to the review of the film, which is understandable, but I do believe the film is sometimes underrated. Besides that I do think your "documentary", as I like to look at these animation lookbacks since they are so well made, on Will's contribution to stop motion animation was done rightly.
Don't ask why, Michael is in charge I didn't know Will Vinton did some clay animation in Capitan EO and Michael Jackson's Moonwalker, that's interesting
Speaking of hey arnold i hope he does an animation lookback on nickelodeon I’d love to see his take on the history of the history of Nickelodeon animation, from the 90’s with rugrats and ren and stimpy to today with shows like the loud house
