Will Vinton
Will Vinton ( born 1947 in McMinnville, Oregon) is an American film producer, director and animator.
Life
Vinton studied film and architecture at the University of California at Berkeley. In the early 1970s he met the Knetgummianimator Bob Gardiner, which she shared a first animated short film called Wobbly Wino turned, which was completed in 1973. Vintons task here was to animate Gardiners Knetgummiarbeiten with his camera. Her second joint short film was written between 1973 and 1974. The eight- minute long animated film called Closed Mondays in 1975 won the Oscar. After the completion of her next film, Mountain Music, in 1976, Gardiner and Vinton parted.
Vinton then founded their own animation studio. The received there from the late 1970s and animated movies more Oscar nominations, but he could not win another Oscar award. Besides their own cartoons Vinton was also involved in other productions, he has directed at the Speed Demon segment in Michael Jackson's Moonwalker. He also shot the music video for John Fogerty Vanz Kant Danz and produced the title sequences for feature films Divine Madness and three lame ducks. For the animation effects for the Disney film Oz - A fantastic world he got his date last Oscar nomination in 1986. Another mainstay of his studio was producing animated television commercials. His promotion of the raisins on behalf of the California Raisin Advisory Board was so successful that later, several television specials were produced with the figures. 1988 and 1992 he received for each one Emmy Award.
In the late 1990s rose Philip Knight, founder of Nike, as an investor in the animation studio one. He became majority owner in 2002 and urged Vinton from the company. This then formed a new company, Will Vinton 's Freewill Entertainment, but with which he was unable to match its previous successes.