Will Vinton

Known for DirectingBorn 1947-11-17Died 2018-10-04McMinnville, Oregon, USA

Award-winning co-director of "Closed Mondays", the first Claymation (tm) film. Will Vinton was born on November 17, 1947 in McMinnville, Oregon, USA as William Gale Vinton. He was a producer and director, known for Claymation Easter (1992), Martin the Cobbler (1977) and Moonwalker (1988). He was married to Gillian Allred and Susan Shadburne. He was a Claymation artist who coined the term. His studio created numerous Claymation characters for ads, most notably the California Raisins, which gained fame in an ad set to the Motown hit "I Heard It Through the Grapevine". He died on October 4, 2018 in Portland, Oregon.Read more

Movies & web series

Claymation: Three Dimensional Clay Animation

Dinosaurs: A Fun Filled Trip Back in Time

LIGHT & MAGIC

Mr. Resistor

Bride of Resistor

Martin the Cobbler

Will Vinton's Claymation Easter

Claymation Christmas Celebration

Claydream

Día de los muertos

Gary & Mike

Moonwalker

The Online Adventures of Ozzie the Elf

Raisins Sold Out: The California Raisins II

The PJs

The Festival of Claymation

A Christmas Gift

The Creation

The Adventures of Mark Twain

Return to Oz

Animation Outlaws

The Little Prince

Meet the Raisins!

Will Vinton's Claymation Comedy of Horrors

Closed Mondays

Prisoners of Gravity

The Wild

Rip Van Winkle

The Great Cognito

Shadow Play

Mountain Music

The California Raisin Show

Adventures in Plymptoons!

Remembering Return to Oz

The Morning After

I Lost My M in Vegas

Klay's TV

Hammer Time

The World's Greatest Animation

God's Trombones

Dinosaurs!

Dinosaur

Legacy: A Very Short History of Natural Resources

Gone for a Better Deal