Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You’ve almost certainly seen work that wouldn’t exist without the efforts of animation pioneer Will Vinton. But it’s just as ...

According to a Facebook post written by his family, beloved Portland animator Will Vinton has passed away at the age of 70 following a 12 year battle with Multiple Myeloma (a cancer of plasma cells).

Have you ever heard of Will Vinton? How many people still know who he is nowadays? Vinton was the co-founder of a stop-motion animation studio based in Portland, Oregon. He created this studio in ...

This article originally appeared in The Oregonian on May 25, 2003. By the fall of 2002, Will Vinton felt as though he had a gun to his head. Oregon’s richest man, Nike founder Phil Knight, had agreed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Book of Genesis contains two competing creation stories: There’s the one where an all-powerful deity conjures everything in ...

Laika film studios announced today that it would spin off its advertising division, Laika/house, and concentrate entirely on its feature film business. The advertising division will continue to ...

"We knew we were pioneering something." Oscilloscope Labs has debtued the trailer for a documentary film titled Claydream, a remarkably fascinating and tragic story of a claymation / stop-motion ...

It’s a summer night in 1973. Two young animators are in a basement in Northwest Portland, experimenting with stop-motion clay animation. It’s an experiment that will soon revolutionize the animation ...

It was the Monday before opening night, and Lakewood Center for the Arts was buzzing with preparation. Backstage, actors donned medieval attire, secured their microphones, or painted their faces to ...

One of the first (of many) mistakes I made as a young WW staffer in the early ‘90s was calling Will Vinton the winner of Portland’s first Academy Award. It was a throwaway line in an Oscars wrap-up ...

You’ve almost certainly seen work that wouldn’t exist without the efforts of animation pioneer Will Vinton. But it’s just as likely that this is the first time you’ve ever heard his name. Thankfully, ...

This eye-tickling doc reveals the inside story of Will Vinton Studios, which hatched the California Raisins and other pop-culture icons. The Book of Genesis contains two competing creation stories: ...