Will Vinton

Awardwinning codirector 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