TechnesstivityGoogle Doodle Celebrates Arthur Cloakey
Today’s Google Doodle celebrates Art Cloakey, a pioneer of clay animation. The doodle starts with ‘G’ imprinted on a box and the other letters are represented by coloured clay in the usual Google colours. Clicking each character in the logo animates them.
Born October 12, 1921, Arthur “Art” Clokey was a pioneer in the popularization of stop motion clay animation, beginning in 1955 with a film experiment called Gumbasia, influenced by his professor, Slavko Vorkapich, at the University of Southern California.
From the Gumbasia project, Art Clokey and his wife Ruth invented Gumby. Since then Gumby and his horse Pokey have been a familiar presence on television, appearing in several series beginning with the Howdy Doody Show and later The Adventures of Gumby. Clokey’s second most famous production is the duo of Davey and Goliath (oooh I remember this), funded by the Lutheran Church in America.
Art Clokey died in his sleep on January 8, 2010, at age 88, at his home in Los Osos, California after suffering from a recurrent bladder infection.
Additional Info: Wikipedia
