Bob Gardiner (animator), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetBob Gardiner (animator)
American animator
Date of Birth: 19-Mar-1951
Place of Birth: Torrance, California, United States
Date of Death: 21-Apr-2005
Profession: animator
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Bob Gardiner (animator)
- James Robbins "Bob" Gardiner (March 19, 1951 – April 21, 2005) was a multi-talented artist, painter, cartoonist, animator, holographer, musician, storyteller and comedy writer, who invented the stop-motion 3-D clay animation technique that Will Vinton would later market as Claymation although Bob preferred the term Sculptimation for his frame-by-frame method of sculpting plasticine clay characters and sets.
- Gardiner and Vinton won the Oscar for Best Animated Short in 1975 for Closed Mondays (1974).
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