Thus Marq Evans’ documentary Claydream couldn’t be more necessary to memorialize Vinton and place his career in context while also trying to set the record straight as to how it all fell apart. Vinton’s pedigree also included an Oscar for his first short ( Closed Mondays with Bob Gardiner), a feature film ( The Adventures of Mark Twain), and multiple music videos, but those commercial creations were everything to me.
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Theirs was my first cassette tape and I would scour the TV listings every holiday season to know what night their Christmas special would play. While that shouldn’t necessarily be surprising (companies are bought and sold every day), reading around the time ParaNorman released that Knight pushed founder Will Vinton out to gift it to his son-a silver-spooned former rapper known as “Chilly Tee”-hit hard because of how indelible a mark Vinton left on my childhood. I personally had no clue of the connection until almost seven years later.
There’s been a very conscious effort to separate the two despite that lineage, because of how messy the origins ultimately prove. It’s also not the whole truth-Laika is Will Vinton Studios, or at least what Will Vinton Studios became after the elder Knight initiated a hostile takeover. He began his career at Will Vinton Studios after Phil became a minority shareholder. I started at another studio.” It’s not a lie. He’s asked about getting the animation bug at Laika, of which he’s co-owner with his father Phil Knight while also serving as President and CEO his answer is, “No. There’s intent in a brief snippet from an archival interview with Travis Knight.
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