Google Doodle Hari Ini Hari Ulang Tahun Art Clokey

Kocim - Hari ini tanggal 12 Oktober 2011, Google memperingati hari ulang tahun Art Clokey, seorang seniman asal Amerika Serikat yang menjadi pelopor animasi dengan tanah liat (stop motion clay animation). Warisan besar beliau antara lain berbagai film animasi berbahan tanah liat. Yang unik dari doodle kali ini, anda bisa melihat animasi lempung dengan mengklik 4 bola berwarna disamping kotak berhuruf G. Animasi ini dibangun dengan teknologi HTML5 dan CSS3.

Arthur “Art” Clokey (October 12, 1921 – January 8, 2010) 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. The characters enjoyed a renewal of interest in the 1980s when American actor and comedian Eddie Murphy parodied Gumby in a skit on Saturday Night Live. In the 1990s Gumby: The Movie was released, sparking even more interest.

Clokey’s second most famous production is the duo of Davey and Goliath, funded by the Lutheran Church in America.

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