Will Vinton Studios
Series
About Will Vinton Studios
Will Vinton Studios (originally Will Vinton Productions) has always been associated with stop-motion animation. In fact, the term "claymation" was first used to describe Vinton's process in a 17-minute behind-the-scenes documentary... the term was later trademarked by Vinton.
As the studio expanded, and started producing feature-length films, outside investors were sought. One investor was Phil Knight (of Nike fame). In 2002, Knight became the majority shareholder in the studio and ousted Vinton. Vinton retaliated for being dropped from his namesake studio and sued for ownership of his name. In 2005 Will Vinton Studios was renamed Laika Entertainment and Vinton opened his own Vinton Entertainment in Portland, Oregon.
Cartoons
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The Little Prince
The Little Prince lives on a tiny planet inhabited by three volcanoes and a single rose of great beauty. He leaves the tiny planet in search of friends. He eventually reaches earth, where a…
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A Christmas Gift
On Christmas Eve, a lonely young boy, shut out from the shiny world of presents and holiday parties, peers into a candlelit window, where a gray-haired lady sits sadly at a bare table. Taki…
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Dinosaur
Enter a vivid prehistoric world, entirely formed from brightly colored clay, for an introduction to dinosaurs, the "terrible lizards" who roamed the earth 200 million years ago. Your guide…
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The Great Cognito
Max Cognito is the consummate stand-up comedian, the man of a thousand faces. He uses a metamorphosing, magical transforming technique as he performs his one-man comedy routine, all while i…
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The Adventures Of Mark Twain
Old Mark Twain, sailing off for one last adventure in a riverboat/spaceship, tells stowaways Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn and Becky Thatcher the tales of the Calaveras County jumping frog, Adam &…
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Ananda
Dali meets Bollywood in a surreal fantasy of a man who, wandering his own bleak industrial mind, risks all to cherish the most joyous moment of his life.
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Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
In a 19th-century European village, Victor, a young man, is whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious Corpse Bride. His real bride, Victoria, waits bereft in the land of the li…
