The remarkable and well-loved animator, who died Feb. 1 at 63, worked around the world and won an Oscar for “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” but was a Portlander through and through.
The Portland Claymation studio founder and Oscar winner had big dreams – and lost them in a legal battle with the Knights.
The late Claymation master’s musical-theater adaptation of “The Frog Prince” debuts at Lakewood, Twilight opens the Portland premiere of an E.M. Lewis play, “Hadestown” hits Puddletown.
By Sarah Kremen-Hicks Theaters have their curtains. Paintings have their frames. Books have their covers. The act of presentation, of framing, of giving things edges, shifts the subject to the work itself and hides the artist away, if only a little bit.
The innovative Portland filmmaker Will Vinton, best known for his iconic work with stop-motion animation, died on Thursday, October 5, at the age of 70, following a 12-year battle with multiple myeloma. Vinton was the first Oregonian to win an Oscar, and
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