Will Vinton, who used his and a partner’s revolutionary stop-motion animation process, Claymation, to win an Academy Award with an early cartoon and to create memorable commercial characters like the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Will Vinton, an Oscar-winning animator who invented Claymation, a style of stop-motion animation, and brought the California Raisins to TV, has died in Oregon. He was 70. Citing ...

The California Raisin Show is an animated television series based on the claymation advertising characters The California Raisins. The show is based on an Emmy Award-winning claymation special, Meet ...

In the realm of cherished holiday traditions, the Claymation Christmas Special starring the iconic California Raisins stands out as a nostalgic and often overlooked gem. Hosted by whimsical claymation ...

Ever since they stopped showing Emmy-winner Will Vinton’s A Claymation Christmas Celebration on TV each holiday season, I’ve felt a little lost without a televised holiday special to call my own.

Mark Gustafson, a stop-motion animator who won an Oscar for his work on Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, has died at the age of 64. Gustafson's career in stop-motion animation spanned decades, starting ...

Audiences were spellbound, competitors were jealous, and consumers began to buy more raisins than ever. It’s the unlikely phenomenon of the ‘California Raisins’ who blazed across 1980s TV screens, to ...

Herb and Rex, the Jurassic odd couple, guide you along a Christmas choral celebration in this Emmy Award-winning special, guest-starring the California Raisins! Segments feature the Three Wise Men, ...