Gumbasia [SEP] director
Gumbasia
Gumbasia, a 3-minute, 10-second short film released on September 2, 1955, was the first clay animation produced by Art Clokey, who went on to create the classic series, "Gumby" and "Davey and Goliath", using the same technique.
Clokey created "Gumbasia" while studying at the University of Southern California under the direction of Slavko Vorkapić. He used a ping-pong table in his father's garage as the surface upon which to work the clay. The film was a surreal short
2010, at age 88, at his home in Los Osos, California, after suffering from a recurrent bladder infection.
On October 13, 2011, a day after on what would have been Clokey's 90th birthday, Google paid homage to his life and works with an interactive logo doodle in the style of his clay animations, including Gumby, produced by Premavision Studios.
Filmography.
- "Gumbasia" (1955) (animator, director, producer and writer)
- "The Gumby Show" (