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Here’s a heart-warming clip from The Gumby Movie, the Take Me Away music video. Take a spin around to discover more about Art Clokey, Gumby and friends. Clokeys career began in 1955 with a film experiment called Gumbasia, which was influenced by his professor, Slavko Vorkapich, at the University of Southern California. Gumby creator Art Clokey was a true visionary and stop motion pioneer whose explorations in film had a profound impact on filmmakers worldwide for generations. He and his wife, Joan Rock Clokey, wrote the pictorial biography Gumby Imagined: The Story of Art Clokey and His Creations, which was published in November. Arthur 'Art' Clokey (Octo January 8, 2010) was an American pioneer in the popularization of stop motion clay animation, best known as the co-creator of the character Gumby. In addition to remastering the Gumby library and promoting the character in multiple markets, Clokey also was the lead writer and producer on the 2004 special Davey and Goliath's Snowboard Christmas, and was a story consultant on the 2006 documentary Gumby Dharma. Since his father died in 2010 at the age of 88, Clokey and his wife have been running Premavision/Clokey Productions, the company under which Art Clokey created and produced Gumby content, as well as content for the Davey and Goliath characters. He wrote, directed and produced hundreds of educational films and distributed them through his San Luis Video Publishing company.
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He was 56.Īn environmentalist known throughout his life as “Gumby’s Little Brother,” Clokey graduated Cal Poly San Luis Obispo with a degree in horticulture. Joe Clokey, caretaker of the Gumby franchise created by his late father Art Clokey, died March 2 in Santa Barbara, Calif., after a cardiac arrest, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Joe Clokey, who managed the Gumby and Davey and Goliath animated characters created by his father Art Clokey, died in March at the age of 56.