Gumby is a green clay humanoid character created and modeled by Art Clokey, who also created Davey and Goliath.

On October 12, 2011, Google paid tribute to Art Clokey ’ s 90th birthday featuring clay balls transforming into characters from Gumby.

Arthur " Art " Clokey ( October 12, 1921 – January 8, 2010 ) was an American pioneer in the popularization of stop motion clay animation, beginning in 1955 with a film experiment called Gumbasia, influenced by his professor, Slavko Vorkapich, at the University of Southern California.

After the Gumbasia project, Art Clokey and his wife Ruth came up with the clay character Gumby.

Gumbasia, The very first stop motion clay animation movie by Art Clokey

Art Clokey also made a few highly experimental and visually inventive short clay animation films for adults, including his first student film Gumbasia ( 1955 ), the visually rich Mandala ( 1977 ) — described by Clokey as a metaphor for evolving human consciousness — and the equally bizarre The Clay Peacock ( 1963 ), an elaboration on the animated NBC logo of the time.

In 1956, the Howdy Doody show aired the first Gumby clay animated cartoon from creator Art Clokey.

Gumbasia, First stop motion clay animation movie by Art Clokey

Clokey is credited with the clay-animation title sequence for the 1965 beach movie Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine starring Vincent Price and Frankie Avalon.

In the mid-1990s, Nickelodeon signed a contract with Art Clokey to air every episode of Gumby for its anchor spots at 8 a. m. and 2 p. m.

Soon after, the ULCA contracted with Clokey Productions, Inc., headed by Gumby creators Art and Ruth Clokey, to create a new children ’ s show: Davey and Goliath.

Gumby was created by Art Clokey in the early 1950s after finishing film school at University of Southern California.

Clokey and his wife, Ruth ( née Parkander ), invented Gumby in the early 1950s at their Covina home shortly after Art finished film school at USC.

In 1995, Clokey and Dallas McKennon teamed up again for Gumby: The Movie, a feature film.

The Lutheran Church and Art Clokey teamed up to make the first Davey and Goliath episode in 1960 called " Lost In A Cave ".

In 1955 Clokey showed Gumbasia to movie producer Sam Engel, who encouraged him to develop his technique by adding figures.

Of the three pilot episodes of Gumby, the first was done by Clokey on his own, and the next two were done for NBC and shown on The Howdy Doody Show to test audience reaction.

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Some of the best-known clay-animated works include the Gumby series of television show segments ( created by Art Clokey ), the The California Raisins advertising campaign by Will Vinton Productions studio and The WB's The PJs, produced by and featuring the voice of Eddie Murphy.

Art Clokey did a full re-imaging of this cartoon in 1967 as part of The Gumby Show.

The programs, produced by the Lutheran Church in America ( now a part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America ), were produced by Art Clokey after the success of his Gumby series.

After these four specials, the ULCA and Clokey Productions began funding another series of episodes in 1971.

Clokey was born Arthur Charles Farrington in Detroit, Michigan.

When he was 11 or 12, he was adopted by Joseph W. Clokey, a classical music composer and organist who taught music at Pomona College in Claremont, California.

At Webb School in Claremont, young Clokey came under the influence of teacher Ray Alf, who took students on expeditions digging for fossils and learning about the world around them.

Clokey later studied geology at Pomona College, before leaving Pomona in 1943 to join the military during World War II.

His son, Joe Clokey, continued the Davey and Goliath cartoon in 2004.

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