kartooner

Now, this is sad indeed.

Accord­ing to the imdb.com; “Will Vin­ton, the stop-motion ani­ma­tor, whose Vin­ton Stu­dios in Port­land, OR turned out the Cal­i­for­nia Raisins and talk­ing M&M com­mer­cials as well as the Eddie Mur­phy TV series The PJs, has been laid off from the stu­dio that bears his name. Vin­ton sent an email note to com­pany col­leagues on Fri­day, say­ing in part: “It has been one amaz­ing 27-year run! And I have no (well, few!) regrets.”

The stu­dio issued a state­ment say­ing that it is shift­ing its empha­sis to “broad, family-friendly enter­tain­ment includ­ing computer-animated projects.” It was not clear whether it would con­tinue to employ Vinton’s Clay­ma­tion tech­nique. Vin­ton him­self could not be reached for com­ment over the weekend.”