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Mark Gustafson
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Mark Gustafson, the stop-motion specialist who won an Oscar this year for his work on Pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro, died on Thursday. She was 64 years old.
Del Toro announced the news Friday on social media. destination: “I admired Mark Gustafson, even before I met him. A pillar of stop motion animation: a true artist. A compassionate, sensitive and bitingly witty man. A legend and a friend who inspired and gave hope to everyone around him. … Today we honor him and miss him.”
He oregonian newspaper too reported his death.
Gustafson also worked in stop-motion. California Raisin Characters Early in his career he worked as an animation director at Wes Anderson. Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), another Oscar-nominated stop-motion film.
When Del Toro took on the task of retelling Carlo Collodi’s 1883 fable about a wooden puppet who longs to be a real boy, he chose Gustafson as his directing partner. The duo also earned BAFTA and Annie Awards, among other accolades, for the Netflix release.
“We did some design work in 2011 and 2012, and then it disappeared,” Gustafson saying in an interview in March. “He died several times.” Only Netflix would approve the project, he noted: “We went all over the place. Even with Guillermo, when you walk into the room and he describes it as a film about the death and rise of Mussolini, you can see the color draining from the faces.”
His long career in stop motion began in the 1980s at Will Vinton Studios in his birthplace, Portland, Oregon, in the California Raisins, the all-singing, all-dancing stop-motion group that became wildly popular after appear on a California Raisin Advisory Board. commercial song, “I Heard It Through the Grapevine.”
He also served as an animator for Planters’ Mr. Peanut campaign.
His work included the pijamas, a series co-created by Eddie Murphy and set in an inner-city housing project. Gustafson won an Annie in 1999 for directing an episode of “Bougie Nights” and earned one of his four Emmy nominations for the series.
He won an Emmy for the 1992 special. plasticine easter, a comedy about the kidnapping of the Easter Bunny that he directed and co-wrote. She also wrote and directed the 1994 animated short. Mr. resistance.
Del Toro said Gustafson “leaves a titanic legacy of animation that dates back to the very origins of Claymation and shaped the careers and crafts of countless animators.”
Accepting the Oscar on stage at the Dolby Theater in March, Gustafson said, “It’s so good to know that this art form we love so much, stop motion, is alive and well.”
He is survived by his wife, Jennifer.