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Google Celebrates Art Clokey’s Birthday
October 13, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
Not many people will recognize the name Art Clokey. But a lot more people will recognize the green clay animated character Gumby that he created. Art Clokey was the pioneer of stop motion clay animation , bringing to life Gumby and his horse Pokey, who first appeared on the American kid’s show Howdy Doody. Art Clokey died last year, but to celebrate what would have been Clokey’s 90th birthday yesterday, Google’s home page featured the tribute doodle you see pictured. The initial image shows a toy block and 5 balls of colored clay representing the letters in GOOGLE
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