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Lionel Ivan Orozco
Stop Motion Animation Advisor
Lionel Ivan Orozco joins The Clayman & Associates
as our Stop Motion Animation production technical advisor. Lionel
has had over 20 years interest in general special effects, with much
of that time focusing on work in the stop motion industry. His credits
include Gumby, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Bump in the Night and
so many more. Lionel lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. In his youth
he have always had an interest in gadgeteering, tinkering, and particularly,
Stop Motion Animation, but at the time, thought that was totally beyond
his abilities. It was only until much later, that he decided to call
it quits with the so-called "straight" 8 to 5 jobs and attempt
to pursue work in animation, craftwork and effects. After wandering
around, working for little or no-pay on effects jobs, he landed his
first real animation job on the "New Adventures of Gumby"
(1987-88) television series which was produced in Sausalito, California.
The requirements for being an animator on the show were minimal. Art
Clokey (creator of Gumby) was happy to see almost any kind of Stop
Motion demo reel, and even if it was not that good, they were still
hired! As raw stop motion beginners they were actually students learning
how to animate on a real TV show! This is where Lionel first met Anthony
Scott, now a very talented & well respected Stop Motion Animator
with additional skills as a computer animator.
After Gumby, stop motion animation jobs were few. he decided to try
a "behind the doors entry" approach, thinking this would
give him an advantage in getting animation jobs. He started teaching
himself how to build animation armatures. There were no books on how
to make these mysterious articulated metal devices. He studied the
few published pictures of armatures available at that time and taught
himself just the basic machining skills necessary to fabricate them.
It took much practice and lots of mistakes. Sometimes one can get
too technically involved with only armatures and not see the "big
picture". Eventually he did some freelance jobs exclusively making
armatures and other puppet fabrication work and small effects jobs.
Like Anthony, Lionel also very much appreciates Stop Motion. In his visits to Anthony's stop motion website-message board, He was very pleased that there still seems to be a worldwide interest in this fantastic art of Stop Motion. Sometimes, one feels "alone" in this avocation. Currently, regular work in Stop Motion Animation seems to be sporadic; however, it does seem to make these cyclical comebacks with renewed popularity to new audiences. Hopefully, all this interest & activity on the internet will in some small way, contribute in keeping Classic Stop Motion Animation alive & more viable in the marketplace, alongside Cel animation & CG animation which is why Lionel is happy to offer his experience as a freelance agent to The Clayman & Associates.
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Send requests to:
The Clayman & Associates
7285 16th Ave.
Burnaby, BC Canada
V3N 1N6
Telephone/Fax: 604-524-8727
Cell: 604-916-0966
or Email us at : theclayman@gmail.com
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