The Clayman aka Paul Moldovanos, is an animation film-maker, cartoonist, sculptor, comedy writer and designer living in scenic Vancouver, BC. Paul's website 'TheClayMan.com' is dedicated to the arts of animation, cartooning and comedy but also offers portfolio samples, short animated films, popular animation resource link directories plus informative FAQ and weblog (blog) pages.

The Clayman is a self taught artist, and entrepreneur who began his cartooning career making 3D fridge magnets for family and friends. This led to a year long internship with a leading Canadian stop motion animation company in the early 90's where he fine tuned his skills and learned a great deal about traditional hand drawn, and hand sculpted animation as well as participated in a number of productions.

In his past, Paul has owned several successful 400+ seat restaurants, has travelled Canada as a stage manager and lead writer for Royter's Dreamlike Reality Hypnotic Comedy Show , and was also the head designer of non-ferrous jewelry and home accent functional art for Vizible Fix Design which he ultimately shelved in order to pursue a career in cartooning and animation.

He launched his first website in 1996 which featured some of his 3D cartoon character designs on a line of greeting cards and in a short time attracted the attention of the American Bar Association, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, the US Army Corps of Engineers and C4 Innovations Inc. who have since commissioned the studio to create campaigns for various print and animation projects. Paul's artwork has also been featured in MAD Magazine, on CHUM Television's VILand Parade, Canwest Global's Go!, and Partner's in Motion production of 'Very Odd Jobs.

Today 'TheClayMan.com' has been visited by nearly a million people world-wide, and currently enjoys top animation rankings on all major search engines. The studio website always enjoys the variety of unsolicited commercial production inquiries it receives, and in an attempt to accomodate the larger requests, Paul has formed a number of strategic partnerships and associations with some of Canada's leading animation production studios, rapid prototyping 3D foam fabricators, internet development companies and freelance independent artists.

The Clayman and associates are currently developing several new animation properties, using both traditional 3D stop motion puppet animation, and 3D CG ( computer generated ) animation. The associates are also experimenting with new state of the art 3D rapid prototyping and 3D scanning and will be posting fun new samples soon.

" If you have any questions, please visit our Frequently Asked Questions page. If you cannot find the answers you seek, just send us an email, and my associates and I will do our best to answer. We are always happy to prepare a quote for your project.