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Hardland evokes the soft, pliable spirit of Gumby, Wallace & Gromit
When Gumby creator Art Clokey died in 2010, television lost a link to its stop-motion past. Mr. Clokey trained under modernist filmmaker Slavko Vorkapi? and in 1953, he made a student film, “Gumbasia” —a nod to Disney’s Fantasia — in which clay shapes dance to a jazz soundtrack. That rhythm became Gumby who dominated kid’s TV in the late 60s and Clokey’s legacy lives on from the Aardman animations of Wallace & Gromit to Robot Chicken (albeit the latter in a more tongue-in-cheek way). But in games that process as a art-style was only expressed in dismal titles like 1993’s Clayfighter for the SNES which I…