Opening Google today intrigued me with the 'G' alphabet block and the 5 colored balls beside it. Knowing that Google doodles are interactive, I clicked on each ball and was entertained by the stop motion animation-like images it brought to life. 
Google pays tribute to the 90th birthday of the father of stop motion clay animation, Arthur "Art" Clokey (October 12, 1921 – January 8, 2010). Back in 1955, Art began in a film experiment called Gumbasia that was influenced by his professor at the University of Southern California, Slavko Vorkapich. It was in Gumbasia that Art and his wife Ruth invented the main character Gumby, which since then have become a familiar presence on television and together with his horse, Pokey, has appeared in several series starting with Howdy Doody Show and later in The Adventures of Gumby.
The characters resurfaced in the 1980s when actor Eddie Murphy parodied Gumby in a skit in Saturday Night Live. In the 1990s, Gumby: The Movie was released.
Doodle art from Google
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