![]() ![]() We hope this doodle put a smile on your face! The final doodle was a collaboration with engineer Bradley Bossard, who transformed the already delightful animations into an interactive experience. Stop-motion has always captivated me, and it requires so much care, time, and dedication – but watching it come together is incredible. The animations were produced by veteran industry professional Anthony Scott, who worked on such contemporary stop-motion classics as The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach, The Corpse Bride, and Coraline. Together they went on many misadventures, learned valuable lessons, and delighted their audience.Īn unedited frame of animation, with the support arm still visible.įor this doodle we had the pleasure of working with Joe Clokey, Art's son, to ensure that we would do justice to Art's cherished characters. From left to right we have: the Blockheads, Prickle, Goo, Gumby, and Pokey. His innovation and his palpable love for animation soon led to the creation of The Gumby Show, starring the characters that feature in our doodle. His first student film, Gumbasia, was highly abstract, but contained hints of the playful transformations prevalent in his later work. A pioneer of animation, he worked with clay to create dynamic stop-motion sequences that were entertaining as well as beautiful. Her legacy lives on through the Helia Bravo Hollis Botanical Garden in Puebla, which is home to many endangered cactus species and has become a popular destination for students, scientists, and tourists alike.Īrt Clokey, creator of The Gumby Show, led an incredibly fascinating life. The Ariocarpus bravoanus and Opuntia bravoana cacti are named after her. ![]() A co-founder of the Mexican Cactus Society, Bravo Hollis discovered numerous species herself. An ambitious researcher, Bravo Hollis published her first book by 1937-the landmark study Las Cactaceas de México-which established her as a leading expert in the field.ĭuring a 60 year career, she published nearly 170 articles, two books, as well as some 60 taxa descriptions and another 59 taxonomic revisions. ![]() Her interest in the natural world led her to study Biological Sciences and obtain a Master’s degree from the UNAM, with a thesis on varieties of cactus found in Tehuacán, Puebla. Her passion for learning about nature was contagious to her students and earned her a great deal of respect among colleagues.īorn on this day in 1901, in the Mixcoac section of Mexico City, she first became interested in nature during Sunday walks with her parents. ![]() Known to her students as La Maestra Bravo, Bravo Hollis made enormous contributions to the study of cacti in Mexico and worked tirelessly to found UNAM’s Botanical Gardens, where she served as director during the 1960s. “I have done everything with love, passion, and courage,” said Helia Bravo Hollis in an interview with UNAM, the Mexican University where she studied and later headed the Biology department. Now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Altamira caves are open for public visitation. Then in 1902 a French study of Altamira proved these paintings were in fact paleolithic, dating to between 14,000 and 20,000 years ago. Some argued that the art, which includes abstract shapes as well as depictions of wildlife, was too sophisticated for the time. He returned his daughter Maria, who first noticed the red and black paintings covering its walls and ceiling, rendered in charcoal and hematite, depicting animals including European bison and bulls.Įarly claims of the caves’ paleolithic origin were mostly dismissed as fake. Nicknamed “the Sistine Chapel of paleolithic art,” Altamira was discovered in 1879 by the amateur botanist and archaeologist Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola who first noticed animal bones and flint tools there. Today’s Doodle celebrates the 139th anniversary of the first discovery of cave paintings at the Altamira caves in Cantabria, northern Spain-a masterpiece of the prehistoric era. Charging bisons, wild horses, and mysterious handprints-primeval evidence of humanity’s creative genius, miraculously well preserved after some 36,000 years. ![]()
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