Google is celebrating Art Clokey's 90th birthday anniversary with Google-coloured clay balls which spring to life when you click on them. Arthur Clokey (October 12, 1921 - January 8, 2010) was a pioneer in the popularization of stop motion clay animation, beginning in 1955 with a film experiment called Gumbasia.
From the Gumbasia project, Art Clokey and his wife Ruth invented Gumby. Since then Gumby and his horse Pokey have been a familiar presence on television, appearing in several series beginning with the Howdy Doody Show and later The Adventures of Gumby. Clokey's second most famous production is the duo of Davey and Goliath, funded by the Lutheran Church in America.The Presurfer