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# Hardland evokes the soft, pliable spirit of Gumby, Wallace & Gromit
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/hardland-evokes-soft-pliable-spirit-gumby-wallace-gromit/
- Published: 2014-07-08T13:31:18.000Z
- Updated: 2024-07-26T10:36:05.000Z
- Description: 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 G
- Author: Jamin Warren
- Tags: News, animation, claymation, Hardland, Mountain Sheep, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

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?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavko%5FVorkapi%C4%87?ref=killscreen.com) 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](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gumby?ref=killscreen.com) 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 distinctly remember returning in a huff to my local Blockbuster. So it’s with happiness that the new tech demo for Mountain Sheep’s new adventure game *Hardland* carries on the gelatinous motion of Clokey’s work.

In 2001, [Clokey said](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl%5Fn9APeX9c&ref=killscreen.com),” giving a toy is an act of love.” Given that *Hardland* will take a toy-like sandbox approach to play, Mountain Sheep would have surely warmed his heart.