The Clayman - (AKA - Paul Moldovanos)
Producer, Designer, Project Manager, Sales Representative

The Clayman is a creator, an animation film-maker, cartoonist, sculptor, comedy writer and designer living in scenic Vancouver, BC.

This website 'TheClayMan.com' is dedicated to the arts of animation, cartooning and comedy but also offers portfolio samples, short animated films, popular animation resource link directories plus informative FAQ and weblog (blog) pages.

The Clayman is a self taught artist, and entrepreneur who began his cartooning career making polymer clay cartoon fridge magnets for family and friends. This led to a year long internship with a leading Canadian stop motion animation company, Bowes Productions, in the early 90's where, under the mentorship of David Bowes and Lisa Jane Gray, he fine tuned his skills and learned a great deal about traditional hand drawn, and hand sculpted animation. During this time, he participated in a number of productions including television commercials for Pharmasave, BCAA, Lotus Awards and Fuji TV Tongue Twister short films.

In his past, Paul has co-owned several successful 400+ seat restaurants, has traveled Canada as a stage manager and lead writer for Royter's Dreamlike Reality Hypnotic Comedy Show, and was also a designer of non-ferrous jewelry and home accent functional art for Vizible Fix Design. All of which he ultimately shelved in order to pursue a career in cartooning and animation.

He launched his first clay cartoon website in 1996 which featured some of his character designs on a line of greeting cards and in a short time, the website attracted the attention of the American Bar Association, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, the US Army Corps of Engineers and C4 Innovations Inc. who have since commissioned the studio to create visual campaigns for various print and animation projects. Paul's artwork has also been featured in MAD Magazine, on City TV's Breakfast TV Vancouver, CHUM Television's VILand Parade, Canwest Global's Go!, Partner's in Motion production of 'Very Odd Jobs and in the Burnaby NOW Newspaper.

Today 'TheClayMan.com' has been visited by over 2 million people world-wide, and has achieved, and maintained top ratings on all major search engines for '3D Cartoons', 'CG Animation' and dozens of other targeted search queries for several years. The website also attracts a wide variety of unsolicited commercial production inquiries, and to accommodate the larger production requests, Paul has formed an international network of partners and associates and works with several industry leading independent advisors.

The Clayman and associates are currently developing several new animation properties, using both traditional 3D stop motion puppet animation, and 3D CG ( computer generated ) animation. The associates are also offering new state of the art 3D rapid prototyping 3D Resin Printing, 3D scanning and 3D lenticular printing services.

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