Vinton

[ vin-tn ]

noun

1. a male given name.

Example Sentences

“This recognition served as a tremendous boost to the credibility of clay as an animation medium, bulldozing a path for even greater works,” Rick Cooper, a former production manager for Will Vinton Productions, a Claymation film company, wrote in the journal Design for Arts in Education.

From New York Times

Hired as a production assistant at the pioneering Will Vinton Studios — the headquarters of stop-motion legend Will Vinton, creator of the singing and dancing California Raisins — Gustafson ran errands and swept floors until he got the opportunity to try his hand at building sets.

From Los Angeles Times

On 1985’s “The Adventures of Mark Twain,” Vinton’s ambitious feature, Gustafson served as lead animator for the character of Huck Finn, in charge of expressive facial gestures.

From Los Angeles Times

Indeed, when Vinton Thompson, an entomologist at the American Museum of Natural History, began to build a database linking the 2500 spittlebug species to their host plants almost 50 years ago, he ignored the meadow spittlebug because he suspected it just had so many.

From Science Magazine

"Thirteen hundred host plants means 1,300 opportunities to spread pathogenic bacteria in natural and agricultural environments, a sobering wake-up call," said the study's lead author Vinton Thompson, a research associate in the Museum's Division of Invertebrate Zoology.

From Science Daily