Lionel Ivan Orozco

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Lionel Ivan Orozco is a Californian born craftsperson, gagdeteer, tinkerer, machinist, and sculptor/artist with past diverse early employment in the sheet metal fabrication trade, to a career as a dental laboratory technician.

[edit] Career

Orozco had a long time interest from his youth in Stop Motion Animation. It was only much later as an adult, that Orozco decided to divert a job change, when an opportunity arose in the late 1980s in the San Francisco bay area, where Art Clokey, the of creator of the original Gumby, setup Premavision Studio in the city of Sausalito, to reincarnate "The New Adventures of Gumby". Orozco was hired to be in the crew of stop motion clay animators.

After that project, Orozco did freelance work doing molding & casting and some modelmaking but focused more on the designing, machining, and construction of the precision jointed skeletons that are hidden inside an animation puppet, which are called Stop Motion 'armatures'. He provided his freelance services to a variety of clients and productions: Some B movie work in general special effects, corporate animated spots for some silicon valley clients, [[Nightmare Before Christmas]], pre-production armatures/models for the first [[Jurassic Park]] & The Lost World (sequel), Bump in the Night stop motion series for ABC TV network, pre-production armatures/model work for Starship Troopers, 'The Online Adventures of Ozzie the Elf Christmas show, lead stop motion armaturist for Will Vinton Studio's The Pj's animated TV series, other individual projects for Vinton Studios including Gary & Mike and TV commercials.

Orozco is not doing as much regular work in stop motion since the introduction of computer generated special effects (know as CGI). Hollywood pundits and supposed industry experts thought that computer effects would be the death knell of stop motion. Initially, it had an impact, but now, stop motion slowly making a comeback thanks to 'technology' (ironic) such as the internet, affordable stop motion software, DV camcorders, and especially, video sharing websites such as YouTube enabling many beginners or established animators to display and market their animation creations online.

These days, Orozco is only doing occasional stop motion armature work for individual artists/animators. Since 2000, Orozco has mostly been focusing on the internet and is the person behind Stop Motion Works website which is partly a portfolio but mostly providing information and resources to the public about the technical aspects of Stop Motion Animation. The latest news from Orozco's website, is that he does not want to focus so much on the very technical work of just stop motion armatures, but a strong passion and desire to return to hands-on stop motion, working on his own animated projects.