Chinoy was creative director of the clay animation studio Cineplast, originally based in Toronto (during which time Chinoy contributed to the occasional underground comic Snore Comix along with B.P. Nichol). He relocated to Munich and went on to produce clay inserts for German network ZDF, including the series Kli-Kla-Klawitter. 1980 saw the release of Chinoy's first and only feature film using the technique, I Go Pogo, a stop-motion adaptation of Walt Kelly's Pogo (with the voices of Muppet SHow guest stars Jonathan Winters, Vincent Price, and Ruth Buzzi).