SpornFilms &Story & Storyboards 06 Apr 2008 09:29 am
Abel Extra
I’m currently preparing two dvd’s for release this coming June. They’re some of my favorite titles. One will feature The Marzipan Pig and Jazztime Tale. The second will feature Abel’s Island and The Story of the Dancing Frog.
Among these extras will be animatics for both dvds as well as storyboards to view. I’m currently working on Abel’s Island, and since I’ve been scanning that storyboard, I thought it worthwhile to post a bit of it.
The story:
Abel, a mouse, has just been washed onto an island far from his new wife. A gentleman, he doesn’t know how to survive, and he just wants to escape across the river to get home. This is where we pick him up as he slowly, very slowly learns to come to grips with living alone on an island.
The board was done by Bridget Thorne and me. We seem to have done about every other drawing together. I don’t remember working on it at all. It was done in 1987.
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on 07 Apr 2008 at 6:51 am 1.Stephen Macquignon said …
Looking forward to see them on DVD
on 08 Apr 2008 at 4:04 pm 2.Tim Hodge said …
I remember seeing this on PBS back in the 80s. I probably still have it on VHS somewhere. A very moving film. It was part of a series of children’s stories, but I forgot the title of the series. They also played a couple of Cosgrove-Hall puppet animation shows, like “The Pied Piper” and “The Reluctant Dragon”, as well as other animation from across Europe.
Oh, and I just saw that “Abel’s Island” is on the cover of the latest issue of the ASIFA magazine, “CARTOONS”. Congrats!