Animation &Animation Artifacts &SpornFilms 13 Oct 2010 07:55 am
Soiled Linen
- Here’s something I found the other day. My soiled linen. I did this piece of animation some 49 years ago. I was 15 years old and was trying to do an adaptation of Poe’s short story, “The Black Cat”. I didn’t get too far; as a matter of fact, this is probably all that I did. There’s a painted BG and a storyboard somewhere, but it wasn’t with these drawings.
When I was a kid, I started filming my animation at age 13. By the time I was 17 and starting college, I had shot 2½ hours of 8mm animation. I don’t know what happened to all the other drawings I did, but this scene is all I have. I do have the snippets of 8mm film that I’ll someday transfer to DVD.
Note that I worked on three hole looseleaf for my registration. I don’t think I ever did the missing inbetweens for this scene; if I did, I don’t have them. I don’t ever think I pencil tested this before.
Here’s a smile, some children’s art.
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Here’s a QT movie of the piece.
Remember to take it with a pound of salt.
These are the scribbles of a 15 year old.
Right side to watch single frame.
on 13 Oct 2010 at 9:17 am 1.Stephen Macquignon said …
Fantastic! You even understood about good walk cycle
on 13 Oct 2010 at 10:48 am 2.Charles Brubaker said …
We all have to start somewhere. Thanks for sharing.
on 13 Oct 2010 at 11:32 am 3.John V. said …
Started filming your animation at 13? What have I been doing the last 12 years of my life??
on 14 Oct 2010 at 9:03 am 4.bill said …
Absolutely charming, and very impressive, for a teenager!
on 14 Oct 2010 at 10:34 am 5.Josef said …
Wow, that’s so cool. If you find any more early animation, please share that too! I love reading your blog.
on 14 Oct 2010 at 1:18 pm 6.Tim Rauch said …
very fun to see, great hearing about your “earliest work”. thanks for posting!
on 15 Oct 2010 at 12:05 pm 7.Steven Hartley said …
Its an okay start at 15 – although I’ve tried to do an animation flick through last week and I was trying to do one of Norm Ferguson’s animation of Pluto raising his eyebrow – although I haven’t shaped it right – but I hope to improve even though I have no experience in animation – no animation classes although I do my Art GCSE and I’m currently working on Still life images.