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Charlie Munching

Charlie Horse gif anim

Charlie's Workout

Charlie's Workout Video
Charlie's Workout Video

Charlie Talks

Charlie Talks Video
Charlie Talks Video

An Old Dodge

Tough Day at the Office

This is a very old animation I put together probably sometime in the '80s. There weren't too many reasonably priced animation or drawing packages at the time. I did the greater part of this using PC Paintbrush and a mouse! The animation was pieced together using "Gif Construction Set" from Alchemy Mindworks, Inc. Here's a link to a ZIP file showing some of the graphics I used to piece this thing together TIPPER.ZIP Here's a link to one of the images within the aforementioned ZIP Tipper.png

Tipper

An Ancient Paper and Pencil Anim

Prehistoric Pancake Panic Video
Prehistoric Pancake Panic Video

This is a very old animation that I put together in the mid '70s when I was in my early teens. This one was all done using paper and pencil - lots of tracing, and lots of coloring, all by hand. There were hundreds of hand made drawings done on very thin paper. I even built my own light box using an old piece of window glass, a wooden frame, and a 40 Watt light bulb.

I shot this with an inexpensive super 8 movie camera by tapping the camera's trigger to take as few pics as possible - it didn't have single shot capability. The camera was mounted on a home made animation stand that I made by cobbling parts from an inexpensive tripod, a wooden base and some lights. Worst of all, you couldn't tell how things were going until after the film was developed. I was pretty heart broken when I saw that there were sections of the film that were overexposured. Nonetheless, it was still my first animation - marginal results or not.

After 300 hundred or so pencil drawings, I resorted to cut out animation where I could. It would be years later when I finally got an Amiga 2000 and began dabbling with computer animation. In fact, I used an Amiga 4000 to add the animated opening title when I transfered the super 8 film to video. I also set the animation to the song "My Boomerang Won't Come Back" by Charlie Drake (1961).


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