This is an animation I did of an Anansi story as part of my masters’ thesis project on Lotte Reiniger and Silhouette Animation. The characters are puppets made from black and purple poster board jointed together by wire. Background images made from construction paper and tissue paper. Shot frame by frame and animated with iStopMotion, and finished off with Flash, Photoshop and FinalCutPro. Sountrack made in … Soundtrack (using loops of course)! Screened at the 2004 Los Angeles International Short Film Festival.
Pencil and Photoshop. A little something taken from my sketchbook and prettied up all colorful in Photoshop. Detail: “All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oil Pastels on Paper. To illustrate the following poem (consider it a tale for the day!):
DANCER by Carl Sandburg
THE LADY in red, she in the chile con carne red,
Brilliant as the shine of a pepper crimson in the summer sun,
She behind a false-face, the much sought-after dancer, the most sought-after dancer of all in this masquerade,
The lady in red sox and red hat, ankles of willow, crimson arrow amidst the Spanish clashes of music,
I sit in a corner
watching her dance first with one man
and then another.
I scratched this (not close to being finished) after plopping down a buncha paint on it.. I wasn’t feeling it. But I wanted to put it here, since this was the view from my bedroom window for the first 18 years… I think its better left in photo and memory (its long gone since the new folks moved in).. HOWEVER, a little Photoshop manipulation makes it look kinda groovy:
