About My Animation

I draw my animated films by hand on 3X5 inch plain index cards. I keep the cards in the cabinet shown below.

It takes 12 index card drawings for each second of animated film. My specialty is morphing one drawing into another, and for this I use a powerful light table which allows me to see through three or four index cards. I draw in pencil, pen, marker and whatever else suits the work at hand. To get the drawings onto film, I scan them on a regular flatbed scanner (except for my older films, which were shot on 16mm film and later transfered to video). The scanned drawings are then imported into video editing software, which shows them at a rate of 12 per second. Lately, I've been using Photoshop to adjust the tones and contrast of my drawings - this, I believe, has saved me from getting carpel tunnel syndrome.