This is from the same cabinet as the “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” chalk drawing from yesterday’s post.

This was one of the first–if not the first–stop-motion animations I did with my new video camera when I got it back in 1990. I think the title was “The Tortoise and The [insert name of comic book character I'm not licensed to use but runs very fast and is not Superman]“. It was just practice anyway, so using a comic book character for it wasn’t a worry. But, I can’t show you the video due to copyright concerns. Don’t worry, though, you’re not missing much!

It was a very basic animation. You can still see the figures stuck on the page: the turtle and the comic book character. There used to be a blurry strip that I put behind the comic book character to give the illusion he was running very fast, but that’s no longer stuck on there. (It’s been 19 years!!!)

Anyway, so I had the two characters next to each other, and they raced across the background image. On their backs were single-sided tape wrapped around itself and pressed on to give a sticky surface on both sides. Then, I would take start and stop the camera to take a quick shot, and then advance the figures forward. It was a very choppy animation, and, as you can imagine, the turtle didn’t win.

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