My First Animated Cartoon Ever, 1994
I was going through all the VHS tapes in my father’s basement and I found this:
When I was 17 I took a summer course at Pratt University in Brooklyn. Animation 101 taught by Stephen Mead (Are you out there, Mead?). It was a four week program and “Moon Saloon” was my final project.
Back before Flash or digital cameras… I drew every frame on paper and filmed them with a video camera rigged to capture 1/24 of a second at a time. A long outdated technique to say the least.
When Frederator co-worker Lee Rubenstein saw this he remarked “So I guess you’ve always been obsessed with aliens?” Seems that way, yes.
And I’ve always been a Led Zeppelin fan too.
*Oh wow… I just realized something cool. How ironic is it that for my first cartoon I used the first song of Led Zeppelin’s first album?
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On March 16th, 2007 at 12:00 am
Our second best video ever!
On March 16th, 2007 at 12:00 am
I was one of the lucky ones to have seen this animation when it first came out and extrapolated 10+ years into the future hoping to see you doing the same sort of thing and still loving it.
All those years of practice, shelves of sketchbooks, months of freelancing and a great education clearly have paid off. Keep it up. Hope to see more.
On March 16th, 2007 at 12:00 am
That was really cool! I like the way they were all laughing at the end, like the end of a He-Man cartoon when Orco did something foolish.
On March 16th, 2007 at 12:00 am
Exactly! The old Orko ending. Wraps up a story everytime.
On March 18th, 2007 at 12:00 am
Awesome. And I thought I was h4rDc0R3 at 17 with some dinky aim icons. A 1:30 film is like spartan agogi h4rDc0R3.
On March 20th, 2007 at 12:00 am
Dan; this is so awesome as a first animated cartoon! Man; you should be real proud. Was most of this straight ahead animation?
The storyboard for this probrably looks real cool as well.
It looks like you had a blast!!!
Thanks, buddy and continued fun!
Your Cartoon Pal……Jeff