Animation the good old fashioned way

I first saw this film in the early 1990's and immediately hired Daniel Greaves, the academy award winning creator and director of Manipulation to do a series of TV commercials for my client Veryfine. The spots aren't quite as charming as this short film, but if I can find them in the next week or two I'll add to this post. In those days computer animation was in its infancy. This was done the old fashioned way, manually, by hand, a cell at a time.

I Met the Walrus: 1969 Meets 2008

The film has been around for a while. Won its fair share of awards. But worth adding to the things TCLP admires because it's such a perfect combination of words, pictures, art, animation, film making and technology. Proof that the whole can be greater than the sum of its parts with a little imagination. Based on an interview with John Lennon by Jerry Levitan when he was 14. He kept the tape and 38 years later made it into this film. Directed by Josh Raskin. Pen sketches by James Braithwaite. Digital illustration by Alex Kurina.