The Ruined Cast

This made me think of working on a script/story. It keeps changing, different possibilities are explored, so many different directions, finding things, cutting things out, and it keeps going and going…

Olivier Schrauwen is a cartoonist living in Berlin. I was talking to him at Angouleme and he tipped me off to this animation he did that’s posted on youtube: (it starts at 3:53 on the first video) Thanks, Olivier!

I discovered my favorite animation technique, “strata cutting,” while watching Magic Screen sequences that recount American History on PeeWee’s Playhouse. It took me a while to figure out what this mesmerizing technique was called and who did it, but after researching it again recently, there was far more information available. David Daniel’s pioneered this psychedelic [...]

Starting at 1:43.

Some of them aren’t so bad. It’s interesting to watch if you’ve read the comic and can see the choices they made. The Watchmen one is strange because the text appears while the voice-over reads it. Not all are like that.