March 22, 1994

Drawing the frames of my animated film. Other than the titles and credits, the film consisted of brief versions of the individual prints in this Fourth of July series in chronological order. Based on the number of total expected images in the final series, and timed to go along with the planned music (an instrumental from the Flat Duo Jets) that would accompany the full length version of the film, I determined that each print would be given 8 frames of film, or about a third of a second. Each print was reduced to a simple core image, which I first drew as a tiny sketch, then traced it on to 8 frames of the film. Due to the deadline of the assignment (and the fact that the film would be due well before the end of the print series), I didn't do the whole year series, but just several months worth. Still, it would eventually involve drawing well over 1000 individual frames of film.