Cargo Interactive

This film contains the first animated short by one of the great comic artists in history, Windsor McKay. It shows film of his line drawing technique, which uses no construction lines. Something which is baffling to me, considering its quality and consistency. The real interesting stuff starts at about 8 minutes into the film, if that doesn’t interest you.

McKay was responsible for the Little Nemo Adventures In Slumberland funnies from over 100 years ago. He also created Gertie the Dinosaur, which pioneered the keyframe technique for animation (something I use even now, working the Flash environment). His work is still quite astonishing, and serves as a goalpost for myself.

For fun, I’m also including links to the 1989 adaptation of Little Nemo. It wasn’t very well recieved, which might have been due to its slow pacing. The quality of the animation here is still top notch. Again, a goalpost for myself, as I’ve been spending a lot of time on drawing and animation lately.

I really love this video. Can’t find much on who made it, but clearly a lot of care went into it’s creation.