The Flipbook Archive: Animals |
| I started a series of marine animal motion studies after graduating from college. "Dolphin Cycle" was the first, developed from a zoetrope strip. |
| During frequent visits to the Seattle Aquarium I became acquainted with how wonderfully gregarious an octopus can be. One would flush red and try to climb up the arms of her keeper when she came to feed her. I shot Super 8 footage of another one in the large tank, and rotoscoped it to make "Running Octopus." |
The summer of 1980 I spent on San Juan Island, where folks from The Whale Museum connected me with George Denniston. He commissioned "Orca Breaching" which I finished in 1981. |
During a trip to Southern California several years later I noticed that the Brown Pelican population had revived. I didn't remember seeing them off shore when I was visiting My grandparents at the beach as a child, because their populations had been depleted by DDT. "Five Pelicans Fish" is a celebration of their survival, and a reminder that we can help repair some of the environmental damage we've done by changing our habits. |
| When we anthropomorphize animals, we enter the realm of metaphor. "Animal Husbandry" and "Frogs in Heat" express human foibles, but in animal form. |
| This page is still a work in progress. Come back periodically to see animation from these flipbooks: Running Octopus, Dolphin Cycle, Orca Breaching and Five Pelicans Fish |  |
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