Pencil Dance

Animation to music in black and white

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Chris
• Casady
• 1989
• experimental
• short
• film

[lawifuhic]

Another thing I think is absolutely awesome is the bit at 2.25, just after the balls have divided into 30 dots, they vibrate and then 'ping' away into nothing. Breathtaking. I remember seeing it for the first time and gasped at the point at 2.00, where everything just explodes in absolutely incredible detail. Even my mate reacted the same way when I showed it to him. Incidentally, how long did it take for you to draw that bit from 2.00 to 2.05?

[6dmind]

Awesome animation! Reminds me a little of the film Fantasia

[EmoChixNeedLuv2]

get high and watch this......try it.its fuckin awesome.and thats wat we call having a epiphany.

[TileNut]

Yea, that look a long time. Several days. I didn't count my hours. That was actually drawn (the first part of it) for the climactic ending of a film called "Fear No Evil". You can vaguely make out the silhouette of a guy with his arms out, (he's on a cross) and gets hit by lightning (The Divine Force) from heaven and then it goes nuts. Again... the animation was too cool to be seen only in that film so I repurposed here and drew a continuing ending so it resolves, (falls down).

[lawifuhic]

Ok, I see now, Wow, no wonder it took you 8 years. My friend and I were blown away by the sheer detail, especially the certain bits with the sparks, it looked so real. I admire you for your patience. I must say I also like the style of the Peter & The Wolf theme you use.

[TileNut]

Thanks very much for appreciating "Pencil Dance" (1988). I made it over an 8 year period, slowly, between commercial work. You're right, there is a small bit of "stop motion" just to throw people off. I manipulated small bits of black (white) paper, under the camera, to fit the next drawing they transition into.

I've attached a video showing the actual drawings, Someday I'll put them on eBay. : ) Again, so glad you liked it.

-Chris Casady 2010

[lawifuhic]

..... an amazing, stunning bit of work, and more than well deserved for the awards it received. It is without a doubt a piece way ahead of its time. I love it.

[lawifuhic]

.... eg computers (although I think at that time computers were not that powerful or advanced ) Perfect example for this is at

I don't know how you had the patience for all the intricacy involved in the piece, especially at 2.00 minutes along, where it all starts going a bit beserk and the detail is phenomenal. If this was just from markers as you say, then no one in history has ever come close to the quality and excellence of tihs piece, not in my opinion anyway. So hats off to you for.....

[lawifuhic]

Well, if you are who you say you are, and not some charlatan, you are a genius. The only thing that makes me apprehensive is in what you say were the methods used. It seems that right at the beginning of the piece that you must have used cut out pieces of white paper, or am I wrong? Plus there are a lot of parts where it just looks way too complex or realistic in detail and movement for it to be created from just markers, as it looks like it might be created with the help from some other......

[TileNut]

It looked good on the big screen (in 35mm) in France, Canada and Hiroshima where it won 1st, 2nd & 2nd prize respectively, in 1988, 1990 and 1992.

-Chris Casady, aka TileNut 2010