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This animation available on YouTube.com [link]
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To downlaod the individual Frames to create your own Head/Hair turn klick here: [link] and download.


The MOST FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTION I GET IS:
"How do you draw your hair?"

Well, it's Really Easy, but it's a long story about how I figured it all out.

Anyways, THIS IS THE ANIMATION THAT I MADE THAT'S RESPONSIBLE FOR MY FIGURING OUT HAIR!!!!!!!

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The Story:

Much of my art is still done using tricks and techniques that I was taught by Lowl Boston at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, while I went there, on Scholarship, durring my Junior & Senior years in Highschool. YES! I went to college while I was still in Highschool, on the weekend! (Sorry, if I'm too unkool and geeky...)

The 1st thing that any animation student learns is "The Bouncing Ball". In this basic of all lessons you learn the principles of "Squash & Stretch". This is so important in animation. And, by doing something as simple as animating a bouncing ball you just "get it": key frame, In-betweens, blur lines, squash & stretch, and timing.

Lowl Boston kept giving me scholarships, so I kept returning season after season as the scholarships got bigger, and more generous.
Since I'd done all the typical lessons, and I just LOVED animation, I deside to try some other things.

I was a big fan of Glen Kean's "Pocahontas", and I had coppied several of his sketches from his pin-up-board from an interview for "Pocahontas" and coppied them. Yet, I didn't "get it yet".

I was a big fan of Blümchen, and I had a quicktime music video of "Herz an Herz" on CDROM. So, I desided to pause the video and sketch the keyframes into my sketchbook. Then, when I returned to animation class, I deside to animate the head turn.

While I was doing it, I had this happy feeling since I was figuring this stuff out myself. It was like the 1st time I'd ever drawn a picture at Age 4, or the 1st time I'd recorded my aniamtion on the pencil test machine and played it back. I had this exciting little kid feeling inside me.
Like "I get it!"
I figured out a basic principle of "persistance of vision" that wasn't taught in any of the books I had, nor any of the lessons I'd sat through.

This was THE animated sequence that had me figure out hair. To this day I utilize what I learned.

Basicly, the drawings just lead into each other, just as they do in any other animation sequence. You just need to do it to see what it is. The prosess is nessisary, just like the bouncing ball.
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This is really old! Like maybe 1996 or 1997.

It's an AVI so you'll need to download it.