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I have considered creating 4 unique "legacy projects' for some time now. The first has been my most comprehensive book ever on animation, which takes an absolutely beginning of a learning journey that ends up with them completing a short animated film of their own.
LEGACY PROJECT 1:
Through "ANIMATION MASTERCLASSES from Pencils to Pixels" I have endeavored to put in everything I have learned and experienced in animation - founded on the teachings given me by the great Master Animators I apprenticed with at the beginning of my career - and which I applied in my own work for the subsequent 50 years, testing and proving them many times over in the process. For this reason, I believe this first of 4 legacy projects is my best ever and the one book of all my books that I am most proud of.
Through "ANIMATION MASTERCLASSES from Pencils to Pixels" I have endeavored to put in everything I have learned and experienced in animation - founded on the teachings given me by the great Master Animators I apprenticed with at the beginning of my career - and which I applied in my own work for the subsequent 50 years, testing and proving them many times over in the process. For this reason, I believe this first of 4 legacy projects is my best ever and the one book of all my books that I am most proud of.
LEGACY PROJECT 2:
As I was writing the book however, it occurred to me that my life has been an extraordinary experience - not in just animation but in other areas of learning and practice too. Animation has been my outer, worldly journey, but few others know that I have followed, equally diligently, an inner life journey path too. Therefore, just as my book on animation is an expression of everything that I have learned in a career and public sense, I believe that the remarkable experiences and discoveries on my inner path journey will be extremely valuable to some people too. Many will think it all illusion and far too "woo-woo" to be considered seriously. But if I state that without this journey, which began way back in my early teenager years, when I met a rare human being I affectionately call my "Merlin", the outer journey would never have happened in the first place.
As I was writing the book however, it occurred to me that my life has been an extraordinary experience - not in just animation but in other areas of learning and practice too. Animation has been my outer, worldly journey, but few others know that I have followed, equally diligently, an inner life journey path too. Therefore, just as my book on animation is an expression of everything that I have learned in a career and public sense, I believe that the remarkable experiences and discoveries on my inner path journey will be extremely valuable to some people too. Many will think it all illusion and far too "woo-woo" to be considered seriously. But if I state that without this journey, which began way back in my early teenager years, when I met a rare human being I affectionately call my "Merlin", the outer journey would never have happened in the first place.
LEGACY PROJECT 3:
The biggest heartache of my entire animation career is the fact that I have never been able to create a movie - nor even being able to work on one! Despite decades of development and a huge amount of personal investment in my (and other people's) projects, I have never been able to find investors or distributors to fund them. Similarly, when other colleagues I know have managed to do that themselves, I have never been asked to work on them. Having reached an age where neither is likely to be a possibility anymore, I have reserved this ambition to making a full-length, documentary-based, "animated memoirs" project instead - filming the live action material on my iPad and using the same device to create digital animation using the "Rough Animator" app if necessary. The film - my 3rd "legacy project" - is provisionally entitled "The Old Man Mad About Animation" and embraces many of the remarkable experiences and encounters that are reflected in my first two legacy projects.
The biggest heartache of my entire animation career is the fact that I have never been able to create a movie - nor even being able to work on one! Despite decades of development and a huge amount of personal investment in my (and other people's) projects, I have never been able to find investors or distributors to fund them. Similarly, when other colleagues I know have managed to do that themselves, I have never been asked to work on them. Having reached an age where neither is likely to be a possibility anymore, I have reserved this ambition to making a full-length, documentary-based, "animated memoirs" project instead - filming the live action material on my iPad and using the same device to create digital animation using the "Rough Animator" app if necessary. The film - my 3rd "legacy project" - is provisionally entitled "The Old Man Mad About Animation" and embraces many of the remarkable experiences and encounters that are reflected in my first two legacy projects.
LEGACY PROJECT 4:
My final legacy project is a graphic novel project I have already started working upon, entitled "MADA and the Magic Tree". This epic story is a mystical hero's journey adventure that I once wrote as a groundbreaking "Fantasia-style" animated movie, which I could never get funding for. However, as I believe it's storyline has so much value and interest for those of us who are interested in self discovery and understanding, I now wish to see this graphic novel project completed before my own life is.
My final legacy project is a graphic novel project I have already started working upon, entitled "MADA and the Magic Tree". This epic story is a mystical hero's journey adventure that I once wrote as a groundbreaking "Fantasia-style" animated movie, which I could never get funding for. However, as I believe it's storyline has so much value and interest for those of us who are interested in self discovery and understanding, I now wish to see this graphic novel project completed before my own life is.
The plan has always been to work away - multi-taking - on each of my legacy projects, until they are ultimately completed, no matter how long they may take me. However, when my wife and I suddenly contracted Covid, in the most unlikely way and despite taking extensive precautions to avoid it since the virus first appeared (so my legacy projects would not be jeopardized) I realized that life (and dreams) are so fragile that I need to ensure these 4 projects are completed in the shortest amount of time. Although I try to keep myself in the fittest of conditions possible, I acknowledge that as time passes, aspects of my physical being - such as eyesight for example - are deteriorating and there is a finite time to how much longer I will be able to continue my project on a sole-artist basis. I therefore established this appeal - in the hope that others will support me in bringing in help.
Please check on the the legacy project tabs above, to find out more about each project, which I need for each project, and how you can best help support me with the one, or ones, that most resonate for you.
I thank you greatly for any help you can give.
Tony. :)
Please check on the the legacy project tabs above, to find out more about each project, which I need for each project, and how you can best help support me with the one, or ones, that most resonate for you.
I thank you greatly for any help you can give.
Tony. :)