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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.  :)

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