I first met Dino Crisanti when I was a freshmen at Columbia College Chicago and couldn't get into any film production classes which were all filled up. Instead, I took a drawing for animation class with Gordon Sheehan, who used to work at the Max Fleischer studio in New York and later Miami.
Dino and I eventually became TAs in the animation department and during my final year at Columbia, I made an animated film called "Cat & Rat".
The animated characters began as pencil drawings that become inked outlines which are then painted in color and eventually leap out of the 2d world into 3d world as stop motion characters who meet a very surprised animator/maker.
Here's a link to the film to see what it looks like in action. It won several awards back in the day including First place in animation in the Student Film awards as well as the Nissan FOCUS awards, where I won a brand new Nissan Sentra at a time in life when I really didn't need a car. Luckily Dino did and he eventually became the owner of a brand new car. Problem solved!
Dino helped build the stop motion puppets and animated the characters when I was in the same scene with them.
This was the early Jurassic Animation period where any colorful animated characters had to be painted with cel paint on clear acetate sheets called "cels" and shot on a large iron camera and stand called an Oxberry under very hot movie lights on 16mm film frame by frame.
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