Animated Sizzling Electrical Effects from the past!

Back in the day, when CG animation was very young and effects were done by human hands. Here is an article from a favorite magazine called "Step by Step Graphics" from March/April 1988!

Sorry if some of the text is a little light and fuzzy, but hopefully you can see how much work it took to do effects back in the 80's. Today, most of these effects can be done in a few hours as oppose to weeks of work back then. 

Kevin Schreck, Documentary Filmmaker

Before the success of "Who framed Roger Rabbit", Richard Williams had been very successful producing animated title sequences for feature films and animated commercials. Throughout his career, he was learning more about the by bringing in animation veterans to teach his crew and working on his masterpiece, to be known as "The Thief and the Cobbler".

Kevin Schreck had heard about how eventually Williams had never fully completed it on his terms and decided to make his thesis film called "Persistence of Vision". A very interesting and inspiring documentary of a part of Richard Williams life where he learned and mastered 2D animation.

I recently had the opportunity to talk to Kevin Schreck about his first documentary and his second about Turkish artist, C.M. Kosemen. Schreck is finishing up a third film about a rap artist called "Enongo; the Sammus documentary.

Please enjoy the Animateducated interview below...

And if you enjoyed that interview, there are many more on the YouTube channel Animateducated. Please subscribe there!

Thanks, Jim

My Filmmaking Past

Here are several articles from my youth about my teenage years in Ormond Beach and working on different film projects with my friends Alex and Eric Torres.

I have more articles to post. Check back soon.