I created animation snippets for "Make a Wish", a children's program that aired on ABC. This was probably my first real (professional) media job.

 

I created short animation snippets for the show at newly-formed Lisberger-Ladd Studio in Boston. We were to take a word or phrase and animate it. My word was "mark". My snippets included

"Hit the mark" : An archer strains to pull back his bow, releases it and .... (camera zooms to the target) he is impaled in the bullseye.

"Mark Antony" He orates, "Friends, Romans, countrymen - Lend me your ears!" and is immediately showered with a flurry of ears.

"Bookmark" A book laying on a desk opens, the bookmark slides out, puts on glasses, and starts reading (For a brief moment the title of the book appears: "Marx")

Et cetera...

 

I'd met Steven Lisberger a couple of years previously while in college. He went on to become a successful animation director, creating the groundbreaking video-game-based feature animation for Disney: "TRON"

Cel animation snippets

Still Under Construction ...

Cel animation, paint, Oxberry animation stand