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Animation Blog

1975: A Prophetic Drama

Check out 1975apropheticdrama.org, the website Kate Culkin and I made for this play written by Harriet Hosmer in 1875, set in 1975. I created the animation, which is cut into short segments and embedded throughout the text of the play. Kate has annotated the text as well as provided context, a bibliography and other resources on Harriet and on women writing speculative and science fiction in the 19th century.

Here’s a couple of short clips. Merciful Powers! describes how the leaders of Turkey and Russia destroyed that part of the world. In Detained Electric Forces, we learn how electricity works on the brain.

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Drawings

Drawings for 1975

Here’s a few drawings for the project I’m working on with Kate Culkin. These are mostly character designs. We’ve been plugging away at this for a while, will have some more time to work on it starting in January.

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Books Drawings

Tunnel Books:1975

I made some tunnel books based on “1975: A Prophetic Drama”, a play by 19th century American sculptor Harriet Hosmer. I am working on this project with Kate Culkin, author of Harriet Hosmer: A Cultural Biography. This project eventually will be a series of animated webisodes and an online annotated version of the original text. I showed a couple of these at Maker Faire in 2016.

Also in this gallery, paper versions of the characters that I built.