Way back - some time ago - I was a student at Barton Secondary. During my time there I took several arts courses including Animation with Steven Gal.

While taking that course Brian Froud (the actor - See block on the left) and I created an animated short. We wrote, directed and starred (well our voices starred) in roughly 30 seconds of silliness.

We had filmed this masterpiece - but sometime between then and now the tape was lost forever.

However, recently Brian unearthed the original drawings, and this past Friday he dropped them off at my place. Today I had the chance to scan each and every one those drawings and stitch them together with Windows Movie Maker.

You can check it out by clicking on the image above.

I haven't re-recorded the audio portion of the film and I haven't created titles or added any other affects - but you get the picture.

The animation isn't perfectly smooth because I don't have registration pins on my scanner to ensure that each frame is lined up exactly where it should be... but its good enough for the purposes of seeing our movie one more time.

I'm going to talk to brian and we might just release this under the creative commons. If he's into that I'll put together a zip file with all the scans so people can have the source 'code' for this project. I really doubt that anyone would actually choose to do something with it - but you never know.

Andyway... I hope you enjoy the film.

andre