Creating the Anansi Animation

 

How should an eight-legged insect walk?  Our animator Elias Dancey provided this animation to get us started on visualizing a walking Brer Anansi. Click to activate.

Other Ways of Walking

 

Adapting "The Pumpkin Thieves" from the book The Invincible Brer Anansi as a full-length (30 minutes) animation.  

  

Pictures below by Scott DuPre Mills (March 2007).   

Location: VCU Hibbs Building

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Planning

 

Team members (from left) Elias Dancey, Dr. Ernest Martin, Ben Muri, David Makhanlall and Scott DuPre Mills (not in picture).

 

More Discussions

 

Sketching the Characters

 

Examining the Possibilities

 

Prof Ernest Martin  At the Studio