CHUTE JUMP

on Christmas 2020 my friend and collaborator David Cardoza released a short film called "LITTLE BOY MANIAC", about a boy (/man...?) named Walter who runs around Manhattan screaming at everybody asking where he is. It was called "a frenetic extravaganza of anything-goes street cinema" and "a slapdash masterpiece of guerrilla filmmaking that captures the madness of New York and its perpetual motion and crazed characters with chases through real-life city crowds and unflinching audacity."

you can watch it here: https://www.nobudge.com/videos/little-boy-maniac

Anyway, the important part is I animated a 30 second sequence at the end (^starts at 27:22) where he jumps down a trash chute and rips his face off and slaps it back on. This took like four months because, a) I had never animated anything before, and b) I decided to draw every cel by hand. That's like 360 drawings. That seemed like enough material to turn into a print publication, so I made a zine where each page was a grid of 12 of these faces in sequence, but with each face overlapping slightly with a duplicate of that same face... so altogether a single page represents one second of animation "on two's"*. David and I added some text onto each page in the voices of Walter and Walter's dog Rudy, respectively, to add some context to the movie. It came out pretty scary I think, but also funny. I can 99.9% guarantee you have never seen a publication like this before.

*if none of that made sense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inbetweening

40pgs. b/w riso, 7x8.5". Includes option to add on one of the original cels (email me if there's a particular one you want).