Eric Stefani's Animation History and Research

Today I search the Fox Animation Archives and found three scenes I had worked on. It's really rare when I find an animation I helped work on. The prices were high and since I only had done the revisions on these scenes I don't think I'll fork over the cash for them.





On this scene, Istvan Majors had originally done the layout for Mark Kirkland (Director) but the drawing of Bart were not right and far as the extremes. I thought they were pretty good but after I told Mark what I thought he sent me into see David Silverman (The Animation Supervisor/Producer). I knew I was in for it, then to my surprise David just whipped out perfect poses of Bart in silhouette with really simple beautiful gesture. Later he showed me a book of dancers for inspiration and then I went back to add numbers and details to his beautiful drawings. (I still have his originals logged away in a folder somewhere.)


Check out the fantastic episode at: http://www.veoh.com/videos/v16859496xGYq4jg



In this one scene from "Lisa On Ice" (1994) Bob Anderson (Director) asked me to make the entire crowd of people all gesturing the same. I had to do a same crowd for Lisa (only flopped) and so I ran upstairs where they had a special xerox machine that xeroxed on animation cels. Then (without lettering on the signs) I xeroxed the layouts so we could get the drawings reversed without redrawing all the characters and thier poses, and so they would be facing the other direction! Thus "Go Lisa!" posters. It was challenging making them ALL do the same action without drawing extra actions like I wanted.







In this one retake scene from "Treehouse of Horror VII - The Thing and I" (1995) Mike Anderson (Director) asked me to thumbnail poses of the drawings I would do BEFORE going a head laying it out. I did it and he surprisingly approved it. Mike almost NEVER approved anything I did for him. I was so happy I ran back to my desk and flushed out the thumb nails into layout poses.