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Lincoln, my unrealized experimental animation.
- Synopsis: The supernatural trial and judgement of John Wilkes Booth for the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
- Running Time: 3:42
- Format: NTSC, 1.77:1, Black & White
- Audio: Mono
- Genres: Animation, Computer Animation, Experimental
- Location: Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
- Producer, Writer, Director: Grant Goans
- Music: Grant Goans (Variations on “Dixie” by Daniel Decatur Emmett)
- Completed: May 2009
- Background: Lincoln was animated in 2002 as a CGI experimental project. It never coalesced into something satisfactory for me. The idea was to merge the alleged supernatural interests of Mary Todd Lincoln with a trial (set as a play in the hereafter) for the assassination of Lincoln. In 2009, I composed variations of the song Dixie (supposedly one of Lincoln’s favorite songs) and assembled this edit. – G. Goans 2011
2 responses to “Lincoln: An Unrealized Experimental Animation”
Wow, very nice!! I *THOUGHT* it looked like CGI, but was hard to tell under all the foamy filmic scratchiness. I was diggin’ the armature design too!! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Strider! Yeah, I wanted to really mangle the imagery. The armature design is based on some drawings in the Diderot Encyclopedia. Links to digital copies of the drawings are below. I love that Encyclopedia!
http://artflx.uchicago.edu/images/encyclopedie/V20/plate_20_22_6.jpeg
and
http://artflx.uchicago.edu/images/encyclopedie/V20/plate_20_22_7.jpeg
SOURCE: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/did/