A couple of ghost animations by H.o.p.

All right, so family and friends are primed and expecting to see fabulous little animations (linked below) by H.o.p. Well, come on, what you’re going to be seeing are animations by a seven-year-old done on his rudimentary but pretty ingenious little Reader Rabbit program where you draw and overlay little sketches and can turn them into a movie, and I think H.o.p. is using it to great advantage, figuring out building of story and how to use POV, which he already has done for a while drawing lots of still images that are supposed to be a story. The more ambitious would be using Flash or some such, but working in Flash even makes me crazy.

They’re not detailed drawings and they fly by too quickly to see much of anything as he’s not doing a lot of frames in the ones below. He has better ones but these are the two he wanted me to film for Halloween. (I had to film them on his computer screen with the camera.) They’re very dark and elements are difficult to see at times, which is my fault in sizing them down and compressing them.

-The ghost (several frames)
-The ghost becomes two clouds
-The ghost reforms
-The ghost descends into the grave at night, headstone behind it
-Headstone against dawning blue
-Full day, headstone against white sky
-For some reason transition to night sky with moster (white dot)
-Monster (white dot with legs) lying on ground after tripping
-Ghost reappears at night and becomes two clouds again

-Human walking
-Transition to human running to edge of cliff
-POV of human looking over green edge of cliff to ground below (I was pretty impressed with this change in POV)
-Human falls over cliff (little spot of blue sky high above)
-Moby the robot appears for some reason
-Human on brown ground at bottom of cliff
-Human’s position changes
-Human covered now by red blanket in bed, it’s day (the thought bubble above shows the cliff was a dream)
-Transition to human getting out of bed and a ghost appearing behind him
-Human turns and sees the ghost which changes to look like a cloud
-The ghost now appears behind the human in a closet (the ghost against black background)
-The human turns and sees the ghost
-The ghost talks to the human
-They hug, being friends now
-They walk off toward the horizon.