Welcome to the blog of Dennis J. Woodyard - Journeyman Artist, and Dragonfly Entertainment. Former TV animation producer/director, storyboard artist, character designer, writer, concept artist, Flip book designer, and other professional credits.
Showing posts with label Children filmstrip. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Children filmstrip. Show all posts
I recently post two new movies to my Youtube site. The first was another video of a children's filmstrip I illustrated in the 1970's and '80's, titled "Atalanta". Atalanta is a Greek myth. Before the big video revolution, this was the AV stuff teachers used. The best part is teacher turned off the room lights making it easier to nap through the program. Enjoy.
The second is another video base on a set of Magic Lantern slide I found in the trash in the 1970's. "Fare thee Well Molly Daring" is an old song I was lucky enough to finally find a recording of on the internet.
There is still one old song I'm looking for to cover the last remaining set of slides. I'll be sure to share it when I found it. In the mean time, enjoy.
This past week I posted videos of two children's filmstrip I illustrated back on the '70's and '80's. Both, "The King's Drum" and "Ekun and Opolo Go Looking for Wives",were based on African folk tales. Read the description on the video post for the story summary. Also, in both cases I lost the original soundtrack and narration, so I added sound new background music. In the case of The King's Drum I used a track by the jazz group Weather Report titled "Jungle Book".
Below are some concept art for Ekun and Opolo, and storyboards for King's Drum. With Ekun and Opolo I was attempting a different style. It was more cartoony than I usually drew on other filmstrip assignments. I think I used Higgins's or Penguin colored inks and added colored pencil lines on the figures to give them a graphic look. For King's Drum I started using Dr. Martin's dyes, so the colors are more intense.
I still have one more filmstrip I plan to upload, but I'm hoping to find the narration, first. Until then, enjoy.
Here's another children's filmstrip I illustrated back in the 1980's.
The Dragon Teeth was part of a series of filmstrips , Monsters of the
Greek Myths, produced by Spoken Arts, Inc. My favorite part of the
story is the sowing of the dragon's teeth, a scene famously done by Ray
Harryhausen in his film "Jason and the Argonauts" were fighting
skeletons rise out of ground. Again, I'm just trying to archive and digitize these
filmstrips before the film fades. They are no longer produced, long
since replaced by video, DVD and Blu-Ray. Enjoy.
Here's another children's filmstrip project I did the illustrations for back in the '70's. Eye of the Sun is a Egyptian myth about the creation of the world. I think this filmstrip is much better shape, visually, than the Kaa's Huntings filmstrip. The colors hasn't faded as much. I have to admit the soundtrack is a little lame. You can tell these weren't high budget projects.
As before, I've included some storyboard pages with this post. Enjoy
