Am I pretty?

Yes.

Thanks to an update from MC, you can now view the animation outtakes from the surf movies this graphic was taken from.

MC on the origins of the graphic:

It is based on a character from animated films by John Lamb: Secret Spot and Rocket 88 which was exerpted in the surf movie Five Summer Stories. There was a feature in Surfer Magazine about Lamb’s animation that I count as one of my early influences. Lamb said the the figure was entirely black to simplify the job of animating. There was no need to detail arms crossing the body as the surfer moved around or the perspective changed.

Rocket 88

From YouTube User Austinstein:

Secret Spot- 1974- First animated film by Laguna Beach artist John Lamb comprised of 2,200 watercolor drawings animated straight ahead. Premiered with “Forgotten Island of Santosha” at the South Coast
Theatre in Laguna 1974. Hal Jepsen and Australian filmaker Chris Bystrom both licensed the short for “We Got Surf “and “Thunder Down Under”. Also The character was then merchandised on Hang Ten skateboards and evolved into the 5 Summer Stories cartoon, Rocket 88, which took a more technical approach using celluloid acetate
and psycadelic backgrounds. The worlds first AIR is captured in this short, preceding reality by 10 years at least. Chuck Jones (celebrity judge at a college film fest) quotes …” I’ve lived in So. Cal my entire life and this is as close to surfing as I’ve ever gotten”. all the original elements are amazingly still intact.

Discussion

5 thoughts on “Am I pretty?

  1. oah, lovely !

  2. and such was my first love:
    http://sakaroule.blogspot.com/2010/03/premier-amour.html
    (back in 1977, France)

  3. I really wanted that one when it first came out. It is based on a character from animated films by John Lamb: Secret Spot and Rocket 88 which was exerpted in the surf movie Five Summer Stories.

    There was a feature in Surfer Magazine about Lamb’s animation that I count as one of my early influences. Lamb said the the figure was entirely black to simplify the job of animating. There was no need to detail arms crossing the body as the surfer moved around or the perspective changed.

  4. Ha, that HangTen board was my 1st skateboard, Chicago Trucks, open ball urethane wheels. Still have it too.

  5. I have the same board. my father gave it to me two years ago. i never knew how big of a deal it was

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