Preface
How I Met AnimationHow I Met Animation
It’s funny how things work out.
I never really started out wanting to be an animator, other than having a lifelong love for drawing, and now I find myself writing a “how to” book on drawing animation for Macromedia’s Flash.
As far as animation, I’ve made no secret to my students or readers of my website (www.marktoonery.com) of how I got interested in animation.
It started out, I guess, when I was a teenager. I had written a number of short stories in the Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock Presents vein, and a couple of fantasy novels that explored the premise of modernized “ringwraiths” invading a 1986 Alabama high school. Hey, I was a student in a 1986 Alabama high school, and writing about such ...
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