The Ephemerist

ASIFA, the Hollywood Animation Archive Project Blog, has posted some amazing model sheets from the late 60’s by the late and great Alex Toth. Some of them are xeroxed, but others are beautifully scanned from what seems to be originals.

I am not familiar with the shows these sheets were made for, but they obviously typical for the fantasy-adventure type of animated TV-shows of that era, with superheroes, monsters, magicians and the like. If only I could forget about the very lame animation techniques that were used then, I’d almost grow nostalgic…

Dieter came up to me today with this very strange map. We think it points the way to a treasure of some kind. If you want to follow its directions, here’s a translation :

• Blue = lava !
• Yellow = boobytraps !
• Grey = good !
• Red = bad !

And above all, watch out for the tents and the forest ! Be warned !