There's nothing that makes me happier than knowing I've inspired others. (Just hope they figure out what to do with animation as a career) But that's a ps, it thrills me that I've inspired people. I had a great art teacher in college.
The most original animator I have ever seen. If "to animate" means to bring forth life, this lady's work just oozes with it. Some people might look at her films and see this mad chaotic universe, but I see this whole ecology of creatures and beings all just sort of thriving off one another. Some people may not want to live in that world, but I find myself endlessly fascinated by it.
This is the greatest thing I've ever seen. Ma'am, you should be a LEGEND. Animators these days need to sit back and listen to your words... cartoons would be a MUCH cooler place these days if they did. I like your whole "don't stick to the norms" vibe. When the world really is your canvas, I think you should do whatever you want. It doesn't have to make sense, it has to make magic.
I really hope that Sally Cruikshank has her own TV show, although I doubt it will ever happen, she’s literally one of my favorite animators, top 5 of all time in my book.
They always looked like crocodiles to me, and the fact that she says they look like ducks to her and no one else and she was inspired by the old Ducktales comics is just wonderful.
I found your RUclips page by chance (and stayed somewhat briefly) about 8 years ago and saw your wonderful animations. The "only" memories I thought I had about your work was that they were wild, free and nimble. But I know now it was much more than that. I'm back again and re-watching the clips I saw only a few times in 2009 and to my surprise I do remember every single damn frame from every clip... that really shows the IMPACT and ENERGY your animations deliver. I've only had that experience before from media which I've had an nostalgic connection to through repetitive viewing. That's damn impressive! Love your work Sally!
Sally, I was uniquely inspired by Quasi in the late 70s when I saw Quackadero at a theater in Berkeley. Made a 25 minute cartoon as a result. Thank you.
Sally, I apologize for not responding sooner. I am still getting used to posting on Google/RUclips... I have not posted my animation on RUclips.I actually filmed it old-school on Super8mm film, and it looks very similar to Southpark style animation, though it pre-dates that show by a couple decades. I have been wanting to reanimate it in Flash, as the original film is really old and looks way amaterish. Do you still animate? Are you living in another part of the country now? I love the music you use in your animation. It reminds me of 30s stuff. You might want to check out Caravan Palace, a band that is from France. I think they are on RUclips, and they do some cool electroswing that would lend itself to your style of animation. E me if you get a chance. Thanks for all the great animation!
Mike Govette You should get your super 8 films transferred asap, before even the transfer technology is an obsolete format. You can download a free time limited version of Flash to see if it appeals. It used to be easier to use and to code than it is now. I'm not animating anymore, prefer painting because it's real, got burned by a lot of digital technology that no longer works, so years of creative output lost.
Amazing - I found myself telling my 16-year-old son, "That never happened to me..." and realized I knew where I'd heard that before, and might actually be able to show him! Poor Winky Orlando, I've often identified with him. I first saw Quasi at the MIT Architecture Machine in 1976 (now the Media Lab) where one of the employees had gotten a copy and projected it onto a wall-size screen. This is art that frees the mind. Many thanks for this. It has remained pleasantly in my subconscious...
I thought I had just discovered your animation for the first time... until I saw that you did many of the Sesame Street animations that I grew up watching! I completely agree with what you said at the end of this video. I draw comics and I've found that, in the wider comics community, most creators have no desire to actually take advantage of the freedom granted to them by their medium (be it comics or animation). I don't understand the obsession people seem to have with realism.
sally, ive just gotta say you are a HUGE inspiration to me. ever since ive seen your animating face like a frog last year ive wanted to draw and animate more than ever before. ive told most of my friends about you and i would go on and on about your work for hours if i could
Hi Sally. I'm an artist and a lot of my love for "old style cartoons" comes from your work. I've dabbled in animation and finding your work again is inspiring me to get back into it.
I remember Sally Cruikshank cartoons from the children's television show Sesame Street as a little kid. All of her cartoons are kind of different in certain ways. I like how she puts weird creatures in different universes. Sally makes all tell a story of their own. I like Sally's style of Neo 30's through todays characters.
Glad it was inspiring. I'm surprised you're working on paper at animation school. I never had a preference on flipping- think at first I used top pegs but animation camera people preferred bottom pegs because it made it easier to switch out drawings. I did a lot of the cel inking on my films, but not all of it.
Yeah, hey, me again. Just can get rid of me, can you? I saw this comment and had to wonder, did you personally ink the sequence in "Make Me Psychic," of Anita getting dressed for Snozzy's party? It's a great bit -- I have had dresses, parts of which I had to hold in my teeth in order to get 'em on right. Come to think of it, my favorite one of them was red. Wardrobe difficulties like this are where a personal maidservant could be wildly useful. And it would be fun to know that "my" Anita was inked by you.
Sally, I love you and your brilliant, delightfully deranged work! You have been a huge influence on animation, espescially of the more imaginative, surreal variety. A toast to you and your remarkable creativity, and a huge thank you for such wonderful memories! 🤗
So what IS your first name, RHSteeleOH? Too bad the tape disintegrated where they followed me through Woolworth's on Market St. as part of a segment on where I got ideas!
Just discovered your beautiful work, Sally. Terence McKenna mentioned his admiration for your animation during his last recorded interview. Instant fan, here! Thanks so much.
You're so great! Love your psychedelic style!! Totally glad my friend shared "Quasi at the Quackadero" with me!! Thanks for all of your hard work and inspiration 💗🌌🏞️🥸🤩🤖🦕🦤🦆✍️💘🐸🌈💖
Oh my gosh! I haven't seen any of these cartoons since the seventies. It's wonderful you're uploading your work to RUclips so a wider audience can see your wonderful terrific stuff. Your cartoons are like the successors to the Fleischer Studios on acid.
@Launchpad05 You know Pat Block? Cool. Haven't people like him basically been forced to work mainly for European publishers, since the Duck stuff just can't get any consistent tracton in America these days?
@Marbles471 I know. The only legitimate traction that the Ducks ever got was 'DuckTales'. These days, I'm angry at Disney for turning it's back on quality animation, and entertainment in favor of worthless tween junk that nobody over the age of 16 with A Y chromosomes would ever enjoy! I'm sick, and tired of them shoving Miley Cyrus, Hilary Duff, and Selena Gomez down our throats, and they don't seem to care about the damage that Britney Spears, and Lindsay Lohan have wreaked on society!
The variety of animation is actually what makes it so interesting, perhaps it's less interesting when it just tries to be like a live action film. Obviously your work isn't completely abstract, but it follows in the steps in the animation pioneers (such as Cohl, and later Messmer and Fleischer) who wanted an inventive humorous style, which exploited the characteristics of the medium than tried to hide them.
Yes exactly, animation is capable of doing anything so why not do that. It's exactly the same for comics, some great independant or underground comix have shown how that form is virtually unlimited in imaginative potential, same with animation. Animation I actually see as related to experimental film in some ways, it can push at the borders of the medium, being inventive within the structure and form as well as the subject.
Thank you so much for putting this up!!!! loved the interview and I agree why put the animals back in the meadows, when they can do any thing!!! I love your work so so so much!!!
I studied Cruickshank works seriously in college. It affected my thesis, no, my world view. I'm in Japan, and I'm showing these on RUclips to people saying "You have to know this!"
I'm a ducks fan, too. I grew up watching 'DuckTales', and i know an actual Uncle Scrooge artist named Pat Block. I made a Flash cartoon that has Scrooge in it.
are you friends with lynda barry? i feel like you would be friends with lynda barry. just discovered you & your work and i am so, so inspired!!! independent animation (and art of all sorts) is so great, isn't it? so highly agreed regarding "distortions," and the wonder and playfulness of going off-model, and how that communicates character and meaning. i'm telling my younger sister all about you immediately - i think your creativity and genuineness can get anybody's mental gears turning, whether they identify as an "artist" or not, of any age…… kind of magnificent! thank you for being such a wonderful human being!
Hi eli, Thanks for your nice note, really nice comments. No, I don't know lynda barry but I like her work a lot. The LA Weekly used to run her comic strip. And I know her book on using imagination has helped many people out of a non-inspired hole. Best to you and your sister.
Thanks. Good Luck with your work. If you keep your projects small at the beginning you'll have a better feeling of success. (didn't explain that well.)
Hey, iwritemynamehere, I appreciate all comments but don't take them too seriously, but I do think you're right saying I was before my time. And MisterEsoteric I've never understood why Good Vs. Evil is a good plot to follow! Geez! Thanks all for nice comments. I don't know what Super jail is but I'm glad I'm not in Super jail.
I don't see that much of new animation. Sometimes I see things I like, but I hate that Auto Zone style- maybe it's software that creates the whole thing.Lots of things I don't like actually!!
very inspiring! maybe i watch this interview x50 ! i do my little underground world since long time and your words always inspire me . Hello from France Sally ! :)
Maybe not as much as you'd expect. That was 1968 and I only saw it once, so it's not like today when you can view things again and again. I was most influenced maybe by the color. But at that time I hadn't even thought about animation.
i am so interested in continuing work in psychedelia, but i am starting to love doing traditional work. your work is a wonderful inspiration to me! i am nervous going into art college. your work is really great!
Remarkable to meet the brains behind the brilliance, Sally! I agree wholeheartedly with what you say about breaking the laws of physics in animation. However, it seems like so much animation today is fantasy in the worst sense: Good vs Evil melodramas with all the video game anti-aesthetic and shallow characters that are blandly pretty with no personality at all. Anime, to me, is the worst culprit. That's why I'm in love with your work- it's so alive with originality, personality & fun!
Hi! I really love your animations and your characters. I noticed your reference sheets in the interview and I was wondering if you had them scanned/uploaded anywhere. I'd love to look at them!
good advice :) i always wondered why your animations were at random. I think I like the one with the frogs and that haunted house or something. the main character is like, engraved into my memory since i first saw it, and he kinda sounds like my math teacher (im 14). I can also really relate to Quasi, because he kinda reminds me of myself. I have interests that most people normally wouldnt have because im autistic. Everytime i go on youtube i watch your films cuz there like Mona Lisa to me =D
What a great video! Where was this broadcast? I'm especially curious since animation in the U.S. was gasping for breath back then--practically dead, really. Only independents like you were doing anything interesting. But since animation had such a low reputation, it's great to see that someone was interested enough in artists like you to interview them for TV.
Went looking for you on YT after watching my copy of QATQ (from CN's 100 Greatest Cartoons). Nice interview...got some insight into your art. Ever do anything with the Firesign Theater??? Some of their routines would be great fodder for your style of animation.
I remember your films from the Ann Arbor FIlm Festival. I think the first was Quasi at the Quackadero and then the ultra-fine Face Like a Frog! They are still some of my faves from over 30 years of attending the AAFF. Thank you so much!
This was such a treat! You have such a great philosophy on cartooning. (: You're making me really consider getting into cartooning and animation again, but I feel like it's probably a pretty hard business to make money in. x) I also enjoy the fact that everybody seems to think you've done a ton of drugs, and from the replies you really seem like you haven't. That makes me really happy! Makes me wanna go use my imagination all over the place. xD
So inspiring, Sally!! Can't believe I only learned about you this year, love your work! So liberating to see what's possible if you open your mind. I'm an animator from Belgium, you definitely inspire me to make more weird magical experimental animations. Thanks for the wonderful art.
This is the nicest thing, to learn that my work is inspiring younger artists. thanks.
There's nothing that makes me happier than knowing I've inspired others. (Just hope they figure out what to do with animation as a career) But that's a ps, it thrills me that I've inspired people. I had a great art teacher in college.
The most original animator I have ever seen. If "to animate" means to bring forth life, this lady's work just oozes with it. Some people might look at her films and see this mad chaotic universe, but I see this whole ecology of creatures and beings all just sort of thriving off one another. Some people may not want to live in that world, but I find myself endlessly fascinated by it.
Thanks so much Mark.
This is the greatest thing I've ever seen. Ma'am, you should be a LEGEND. Animators these days need to sit back and listen to your words... cartoons would be a MUCH cooler place these days if they did. I like your whole "don't stick to the norms" vibe. When the world really is your canvas, I think you should do whatever you want. It doesn't have to make sense, it has to make magic.
Sally You're a genius. I'm 18 and I love his drawings, the message, psychedelia you use. I love your cartoons! Greetings From Chile. :)
+Jeremy Arancibia Thank you so much. I hope to visit Chile some day- cheers!
I really hope that Sally Cruikshank has her own TV show, although I doubt it will ever happen, she’s literally one of my favorite animators, top 5 of all time in my book.
You are unironically an unsung hero of the medium, Ms. Cruikshank.
And you are very nice.
Her animations remind me a bit of old Fleischer bros cartoons.
Saaame
They always looked like crocodiles to me, and the fact that she says they look like ducks to her and no one else and she was inspired by the old Ducktales comics is just wonderful.
Your nice comment makes me laugh!
I found your RUclips page by chance (and stayed somewhat briefly) about 8 years ago and saw your wonderful animations. The "only" memories I thought I had about your work was that they were wild, free and nimble. But I know now it was much more than that.
I'm back again and re-watching the clips I saw only a few times in 2009 and to my surprise I do remember every single damn frame from every clip... that really shows the IMPACT and ENERGY your animations deliver. I've only had that experience before from media which I've had an nostalgic connection to through repetitive viewing. That's damn impressive!
Love your work Sally!
Thank you for this thoughtful and encouraging comment. Cheers!
People aren't encouraged to explore their imaginations enough.
Very interesting. I have loved Sally's work ever since I first saw it on Sesame Street.
Sally, I was uniquely inspired by Quasi in the late 70s when I saw Quackadero at a theater in Berkeley. Made a 25 minute cartoon as a result. Thank you.
wow, Mike. That's really something. Is it on youtube? I still lived in Berkeley in late 70s.
Sally, I apologize for not responding sooner. I am still getting used to posting on Google/RUclips... I have not posted my animation on RUclips.I actually filmed it old-school on Super8mm film, and it looks very similar to Southpark style animation, though it pre-dates that show by a couple decades. I have been wanting to reanimate it in Flash, as the original film is really old and looks way amaterish. Do you still animate? Are you living in another part of the country now? I love the music you use in your animation. It reminds me of 30s stuff. You might want to check out Caravan Palace, a band that is from France. I think they are on RUclips, and they do some cool electroswing that would lend itself to your style of animation. E me if you get a chance. Thanks for all the great animation!
Mike Govette
You should get your super 8 films transferred asap, before even the transfer technology is an obsolete format. You can download a free time limited version of Flash to see if it appeals. It used to be easier to use and to code than it is now. I'm not animating anymore, prefer painting because it's real, got burned by a lot of digital technology that no longer works, so years of creative output lost.
@@sallycruikshank I'd love to see your paintings!! Sorry that you lost your work, ughh!!! What a shame! 😭
Amazing - I found myself telling my 16-year-old son, "That never happened to me..." and realized I knew where I'd heard that before, and might actually be able to show him! Poor Winky Orlando, I've often identified with him.
I first saw Quasi at the MIT Architecture Machine in 1976 (now the Media Lab) where one of the employees had gotten a copy and projected it onto a wall-size screen.
This is art that frees the mind. Many thanks for this. It has remained pleasantly in my subconscious...
I thought I had just discovered your animation for the first time... until I saw that you did many of the Sesame Street animations that I grew up watching! I completely agree with what you said at the end of this video. I draw comics and I've found that, in the wider comics community, most creators have no desire to actually take advantage of the freedom granted to them by their medium (be it comics or animation). I don't understand the obsession people seem to have with realism.
Sally, your stuff is amazing! :) I like it just as much now as I did when I was little, perhaps even more so!
Thanks Spencer!
@@sallycruikshank You're very welcome! :)
@kindolwood Keep drawing silly wonderful things!
sally, ive just gotta say you are a HUGE inspiration to me. ever since ive seen your animating face like a frog last year ive wanted to draw and animate more than ever before. ive told most of my friends about you and i would go on and on about your work for hours if i could
Wow that's so very nice. Stay inspired!
I absolutely LOVE this womans work.
aww, thanks phoebe thewolflizard!
Hi Sally. I'm an artist and a lot of my love for "old style cartoons" comes from your work. I've dabbled in animation and finding your work again is inspiring me to get back into it.
I wish you'd had a movie, Sal.
I remember Sally Cruikshank cartoons from the children's television show Sesame Street as a little kid. All of her cartoons are kind of different in certain ways. I like how she puts weird creatures in different universes. Sally makes all tell a story of their own. I like Sally's style of Neo 30's through todays characters.
i am going to call you the Dali of animation do you like ?
+Tsiki Condor thank you Tsiki Condor!
Holy fresh cranberries thank u !!!!!!!! ;)
Glad it was inspiring. I'm surprised you're working on paper at animation school. I never had a preference on flipping- think at first I used top pegs but animation camera people preferred bottom pegs because it made it easier to switch out drawings. I did a lot of the cel inking on my films, but not all of it.
Yeah, hey, me again. Just can get rid of me, can you?
I saw this comment and had to wonder, did you personally ink the sequence in "Make Me Psychic," of Anita getting dressed for Snozzy's party? It's a great bit -- I have had dresses, parts of which I had to hold in my teeth in order to get 'em on right. Come to think of it, my favorite one of them was red.
Wardrobe difficulties like this are where a personal maidservant could be wildly useful. And it would be fun to know that "my" Anita was inked by you.
Snarton, thanks for telling me about "Ghost of Stephen Foster." It's great. Has your friend made other cartoons as well? I'd love to see them.
Thanks, Marbles. It was KQED in San Francisco. Good point about animation gasping.
Sally, I love you and your brilliant, delightfully deranged work! You have been a huge influence on animation, espescially of the more imaginative, surreal variety. A toast to you and your remarkable creativity, and a huge thank you for such wonderful memories! 🤗
Thank you so much, Paul. Have a great weekend and stay inspired!
So what IS your first name, RHSteeleOH? Too bad the tape disintegrated where they followed me through Woolworth's on Market St. as part of a segment on where I got ideas!
I used to go see her stuff every time it played at the old Fox Venice when I was a kid. And I still say “goodbye Quasi” when I leave the house.
sweet!
You are my biggest inspiration when it comes to art. I love your work!
You are so nice. Thanks so much. Stay inspired!
Wow! I only just stumbled across your work now, but I must say, these are quite unique!
Yay, hooray. Look around, look around!
Thanks for all your nice comments, H1... No I don't know Terre Roche.
I don't think I've ever seen a more lucid looking human being. :)
If you knew me, you wouldn't think so! But I'm good at math!
Just discovered your beautiful work, Sally. Terence McKenna mentioned his admiration for your animation during his last recorded interview. Instant fan, here! Thanks so much.
Sweet, the McKenna fans, just wish I'd met him.
You're so great! Love your psychedelic style!! Totally glad my friend shared "Quasi at the Quackadero" with me!! Thanks for all of your hard work and inspiration 💗🌌🏞️🥸🤩🤖🦕🦤🦆✍️💘🐸🌈💖
Thanks- love your emojis!
No. Actually don't even know what it is.
Thanks for your nice comments, Mooshpups. I grew up in Chatham.
I love your animation you’re one of the people who helped me get into art
Oh my gosh! I haven't seen any of these cartoons since the seventies. It's wonderful you're uploading your work to RUclips so a wider audience can see your wonderful terrific stuff. Your cartoons are like the successors to the Fleischer Studios on acid.
I don't look like THAT anymore!
She is so pretty
Chatham, New Jersey. 07928
@Launchpad05
You know Pat Block? Cool.
Haven't people like him basically been forced to work mainly for European publishers, since the Duck stuff just can't get any consistent tracton in America these days?
thanks but reflecting the times also.
You're the best, Sally!
You're welcome!
@laughingsal
Have you tried contacting KQED? Surely a copy must be in their vault somewhere.
@Marbles471 I know. The only legitimate traction that the Ducks ever got was 'DuckTales'. These days, I'm angry at Disney for turning it's back on quality animation, and entertainment in favor of worthless tween junk that nobody over the age of 16 with A Y chromosomes would ever enjoy! I'm sick, and tired of them shoving Miley Cyrus, Hilary Duff, and Selena Gomez down our throats, and they don't seem to care about the damage that Britney Spears, and Lindsay Lohan have wreaked on society!
The variety of animation is actually what makes it so interesting, perhaps it's less interesting when it just tries to be like a live action film. Obviously your work isn't completely abstract, but it follows in the steps in the animation pioneers (such as Cohl, and later Messmer and Fleischer) who wanted an inventive humorous style, which exploited the characteristics of the medium than tried to hide them.
Yes exactly, animation is capable of doing anything so why not do that. It's exactly the same for comics, some great independant or underground comix have shown how that form is virtually unlimited in imaginative potential, same with animation. Animation I actually see as related to experimental film in some ways, it can push at the borders of the medium, being inventive within the structure and form as well as the subject.
Thank you so much for putting this up!!!! loved the interview and I agree why put the animals back in the meadows, when they can do any thing!!! I love your work so so so much!!!
Thank you, Miguel!
I love your surreal and psychedelic animations Sally!! (along with Vince Collins)....
Thanks Ramiro. Vince Collins and I were both at the San Francisco Art Institute in spring 1971.
@@sallycruikshank Yeah, i hear that somewhere....you both also presented your shorts in a animation festival...right?
I'm that "Russell" guy, I really would have liked to seen that Woolworth segment.
I studied Cruickshank works seriously in college. It affected my thesis, no, my world view. I'm in Japan, and I'm showing these on RUclips to people saying "You have to know this!"
THANK YOU! She's soo amazing!
I'm a ducks fan, too. I grew up watching 'DuckTales', and i know an actual Uncle Scrooge artist named Pat Block. I made a Flash cartoon that has Scrooge in it.
Growing up in New Jersey! What part? (I live there currently)
Ms. Cruikshank im curious do you still have the model sheets at 1:32 and others like it?
I'll take a dive in the archive and let you know if anything turns up.
I took a look and couldn't find it. I have color model sheets but that's different- just info for people painting the cels.
Ah okay. Still very interesting find. I'm very thankful you took the time to look at all. Thank you!
This is amazing. You are incredible.
Sally, have you ever considered doing an interview on Shokus Internet Radio?
I first saw her cartoons at a animation festival in San Francisco in 1976
Wow, what magazine did you step out of
are you friends with lynda barry? i feel like you would be friends with lynda barry.
just discovered you & your work and i am so, so inspired!!! independent animation (and art of all sorts) is so great, isn't it? so highly agreed regarding "distortions," and the wonder and playfulness of going off-model, and how that communicates character and meaning. i'm telling my younger sister all about you immediately - i think your creativity and genuineness can get anybody's mental gears turning, whether they identify as an "artist" or not, of any age…… kind of magnificent! thank you for being such a wonderful human being!
Hi eli, Thanks for your nice note, really nice comments. No, I don't know lynda barry but I like her work a lot. The LA Weekly used to run her comic strip. And I know her book on using imagination has helped many people out of a non-inspired hole. Best to you and your sister.
It's interesting you say your characters are ducks, but I always saw them more as frog people (especially in the sesame street shorts).
I agree- they do seem more like frogs.
Thanks for your lovely comment. If you live in a 100 acre wood, you are very lucky.
Thanks. Good Luck with your work. If you keep your projects small at the beginning you'll have a better feeling of success. (didn't explain that well.)
Hey, iwritemynamehere, I appreciate all comments but don't take them too seriously, but I do think you're right saying I was before my time.
And MisterEsoteric I've never understood why Good Vs. Evil is a good plot to follow! Geez!
Thanks all for nice comments. I don't know what Super jail is but I'm glad I'm not in Super jail.
After 40 years of making this video, how do you react to the type of animation that is used today?
I don't see that much of new animation. Sometimes I see things I like, but I hate that Auto Zone style- maybe it's software that creates the whole thing.Lots of things I don't like actually!!
Thanks, rcnotes. Fun on Mars won a prize there too, which was a big thrill back in 1971 I think.
Learning you were inspired by the Donald and Scrooge comics makes me very happy!
Carl Barks was a great artist and storyteller.
@Madamluna Thanks- I'm sure they are somewhere around here but no idea where. Sorry.
just some kind of felt tip pen that was available at the time, maybe it was a Flair.
i love your work. always have.
@tibetronica really? I feel humbled to read that. Good luck to you- Sally
very inspiring! maybe i watch this interview x50 ! i do my little underground world since long time and your words always inspire me . Hello from France Sally ! :)
Merci!
Thanks, morganic88- would like to get back to London sometime.
Would you say Yellow Submarine influenced you?
Maybe not as much as you'd expect. That was 1968 and I only saw it once, so it's not like today when you can view things again and again. I was most influenced maybe by the color. But at that time I hadn't even thought about animation.
I want to devour you
cpnscarlet, no I never did anything with the Firesign Theater.
@2011Donnaslater Thanks for your thoughtful comment!
@wardrich Thanks for such a nice and thoughtful comment.
Jeepers! You are brilliant!
Especially the eye rolls...
Jeepers creepers, thank you.
@Ogopogo57 interesting comment, thank you.
i am so interested in continuing work in psychedelia, but i am starting to love doing traditional work. your work is a wonderful inspiration to me! i am nervous going into art college. your work is really great!
Use a pencil when you can and stay inspired.
Remarkable to meet the brains behind the brilliance, Sally!
I agree wholeheartedly with what you say about breaking the laws of physics in animation.
However, it seems like so much animation today is fantasy in the worst sense: Good vs Evil melodramas with all the video game anti-aesthetic and shallow characters that are blandly pretty with no personality at all. Anime, to me, is the worst culprit. That's why I'm in love with your work- it's so alive with originality, personality & fun!
i love you so much. you're truly an animation legend.
Aww so nice...
@TobyHalicki089 Thanks Toby!
@Mooshpups Chatham.
I love this.Thankyou so much.
Thanks Oreo M.
sally's so pretty!
Hi! I really love your animations and your characters. I noticed your reference sheets in the interview and I was wondering if you had them scanned/uploaded anywhere. I'd love to look at them!
good advice :) i always wondered why your animations were at random. I think I like the one with the frogs and that haunted house or something. the main character is like, engraved into my memory since i first saw it, and he kinda sounds like my math teacher (im 14). I can also really relate to Quasi, because he kinda reminds me of myself. I have interests that most people normally wouldnt have because im autistic. Everytime i go on youtube i watch your films cuz there like Mona Lisa to me =D
What a great video! Where was this broadcast?
I'm especially curious since animation in the U.S. was gasping for breath back then--practically dead, really. Only independents like you were doing anything interesting. But since animation had such a low reputation, it's great to see that someone was interested enough in artists like you to interview them for TV.
Went looking for you on YT after watching my copy of QATQ (from CN's 100 Greatest Cartoons). Nice interview...got some insight into your art. Ever do anything with the Firesign Theater??? Some of their routines would be great fodder for your style of animation.
I remember your films from the Ann Arbor FIlm Festival. I think the first was Quasi at the Quackadero and then the ultra-fine Face Like a Frog! They are still some of my faves from over 30 years of attending the AAFF. Thank you so much!
This was such a treat! You have such a great philosophy on cartooning. (: You're making me really consider getting into cartooning and animation again, but I feel like it's probably a pretty hard business to make money in. x)
I also enjoy the fact that everybody seems to think you've done a ton of drugs, and from the replies you really seem like you haven't. That makes me really happy! Makes me wanna go use my imagination all over the place. xD
So inspiring, Sally!! Can't believe I only learned about you this year, love your work! So liberating to see what's possible if you open your mind. I'm an animator from Belgium, you definitely inspire me to make more weird magical experimental animations. Thanks for the wonderful art.
Thanks for your nice comment, Jango Jim. Stay inspired!
@@sallycruikshank wowie! Thanks so much for answering and the nice words, Sally! I'm on it, been to the park and drawing flying fruit right now :).
glad you enjoyed it.
aww, yer so NICE!
o sally how lovely, i seem to remember this, was it kqed? anyway thank you for posting it, i LOVED seeing your drawings.