Animation of the First Degree (Paperback)

From the Publisher: Animation of the First Degree chronicles a middle-aged hospital administrator's attempts to produce animated movies as a home based hobby. While balancing single parent responsibilities, financial pressures on the health care industry, and unfurling social circumstances, the amateur filmmaker's passion for mastering his technical abilities releases a latent artistic prowess.In some ways, the over-lapping challenges of concept, character, plot, and design seem to mirror the common trials of the modern human adventure. At a minimum, a similar sequence of maturation applies to the character's passage through life.With each successive labor of love, a personal style steadily progresses until the filmmaker becomes so deeply imbedded in an imagined mise en scène�he is stunned and horrified to discover that he can't find his way back out.