“Nosy Bear”, A Sketchbook Film by Fran Krause
A new short by Fran Krause (Moonraker, Utica Cartoon), Nosy Bear is a character study of a bear in the woods. The “making of” video below serves as a fantastic look into Krause’s unconventional production methods. His dime-sized drawings were drawn sequentially in a sketchbook, but not overlayed to test the movement of the animation. When I saw the sketchbooks last summer, I wondered how it was all going to come together. Very well, in fact.