Here is Winser McCay and his animation called "Gertie the Dinosaur". He created a dinosaur to show hes skills as a animator so that he has no real references on how a creature should look.
Again McCoy plays on the relationship he has with his animation like the previous examples but the quality of drawing is at a higher standard and something a little more closer to what we are used to seeing today.
I feel although it is a great animation, allot of cycles are used and i found it a little repetitive. Repetitiveness however works well in cartoons when going for a comic affect, for example popular animations today like "Family guy" has lots of gags in which it tests the patience of the viewer and is funny through the cheek of the animator playing with his audience. I don't feel it works for this animation as no comic affect is trying to be achieved from its cycles but instead, is used to simply prolong the ending of the animation.
All this being said, its a very early animation and wasn't set out to be a overly comic piece but a statement to Winser McCay's audience on how well he can animate which i think he has achieved successfully.
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