This is a very old project, made back while I was still in school. Representatives of the Federal Bureau of Land Management hired a fellow film student and I to produce this little animation, in which evolution is shown to take place, and its concluding apex is not just man, but specifically a cowboy.
During an early meeting, I joked that we should drop a big weight on him at the end, since so many cartoons end that way. I was only being silly, but the client liked the idea, and that is why it is in the animation now.
This whole animation was drawn in a very early version of Photoshop. Each frame of the animation was a seperate Photoshop layer, and the layers were then exported to a timeline in an editing suite called Media 100. Sound was then added, and the project was complete.
Matthew Stumphy
Scott Hurst