When the Greyhound bus got to Jacksonville, Florida, one driver got off the bus and another driver got back on. When I got to animating this scene I decided there wasn’t enough time to get the driver up the bus steps. Instead I had him already inside and walking down the aisle, seen only through the bus windows. This had the added advantage that I didn’t have to worry as much about animating his lags and arm swings. The animation went smoothly but I could not get away with animating him of fours. With that wide spacing between drawings he seemed to pop into view in the bus windows too abruptly. I had to put any animation seen in the bus windows on twos which means each drawing was held for two frames of film.
The bus painting was reused from the shot of the bus pulling up into Winter Park. To allow to see the character through the windows I duplicated the bus layer in Procreate and erased the windows- I stacked the layers so that the bus driver animation was between the background bus layer and the foreground bus layer. The main reason for doing this was that I could quickly paint the driver without being super careful about painting near the windows.
This film is now on display at the Orange County Regional History Center (65 East Central Blvd Orlando FL) for the new exhibition, Yesterday This Was Home, about the 1920 Ocoee Voting Day Massacre.
The exhibition is open until February 14, 2021. The 1920 Ocoee Massacre in Orange County, Florida, remains the largest incident of voting-day violence in United States history.
Events unfolded on Election Day 1920, when Mose Norman, a black U.S. citizen, attempted to exercise his legal right to vote in Ocoee and was turned away from the polls. That evening, a mob of armed white men came to the home of his friend, July Perry, in an effort to locate Norman. Shooting ensued. Perry was captured and eventually lynched. An unknown number of African American citizens were murdered, and their homes and community were burned to the ground. Most of the black population of Ocoee fled, never to return.
This landmark exhibition will mark the 100-year remembrance of the Ocoee Massacre. The exhibition will explore not only this horrific time in our community’s history but also historical and recent incidents of racism, hatred, and terror, some right here at home.
The content will encourage reflection on a century of social transformation, the power of perspective, and the importance of exercising the right to vote, and will ask what lessons history can inspire moving forward.
To promote safe distancing, the museum has implemented new ticketing procedures for this special exhibition. For the run of the exhibition, the museum will have extended operating hours to create a safe viewing experience for a greater number of people. On Sundays the museum will open two hours earlier at 10 am. and stay open two hours earlier until 7 p.m. And on Thursdays, we will be open from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.