Post 810 - 1999: First Animated Gif for Internet Use

Trials and tribulations - in pharmacy, in the 1990s, in using a DOS animation software, and using a mouse to draw - and the 400x300 resolution was a real challenge for file size uploads!

...but there you go!...

Back when independent pharmacies had a fighting chance! 

Post 807 - Colorizing the Past - Pharmacy Failures #5 - Preparations A Through G and Potato, USP

 From the Animating Apothecary Archives

(c) MMXXVI (2026) Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary
 

Post 803 - July 2026 ASIFA Central Newsletter! (abbreviated due to rolling power outages!)

 

Post 801 - Look Hue's Here time! Get out the Prismacolors!

 (c) MMXXVI Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary

Post 800 - June 2026 ASIFA Central Newsletter

 

Post 799 - First Test Run on Reconstruction of "How a Mosquito Operates" Project

Destined for the Winsor McCay moment for the 2026 ASIFA Central International Animation Day celebration reel (silent, playing with edit) this October (August 2026 status - only about 1500 frames yet to color in!)

 (It's quick!)

 

And a quick GIF test for a reconstructed opening title:

 

Post 789 - Coming to RIFF in May! Dreyden Theatre, Eastman House Museum, Rochester NY

 

(c) 1999, 2023, 2026 Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary

Showtime on Saturday, May 2, 3pm "Matinee" block, Eastman Museum, Rochester New York

Dreyden Theatre, admission - FREE FREE FREE!!! 

Post 784 - Random Background Test of Scanned Material

 Using the convolutions in the Photoshop PS6 system...there are quicker ways!

 (c) MMXXVI (2026) Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary

 

And a PhotoShop GIF followed with a PhotoShop Tween effect, just to be sure PS6 still works!

 

Post 782 - New Year Doodle Dump for January

 

All images (c) 2026 MMXXVI Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary

Post 769 - 2025 IAD Poster Getting Drafty

 Very First Proto-draft for layout purposes - membership will be invited this week to play

 

Post 764 - Random Color Test Time!

 

(c) 2025 MMXXV Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary

Post 763 - A Sense of ILL at Ease

 

(c) 2025 Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary

(Yeah - it gave me a headache, too)

Post 761 - Flashback to the Disney Institute 1996

Brief, but it was air conditioned and 30 minutes well spent vs using the campground and hanging out in the laundry room (which was also air conditioned).  The biggest thrill was the "live" scanner that built this from our tracing papers in real time.  Oh those 1990s...

Post 760 - Time for more Peace

A reworking of the earlier "peace" animation, with coffee inserted because, well, because coffee!!!

ALMOST done 

(c) 2025 Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary

 Take four:

(c) 2025 Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary

The final version with sound on Vimeo:  Peace for Gaza 

Post 754 - "Circle the Wagons" - Another Ever-Evolving Project Since December

Will have to actually finish one of these things before too long!

 Sketch progression, in succession:

 

 

Uh oh - they wanted station wagons!

 And more characters!

And a color balance - first test

And again...

(c) MMXXV (2025) Jim Middleton, Phil Bellfy

And so it goes!  On to the next project...

OK, an animation with the colors...