#pie eye

This cheery Dino is Gertie. She was created by Winsor McCay for a short film released in 1914, called Gertie the Dinosaur. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Although Gertie is not the first animated character, she is the first dinosaur to be featured in any film, and the first character to have a distinct personality. The film is also the earliest to use different animation techniques, like keyframes, tracing paper, and animation loops, for example. And in 1991, her film was preserved in the U.S. Library of Congress' National Film Registry.

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The first art you see is young Gertie in her heyday, back in 1914.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------The second art is Gertie, 110 years later. She has gotten older, and her colors are fading a bit. While she's still cheeky, she's become much wiser over the years.

Still doing 1920′s themed pie eye/rubber hose limbed art as cool downs.

“Well thank goodness the man has a fainting couch for the melodrama prone.”