Catastrophes: A Flaming Tale

  

Updated Project: Catastrophes 

The initial idea was for a book based on the myth that cats have nine lives.  
I collected Nine true stories of cats that had survived serious accidents and then twisted the stories so that they had a more Monty Python feel about them. I then planned to do the illustrations for each Cat-astrophe tale.

Updating the idea: I was recently inspired by the animated gif made by Steemit member @artlover, whom I now follow. I have never tried animation before and he encouraged me to have a go and recommended Gif software. 

I have no idea if this has been done before as I have not researched the matter, however, what I imagined was ebooks containing gif animations rather than illustrations. It´s the internet right?  The Steemit platform seemed the perfect place to try this idea out. 

Using the original illustrations I made for the book, I had a go at trying make animations from them.  Needles to say this was much more work than I envisioned and I will need to do much more practice. 

Here is what I came up with : )
I began with the main logo that I had planned for the front cover of the book. 

Story One: A Flaming Tale 

Being the owner of many cats sounds like fun. It is, but it mean you will need several pairs of hands and eyes in the back of your head to cope with them. 

Miss Donna Donlan, from Leeds, England, was extremely fond of her cats and owned six in all. A psychologist by profession she also loved to paint in her spare time. Perhaps not surprisingly she liked to paint her mischievous cats.  Miss Donlan had pretty much painted portraits of all her cats except for one, `Fluffer`. This was somewhat strange because Miss Donal had a particular soft spot for Fluffer. "Fluffer is a dainty little thing and is always well behaved. She is just so quiet and gentle. Perhaps this is why I sometimes forget to keep an eye on her. Often my attention is diverted with having to deal with the cats and so I can also over-look Fluffer too. It was on such a day when one of my cats was particularly naughty that the accident happened"  Explained Miss Donlan.   Here she goes on to tell of the Cat-astrophe: "If I remember rightly it was close to Guy Fawkes Bonfire Night. I had finally got around to doing a portrait of Fluffer and had planned on trying something new. I would paint by candle light to see if I could get some interesting lighting effects. I closed the curtains and place a candle on the table next to the easel. I then placed Fluffer onto the coffee table where she would pose for me. Now I was all ready to begin. However, just at that point my other cats began with their favourite game. Chase. Joey, probably the naughtiest of all my cats, took hold of one of my paint brushes and began running around with it in his mouth. He was spreading paint everywhere. All over the walls and all over the furniture. I was not amused at all and began chasing after him. The other brats, er I mean cats, thought this was rather funny and were rolling about on the floor in hysterics.

After an exhausting chase around the entire house I eventually managed to retrieve the brush. I came back into the studio and I was greeted with a shocking sight of blazing light. Before my very eyes poor Fluffer was up in flames.
I had left a box of matches next to the candle and she had obviously become curious. God knows how, but somehow she had managed to light one and now her fluffy tail was burning like a firework. Only shear instinct caused me to react. I took hold of the glass of water that contained my paint brushes and threw it over Fluffer's flaming tail. Thankfully the vet said she would be fine but sadly her tail would never grow fur ever again.
Poor Fluffer, I  think she thought Guy Fawkes had come early that year" 

       

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