Sally Cruikshank was born in Chatham, New Jersey, the daughter of parents Rose and Ernest.
16 Facts About Sally Cruikshank
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Sally Cruikshank's parents were both Southerners, with her father, an accountant who worked in nearby New York City, New York, holding a Phi Beta Kappa key from Duke University, in North Carolina.
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Sally Cruikshank has a brother, and had a sister, Carol, who died in 1991.
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Sally Cruikshank studied art at Smith College, where in her junior year art teacher Elliot Offner sent slides of her colored-pencil and clay-relief-on-paper drawings to a screening committee that resulted in a scholarship to the two-month Yale Summer Art School.
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Sally Cruikshank hoped I'd figure out how to solve 3-d without glasses.
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Sally Cruikshank encouraged me generously without ever paying much attention to me.
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In 1975 Sally Cruikshank made a comic strip based on her characters Anita and Quasi, which was published in the third issue of the underground comics magazine Arcade.
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At Snazelle, Sally Cruikshank began developing her best-known work, Quasi at the Quackadero, working titles of which included I Walked with a Duck, Hold That Quasi, and Quasi Quacks Up.
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The 10-minute, 35mm short, with 100 watercolor backgrounds and approximately 5,000 cels, took two years for Sally Cruikshank to draw, followed by four months for photography and post-production.
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Sally Cruikshank independently financed the $6,000 budget, which went primarily for cel painting, sound recording and lab and camera work.
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Underground cartoonist Kim Deitch, then Sally Cruikshank's boyfriend, did some of the inking, using dip pen and rapidograph, with Kathryn Lenihan doing most of the cel painting.
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Sally Cruikshank evolved a recognizable style with surrealistic and psychedelic elements.
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Sally Cruikshank was in the process, as of 2011, of transferring her works into 35mm film format, for archival purposes.
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Sally Cruikshank then participated in a Halloween special of SpongeBob SquarePants called The Legend of Bookini Bottom in the 2D section of that special.
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Sally Cruikshank prefers the early New York City animation of such producers as the Fleischer Studios and the Van Beuren Studios, as well as early Bob Clampett.
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In 1986, Sally Cruikshank won the initial Maya Deren Award for independent film and video artists, given by the American Film Institute, along with Stan Brakhage and Nam June Paik.