089 Ford Prefect
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Preparatory sketch for Ford Prefect from the Episode 1 scene.

Layout drawing in Pencil on tracing paper (21 x 16 cm).

These bits of work were obviously not treated very carefully at the time as they were seen as rather transitory and merely a hasty means to an end. Hence there are various folds and torn edges on many of these drawings.

Drawings on tracing paper or animation key paper were taped in position like this for the camera setup and traced with Rotring pen in black ink onto clear cel. This was then reversed by contacting onto photolith film in the darkroom for camera artwork to be back-lit under the animation rostrum camera.

All these various pieces of artwork were originally taped to strips of 35mm film punched with peg registration holes. The aeons of time since they were created means that in most cases the sellotape or masking tape used to fix items in place for registration has long since dried up, become brittle, and separated.