Leunig Animated Exhibition: In the Adelaide City Region of South Australia

The South Australian Museum currently has an exhibition of a collection of the works of Michael Leunig, cartoonist and social commentator who's shown us there are numerous ways of looking at the world.

Leuing's taps into our nagging fears and doubts, our hopes and our aspirations. Over the years millions of Australians have followed the adventures of Mr. Curly, the Everyday Man, The Simpleton and Vasco Pyjama, the brave searcher who left all that was understood and safe to circumnavigate his own world. Now the adventures of these classic Leunig characters have finally moved from the newspaper page to three-d animation.

This is Michael Leuing's condensed version of the evolution of man. For more than thirty years he's tried to make sense of our world. Firstly through cartoons in newspapers around the country but now, thanks to actor and producer Bryan Brown and the team at Freerange Animation, many of Michael Leuing's classic insights have been taken to another level.

The Museum's exhibition, Leunig Animated, takes us behind the scenes. Leunig's always known the power of the image to transfix an audience. Now, at the South Australian Museum you can see the props, sets and story boards used to transform a two dimensional cartoon into so much more. Each puppet is moved frame by frame at 25 movements per second - that equates to 15 hundred movements for every minute of animation. It’s a laborious process but it’s well worth the wait.

Leunig Animated is on at the South Australian Museum until July the 27th, 2003. Admission is two dollars.