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Hi,

I saw an act a while ago and I would love to know his name, I haven't a clue as it was a few years ago. Hence this post.

His 'best bit'/funniest bit is where he gets someone to come up on stage.

He shuffles a pack of cards. They have the names of animals written on them.

He asks for the person to select a card. And then he draws on a page of a big pad (so that we the audience can see what he has drawn).

Each time he draws the same animal shape. But when the person says what the animal on the card is he quickly adds a feature.

This isn't the 'magic' part. As it's all visable to the audience but not the person selecting cards. It's very funny.

Each time he draws the same shape. Then if it was elephant draws a trunk. Cat whiskers. Etc.

The final one is giraffe.

He's left with the same basic shape.

But of course then he magically makes the neck grow really tall. That's the magic part.

Does anyone know who does this trick????

Thanks for any help.

A link to their shows/website would be cool too.

I've not seen this specific routine but I believe it's Axtel's technology... I may be wrong, Kevin James and a few others have some nifty drawing pads out there... that is, if what you're actually after is the trick.

As to who this may be, I've not a clue; doesn't sound familiar.

Could also be an El Duco effect, but I too have not seen that particular routine.

i think this is a variation on the cardiographic, and Im sure ive seen Lewis perform it at some time.
However, Tarbell 8 ( or is it 7) has a whole section devoted to animated drawings.. so it might even come from there.

Hi

I'm not really looking at the trick, it's the magician I'm after.

But it looks like a normal art shop A3 pad of paper.

He draws on the first three, same animal shape for each.

Last one he doesn't but pretends to do (covers from audience)

And that one the neck magically stretches up for a giraffe.

Not sure if it's 'animation'

google suggests its Dan Sperry

daleshrimpton wrote:google suggests its Dan Sperry

Who had a bad night last night on AGT.

didnt he do the show a few years back?

Incidently google does confirm that this IS a variation on Lewis's Cardiograpic.

which IS an animated drawing effect, and comes from an idea published in Tarbell.

you just need to know what to type in

although this doesnt mean that we have identified teh Performer, since this variation is a marketed effect, available through Hocus Pocus.. and so the mystery magician, could of been absolutly anybody with the cash to buy the pad.

for example, google tells me that Tim Shoesmith did it a couple of years ago in an IBM Stage competition.

found it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPsgGruMjT4

and on the cafe, there is a long discussion regarding this, and it's originality.

Mac King also performs it.. and that MIGHT be who you saw.

http://www.cleverguys.com/store.htm#STR ... _THE_TRUTH

Ah,

Thanks for that.

But it was neither of those ...

But the youtube clip was exactly how it was done.

Shame as i thought the person I saw was some guy who had come up with this, the jokes and stuff were all the same.

Boo.

It had seemed so original.

Ok, back to watching rope and card tricks for me