This animation was inspired by the headache pain reliever commercials I saw on television as a child in the early '60s. I've always been fascinated by machinery and how simple mechanical devices work. Many of these TV commercials used animation -- often showing spinning gears, banging hammers and other such things inside the head of a hand-drawn character to represent his pain. I decided to make an elaborate machine having every such headache representation I'd ever seen or could think of.
This animation was inspired by the headache pain reliever commercials I saw on television as a child in the early '60s. I've always been fascinated by machinery and how simple mechanical devices work. Many of these TV commercials used animation -- often showing spinning gears, banging hammers and other such things inside the head of a hand-drawn character to represent his pain. I decided to make an elaborate machine having every such headache representation I'd ever seen or could think of.