A Note from Hope Katz Gibbs, publisher, Inkandescent Kids magazine — Making kids giggle, grown-ups grin — then say “how’d he do that?” — when they look at his scanimation artwork is the goal for Rufus Butler Seder, who credits his parents for helping him become a filmmaker, inventor, toymaker, and author of several moving picture books published by Workman Publishing including Gallop! (2007), Swing! (2008), and his 2009 release, Waddle!

“My mom was a piano teacher, and my father Eugene (Gus) was a journalist and photographer who took me to see Fellini movies, wrote news stories about inventors, and was himself an inventor and a capable electrical and mechanical engineer,” shares Seder, who dedicated Swing! “To Mom, who made things fun, and Dad, who made things work.”

Seder took it all in, and starting in elementary school began turning out work that was sophisticated beyond his years. By the time he hit high school, he’d won numerous art awards including Kodak’s prestigious CINE Golden Eagle award. (He had collaborated on a film with high school friend Tod Gangler, who himself went on to become the world’s leading carbon printing photography expert.)

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