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Richard Sutcliffe is 32 years old and was formally diagnosed with profound autism at the age of 3. Autism seriously impairs his learning, social inter-action and communication skills and Richard often prefers his own company.
Richard is a fascinating enigma as he has extraordinary natural creative talents. He began seriously drawing cartoons at the age of 7, creating a universe where he can be the central character with complete control over everyone else’s movements. He has placed himself within a lot of classic and original stories, making comics, cartoon strips and thousands of sequential drawings to make cartoon animations. Richard loves stop frame animations, particularly Wallace and Gromit, and is soon to start filming with all the models and scenery he has built from his own characters.
Richard finds reading and writing very difficult and can only independently write a few words, but can copy any language from the internet and has translated his comics using Google Translator into dozens of different languages.
Richard attends Smerdon Day Centre, taking part in lots of different things such as bowling, gym and doing other activities he enjoys. He also spends time with his support workers: Mark, who helps him learn new computer programmes for his animations and how to use sound effects which make his cartoons even more exciting and Kyla, who takes him to the gym, up to London and other activities and helps him make his models for stop frame animations.
Unfortunately Richard experienced a catastrophe in November when his channel was deleted from YouTube. This was because overnight he uploaded 3 sections of his favourite DVD for others to enjoy as much as he did– he makes no profit from his channel and as his mental age is approximately 4 years, he has no appreciation of copyright issues. We appealed desperately to the solicitor representing the DVD involved to ask that he lift the complaint for 24 hours so we could delete the uploads and vowed to restrict Richard’s access so it could never happen again. Though the solicitor understood Richard’s profound disability, he absolutely refused to help in any way and demonstrated a distinct and very upsetting lack of empathy. Therefore we lost his channel with over a 100 cartoon animation films – this totalled more than 150,000 drawings made over 15 years and most importantly we lost all his followers and the lovely comments we have received over the years. Richard has had a very sad and tearful Christmas.
We have had to start all over again on YouTube, a mammoth task, and we would welcome any support you can give in viewing and promoting his channels and asking all your friends and colleagues to subscribe. This would mean so much to him and his family and friends.
New animations are being produced all the time, so please subscribe as he draws prolifically, 1000’s of drawings a month! Richard plans many thousands of animations and stop frames and he has titles and stories for at least 100 already in his head.
Richard is a wonderful young man and his ambition is the same as many other people – to be rich and famous!
Please visit www.moviesbyrichard.co.uk for all his comics in different languages and some of his films.
Richard’s animations can also be viewed on YouTube
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