iamnotagoodartist

Here’s a fake* commercial I made for my Interactive TV class. I edited the images in Photoshop then animated them in After Effects. The voiceover is pretty horrible; I just used my laptop’s built-in mic. Oh, well. You can’t have everything.

The images were gleaned from morguefile.com and were taken by (in no particular order) Saffrodite, missyredboots, Slartibartfast, cohdra, xandert, gracey, jeltovski, hotblack, kevinrosseel, jpkwitter, and Jusben.

* Fake, in that we were experimenting with a new TV interface, and G&M was one of the companies allowing us to use their namesake in our test assets. We got no money from their “sponsorship.”

The sketch comedy group I’m in, Something Else, made a short film called “The Last Mullet.” We put it online last week. Watch it here at Vimeo.

“In a world where the mullet has been outlawed,
one man stands up for his rights to be Amurican.”

I make a cameo around two minutes in as a rad dude getting his hair cut, but my real job was “visual effects,” fixing things in post-production and making the title and stuff.

This is from a dolly shot where you could see the reflection of the camera on the truck, a big faux pas in our industry. I motion-tracked a still image of the truck’s side onto it, covering the reflection.

If you’ve got twenty free minutes and a good internet connection, go watch it. Everybody put a lot of work into it and it’s pretty sweet.