Punk Rock Halloween Party

My new band is having our first show and, to promote it, I made this fun, trailer-esque video-flyer to pass around the web. 

Another True Blood promo

Here's the second promo I cut for BloodCopy.com, the online extension of HBO's True Blood. All content is directly related to a world in which vampires are known to exist. This is a piece of "found" footage of a dog show blooper, in which the blue ribbon is given to a naked man. 

True Blood promo

Here's one of the videos I cut that was part of a much larger campaign to promote season two of HBO's True Blood. The full campaign can be viewed here at the DK website.  The video itself isn't a traditional series promo. Instead it's part of a huge transmedia campaign involving a site called Bloodcopy.com, that's an extension of the True Blood world. I really like working on these types of shorts that fall outside the traditional :30 ad category.

Apple Profiles DK

Apple just profiled Digital Kitchen in the Creative Pro section on their site. It's mainly about the recent True Blood season 2 marketing we did along with how FCP is integrated in the process. I got a nice quote in there as well.

Check it out.

 

Top Chef Audience Choice

For reasons not worth explaining, I watch a lot of Top Chef. So, it was no surprise for me to learn that Fabio had won Audience Choice. He was a character. Everytime I watched the show I thought what a great character voice he'd make for a cartoon. I had to see it for myself, so I put together this very quick dialogue test. This is also my first dialogue test, as I've reignited an interest I left behind in college as an entry-level animation major.

There will be alot more animation posts in the future, as I develop more exercises and shorts.

Campaign Fame

In 2004, fellow editor, Sean McGovern and myself entered the Fast Forward Film Fest. It was a 24 hour filmmaking contest sponsored by the folks at Atomix Cafe in Wicker Park. Each event they would announce a theme followed by a curveball given the initial night of the contest to ensure that people couldn't pre-conceive their piece in any way. For this event the theme was "Fame" and the curveball was that you had to use footage in some way off a DVD provided to us by the wranglers of the event. 

The DVD provided, featured random footage of two men from NYC who had come to Chicago to witness the orchestration of this event, hoping to start a similar contest back at home. The Fast Forward people thought it would be fun to include them someway into the event itself. We did too. 

What follows is our video, which took first place, and shows exactly how we incorporated the footage we got into the theme of "fame." Try to imagine what these guys from NY must've thought as they saw this at the screening. 

Weekend Sketch

samhain sketch, originally uploaded by framecycle.

A quick sketch of Samhain taking one of many naps of the day.

More puppets and shooting.

Here's some finished puppet pics and my not-very-advanced green screen set up for the shoot. Boo the cat also shows his contribution while on set. 

puppet heads

puppet heads, originally uploaded by framecycle.

The puppet heads at an early stage of construction.

puppet sketch

puppet_sketch, originally uploaded by framecycle.

Here's the initial sketch I drew of the characters for the "Sky Is Falling" video. This is what Rachel used to create her puppets.