Monday, December 27, 2010

Beyonce Dance Test

This gave me a whole new appreciation for Beyonce's skills.

Same armature used on Middle Distance Runner and These United States. It's about time to retire this guy.

Friday, December 3, 2010

Joshua Radin "Streetlight" making of

Here are some making of stills from my new video for Joshua Radin. Big thanks to everyone at Mom+Pop Records for making this project happen. I shot Josh in NYC in mid-September and had about one month to deliver the final cut. It was a tight schedule as there was a decent amount of stop-motion in the treatment. I opted to make the jigsaw puzzles by hand as I needed the parts to be fully interchangable -- he's mostly animated via stop-motion replacement animation.

The first stop was Factory Studios Brooklyn where we shot josh on green screen.

Josh was a great sport. He had to sit perfectly still between photos and do dozens of different positions.

Paul Yee mans the camera while I change my mind...again...




Back at the home studio it took a good deal of playing around to get the set lighting to match the location footage.



replacement phonemes waiting to be animated.


Puzzles fresh from the scroll saw. That blue puzzle came in handy later.