A mad scientist tries to reanimate a copper coil and takes what he’s learned to reanimate Corey, his clay friend.

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2010 (0:26) – I was playing around with some new stop motion software over the weekend and created this tragic tale about a duck. Since I was just testing out the software and have no idea how to create stop motion movies, I was pretty much making it up as I went along. There’s really no rhyme or reason to it. Hopefully I’ll create something far more interesting in the coming weeks. Until then.. Duck Motion.

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2010 (1:52) – In Heaven, everything is fine. You’ve got your good thing and I’ve got mine. Song from Lynch’s Eraserhead. Muppet-style. Lovable menace.

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iPod/iPhone version. Click to view. Right click to download. 19 mb

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2009 (1:47) – Meditation on reflection and the effects of drastic grooming. Music is composed by my friend Eric from The Commuter.

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Who’s in my fridge? I think they’re leaving the light on. Not sure though. Does milk frighten them? Are they just looking for paradise? These fridge people better help pay this month’s energy bill.

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Here’s the original movie, posted yesterday. You can find the plot there. No idea why we’re calling it “Don’t Ask”. Don’t ask.

And here it is in 3D…

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Anyway, we’re going down!

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2005 | 9:24

I was sure this day would come. I thought it would come 3 years ago. But it’s here now and I hope you are all frothing at the mouth, chomping at the bit, doing whatever it is you do when you’re excited. Stall has been completed. A project that started in the summer of 2005, four years later is done. This movie has gone through so much since then.

Stall is a short comedy about a guy stuck in a bathroom. Paul just wants to get home, but that is easier said than done.

Lespants came to me in the spring of ‘05 and said hey do you want to work on this movie I wrote? I thought it was a funny script and said sure. We held some pre-pro meetings and had a casting call. Our mutual friend Dave Schoner provided the location, and what a perfect location it was. We actually didn’t have the bathroom until the very last minute, but it worked out great. We had an empty building in Newark, NJ and an office for staging. 2 days in a stifling bathroom was rough, but everyone was just happy to be shooting it. That proved to be the easy part.

Our dear friend Dan began cutting it in the fall of ‘05 and gave us a great first cut. But life took over and bills needed to be paid, so Dan bowed out of the project. That winter Christian took all of the footage to California with him and planned on finishing the thing there. A stolen hard drive and a year later, the footage came back east.

Other projects began to take priority, but Stall always lingered. Much of this is Dan’s original cut, which I basically trimmed and finessed. Ultimately adding music, sound design, and doing color.

There is so much footage littering the cutting-room floor. The original script was about 20 pages and we shot most of it. We were wet behind the ears back then and weren’t sure what we could do with it. 20+ minutes would have been too long. I toyed with the idea of making it a web mini-series. Though It probably was more like a TV pilot than anything else. In the end, I’m just happy it’s finished so we can put this project behind us. We owed it to Matt and Michael who are awesome in it and worked their butts off.

Without any further delay, I give you Stall.

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We got to again work with the awesome and friendly people at Howcast which was really nice. Their website is not only a place to find great How To videos, but it’s such a resource for filmmakers looking to sharpen their skills. Definitely check it out.

So grab a friend and play some Gin.

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Howcast is a pretty cool How To site which has hundreds of neat video tutorials. Things like How To Pick up a Flight Attendant and How To Look Hot While Playing “Rock Band”. This is not your father’s How To website.

It all gets wrapped up in their standardized packaging. They provide a basic script, a VO track, graphics, and access to a music library. Leaving us to shoot it any way we want.

We downloaded How To Do a Flea-Flicker. (Grammatically incorrect title. Should be: How to RUN a Flea-Flicker) Christian shot it in front of a green screen on HD with our friend Noah Starr filling in as the entire team. Then I edited it and ran it through After Effects; adding backgrounds and motion graphics work. It was fun to see it all come together and it helped me perfect my FCP to AE to FCP workflow.

Have a looksie… Hopefully you’ll dominate this year’s family pigskin pickup game.

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