A little explanation is in order for the piece of video that can be found on the front page of the site. It's supposed to look animated, but it's really small, so now it kinda doesn't. Anyway, the way it came up is that we have been discussing the future direction of Schadenfreude and something I've been particularly obsessed with is Rotoscope animation, or the type of animation you see in Waking Life.
I thought it might be a unique take on scenario comedy. So I started brainstorming with my friend Ryan at BODC Labs, a small indie post-house, of a way to simulate Rotoscope without the pain-in-the-ass of keyframe animation. So what you're seeing is our first application of a process we call Fauxtoscope. It's overlayed on video that can be found elsewhere in the site, however, being that it's so small on the site, you kinda can't tell there's an animation overlay anyway.
HOWEVER I BEG OF YOU
to sit through exactly two minutes to see the digital tracking shot out of the Dinnerbansky & Ross Building. One of the great things about Fauxtoscope is that it obscures all the errors that call the human eyes attention to digital creation, giving you unlimited opportunities for cheap in-house special effects. Also because it cuts the whole image down to 30 or 40 colors, it's easier to pull mattes, so there's actually no reason to leave the house to shoot an entire show in several hundred locations, or even do a show that is merely a re-enactment of the last 24 minutes of True Lies.
One long running joke that can only be shown digitally is the D&R Building, one of two objects that can be seen from space. The size of the D&R building has always been a long-running joke for us, but one so visual that it has never made it to stage or radio, In scale miles, the picture you see of the D&R Building is 1 mile away. The building is taller than those Malaysia Buildings and on the bottom thirty stories are longer than an AirCraft Carrier. Only in the digital domain.
Anyway, thought you'd find that interesting, however ineffective the whole thing might be on the site.
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