This incredible animated video took Alan Becker 3 months to make and it shows, it is truly amazing. Very well done, what an imagination.
Artist's Comments:
"An animator faces his own animation in deadly combat. The battlefield? The Flash interface itself. A stick figure is created by an animator with the intent to torture. The stick figure drawn by the animator will be using everything he can find - the brush tool, the eraser tool - to get back at his tormentor. It's resourcefulness versus power. Who will win? You can find out yourself. -- This took three long months.. I think it's worth it."
Donnie Hoyle even though a little foul mouthed but funny (he needs to be chewing Orbit gum while making these videos) does a great video showing how to use Photoshop. For reference, I will outline below how to do the steps Donnie Hoyle shows in the video but for Windows, not a Mac.
Open 2nd photo, Ctrl + A to select all, Ctrl + C to copy, go back to the 1st picture and Ctrl + V to paste 2nd photo creating a new layer
Now to flip the picture. Go to Edit, Transform, Flip Horizontal
Ctrl + T to Transform the picture down to size
Now to give it some perspective. Go to Edit, Transform, Distort
Now to warp it a little. Go to Edit, Transform, Warp
Now to give it a layer effect. On the Layer tab, click the drop down and chose Overlay, and you're done!
Using this Photoshop tip I added a restaurant hygiene grade C posting in the window of this McDonald's based on the lowest of the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (DHS) inspections.
A stunt on a "grand" scale. Over 200 Improv Everywhere Agents froze in place at the exact same second for five minutes in the Main Concourse of Grand Central Station. The onlooking travelers who weren't part of the act were mystified as to what was going on.
Head over to Improv Everywhere for more behind the scenes mission report and photos.
"The Affair” To Remember: Historically, Orbit commercials have had the brand's lovely British spokeswoman (played by Vanessa Branch) stepping into a situation where someone has a dirty mouth and saving the day by giving them a piece of gum to clean that dirty mouth. However, in the case of "The Affair," which finds a wife confronting her husband and his mistress at his office, the trio featured is rendered incapable of uttering a bad word from the start because they are already chewing Orbit gum—so they are forced to spew the kinds of goofy insults third graders might swap on the playground.
"You son of a biscuit-eating bulldog!" the wife yells at her husband as she barges into his office to have at him and the other woman, who happens to be a co-worker of his.
"What the French toast?" he responds.
"Did you think I wouldn't find out about your little doo-doo head cootie queen?" she asks.
"Who are you calling a cootie queen, you lint licker!" the other woman angrily retorts.
"Pickle you, kumquat!" the wife shouts back. The bickering continues, with the wife eventually dumping a box of car parts at her husband's feet. Turns out she put his prized convertible through the wood chipper in a fit of rage.
The Orbit spokeswoman suddenly pops up in the midst of the heated exchange. "Fabulous. New Orbit raspberry mint cleans another dirty mouth," she proclaims.
The trio stops trading barbs long enough to flash smiles at the camera, then the fighting ensues in the background as the tagline "For a good clean feeling no matter what" appears on the screen.
Cast Howard J. Rosen as the philandering husband, Jane E. McPherson as his angry wife and Jessica M. Lee as his defensive mistress.
