Dogs
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A Short Film In Which An Abstract Dog Licks An Abstract Face.
(Music: Apple Tart Cake by The Alexander All Stars)
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Behind the Scenes: My Stop Motion Breakdown.
These are a bunch of pictures I took while making the stop motion video for Ed Romanoff’s song I Must Have Done Something Right. You can see it here. The song is about a wedding toast made by a lifelong friend who is less than savory. When Ed asked me to make a video I listened to the song and thought it would be fun to make it about a guy and his dog—Ed had just adopted a sweet puppy around the time—but put a twist on it in that the dog was kind of a dawg.
Anyways, I spent a few weeks drawing while listening to the song with this idea in mind and then I sort of free form improvised during the shooting process. It would be nice to say that I had a plan, but the truth is, I just started playing with the drawings—turning them in to set pieces and puppets—and experimented with the camera angles and I let the ideas take me where they would. The video is sort of a performance in a way—I shot the scenes in order and went with it …
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Here’s to your best friend, whether he deserves it or not.
I made this stop motion video a while back, but it only just got released yesterday, in honor of National Best Friends Day. It’s a story of a young man and his dawg. Sort of.