This was an assignment in my sequential imaging class; to choose a video from ted.com and create an animation based off of it. I chose a tongue-in-cheek presentation about how laptops can be bad for the male reproductive system. You have been warned:
I know what you’re thinking: “Rocketman, you magnanimous man-deity- this doesn’t look like Blender at all!”
Well, you’re wrong. I used Blender for about 90% of my pipeline. I even used it to render the scratched-film appearance. The rest was Inkscape for the illustrations, and After Effects for some text transitions.
There are some really nice touches in this video, like “scratches on the film” and a slight shadowboxing effect, and a very compressed audio track. Just like those training films that some of us did have to sit through. Very, very well done.
(And, BTW, clean. Racy, but in a tongue-in-cheek way.)
Oh my god, i haven’t laughed that hard in a long time! Right after the first baseball that was it for me! And guess what i was doing when i watching that…sitting on the couch with my laptop on my lap! Great work rocketman!
I saw this at the TN Blender mini conference last week… It still makes me LMAO. I wouldn’t worry about it being too edgy. Yes, the subject is a bit mature, but I think you tackled it in a very tasteful way. Normally I like to give a bit of constructive criticism, but honestly I can’t think of a single thing that needs improvement. Most excellent.
Thanks guys! I just checked my grades, and I’m proud to announce that I made a grade of A- in the class. That was up from my previous mid-term grade of C+, so I can only assume that this animation got very high marks to bring up the average.
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