I spent a few days helping out the guys over at Nervo on a series of online promos for Let Us Kiss. With this one, I was tasked to animate the feathers from a beautiful illustration done by Linn Olofsdotter, spending hours cutting out individual strands and writing expressions in AfterEffects to efficiently control the speed and fluidity of the animation.

Nervo has posted a few behind-the-scenes shots of this piece here.

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After all the positive feedback from last year’s inaugural “Best of 2006″video, it was seemingly decided by all my friends that I had no other choice to make another one for 2007 (and on). This time, I added a small constraint that any music I used had to be released that year. I also changed cameras, getting a Panasonic Lumix around March, which was a double-edged sword – shooting better quality video than the Sanyo, but a heavy drop in audio quality. (more…)

UPDATED, August 26, 2008. After all the great feedback and general interest in the making of these flipbooks, I thought I’d answer some questions and present more detail with the process. The following is the original post with added details and other thoughts.

I can’t quite remember how I got the idea, but I thought it would be fun to create some flipbooks based off of video I had shot. The challenge was to be able to efficiently process the frames from a 3-5 second clip, have them printed by a photography shop, and assemble them as easily as possible. (more…)