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ADVENTURE FACE MICROMIX XVI New video in the works.

adventureface — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:51:10 +0000

Tracklist-
Purexed- P.O.S
Turn it Off- Phantogram
Rainbow in the Dark- Das Racist
Tin Man- Future Islands
Ultimate Satisfaction- Bear in Heaven
Hearts on Fire- The Radio Dept.
Come With Me- ceo
Lewis Takes Off His Shirt- Owen Pallett
Against Me- Why?
Some of these tracks are a little older, but I love em.

I had been goofing around with footage from my trip to Chicago, and made this terrible video very quickly. I am going to update with prettier and better transitions at some point. This was more an experiment to see how fast I could make something like this, so the overall work time on this video was just a little under an hour.

I have a new podcast that is almost ready for people’s enjoyment that I will announce everywhere once Aaron and myself get the website done.
TONS OF NEW SHIT LADIES AND GENTS!

Adventureface Micromix 15

adventureface — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:04:19 +0000

New Micromix? Say Wha?! I believe I left off on 14, if not WHO CARES I LIKE THE NUMBER!
ANYWAY, these have been my summer jams. Enjoy!

Track listing!
Fright Night- Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti
Maximalist- Baths
10 Mile Stereo- Beach House
Sweetest Kill- Broken Social Scene
Stay Close- Delorean
Daisy- Fang Island
Before Tigers- HEALTH (Gold Panda Remix)
Should Have Taken Acid With You- Neon Indian
Feel it All Around- Washed Out

Whoa why no posts in so long?!

adventureface — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:56:48 +0000

Because things have been crazy in Adventureface land, but I am going to make a commitment to myself to update this page like crazy now. I finished the newest ICTS video, and I am currently working on some really new and exciting things.

I Come To Shanghai-From Beefamids to Album Cover Part 2

adventureface — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:36:49 +0000

Once I received the video from Robert and Sam I knew that I would have to story board some key points in the song. So to start off I had to watch the footage they gave me. Here are the thumbnails of the videos.

So a few problems arose that I had to address. The big one was aspect ratio, and the differences in what I was working in versus what they had filmed. With the iSight, unless you are capturing everything in iMovie you can’t get anything other than 4:3 images. I was working in 16:9. The footage of Sam and Robert together had other problems because they were really close together. Sam was stuck on that left side, since he wasn’t fully in the frame. Thankfully the solo performances they did were totally awesome, and very easy to remove the green from the background.
That being said, I had to come up with what to do with the footage. I wrote down words for imagery that would eventually compose up scenes. Food, eyeballs, psychedelic, beef, children, archery, pyramids, kaleidoscope, gingerbread, pork, Rachel Ray, morph, sparkles, fire works, boy scouts, astronauts, and violence were the first words I wrote. Beef and Pyramid were easily paired together. I had talked with my girlfriend amanda about building an actual pyramid out of beef, but it was much easier to use some of my knowledge tiling texture maps to build the image. (I did this prior to story boards because the idea was so gross)

The last problem really had to do with content. I wanted this to look full with lots of things happening. I wanted the band to be the focus to a degree so that ruled out filming other people. Filming a bunch of people also could lead to problems down the road, and could potentially be a huge time eating behemoth. I do know how to animate traditionally, so mixed image manipulated photos were going to have to cut it. In order to hide the fact that I was using photos with limited animation, I needed to change the scene every 11-16 seconds to keep things visually interesting. The song is 4:41, or 281 seconds, which if I wanted each scene to be 15 seconds long it would give me around 19 scenes total. Making a narrative out of the overall video given the stuff I had already made was going to be a creative stretch. One idea was the boy scout with a giant eyeball for a head, running around in every scene trying to earn some sort of merit badge.
The storyboards were pretty funny, but the problem was time. The band wanted to get the video done in 4-6 weeks. I was already at week 2 at this point, so I couldn’t go this route. I decided that in order for me to be the most effective I need to create 18 visually interesting scenes that I could fit the band into. Some of the footage that Sam and Robert had sent reminded me of karaoke, and it’d be really rough to do the entire song like that in 4 weeks, the chorus sections would be really easy! So I sketched a bunch of things on paper, and off I went. The Beefamid I had constructed was pretty much good to go, so I worked on incorporating it into the beginning of the video.

At this point It was the weekend before GDC started. I was 3 weeks deep, and I started to get worried that I wasn’t going to be able to get all the scenes assembled together in three weeks. I mapped out my placement of scenes in Final Cut, and it was looking pretty empty. Here is an example of what I mean.

Click here to view the embedded video.

4 weeks into the project, the band had yet to receive the mastered version of the song. This is when I started running into problems with my computer. I had been working on what would have become the guitar solo part, but my Macbook Pro I had owned for 9 months bit the dust. I had initially motion tracked a particle emitter to the end of Sam’s guitar, spraying donuts. The prism part was still in tact. Come to find out much later the second half of the karaoke/gingerbread house scene was also mangled. Here is the version that had graham crackers shooting out of the grass.

Click here to view the embedded video.

I was pretty upset, but a new fancy computer was fun.
Robert and Sam were pretty pleased on where I was at so far, and wondered if I wanted to take a shot at doing the cover. I shifted gears pretty hard here, and designing the cover was going to set the music video back a bit. I wasn’t about to pass up this opportunity either.
TO BE CONTINUED! (Probably Wednesday…)

I Come To Shanghai: Beefamids to Album Covers Part 1

adventureface — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:14:55 +0000

On March 8th, I sent a tweet to a Mr. Robert Ashley about the band Wavves. He sent me a reply regarding a video I had done for a good friend Martha Nunez which I will post here:

Robert asked if I would be interested in doing a music video for I Come To Shanghai. I was stoked that he went and watched my ridiculous madness I had posted on youtube and being a big fan of what Robert did on GFW Radio, and A Life Well Wasted. I knew right away that I had to do it. We started talking over email where he sent me an MP3 version of Your Lazy Eye. Generally my stuff is all based on things that I find funny, or are threads of inside jokes from friends.
“We don’t have any inside jokes, really. We like food, like the Dark Side of the Taco image on our site. It might also be fun to play around with the “lazy eye” thing. Really, though, just do your thing.” -Robert
The three of us definitely wanted footage of the band in the video. Sadly none of us have any really fancy camera equipment at all. In fact a majority of the videos I have made have all been with my iSight camera on my computer. This may not be the most professional way of getting footage, but it is cheap and convenient. Sam thankfully had a Macbook, so they went ahead and got the green screen thing figured out. In the meantime I really wanted to give them something to go off of. This video was the first idea I had, animating people with giant eyes for heads, tying it to the Dark Side of the Taco they had mentioned in the email.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Lazy Eyes are a secret pet peeve of mine. When I first moved to Arizona I worked with a woman with one and I always pictured her eyeball popping out, or exploding.

Click here to view the embedded video.

More to come on monday, including my process of storyboards once I got the band footage!

BENEFIT ARMADA

adventureface — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:28:59 +0000

2 Songs from the upcoming Benefit Armada Album

AFTV Season II, Coloring Book 2

adventureface — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:59:49 +0000

I have 6 new coloring book pages, download the PDF. These will be updated way more frequently.
HERE

<3 Adventureface

NEW ADVENTUREFACE TV!!!! Jessica Bumphartz and a birthday card for mi madre!

adventureface — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:58:25 +0000

Season 2 premier was delayed by technical problems but here you goooooooh!

ADVENTUREFACE-NEVER ENDING COLORING BOOK!

adventureface — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:15:37 +0000

NEVER ENDING COLORING BOOK! I add new pages every week!
Let me see your colored drawings too!
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Adventureface

Soooo…..

adventureface — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:29:12 +0000

This is Adventureface 2.0, I am going to be uploading all sorts of awesome business here. You can follow me on twitter at… http://twitter.com/adventureface
There is a funny blurb about Ducktales is Awesome at E Online Australia (?!)
http://tinyurl.com/5g6kma