This was the first of many 48 Hour Film Projects I participated in. It was also how I met my wife. Our submission, How To Succeed In Business Without Really Dying, made it into the 2012 Best-Of Richmond Showing and won the award for “Best Use of Graphics.” How were graphics used, you ask?
Set to a song by The Books, blocks move in syncopated rhythm with the music during a slow graphical evolution. One of my earlier works using 3D Studio Max. All the keyframes were timed by hand, and the compositing of layers done in 3D Studio. Yeah you read that right. This was made before I knew anything about After Effects.
On Friday at 5pm my coworker Andrew Melzer (creator of Greg Prime) came into my office and told me about a 48 hour film festival he was thinking about entering. I asked him if he needed help, and 48 hours later we had produced a short film.
A funny look at my odd disorder. Not being able to smell has it’s downsides, but as the video says, “It’s not all bad.”
I don’t think there was ever any doubt that my life was going to have something to do with art. But I also tell people that I never really liked drawing. I preferred Legos and building bow-and-arrow bows out of stink weed (I couldn’t smell it and didn’t think about the name). But I did in fact, on occasion, put pen or pencil to paper and make some art. Sometimes I still do. But not that much, really.