We're just about to wrap up post production on our newest Holiday Animation. The only thing left to do is add in the transitions and a couple sound effects here and there and all will be perfect.
Our 20 second visual short, "Technicolor Leak" was chosen as a finalist for the Smile For London competition which will place twenty quirky videos onto the lcd screens in the London Underground train station. This clip was modified from a shorter clip used in our "Expanding Anyway" music video for Morning Teleportation. It was created by photographing various colors of paint dripping onto white sheets of paper and then keying out the white in post production. We then created a 3d camera in after effects and flew it through the scene.
Because we have oh so many visuals laying around our hard drives we have decided to upload some of them for others to enjoy. All of these come from things we've filmed or painted or photgraphed and then carelessly edited together into a haphazard nonesensical mess. These nonsensical messes then become individual visuals that we use for our LIVE SHOWS. Enjoy!
We've been busy doing all the Christmas nonsense lately: drinking egg nog, playing super nes, and watching the muppets christmas carol so much it hurts. Our newest holiday animation is now in the post production phase and we plan to release it on the one month anniversary of Christmas. We hope everyone is enjoying their break as much as we are.... Here's our 2008 holiday animation which was filmed in Jenna's parents garage in South Carolina to hold everyone over....
Smile For London
Smile For London is a contest Vimeo is holding which will pick and then place fifty, 20 second silent videos/animations onto the plasma screens in the London Underground. We've scraped together ten pieces for submission and they are currently chilling on the group page on vimeo. If you happen to be reading this and also happen to have the next eight seconds to spare, we certainly would not and could not complain if you simply went to this LINK and pressed the little "heart" button on a few of our videos on the first page. If you were here with us we might just make you a damn good cup of coffee for doing so...
Our Generation
http://i.imgur.com/CfuPR.jpg
Today while working we watched casper, the first wive's club, while you were sleeping, cool runnings, wallace and grommit, and 42nd street on an unearthed vhs tape player in Tripp's parent's basement. The first scene of our holiday animation shall hopefully be completed tonight!
Today while working we watched casper, the first wive's club, while you were sleeping, cool runnings, wallace and grommit, and 42nd street on an unearthed vhs tape player in Tripp's parent's basement. The first scene of our holiday animation shall hopefully be completed tonight!
We were able to unearth some HD footage of Morning Teleportation performing before the Flaming Lips from a more than friendly videographer who we stumbled across at the Boca Raton show. We were allowed use of the Flaming Lips's epic LED screen to mix live visuals, which made for quite a spectacle. We were ready to tack our walmart bed sheet-screen up on stage when they told us to just use their setup instead. Their setup being a $250,000 half carnival ride half LED curtain that was invented on a napkin and brought to life by Wayne and his right hand man-video scientist Satchem. It will be very humbling to return to that Dell projector and wrinkly semi stained wal mart sheet....
And in other news.... We are currently in the midst of steam-training out another fully stop-motion animated holiday card. This will be a sequel to our holiday card from two years prior and we plan to have it completed by mid December.
And in other news.... We are currently in the midst of steam-training out another fully stop-motion animated holiday card. This will be a sequel to our holiday card from two years prior and we plan to have it completed by mid December.
DEEP FALL
DEEP FALL
Here it is. Our newest playlist for the time of the year when the oranges and reds are starting to shrivel their ends every so slightly and the sun seems to almost always be hiding behind a gray veil. A little 80s, a little punkish, and a little inspired by John Hughes, this playlist is perfect for pulling the windows open and letting the air rush in. Its also even better when played on some nice headphones, tucked underneath a favorite hoody, whilst strolling around a nearby forest. Kick around some leaves and take some deeper breaths, the seasons are changing.....
Lips
Tour with Morning Teleportation has been wonderful and whole heartedly adventerous on every level. Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips was gracious enough to allow us the use of his quarter of a million dollar LED screen to project visuals for both Florida shows. Everyone involved with the Lips surpassed their standards as being the most friendly and helpful people around. You can see a very small clip taken from some bloke in the crowd (thanks bloke!).
Also apparently Wayne snapped this photo of Tripp's feet for his twitter as he was mixing visuals in the midst of the show.
We'll be filming the next music video for MT tonight in Bowling Green before we head for New York early tomorrow morning. If you feel like dressing up like a skeleton and prancing around a dojo all evening give us a call.....
Also apparently Wayne snapped this photo of Tripp's feet for his twitter as he was mixing visuals in the midst of the show.
We'll be filming the next music video for MT tonight in Bowling Green before we head for New York early tomorrow morning. If you feel like dressing up like a skeleton and prancing around a dojo all evening give us a call.....
Dead
Back in 2005, amidst the beginning of our senior year in high school, a few of us tv pro students slipped on some goodwill suits, stole miscellaneous "weapons" from Tripp's dad's garage, and set out to film our first scripted film. "Oh Snap, The Dead are Walking" is an eleven minute Kill Bill inspired, shot in two days, spaghetti-gore fest of a flick that won us a prestigious first place prize at the New Hope community churches annual Halloween night party. I think we ended up with $100 in best buy giftcards which we probably bought crap with but oh well. This film was a blast and marked the first time that we ever actually planned what we were setting out to film. Before this, the only planning put forth was what terrible techno song we were going to mash our piles of nonsense to. Before this, our films had plots revolving around sandwiches and any ol excuse to throw in a lightsaber effect or two.
So in the spirit of the fall and halloween and reckless terribleness and nostalgia....we present to you one of our finest films to date. Oh Snap, The Dead are Walking.
So in the spirit of the fall and halloween and reckless terribleness and nostalgia....we present to you one of our finest films to date. Oh Snap, The Dead are Walking.
Wonderful Weekend
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NtrjiMNHYo
Wonderful weekend indeed in Kentucky. First live visual show for our friends in Morning Teleportation.
Crystalline by Morning Teleportation.
Starry Night Festival
10.2.2010 12am
Thanksgiving
A total humungous thank you to all of you (KyleChrissyLeviPerryEvanandErisy) who came out and hoopla-ed and feasted with us all in the name of a how-to video. We had a blast and we're even more ready for the fall to come. Enjoy this little video that was thrown together in the same amount of time it took to write this post. You guys are so awesome and we're still eating your leftovers.
Devil's Dungeon
Two nights ago we found ourselves standing behind a warehouse in east nashville being spat on numerous times by a bloke guzzling mouthfuls of fake blood. for the folks at devil's dungeon haunted house this was not just the only way to apply realistic looking blood to their actors, but it also serves as a sort of initiation for newbies like us. fake blood is thick too. like mcdonalds hot cake syrup that drips in your mouth and sticks your eyelids to your forehead. after slicing our costumes to bits, dying our hair, and mooning the general jackson as it passed by on the cumberland, we were herded into our spots within the building where we spent the next five hours heaving ourselves into unrestrained insanity for the benefit of the paying customer. Tripp wielded a skill saw and flapped around on the floor like a madman, occasionally chopping off a fellow actresses legs whilst screaming. Jenna managed to stalk an entire room by herself often spinning a baby around on a rotating dartboard. We've always been connoisseurs of haunted houses, in a way they're like the ultimate art installation, where everyone involved gets a little dose of dementia. One day maybe we'll open one....
squish. squeesh. whatever.
you can eat this to lunch with a bottle of skunks. weeeeeyooooooop. deathray.
Well we've finally walked the old demo reel woefully out to the back tool shed, eased it against the outer wall and blown it to smithereens with a suppressed sob. However! Phantasmic now has a new parade of clips representing itself to future seekers of weird animation and quirky films. Let us know what you think, if you're reading this there's probably a good chance you made it into this thing somewhere (seeing as most of you who do are more than likely just our close friends.) anyway.... mmmm hot totties.
Summer is Dying
the pools we used to sneak into every night are slowly being covered. leaves are ever so subtly beginning to ease their way off the trees and take their first small flight to the decorate the once beaminginly green grass. we're even beginning to drink less iced coffee. enjoy this mix of music as your summer easily drifts to the southern hemisphere. we're most certainly looking forward to an exquisite fall. get it HERE.
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