Deleted piece created for Demo Reel from Clutch Falco on Vimeo.
Here is a piece I cut from my reel, even before I finished the thing. It's just terrible.Soundclip:
I was looking for the premiere of one of my favorite bands new songs on this swedish online radio station but I didn't know exactly what time during the radio show it came on. So I ended up recording a huge 4 hour wav file and digging through it. While editing it down to where the song was, I noticed big sound drops in the radio show, like when the DJ comes on and talks, I stopped editing and found this bizarre interview with the band Tokyo Dragons. Obviously the band was very drunk and or high and had no idea what the hell they were talking about. I took three 15-37 sec clips from the interview and planned on animating them all. There was so many gems in the clips, kinda like Creature Comforts where it's real dialogue from people, not actors so it was too juicy not to use. Well, I started with the smallest clip when I started on my demo reel and ultimately scrapped it in favor of this clip. In the end I couldn't animate either well enough. Oh well. Lessons learned.
What went right:
Well... nothing.
But I did go out an buy a barstool from Walmart or Target, go home, drink beers and shoot my reference, promply returning the chair the next day. I guess that's dedication. I like the stumble, that's about it. Everything else is shit.
What went wrong:
Well...where to start.
When I animated this around the end of July and August of 2007, I was obvious distracted with something else, so my heart wasn't in this one. I attempted to get drunk on beer to shoot reference but since it was Utah beer, it was just taking too long to get drunk enough. But as you can see from the first part when he crosses his leg and stumbles, that was me in my reference, so I guess I was a bit tipsy. I tried reference Keith Richards and attempted to get a similar flare of body movement but I ultimately failed BIG TIME. I had plans to animate the other guy on the couch a bit, but I gave up.
Personally I think the beginning drink and headshake looks tagged on because..
I also think the momentum of drunkness and interesting Keith Richards type drunkness I tried to get, DIES right after "Rock bands kinda..y'know....lost". If you watch that closely you can see that the body stiffens up and it looses the drunkeness. I didn't do a good job referencing for this so I ran out of ideas, but since I was on a do or die schedule on the reel, I just dove in without proper research or planning. This is the best example of screwing it up for the reel I can think of. Besides the horse animation on my reel, but the bitchfest for that is coming in a few posts. 28 seconds was long for a one person clip, with no camera changes. There is some okay stuff in here I think, but only very minor things.
Conclusion:
If your heart's not in it, scrap it. Also, distractions with breasts are bad for you.
Bonus:
For the hell of it, here's the clip I tried before using the other interview clip, that I ultimately scrapped during the blocking phase. At one point he was gunna hand over the record to the other guy on the couch who's strumming his guitar. My intention was to animate these like the druken interviews with glam rock bands I saw on Much Music growing up. In this clip he's talking about how awesome the album cover is. And yeah, I just used a placeholder texture for the record cover, so don't read much into it.
