My second spoof of MM's video banner

I love watching the video banners that MM puts up, because so many ideas come to me as to how to spoof them!

Anyways, I had a few ideas on one of the latest video banners they have up and decided to put one into proof of concept. Proof of concept?.. hmm well, I went through the video shooting, graphics and video encoding etc to get it up for all to view.

This one spoofs the walking man that walks across the screen to pick up the Studio 8 box that is sitting on the floor.

I do have to say that this is one of the easier ideas that I picked, just due to lack of time to mess around with stuff like this. It's not quite up to snuff, but I like it :D

Anyways, if you got the Flash Player 8 plugin installed then here it is (if not, go install it and then view it, 'cause it needs v8 player to run..).

Let me know your thoughts if ya got 'em in the comments :)

Just a quick rundown of how I made it:
- Video was done with a green screen, chroma keyed in After Effects.
- The kicked box was done in Swift3D v4.5 (thanks to the new simple bitmap placing, creating the box was a snap) and then published out as a PNG sequence with alpha (the white halo was matted with AE and the shadow was added with a new light layer). I actually wish I spent a bit more time on the animation.. it looks funny still to me.
- The graphics for the box and logo was snagged from MM's site and "adjusted" in PS, brought into AE, added a drop shadow and just masked it on with the movement of the leg.
- The video is encoded for Flash8 and then I just used the netStream object to progressively load in the FLV.

Nothing special that's for sure, but I just love doing these spoofs :D

By the way MM, if you guys are offended or just don't want it up, let me know and I'll take it down right away.

Posted by Graeme at August 24, 2005 04:45 PM