Busy Bee #34

A little late in posting this...another CageMatch video! Full story here.

Busy Bee #33

This took a while. It's a video I did for the Town of Chapel Hill to introduce our department, Communications and Public Affairs, to the Senior Management Team. My task was to illustrate that the new department was formed from two other departments and the website management duties, and to show the other departments that we did indeed do more than just photocopy things and sit around during Council meetings. There were several last-minute changes made long after the script had already been approved and the whole thing had been edited, so that throws off the intended flow a bit, but all in all I think it turned out to be a nice little corporate-style video.

Pardon the couple of scenes with shaky tripod-less video. See above issues.

Busy Bee #32

Finally finished the short movie that was born of Ryan's "Scrambled Video Eggs" project. You can see the final cut of "The Wrath of Grapes" here and the outtakes here. Full story on my main blog here.

Busy Bee #31

Just a little something I threw together to put up on the screen at the theater while Mary Sasson was whoopin' it up it Aspen at the College Comedy Contest.

Busy Bee #30

Another CageMatch video.

Busy Bee #30

Just a couple of quick photoshops inspired by the following exchange between myself and Mr. FitzSimons:

Me: "Have you been doing mocap work for Guitar Hero???"
Kit: "You caught me; I'm really secretly Bret Michaels."

Busy Bee #28

Time for another CageMatch video! Video is here, screens are here, more info is here.

Busy Bee #27

This is one of those things that was done a while ago but needed to be kept secret until now. Made a shirt for my friends who started a Rock Band parody band for the DSI stage during Troy Sterling's Air Guitar Madness. They were so fun, I thought they needed tour shirts.

Busy Bee #26

Saw this wacky idea for an "Angry J. Jonah Jameson" meme, and was terribly amused by it. Full story (with link to all my versions) in The Transmutation Effect.

Whew! And now I'm caught up with the posts for the past seven days of creativity. So let's see...it's been four months so far of posts, and this is the 26th post, so that's an average of 6.5 creative endeavours a month. Not a remarkably high number, but more than one a week! And some are more involved than others, so that's fairly decent. There's also been some ongoing creative projects over the past few months that haven't seen the light of day yet, so hopefully they'll make it to The Wretched Hive soon and will add to the body of work.

ONWARD!

Busy Bee #25

Sam Kirkpatrick asked me to make a bunch of scene transition graphics for his comic book move, "Captain Constitution". And I get steak and whiskey out of the deal! (I'm just including the splash screen here, so the rest can have the impact they need within his film.)

Busy Bee #24

Next up we have materials for the final week of Troy Sterling's Air Guitar Madness. I really loved this show and it inspired me to make lotsa stuff. The above "Those About To Rock" image was both an online promo and a mini-poster which we plastered all over the theater. I also had fun making some images for the other Ultimate Air Guitarists, either for the video or just because the original pictures looked so cool and begged to be made into identity screens. You can see the intro video to the show here. Click the below images to see them bigger on Flickr.


I'm totally making myself a Payaso Triste t-shirt. I love that graphic.

Busy Bee #23

Yikes! I've been lax in keeping this up to date the last week. Been doing a lot of projects, which is good. There'll be a couple more updates today to catch up.

First off we have last week's CageMatch stuff. The video is here, the graphics are here (as usual) and more information on my main blog here.

Busy Bee #22

Just a little intro video I cooked up for week 2 of Troy Sterling's Air Guitar Madness.

A nice coupla creative days recently. And there's more going on that won't be completed for a week or two, so stay tuned.

Busy Bee #21

Just a silly little thing I mocked up for somebody I work with. The picture is from her 1963 high school yearbook. Apparently she actually *was* featured in an ad for a local savings and loan, so I mocked up what I thought it might look like as a lark.

Busy Bee #20

Just a nutty little faux album cover I made for my buddies who have a Rock Band parody band a-named "The Gryphon Doors".

Busy Bee #19

Whups! Forgot to blog on here about last week's CageMatch. And looking back at the recent entries, I've been pretty creatively lax lately.

Check out the video here, and a bunch of new fictional team screens (along with the Skaggs screen) here.

Busy Bee #18

Ah, I forgot to put these up when I made them two weeks ago. Just a wacky idea for Joe Jones Bingo, with all of Joe's improv mannerisms and whatnot. Then people requested more, and I made cards for Star Wars, Eitan, and Shutrump.

Busy Bee #17

Here's a bit of meme-action that I tripped over. I think my friends in the comments did better than I.

Busy Bee #16

Just a couple of short videos I made of DSIF8 performances I liked, with a little graphic at the end of each one.

Busy Bee #15

My buddy Nick Faber recorded a song that got stuck in my head and DEMANDED a video be made of it! (That is, the catchiness of the song demanded a video, Nick Faber did not threaten me.) I put this together with Photoshop, Motion, Soundtrack, and Final Cut Pro, and it's composed of antique clip art and heavily manipulated video from Nick's previous videos on YouTube.

Check out my video here.

Busy Bee #14

Uploading a few more things from last week. These are two identity screens from older CageMatch teams who never got screens before. We have Carne Corderosa, a fictional team who were in the finals of the equally fictional Brazilian tournament, and Hip-Hop Review, who were in the second ever CageMatch way back on April 8, 2006.

Busy Bee #13

My, but it's been a busy week! Here's a video promo I made for The Beatbox, from the video session we did at the end of 2007 in Chicago.

Busy Bee #12

There's a lot of individual items in this post, as it took a lot of work to put together this weekend's CageMatch Fiftieth Show Extravaganza. First we have the retrospective video, which turned out quite well, I think. I used Motion for the first time, doing the animated crowd and list of names of competitors sequence. I used a new program I bought called PhotoPresenter to do the stack of all the identity screens. I loved the way the segments turned out for the CageMatch staff, with the Faces Of CageMatch pictures superimposed over the video clips. And it was very cool to see all the "golden moments" strung together. I left some stuff out due to a rush job, but overall I'm pleased with it.

Then there was the actual show promo video, where I did a more involved bit of work in Motion to do the gunshot sequence with the smoking guns held by Flavor Shot (which, in fact, were NOT held by Flavor Shot, as I forgot to bring the guns to the shoot, so they just posed as if they had guns, and I got the Mayor's Aide to pose with the guns later and photoshopped his hands in.). Making fun of Zach Ward's failure to win a CageMatch title in seven tries was amusing. The Panthro morph was well-received, and was made with MorphX. Joe Jones' and Kyle Chorpening's rap to end the video was just fabulous.



And then there's the huge CageMatch 50 poster I made to display in the lobby of the theater during the show. It's 24x36 and turned out great.

Busy Bee #11

A little bit of amusement for Kit's birthday.

Busy Bee #10

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Originally uploaded by TedHobgood

The first of a series of six little posterettes made to promo the CageMatch Fiftieth Show Extravaganza. Stay tuned for more!

(These are sized to be printed at 150 dpi on regular sheets of 8 1/2 x 11 inch paper, if anybody's interested.)

I'm just going to go ahead and add the new ones to this post instead of creating individual posts for each one. The thumbnails are linked to the original pages.

That's all of 'em! Mere hours until the mighty event.

Oh, by the way, I love the way the automatically generated 75x75 "square" versions of all of these on Flickr just HAPPEN to frame themselves perfectly and still remain readable. They make great icons! (Check out the "all sizes" link on each photo's page.)

Busy Bee #9

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Originally uploaded by TedHobgood

Just fooling around trying to come up with some CageMatch publicity stuff. This pic didn't fit into my campaign, but I loved it too much to just throw it away. Behold the now-cliched Scott Sullivan Point!

Busy Bee #8

CageMatch video for Espionage A Trois vs Flavor Shot. Not fabulous, really. Spent so much time on the poster, didn't have much time to plan the video.

Busy Bee #7

50exes, originally uploaded by TedHobgood.

The third and final "XXXXX" teaser for CageMatch's Fiftieth Show Extravaganza.

Busy Bee #6

Poster design for the 1/24/08 CageMatch.