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Tuesday, March 31, 2009

ATTN: BAD BREATH BASTARDS!

Your featured film is now available for you to view and take hints from via the Meet the Bastards section. Since we're about addressing reality, we took it upon ourselves to put emphasis on an individual that has a high and irritating effect on those impacted by the disgusting and fowl smell of funk coming from ones mouth. So without further ado, we bring you the 'Bad Breath Bastard!'

Click on the HD button to gain the full effect of High Def in this video:


If you've been following my blog for sometime now, this new video is affiliated with our new Series2 Bastards. As we transcend to another level of bringing you entertainment in the form of short film making, the 'Bad Breath Bastard' was to be the first of the 6 exposed in this family series. For our Series1 short films, only traditional Flash animation was utilized for all 6 Bastard scenarios. As we started to think about the next series of Bastard films, we thought it would be cool and different to not only incorporate the same traditional animation, but to also embody a new element -- which was combining it with real live action. This is also the case for the remaining Series2 short films. A task like this was something we knew would be rigorous and challenging, to say the least. So, we decided to call upon one of our good pal's and YouTube's finest Director extraordinaire's, PeeDeeFlo from PDFLO Films to get the job done. No stranger to film making and putting together one of the most well-known viral videos on the net today, Kings of Myspace with close friend and other infamous YouTuber, Timothy Delaghetto, when PeeDee and I spoke about this project back in JAN09, he had never touched a project like this. Fortunately for us, he decided to pursue it and move forward with all the details despite the complexity of the assignment.

Key Notes about this piece:
* Filming/casting started back in the first week of FEB09
* Filmed in HD format 1080P
* Adobe Creative Suite CS4 was fully relied on in order to deliver the results
* Set was intentionally set up to create a party like setting -- which was established and shot at a house location in Southern Cali (Paramount CA.)
* Amazingly, the overall duration is a little under 3mins. However, over 100 Hrs. was put into this short film alone
* Intricate, time consuming details and effort were implemented such as including a shadow of the Bastard character and ensuring it's in sync with his overall body movement. Not to mention, full body movement and expression was created (watch his face when he speaks and shadow movement).

Note:
Unfortunately, since the resolution of the high def film is huge, we had to compromise the overall quality of the film and shrink the resolution size down a bit so that it could be observed without having to scroll while watching the film. This only affects the featured film under the Meet the Bastards section only and not on our YouTube account. Make sure you have Flash installed before playing the video and be patient because this particular film takes a little longer to stream then the others!

Stay tuned for more Series2 Bastard short films in the near future. The next one is one that you don't want to miss out on!

Jonathan (Bastard & Friends)