I first saw it via download, and then thought ‘Man, this video is corrupted!!’ Then saw it on TV and realised they intentionally made it that way you can view it here:

Since then, there’s been a few more videos and internet media built around this technique. Me doing some creative research came across these tid bits:

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/photoshop-phriday/glitch-faces-gifs.php?page=1

Seems like this visual technique is definitely ‘In’ at the moment. I still didn’t know what to cal it though, so after more extensive research, it appears this new technique is called DataMoshing. After finding the name, I found this article, the writer of which seemed to have had a similar journey to me:

http://motionographer.com/2009/02/19/tintori-and-nabil-breaking-your-internets/#more-10758

I think I might just use this technique for something some day

(click on the image for a larger version)

~Enjoy!

I had a lot of passion for the song and wanted this to come through in the video, so spent a lot of time perfecting each scene, I was also teaching myself Cinema 4D at the time and wanted to use the video to take advantage of this. A few scenes, (such as the one in the bar where you first see the band) took two weeks to create and animate…for only a few seconds of screen time! – it was long (10 months to complete, working in my spare time) but it was worth it. I had to cut a lot of scenes even, the female character was intended to use a horse and a boat, unfortunately, this would have been to much pack in. Below the video, I’ve placed a few production shots of the video, as well as a few of my initial ideas I jotted down when the video was in its planning stage. ~Enjoy!

I was luckily enough to get the opportunity to create this web trailer for an independent film. At the time the film was selected to be screened at the Portobello Film Festival 2010, which restricted any footage of the film being shown anywhere else. Therefore, no footage could be shown in the actual trailer. This resulted in the clip below, consisting of assets from the film and no film footage at all (the hands present belong to a friend of mine). I was also required to build a site for the film. The Director (Ed Edwards) and writer producer (Sam Edwards) preferred I keep the name of the film off my sites, enabling all the top Google searches to pick up the the films actual site, you can view the site here.

Peel
Floor Planner
Paint Calculator

Maybe it wasn’t…the best image to screen print. But it HAD to do! And so, I did it! Click on the images below to see a larger version of the result!