Harmonix Holiday 2021

Ahh, another Holiday video during the pandemic. These videos are an annual tradition now.  Actually I’ve come to enjoy making these in my home office/bedroom. I can work myself to exhaustion and pass out right onto my bed, no need to save anything in the tank for a commute home.

The puppets were made with Sculpey and armature wire, with the clothing being felt and hot glue. 

The puppets were shot using A Panasonic GH5 connected to a laptop using DragonFrame. Puppets were shot in front of a television connected to a computer running After Effects, so I could make quick on the fly adjustments to the background images. To do the lip sync I made 2 sets of lip shapes, one in Sculpey and one illustrated in Photoshop. I synced the illustrated lips in Premiere in order to have a frame counter sheet that I could shoot to.