The video was inspired by Richard at ishotmyself suggesting that my pencil test pictures from my May 2010 blog post would make a great subject for a video. So if you’d like to see my pencils in action, check it out.

I am really really pleased with how it turned out. I wasn’t so sure I would be so pleased with it because I didn’t have control of the the final editing. I put in a lot of time to editing the video I submitted — trimming out ends of the clips where I was futzing around with the remote and turning the camera on and off, and splicing the clips together to make one single video to submit. When it debuted, and I logged in, I was more than a little worried that I’d be disappointed if the ISM folks’ further editing changed it too much. But man, oh man, their editing was fuckin’ awesome. They stayed completely true to my vision but just made it cooler — doing fancy things like editing my voice over different parts of the video.

Watch the embedded video, or download it below if the embedded version won’t play. Perhaps I’ll figure out fancier coding for the embedded version sometime so that it will play more reliably on a variety of computers!

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C does good work, doesn’t he? For pictures taken of my by C, check out this old post: Homage to Teach My Ass