We (Print Brigade) are trying to help promote and give back to rollerblading because we love it, however this is the one and ONLY market that we are involved in that we find ourselves constantly having to defend our ideas and designs. It sometimes makes me wonder why do we even fucking bother?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9g7rMDAz7Q

but yours is cleaner.

Since my camera had just been stolen we decided to ask Mike to make our ad this year and since he was doing us a favor we gave him 100% creative control and free range to do whatever he wanted.

Mike worked his ass off despite the short deadline he was given. He managed to squeeze in time between working all day and going to school and ended up blowing us away with the final result. He definitely went above and beyond our expectations, and we can’t thank him enough!

this is the combination of my two loves right here. thanks again for posting.

congrats brooo

how do you do that?

just because I like showing off my knowledge of shit:

1. shoot the shot with no skater, then with skater (locked-off camera to make it work because I’m sure these guys don’t have motion control)

2. then painstakingly rotoscope and track out the legs arms and body. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscope

probably in after effects or combustion.

then again 50 ways to skin a cat, so he may not have done exactly as I said. one of the shots look like the shirt could have been added in after the fact.

hey Mike Dempsey: did you paint the boot back in to get the inside of the liner to show up once you’d removed the legs? or did you just black it out? what really would have made it a little cooler would have been if you’d added in some subtle camera moves/bumps after the fact.

great work though like I said, I’ve been wanting to do this with the Spike Jonze clip for a while.