About 16 hours into it, they thought, wait, are we sure this is a good idea?

Being a video effects artist, there aren't a lot of videos that impress me, anything is pretty easy to do on the computer now, things aren't as epic.

But these 2 videos absolutely BLEW ME AWAY. They aren't done with a computer, just pure camera tricks and lots and lots and LOTS of time.

We're talking MIND BOGGLING amounts of time here. And I don't use all caps unless I mean it.

Coldplay's video, Strawberry Swing
This is an interview about the "making of" and he says it's all done by hand. Amazing.

and this 8-bit trip video. They say that's 1500 hours to make it. A quick calculation, if they had 2 people working on that 8 hours a day, that's over 3 months of their lives as like a full time job.



It just goes to show, if you spend enough time on useless boring work, anything can become blog worthy.