Funny or Die: SXSW
Cleft Clips Comedy Productions tasked the Jekyll Works team with creating a series of western-themed motion graphic stage backdrops for their two-day Funny Or Die Comedy Show during the 2016 SXSW Festival. Held at the Historic Scoot Inn in Austin, Texas, the event featured acts such as Penguin Prison, Alison Wonderland, Tracy Morgan, Ghostface Killah, and Raekwon. The backdrops needed to represent the Funny Or Die brand, align with various types of performances, and seamlessly loop for the duration of the sets.
Make it stand out
Jekyll Works decided to create four different animations with various loop points. Watch Your Head, features falling Western themed objects such as boots, horseshoes, cowboy hats, and cows colliding with and disturbing the individual letters of the Funny Or Die Logo. Electric Slide is a technicolor Texas landscape interspersed with Funny or Die logos that slip by the camera while the sun rises and sets again. The Western Mandala is a vortex of western motifs, vector elements, and Funny Or Die logos that transition periodically between different geometric layouts. Finally our Wild Card animation was a 3d modeled and animated version of the Funny Or Die arrow sign flickering in front of a time-lapse night sky.
