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A couple of blogs ago I talked about creating some fake early-era Pink Floyd songs for this week’s “Meth Minute 39″ cartoon. Now I’ll explain how we made some psychedelic 1960’s backgrounds to go along with the music.

Intern Josh Weisbrod, Lee Rubenstein and I accomplished this within an hour. While they picked up some vegetable oil and food coloring from the Duane Reade downstairs, I stole some half-and-half and dish soap from the office kitchen. We set up a digital camera to look down on this concoction and just started mixing it and blowing it around with a straw.

Instant psychedelia. It’s like having a Jefferson Airplane show at the Fillmore in a bowl.
Then we played around with the colors in AfterEffects and superimposed my Flash-animated Syd Barrett character on top of it.

The moral here is not to forget that cool effects can be made without computer software… and often times they look way cooler.

-DAN METH

*thank you to office shutterbug Marco Arment for pic #3!