"The Heist"

Okay, after an intensive sweep of my boxed up VHS tapes, I found some old skool animation I had done for a once-local TV show; the "Fer-Real World". It was basically a 30 minute show broadcasted outta my alma mater, UF. It ran opposite Simpsons on Sunday nights, and as it was geared towards college students, it had a Net viewership of 1... being me. (I've tried to find their website, but alas it appears to have evaporated into the ether of the Internet.) I saw that they accepted submissions so I sent 'em an email and a few days later they showed up at my house to digitally swipe whatever footage I had available. What I had put together in the interim was an animation drawn on 3x5 cards and shot with one of those huge video cameras that takes the whole VHS tape. I didn't have a proper tripod either so each shot was a little off frame. The whole thing gets a "kooky" rating of 10.5, but I think the guys were thrilled just to have some filler. I've since lost the original but found the tape I made by recording the program - adding to the deresolution of the whole project. Anyway, the plot is pretty straight forward, and I think I was a little too hung up on the whole Tarantino crazy that was sweeping the nation and corrupting the youth back then, (in the mid 90's). I also had some black and white footage of my friend Hicks and I running around our apt. complex in alien costumes in a piece dubbed "Alien Laundry" but I'll have yet to find it. So, without further ado, I give you - The Heist