Happy Easter everyone! This is a video I’ve thought of doing for a little while and Easter kind of snuck up on me so I stayed up late last night to get it done before the weekend. Realannoyingorange was the inspiration behind doing this. I have watched his videos for a while now and think they are pretty clever and thought I’d take a shot at it. I’m actually surprised he hasn’t done an Easter one yet, he did a St. Patty’s video, but maybe he’s waiting till tomorrow, Friday.

I haven’t bought a big chocolate bunny in a long time so this project was a great excuse! I’m actually surprised I pulled it all off. It can be kind of difficult logistically to shoot things like this. For example, I only had one orange so I couldn’t redo anything after it was peeled. Also, most of the shots were done by taking still photos and then putting me talking back in over the pictures. I wasn’t sure which way I would go so I took video and photos of all the shots.

I look delicious

I definitely want to thank Eric Wiese for some good one liners, he came up with most of them: “Peeping ain’t easy.” Thanks Eric. I ended up playing all of the characters, and almost left out the bunny altogether, but really wanted to squeeze them in since I bought them for this. It took several hours to take the footage, after I storyboarded everything so I could make sure I get all the shots I needed.

One hard part was trying to keep my head still when I was doing the voices. I kept wanting to give it some sass and tilt my head every once in a while. It made for quite a bit of work post-filming. I stabilized all the shots around my face in After Effects and then just used masks to reveal my face behind the orange or candy.

Behind the scenes of me filming for the characters and looking ridiculous.

It was fun to make and I hope you enjoy it, pass it along to friends and family to help enjoy the holiday weekend. Oh, and I redesigned my youtube channel a bit with new colors, check it out – and subscribe!