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Motion Graphics Music Video: Gettin’ Money With a Mouse and a Wacom Pen 94 Comments


Entirely too nerdy and self referential not to post this one. Check out this video made by my buddies over at Daily Planet. It’s one motion graphic inside joke after another. With lines like “I’ve seen your reel pal, Rippin off moves from Creative Cow” and “My lens flare is so bright I need shades”, how can you go wrong? Let the inside joke, nerd-fest begin!

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94 Comments

    • Cody Frisch

      John! They also missed any reference to paying $80,000 to an “art school” only to learn everything from $300 a year tutorial subscriptions… and still never get taught Cinema 4D.

      Thank god I’m done finally. Cya around!

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    • brettdc

      It took me a few seconds to realise i had nothing rendering in AE nor even the program was open

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  8. Michael

    haha…this is great…i would forward it on to others but i think it’s only funny to us

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    • firelinestudios

      I was just about to say the same thing… Nick would have been the first person I would have forwarded this to.

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  10. John

    It’s like looking at nerds pretending they aren’t the ones they where in high school.

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  11. Classicgamer

    Ha ha ha sooooo cooo, is it me or does the dude in the cap look like Nick without the beard? Love it, very funny and actually beautifully made all jokes aside the video looks great :)

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  15. Blubuk

    That is better than most Rap videos Its “Big like clown shoes babieeeeeeeeeeey”

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  16. Gabi

    After see that, we decide to make a remake for french Graphic & Motion Designer : “Pay your Taxes With a Mouse and a Wacom Pen …” We think it will be huge… lol…

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  18. Christian Tafur

    damn I feel like such a nerd for getting all the inside jokes.

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  20. Todd VanSlyck

    It’s like the Beastie Boys and The Big Bang Theory all wrapped up in a uber-nery package

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  24. sherman

    Thanks for posting that. ‘easy ease ease out’ with the slide-right move had me cracking up.

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  28. JayJay!

    Brad Chmielewski is in the fucking house!!
    Great job! Hahahaha!!

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    • Mdhamiri Nkemi

      Haha yeah, forget musical cats, nerd rap is what it’s all about

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  39. Toby

    Brilliant!! I particularly like the finished rendering sound at the end. :)

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  40. mars sanford

    This is playing for like the 4th time in the office right now.

    Another hindsight-er here sayin’ ‘where’s the sheep easter egg?!’

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  41. ALPHA DESIGN

    DAMN! I actually tought my current project render was finished! Hahaha i reacted then I said “What?” XD

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  44. Phil Willis

    Hilarious!

    Might forward that to my family to give them an idea of what I actually do for a living.

    Ease in. Ease out.

    Peace
    –Phil

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  49. Andres V

    Bad ass , the best part for me was “F$%k Comic Sans F$%k Papyrus, Too” hahaha hell yeah! . hate seeing papyrus in business cards at school for portfolio review and even worse in demoreels.

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  51. Chetan

    I loved the way that last rendering finished sound has been added!! LOL!!

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  52. Carlos

    I love it !!!! I always thought these issues were only for me & my mac. But i realize its everyone. LMAO!

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  55. Gedela

    I can see a battle coming up soon ahah, great work….

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  57. Scott Edington

    Love it! Funniest thing is that I was rendering something out in AE while watching this and though it had done at the end of the video!!

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  58. Klas

    Absoulutely brilliant!!!!
    Trapcode is in the motherf***ing house :)
    Thanks for posting it Nick.

    //Klas

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  59. Kurtis Thomas

    Brilliant! This started my morning off perfectly!

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  67. joe

    oh man. that render complete sound at the end is the icing on the cake.

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  71. chase

    its way to nerdy that i knew everything and laughed at it but when i show people they sit and stare….:)

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  72. Pk

    Cool :P

    Would have been awesome if they made fun of the “copycats(even though they kinda did) “, because I hate them!

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  74. nowicki

    That was the coolest thing I have ever saw… EVER!!! Very creative!!!

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  75. billy

    im a catch you fools later gotta go get ma money with ma mouse and ma wacom pen….

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  76. Krusheki

    No mames que mamada! LOL !

    Its so damn nerd-funny, the render finished AE sound at the end the cherry on top, priceless!

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  79. Dylan

    Hahahaha…The After Effects “done rendering” ding at the end made it for me…

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