This was the mustache that was used on Ringo Markov during the filming of the 3rd Golf Cart City Pilot. The cheap ass adhesive kept getting undone if we ever filmed scenes for more than 30 minutes at a time. So, the tape had to be re-applied constantly.
But all of that is just extra shit, the real meat and potatoes of this film had most of my time occupied. I had to get every individual frame of character interaction, master every last stuffed animal face. It would take up all 8 hours of allotted internet time, and even after I would ask my dad for extra just to get a little bit more done. The reason I was working myself so hard was all down to the fear I had deep within me that at
some point later down the line I would lose interest, and would never finish the pilot. As for my entire life up to that point, nothing I had ever tried had panned out and ended up working for me. When I tried starting my own little entrepreneurial business, when I tried creating my own internet webshow, when I tried being a gaming YouTuber. All of it got nowhere and I gave up. And I was firmly committed to this idea, this idea being the one I would become world famous for. An idea so good, so once-in-a-generation that I couldn’t let it die out. And I had to do whatever means necessary to make sure I would achieve my dreams. Even if that meant voluntarily working myself to the bone. And all of this came to a head in late July of that year, when I had received a notification that I would be losing access to WeVideo at the end of the month. It was paid for by my Middle School, whom I had already graduated from. I rushed to export every little thing I could days before the deadline. And even with everything safe and sound, I felt distraught. To think if I had not read that notification, everything I would have worked on would have been gone, forever inaccessible. In my mind, all of this work I slaved away for was almost done away with by one single thing occurring outside my control, it deeply worried me that something, anything like this could happen again. Everything I worked on was gone in a flash. I believe most of
these feelings were an extension of the burnout I had been feeling. And after talking it out and getting my thoughts in order, I was able to collect myself and continue onward with the pilot.Months of work went by with not really anything to note going on. That would be until my entire hard drive crashed a few days after Christmas. Thank Fauci himself for giving me the foresight to save the Premiere Pro Source files on a different drive. It took roughly 2 weeks to remake all of the original image files. In fact I had planned so many massive scenes that all needed finishing around this time. Shit like the Gas Drip Scene, anything involving the cockroach, and that fucking Beeks and Penny Quiktrip Gas Pump scene. It took 3 entire weeks of work just to get the part where Beeks floors it out of the Quiktrip with the gas pump still in the Odyssey. And needless to say, all that shit drove back the release date of the Pilot. Shit was such a massive undertaking that I fully finished it on May 7th, 2023, exactly one year of work finally put to fruition. And I would get to show off my very own creation to the world in just under 2 weeks. And after working this hard for this long, I was gonna take a break. After all I, more than anyone else I know deserved it.
photographing the stuffed animals, and digitally replacing their eyes. After proceeding to remove backgrounds, I could then be given the ability to place them wherever the script mandated. The rest of the Summer was used to go out on location to film the needed scenes that would appear in the pilot. Shit like the Palmart scene, Markov Brothers Auto, Braelinn Elementary, and numerous others. All thanks to the help of my father who helped drive me and oftentimes my sister to these locations.
There were also tons of live action shit we had to do for this video, as I had to act out every single extra human character. In fact, the reason
I had expectations through the roof for my third GCC Pilot. But I knew if those expectations were going to be met, it would require my absolute full and complete effort and attention put towards it. It would need every ounce and hour of energy from me, in order to get it where I desired. And on May the 7th, 2022, the first thing I did was work on a lego structure that would eventually become the Sami Co. Business Tower. I did it right after I came home from school, it took a combined 4 hours to get everything right. It would end up becoming the Sami Co. business tower. As I had a distinct vision inside of my head. Specifically, the stop motion Atlanta scene. And that just seemed to be the first thing I needed in my mind.
Once I had finally MAPped out all of the fine details in the script, I had to get started on the animation of things. To accomplish what I would have in mind, the method (#### Here) used in the prior two Pilots just wouldn’t cut it here. I knew I needed something more. And after quite a lot of fumbling around with other ideas, I came up on the golden formula. It took me taping down tons of construction paper in my room,
there is a heavenly glow around everybody I play is because we have never had a proper green screen. And when I say we, I mean myself as well as Leah. She was the one filming everything and behind all the behind-the-scenes shit. And every time one of those things would be filmed, it would always be done at night because of the lack of sunlight. Which would in turn allow for the artificial light we brought in to create a greater contrast between the background and myself. And even still, Adobe was not reading none of this. They bitch ass color key tools did not work on my shit. Every damn time that shit would eat into my eyes, neck, torso, and have me looking like a deserted husk. In order to make any of it passable I had to jack the edge feather up to the max, which explains the heavenly translucent glow.
The very first piece of work put into the series, the construction of the Sami Co. tower. A structure that still exists in my room to this very day.
This was the very first stuffie image that would be used for the Golf Cart City Pilot. Yellow was the perfect color to use because none of the stuffed animals had yellow in them at all. Allowing for the perfect backdrop to remove and place them wherever.
