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This blog was originally posted by Chicago Filmmaker/Actor/Friend of the Teeth Joe Avella on his own blog. 

Most times I shoot in noisy locations or ones I need to leave quickly because I’m there illegally. Time is always of the essence and I don’t like getting bogged down with more equipment. What almost always suffers in my production process is the audio.

Thanks to the library of sound FX in programs like Garageband and free sound sites like Free Sound Project, you can easily recreate any location specific sounds, but not dialogue.

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In my previous post, I discussed the learning process for us with stop motion animation. Though we dabbled, there were still lessons to be learned. Mainly about the importance of time, and that there’s never enough. But with lots of practice we made it through the shoot with two spots to be proud of.

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We recently shipped our first stop motion animation project in the form of two commercial spots for Ron of Japan, a Japanese teppanyaki restaurant in Northbrook, IL.  This was a process that I put a lot into but also took a lot out of. I grew up watching Gumby battle the blockheads and Rudolph the red nosed reindeer claymate across the screen, so it was a pleasant surprise that my childhood love of this medium could be expressed via this delicious project in my adult life.

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I recently joined the Big Teeth Productions team, but if you were to look at the 843 different prior jobs I have on my resume, you would not find the word “Barista” anywhere.  I was instantly reminded of my lack of creative coffee making skills within the first minutes of my first day.

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In doing some research for a real estate company I came across many outdated websites which made me wonder what the heads of some of these companies are thinking...

Wilfred Pennyminder sits behind his great oak desk twiddling a feather pen in his hand.  His furrowed brow finds a way to inch ever closer to the rest of his wrinkled face like a black hole sucking in its surroundings.

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