As vice president of the United States Dick Cheney celebrates his birthday this week, AtomFilms and Curious Pictures have released Chicks With Dick, a new animated short that reveals the truth behind the events of 2/11/06’the day Cheney shot his buddy in the face during a hunting trip. The animaton can be viewed exclusively on AtomFilms.com. The direct URL is Chicks.AtomFilms.com.
Developed by AtomFilms Studio and the Curious Pictures directing team known as Ugly Pictures, Chicks with Dick has our fearful VP joining forces with a team of fluffy, heavily armed baby chicks to save the world. The film opens with Cheney hunting rabbits and quail with his friend, Harry. Upon opening a quail trap, Cheney discovers the Chicks, a flock of adorable, yet lethal, baby chickens. Cheney and the Chicks join forces to seek out truth, justice and the American way’after first shooting Harry in the face. The short is written by Peter W. Nelson and produced by Kate Treacy.
Rohitash Rao and Abraham Spear formed Ugly Pictures in 1995. Rao is a former ad agency art director, commercial director and creative director at cable network SCI-FI Channel, and Spear is a photographer, director, DP and former heavy metal musician. In July of 2005 they signed with animation and mixed media production company Curious Pictures and have directed TV spots for Sprite, Trident and Woolite, as well as a series of web shorts for VW.
‘Chicks with Dick’ was produced by shooting nearly every element’from the backgrounds to the chicks themselves’as digital stills. Spear shot exteriors in upstate New York, while actors dressed in hunting outfits were shot in a variety of poses, actions and angles to give the filmmakers a variety of images to animate. Stock imagery was then used for other elements, including the heads of the Cheney and Harry characters. Additional imagery was created by Curious Pictures animators Matt Smithson and Daniel Oeffinger, and all the digital elements were brought into After Effects for compositing and animation.
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