UPDATE:  The link got broken somehow when I saved it.  I’ve fixed it now.  If that doesn’t work, go directly to http://www.the-athertons.com

I just finished uploading our 2008 Christmas video.  You can go here to see it.

As I mentioned earlier, we used a “South Park” theme this year.  The caricatures of the girls turned out pretty well and the animation was fun to do, if a bit tiring.  We also put in a little bit of stop motion animation and a green screen effect just for good measure.  

The green screen was probably the hardest thing to pull off, mostly because we don’t have good enough lighting to really make it work well.  It’s important to get the screen lit as uniformly as possible, and we had to cheat a little bit.

In a first for us, the girls sang the song used in the credits.  It’s a song by Jack Hartman that Sandi found while helping out at the school this year.  It came with a music only track that we put to good use.

Anyway, we hope you like it.  Merry Christmas!