{"id":1069,"date":"2015-02-09T10:47:19","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T18:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/?p=1069"},"modified":"2015-02-09T10:47:19","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T18:47:19","slug":"mtv-top-20-video-countdown-1994","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/mtv-top-20-video-countdown-1994\/","title":{"rendered":"MTV Top 20 Video Countdown (1994)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/119152148\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/119152148\">MTV Top 20 Video Countdown (1994)<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/cassidy\">Cassidy Curtis<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1990&#8217;s, it was typical for production companies to start their demo reels with a clock-wipe countdown. Some companies would use this as an opportunity to say something about their style, and do custom animation. (Will Vinton Studios, I remember, had a particularly cool stop-motion countdown at that time.) I thought it would be cool for Xaos to have a countdown that reflected our particular style of work, so I created this drippy ink effect counting down from 10 to 1, and a drippy version of the Xaos logo, which we put at the beginning and end of our demo reel respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Some time after this, our producer got a call from MTV. They had this show called &#8220;Top 20 Video Countdown&#8221;. They wanted to use this effect for the bumpers and interstitials. Could we add the numbers 11 through 20? Our producer said &#8220;of course&#8221;, and charged them a lot of money. But it didn&#8217;t really take me that long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTV Top 20 Video Countdown (1994) from Cassidy Curtis on Vimeo. In the 1990&#8217;s, it was typical for production companies to start their demo reels with a clock-wipe countdown. Some companies would use this as an opportunity to say something about their style, and do custom animation. (Will Vinton Studios, I remember, had a particularly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/mtv-top-20-video-countdown-1994\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MTV Top 20 Video Countdown (1994)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,132,123,22,60],"tags":[133,134],"class_list":["post-1069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-effects","category-graphics","category-self-reference","category-video","tag-mtv","tag-xaos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1069"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1072,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions\/1072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}