Leprechaun Tracks Video

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  I want to take a second here to restate the purpose of "The Blog with the Extremely Long Address". It's not a place to promote myself by sharing work I'm proud of. It's a dumping ground for things I never want to look at or think about again, a psychological tool for clearing my head and, ultimately, my digital archives. There's no better example of that than the leprechaun tracks video.
    In early 2013 my dad had an idea for a "funny" video to send out to friends on St. Patrick's Day. The idea was basically a couple guys walking in the snow and talking about whether leprechauns exist. They come across some leprechaun-sized tracks and follow them until the trail turns a corner and is joined by a second, lighter set of tracks going in the opposite direction. The guys look around the corner to find that the leprechaun has relieved himself in the snow, thus explaining why the second set of tracks is so much lighter. Hilarious, right?
    As usual with my dad's ideas, it was left to me to execute it. I decided it would be easier to do in animation than live action. My approach was to have the camera following the two pedestrians, looking down at their tracks, only showing them at the very end when they stop moving and the camera keeps going. I never quite finished (there's no audio track) and the video wasn't sent out; if I remember right, my dad had forgotten about it. Here's what I ended up with, shared primarily so I can move it off my flash drive.

    Far more amusing than the video itself is the "Date Modified" column in the file folder, which gives you some idea how I work: