Former pro snowboarder Brett Johnson was responsible for some of the funniest stuff ever seen in snowboard movies: there were several installments of the Snowboard Bikers with Dana Nicholson from the Creatures of Habit series by Jon Freeman, there were all the little clips from Snowboarder TV, and then there was the epic GI Joe vs. Ski Fun Ken.
Writer Colin Whyte catches up with Brett Johnson and gets the back store on the entire clip in a story on ESPN.com/Action. Here’s what Brett says:
I was doing some traditional animation for Doug Palladini and their Snowboarder TV project in tandem, but all in all we spent about 8 months on it. We shot it in two weeks, sent the cans off to the developer and had no clue what it was going to look like. At that point, I’d never shot 16mm before, or done really any stop-motion animation. Artie picked me up at the airport and just gave me a headshake and a long ‘dude’. I thought the footage was totally bunk or something. The whole way back to Truckee, Artie held me at ‘dude’…
Where is Brett now? Oh, he’s creating web strategies for Forture 500 companies and wearing a suit to work every day.
[Link: ESPN.com/Action]
