Tommy Lee x Smearballs “Bouncy Castle” feat. Brittany Furlan

Toronto director/animator Nick DenBoer (aka Smearballs), whose signature brand of CG chaos ranges from festival openings to deadmau5 videos, joins forces with heavy metal bad boy Tommy Lee for an exercise in looping mayhem.

Nick DenBoer: “I first met Tommy five or six years ago at deadmau5’s wedding. He would always post my vids on his instagram so I hit him up in the summer and said thanks and told him if he ever wants to collab to hit me up.

“He responded, ‘fuck yes’ and I pitched him on making an animation of him trashing a hotel room like Motley Crue was famous for in the 80s.

“He was down. So Motley Crue was playing this summer in Toronto and Tommy was coming to Joel’s again for his annual party so I met up with him there. He was hilarious. Sitting at a table with two 80-year-old women telling them how hot they were.
 

“So I got Tommy to stand still behind the food truck and take his shirt off and I photo scanned his tats and took a few hundred pictures so I could make the 3D model of him with photogrammetry.”

 
“I went up to him and he was like ‘holy shit this guy is fucking insane…’ going off about my videos. So I got Tommy to stand still behind the food truck and take his shirt off and I photo scanned his tats and took a few hundred pictures so I could make the 3D model of him with photogrammetry.

“Then I started working on the animation and bouncing roughs off him. He loved everything along the way. Suggested adding his wife Brittany in the mix as a cameo so I made her jump on his belly.

“When I had a solid rough done of the vid, all animated to 150bpm, I roughed out some audio hits and passed it off to Tommy and he came back to me in a few days and with this badass track that totally worked. We launched it a week later and the rest is history.”
 
Tommy Lee Smearballs Bouncy Castle feat Brittany Furlan | STASH MAGAZINE

Tommy Lee Smearballs Bouncy Castle feat Brittany Furlan | STASH MAGAZINE

Tommy Lee Smearballs Bouncy Castle feat Brittany Furlan | STASH MAGAZINE

Tommy Lee Smearballs Bouncy Castle feat Brittany Furlan | STASH MAGAZINE

Tommy Lee Smearballs Bouncy Castle feat Brittany Furlan | STASH MAGAZINE
 
Director/animator: Nick denBoer

Music: Tommy Lee