This short promo for a local puppet company experiments with an After Effects animation introduction. The video was shot by Connecticut Public Television personal. CT Public gave us permission to use the video, however, the audio clips provided for the assignment were purchased for CT Public use only.

YouTube later tracked this short video assignment down and removed permission to display it because is used background music that was copyrighted.

The version below has been revised with background music from Bensound.com (Called Ukulele) which is royalty free as long as you credit them (Thanks Bensound!).

My video instructor (who was incredibly knowledgable) kindly granted me permission to use this video editing assignment in my portfolio site. But I often wonder if he knew I might run into trouble with the music being copyrighted and was setting me up for an object lesson in copyright law (or he just didn’t think of it). Either way, lesson learned.