This is another shot where I’m bouncing light off a gold bar. This time bathing Amanda’s briefcase in the reflection while Dennis transitions back into a cockatoo. You can almost read the printing on the bar: “999.9 FINE GOLD”

This is one of my favorite shots in the film. The camera is placed behind the big green screen plexiglas dome behind Kim & Vonky, through a hole that I made with a 3-1/2″ hole saw.

Vonky is frozen with a Pringle in her hand and a gleam on her costume jewelry. Dennis is prone behind Amanda, bathed in golden light. I achieved that by bouncing a halogen spot light off a large plastic gold bar. We also get to see the table and Kim’s laptop covered in cocaine from a previous scene.

Here we start to appreciate Kim & Vonky’s strange relationship. Is she his sex slave? Or is it the other way around? He feeds her a Pringle and then bullies her with his bullhorn, making her hat fly off.

This is a good look at Vonky’s custom hat, crafted by Annette Pardini (@mydollasylum on Instagram). Here, Amanda asks her, “Is that a maxipad, Vonky?”

Meanwhile, Vonky stacks gleaming gold bars into the briefcase — and precisely to the beat of the music. 16 bars for 16 beats, at 10 frames per beat.

That sub-shot is the first time we see evidence that POSERS are capable of existing and operating at variable frame rates. In other words, Amanda suddenly poses to place one bar in the briefcase once every 10 frames. But the MOCO camera continues to move at 24 FPS, to catch all the light reflecting off the gold.

Between wardrobe malfunctions and heckling from Amanda about her hat, Vonky cracks the red safe to extract 16 gold bars — enough to trade for the stolen Mona Lisa. Well over $11M at 400 Troy ounces per bar. Such a bargain, considering the real Mona Lisa had an insured value of $860M in 2020. The weight of Amanda’s briefcase will be around 450 pounds once filled. Because Kim Jong-un is a sadist.

Vonky slides around a distracted Kim to make the payoff, but Amanda starts chiding her about her outfit.

I had painted Vonky’s nipples with the same lipstick pen as before, only darker, to best to show them off on a tanned Phicen body. That cockatoo feather you see is about to fly up and cover Vonky’s breast. This of course was never planned. It just happened organically during animation — like so many things in POSERS.

“Hmm, I’m on frame 20 of this shot and I have this feather. What can I make it do from here? Well I could make it blow onto the record player, and then bounce onto Vonky’s tit and stick for a while like she’s a can-can dancer.”

“Sounds good, let’s try it.”

Our first good glimpse of Vonky’s merkin. I’m rather proud of that.

This shot isn’t what it seems. This is from Kim’s POV but his body isn’t even on set. The fat hands you see are merely stuck to the painting’s frame, which is lifted up via a plastic iPhone mount that is obscured underneath.

“Nice pet. Now pay up.”

Amanda is all business.

Kim is ecstatic to see his latest acquisition, but he has no clue the Mona Lisa was not that fat. Because, North Korea.

I made Kim’s glasses by super-gluing my cockatoo skeleton’s actual eye socket bones onto Kim’s glasses, a la Elton John. Then I painted them with white neon paint so they would glow under UV light along with the paint splatters on his clothes.

Kim’s hat is fashioned out of Dennis Rodman’s basketball shorts, stuffed with actual sulfur-crested cockatoo feathers.