This is Amanda’s last showdown with Dennis. She grabs him by his jaw and gives it a bone-crunching twist, as she breaks free from his feeble cockatoo-man-grasp. I love how the UV light makes his white gloves glow through her hair.

This is a rather complex shot, and unfortunately it didn’t turn out quite the way I envisioned. Basically I moved Dennis’ cage to my turntable cyclorama. I removed the top gate, and drilled three eye hooks into Dennis’ back and butt, and suspended him via green fishing line. Up top, I connected the single stretch of rigging to a square wooden bar that I could use both like a pulley and a ratchet.

Then I animated The Ambassador flapping around like he was flitting and flying inside his tight little cage — bumping his beak, wings and legs off the bars as the cage rotates around in timed increments. The ratcheting allowed me to change Dennis’ elevation within the cage, getting his feet up off the floor.

It will take some time to remove all the visible rigging via Photoshop, so the effect will improve greatly once that process is complete. And no, I’m not looking forward to that menial task!

Oh, the best thing about this scene is that my brother-in-law (who voices James Bondáge) and his family were here for summer vacation. So he sat in the studio and watched me animate while we enjoyed a few beers.

Spock then sees a poster advertising a VIP Rave in the Mona Lisa hall, apparently hosted by the same wrong Leonardo.

This was just a Photoshop image. I plan to redo it with my Leonardo DiCaprio puppet and my 1:6 scale Mona Lisa, posed like a diorama.

Spock also notices a diorama honoring Leonardo DiCaprio’s character from Titanic, who Spock misidentifies as Leonardo DaVinci. An honest mistake.

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.”