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1. Oil'd

10 months ago

In April 2010 a massive oil spill began in the Gulf. The entire country was glued to the news until the well was capped, and then we forgot about it.

As the year anniversary was approaching I became curious, just how much oil was that exactly? Where would it have gone? What I found was shocking.

So in an effort to further our discussion on oil dependency I created this short animation to help illustrate just how dependent we truly are on oil.

Designed, animated and written by Chris Harmon

Voice Talent: Kim Estes

Music: Billy Perez & Todd Stambaugh

Special Thanks to Daye Rogers and Christy Kurtz

Sources:

Environmental Protection Agency
epa.gov/

U.S. Energy Information Administration
eia.doe.gov/

bts.gov/publications/national_transportation_statistics/html/table_04_23.html

Rubber Manufacturers Association
rma.org/about_rma/rubber_faqs/

carbonify.com/carbon-calculator.htm

.eere.energy.gov/vehiclesandfuels/facts/2010_fotw617.html

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDPE

wiki.answers.com/Q/How_much_does_one_gallon_of_crude_oil_weigh

icis.com/v2/chemicals/9076455/propylene/uses.html

volunteerguide.org/volunteer/fewhours/used-tires.htm

earth911.com/recycling/plastic/plastic-bottle-recycling-facts/

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_population

UPDATE: A few people have mentioned strange things with the audio. I've changed a couple audio settings and hope it fixes any problem people may have had.

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dehanza rogers 10 months ago

Chris. Great work. So happy to see your concept come to fruition. Well done!
Redsan 10 months ago

Great dude!!!
Love the colors, type and the message ;)
J-Scott 10 months ago

Agreed! Posted at icecreamhater.tumblr.com/
ARTORICAL 10 months ago

Informative. Good, clean design. Very nice. And all of those statistics in under two minutes? Well done Sir.
Clay c 3 months ago

you will die in seven days if you don't post this comment to 10 videos in the next hour. if you do, tomorrow will be the best day of your life
Tanaponn K.Zeranee 10 months ago

great work!
Daniel. M. 10 months ago

cool message!
Alexander Brown 10 months ago

really clear and concise, the ending offered a refreshing twist to the message, one that I did not predict. Well done!
Allen Tan 10 months ago

Really cool. Your voice sounds a bit muffled though. Just me?
Blake Whitman 10 months ago

way to put it into perspective.a beautiful, yet scary, scary perspective .
Designcollector ※ 10 months ago

feat on designcollector.net - strong reminder! Thank you!
Erik Dobat 10 months ago

Nice animation! Strong message!
Mark Edwards 10 months ago

Super like.
Daniel Iannini 10 months ago

Grate work, only one question. Where did you get the info?
Chris Harmon 10 months ago

Going to post a list of sources soon. Mostly came from averages according to the EPA and from the U.S. Energy Information Administration
Daniel Iannini 9 months ago

Thanks man, very usefull sources for me.
David Linacre 10 months ago

This is lovely. Thanks for making and sharing x
Bob Kellerman 10 months ago

...similar to the majority of our society's growing dependency on government handouts for much of their needs.
WOW WOW 10 months ago

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Christopher Richmond 10 months ago

Wonderful work!
Jason Moore 10 months ago

Really really nice. I especially like the way you treated the images with the etched like angled lines. That must have been a bear. Impressive.
Mosaic Media Films 10 months ago

Awesome Motion Graphics!! WOW, totally blown away
Eric Sherwood 10 months ago

WOW that was fantastic. 7 HOURS.. DAMN! Where did u get allo the info?
Kurt Supancic 10 months ago

Engaging, enlightening and a pity we are slaves to this substance for money.
Chris Harmon 10 months ago

I posted some sources at the top. Here is an example of some of my calculations. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the U.S. uses 18,771,000 barrels/day. There are 42 Gallons in a barrel. Which comes out to 788,382,000 gallons a day in the U.S. alone. Divide that by the est 205 million spilled in the Gulf and you're between 6 and 7 hours
Ethan Simmons 10 months ago

thanks for the great, yet depressing, info. awesome gfx/animation as well.
Georg Kirsch 10 months ago

The voice Sound is on the left
pibob1 10 months ago

That is amazing!! =0 Thanks for the awesomeness video!!!
Mihael Tominšek 10 months ago

Yeah...
Michael Kubler 10 months ago

Hi Chris,
You forgot to mention the vast amount of food created with the oil.
Each 1KJ of food requires up to 10KJ of oil. From the fertiliser used, to the tractors, electricity for the processing, the refrigerated trucks, warehousing, packaging, distribution, storage at a supermarket, people driving it home, keeping it in the fridge, using it and throwing away the plastic (which then takes many many thousands of times longer to break down than the actual food).
ciaran 10 months ago

great work, slick design and execution, even if it does leave me with no hope for humanity's future!
M. Farooq Shaikh 10 months ago

chris brilliant & work nice combositions
Kevin Jacobs 10 months ago

Brilliant!
koninr 10 months ago

Great Work !
Diane 10 months ago

i thank the oil prizes are so green that all it is they want more money in they poke so we we get poor and we all they know
AJ Kolb 10 months ago

Wow this is great man! I think most people including myself, had no clue how to quantify what the spill actually meant. Great job.
Robersonfr 10 months ago

Unbelievable,nice job!
Ming 10 months ago

awesome ~!!! could you please tell me which program did you use ?
Chris Harmon 10 months ago

After effects for animation, illustrator for art
Bartosz Tabaka 10 months ago

It's nice of you to remind people about soo easily forgotten catastrophe, Thank You!
Farrell Segall 10 months ago

Short and to the point - now we need to do the same for Chernobyl and Fukushima. Thanks for putting this in perspective.
0porciento 10 months ago

So so NICE Chris!!!! Congratullations.

See your fantastic work at 0porciento.com:
0porciento.com/?p=8521
fesaco 10 months ago

I like the colours pallet and how neat the animation wad done.

Thanks for the message.
Robert Nield 10 months ago

96.5% of all statistics are made up on the spot
joquistao 9 months ago

this may be. but whats not made up is the fact that the oil era could be long gone if the aristocracy of the world wanted to.
Robert Nield 9 months ago

Get a sense of humor man! I was having a laugh.
Robert Nield 10 months ago

Nice graphics by the way. I like.
The Infinity Mirrors 10 months ago

This is amazing I loved it so much! It seems like such a small amount when you said the statistic at the end. My dad is a green party representative (well, not yet, he hasn't been elected to represent) and I am SURE this is what he is working for made up in a two minute video. :D
Seth Thorpe 9 months ago

really enjoyed your simple approach and defiantly inspired
Zach Hammel 9 months ago

This is amazing. Thank you for helping to remind everyone, that just because it's not in the news doesn't mean it's not happening anymore.
Roberto Tofani 9 months ago

Great work Chris. Thanks for sharing...posted at planetnext.net
naveed khawar 9 months ago

awesome skills and concept
joquistao 9 months ago

There are plenty of alternatives to oil use. All of which are supressed by the oil companies, shareholders, govenments, and others who are NOT interested in the use of hydrogen or sunlight as energy sources.
Kaamil Ahmed 9 months ago

Great, i hope you don't mind that i've put it up on my website:
offthetangent.co.uk/oil
Philipp P. 9 months ago

very good!
Joshua B. Pribanic 9 months ago

Awesome work!
Marcos Pellegrini 9 months ago

excelent! excelent!

Could be avaible for download?

It would be great
Stef 9 months ago

Great!
Posted on motiongraphics.nu
bishwooby 9 months ago

Well done! Powerful stuff. Such a tragedy. We need more messages like this one.
Richard Hale 9 months ago

Nice presentation, very informative.

But I would like to point out the fact that there's only so much gravitational force to hold gasses in the atmosphere. The total cubic volume of the atmosphere has remained the same.
The atmosphere is not going to suddenly going to have the space to hold that "1.6 million tons."
Andrew Schoneweis 9 months ago

Great message and great animation. Perfect.
Ryan Woodman 9 months ago

Loved it. Great work!!
Spijker 9 months ago

Loved it! Liked it! Going to watch it again!
chris west 9 months ago

Great stuff Chris!
Silami 9 months ago

Nice! So true, love the message and execution.
Miguel Calderon 9 months ago

Very informative, well put together
Rachel Oftedahl 9 months ago

Beautiful animation.
Duncan Elms 9 months ago

bit of a bite of the buck animation on education but still nice
Gautam Chintamani 9 months ago

Great animation and very well crafted.
Jeff Hellman 9 months ago

thank you for your dedication crafting this creation,
hopefully this research will lead to some inspiration,
re-thinking solutions and some collaboration,
we must be wiser, not oil dependent nations,
bravo for this oil'd animation,
welovemotions 9 months ago

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Jorge Paez 9 months ago

great, thank you
Jay McGraw 9 months ago

Nice animations and style.
JTRidaura 9 months ago

Wow! nice animations, i love it!
Scott Taradash 9 months ago

Great work, fascinating information. Well done Chris.
Akira Chan Arts 9 months ago

Thank you for this - very well written - I was beginning to question the direction of the video, then it shifted beautifully. Keep up the conscious work.
Chris Koelsch 9 months ago

Love the style and transitions. Well done. Added to my blog, This 'n That tandtfy.blogspot.com/
Dawud Ali 9 months ago

great the build up to the last information got me thinking.
all that oil is 7hours. so how big would a swimming pool be to represent a global usages in one day O.O
Octavio Pérez 9 months ago

Hi, im from Mexico, and i want to put spanish subtitles to your video. I was thinking for youtube so it can reach more people. I would upload it to my account or give the srt file so you can upload it to your own channel. Its your choice. What do you think about that?
Thrillpill Films 9 months ago

Wow, great work!
I love a good infographic and this film really hit the spot.

Which is why it is the latest Stellar Short on our blog:
onesmallwindow.com/stellar-shorts/oild/

Great work Chris!
Boxset Media 9 months ago

Love these kind of videos, engaging in every possible way. How long did the film take from storyboarding to final render?
Chris Harmon 9 months ago

I spent the last week of March doing all the research and writing. Moved into actual production beginning of April and worked every free moment on nights and weekends until it was done. Maybe 100 hours in production.
Boxset Media 9 months ago

Looks brilliant Chris, subscribed and looking forward to more videos in the future!
Laurent Renaud 9 months ago

Great motion design (I really like the earth), great message!

Maybe a exploding helicopter or a slow motion gunfight could make it greater. ;]
Daniel 9 months ago

Very nice work :D
John Slaughter 9 months ago

beautifully and frighting at the same time!!

The US use that much in 7 hours!
UPHEAVAL 9 months ago

Thank you. Bravo!
CJ Sarmiento 9 months ago

nice work! i feel like some changes is happening on me! thanks :)
Philipp 9 months ago

postet on photofips.blogspot.com/

nice video !
Mike Henriquez 9 months ago

Wao this is just amazing! great job, great animation, i think you should show us some techniques, hehe!
Olivier Blaecke 9 months ago

Great work, thanks !
Aron Brand 9 months ago

nice! great stuff! awesome graphics. awesome message.
Jim Roberson 9 months ago

thanks so much for making this. a level headed account of what we never think about and never see... putting a horrible natural disaster into perspective. very well done!
Daniel Einfrank 9 months ago

What an important message! Thanks for making this!
Matthew Erde 9 months ago

Great message, definitely. The question of "What would we have done with all that oil is a bit misleading. It would have probably taken years to pump and refine the amount of that leaked into the gulf. It just doesn't come out that fast. So it may trick you into believing that the problem in consuming oil is that we may run out. We wont run out, we just cant pump it and refine it fast enough to match our demand.
David Bain 9 months ago

Fantastic! Should be watched by everyone.
Gerardo 9 months ago

nice
mead video 9 months ago

really well done! thanks for producing and sharing.
Roman in Ukraine 9 months ago

I pretty much agree with George Carlin's perspective: youtube.com/watch?v=p5Miv4NHsDo
Patrick McLoad 3 months ago

Me too!!