Nativity scene LARP battle: animated short

“IM IN UR MANGER KILLING UR SAVIOR” is hilarious animated short about three nerds who turn a nativity scene into a LARP battle. It was hand created over a year by Ben Levin and Matt Burnett of the animation studio For Tax Reasons.

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RadioGuy

Hi-res quicktime here:
http://www.fortaxreasons.com/objects/media/IIUMKUS_720x540_h264.mov

Also check out “She She She She’s A Bombshell” under the “Animation” page at fortaxreasons.com — it’s pretty funny!
Church

DID they animate it? The end credits confused me. Is it re-animated footage of an existing animation (like is normally done with AMVs and such?) I’m thinking it’s the latter, but every comment I’ve seen on this suggests the former.
Al Billings

They animated it and also their Youtube response to their own video.
Church

They list the “Original Japanese Cast” and “Ronion Dojo High School DX” in the credits. Is that part of the joke? To make it look like it was crafted from anime? If so, it’s a bit ultra-meta-arch.
franko

i don’t care how they made it. it’s hy-larious, and it made my evening. to warcraft i go!
Church

Make no mistake, I love this vid. I’m just trying to figure out how it was made.
den_of_thieves

If you read through the youtube comments he says it was drawn by hand scanned and colored in photoshop and finished in adobe after effects.

I’m pretty sure the Japanese credits are just a gag.

Their web site is:
http://www.fortaxreasons.com