1) That is brilliant, Dave!! This might be your best video ever!! And I can't even imagine how much time it took to make this!! I really enjoyed it.

2) That is just silly. Everyone knows you can't fit a square peg in a round hole.
Ah I hate myself.

3) Great Job Dave!!!!!! What a great Vid!!!!!! You Rock!!!!!

4) Awesome work, Dave. Loved the gelly computer.

5) This is so inspiring. It brought me to tears! Great job Dave.

6) Beautimous!!!

7) I think this is too cute! How much time did it take you? I just showed it to my two year old and she was mesmerized. I will have to run it by Bubba later, I am sure he will think it is neat too.

Then he will ask if we can do it. It will be at this moment that my child will learn that mommy doesn't know a darn thing!

8) Very cute, Dave. Was the doorbell there originally? Not the sound, but the actual doorbell? I don't remember it.

9) Thanks guys. Courtney, yeah, the doorbell was always there. Long story short, but I had some trouble getting this video to show up right. There was a frame rate issue, and I had to re-sync the music with the video. The doorbell sound is slightly too late because of this issue, but it's not too bad.

I believe I can dig through my pile of discarded GelGems to find the half-circle doorbell. I will give it to you next year for our anniversary.

10) No, thank you.

11) Awesome job Dave! I really like the music too, it went really well with the animation. I kept waiting for the subliminal Humzoo dude to show up in there but never saw it. I re-watched it 37 times too, and still didn't see it. Did I miss it?

12) Nice job. This had to have taken days, right? This is why I play Halo, less time and instant gratification. Seriously though, this is pretty amazing.

13) Very Nice! I hope you submitted this to the people at Design Ideas.

14) Fritz, it took about 14 days to come up with the idea, but I usually don't count that time since I'm not actually 'doing' anything. Once I had the idea, I got the whole thing shot over the course of 2 days. But I had a limited time during the day when I could shoot this due to the sun's position (lighting had to be consistent) and due to frequent rain (which would run down the window).

I'd say I spent roughly 5 hours actually shooting this, then maybe 3 hours in post-production. I spent a few hours writing my own music, time that ended up being wasted as I ended up using someone else's music (although I did spend over an hour choosing a couple songs and then merging them together).

Adding in setup times, cleanup, waiting for video to process, etc, I'd say the whole project was somewhere between 15 and 18 hours. But that's not bad, considering I would have sat around not doing anything that weekend anyway. I felt sickly and would have probably napped and/or vegged out on the couch otherwise.

15) Sarah P showed this to me. That square is hot.

The square is female right?

RIGHT?!

16) haha Joey!
This is perfect for elementary sex ed.

17) It's funny, but I did think about their genders before I ever started. I naturally thought that the square would be better for the guy and that an organic shape like a circle would be better for a woman. But I thought that was too obvious, so I decided to mix it up. But the whole time I was making this, I still thought of the circle as the female.

18) squareosexuals unite.

19) they could both be male or both female? I like that you mixed it up.

20) I have a hard time reconciling the fact you are married, have two kids, a house, and time to make this movie.

21) This is getting a little too raunchy for me!

22) Dave - you need to send this to Andy Van Meter ASAP.

$$$$

23) I totally had to look up who that was. Can I say this? Dave's client is Design Ideas. And I think it was a couple less dollar signs. Dave, feel free to remove or change this comment if needed.

24) It was a commissioned project, that's true. Part of a new campaign they're doing. I'm not even sure if they've seen it yet, but I did have permission to post it here.

25) Wow Dave that's really cool! Pretty exciting that Design Ideas asked you to do this for them!

One question tho... was the square sleeping around with the mailman? Cause that triangle looks awfully three-sided to be the circle's baby.

26) LOL, Ames. Dave, very impressive. I'm not much of a web video watcher so me wanting to see it is even more impressive. You do great work and very professional work as well. Great job! Hope your client enjoys it as much.

27) Holy crap Dave! That is the coolest thing ever. Ever.

28) You do amazing work, Dave!!! Wonderful video.

29) I agree that I love this video! And I also agree with George about where Dave finds the time to do this in his house - we've had a 90% finished basement since mid-May and still can't find the time to finish cleaning our new shower and sealing the tile to use it. Maybe the Heinzels could teach us a class on time management or at least how to keep two children under five occupied while their parents get things done. LOL

30) Is it ok to ask who are Design Ideas? And what are Gel Gems?

31) Design Ideas is a Springfield, IL based manufacturing company. From our website: Today, Design Ideas® creates, manufactures and globally markets more than 1,500 innovative and affordable accessories for the home and office under the slogan, “We make things interesting.”

And GelGems are one of our most popular products. As you saw in Dave's video, they're colorful, fun, pieces of gel that cling to windows, mirrors, & any other non-porous surface. They're sold world-wide and we're working on a bigger, better online store so you can purchase them from the comfort of your computer.

and, for the record, dave... you so totally rock!

32) Awesome Dave. Just awesome.
So how will this video by used for marketing?

33) Hot circle square love. Great video. Can you fax me your 'Commission a video from Dave Heinzel & Inc.' form?

34) Kudos on the video and thanks for sharing the Gels today!

35) That was awesome Dave! The maze chase reminded me of pacman.

36) i didnt cry, but it was cool nonetheless.!.. 1 kudos point awarded.

37) Dave, this is truly amazing! How did you do it? No, I know you are one of the most creative people I know so you can do just about anything!!! I showed this to people at my school and they were very impressed also! And they loved The Yellow Car video!!!

38) Dave you never cease to amaze me, nice work dude!

39) Way cool dude.

40) This is pure Heinzel at it's best. I want some GelGems!!! is there a website to purchase?

41) http://www.gelgems.com

42) gelgems.com is going to be bigger & better by about 10/15. just wait... there's more. ;)

43) Wow. That is amazing. I can't wait to show it to my husband after work.

Gotta get me some gel gems!

44) That collection of GelGems must be worth a fortune.