![]() ![]() ![]() he said, "oh you must be the slow mo guys," and I thought that sounds pretty good." And he hopped over the wall as we were setting up the Phantom. " Hammond was the first person to ever refer to me as a "slow mo guy" because he knew there was a high-speed camera on the shoot that we were doing, which was him going around in a Formula 1 car. According to Free, the name partially comes from a comment Richard Hammond made on the set of Top Gear. ![]() The Slow Mo Guys, featuring slow motion footage of various pranks and stunts of the pair, has garnered millions of views since it launched in 2010. He then created The Slow Mo Guys along with friend Daniel Gruchy in order to get a work visa.įree and Gruchy met while working in a Waitrose in their home county of Oxfordshire. Afterwards, he had decided to make a move to Austin, Texas and work full-time for Rooster Teeth. In 2008, he was hired to direct the seventh season of the Rooster Teeth machinima series Red vs. ![]() He began working on adverts, music videos, and films such as Hot Fuzz. In the spring of 2006, after graduating from Lord Williams' School, Gavin Free joined Green Door Films, the first production house in Europe to utilize Phantom digital high-speed cameras as a source of slow motion, working as a Data Technician and Camera Operator. They usually record multiple episodes at once due to their limited time for when they can meet due to living on separate continents. Their videos were frequently featured on the Rooster Teeth website before the show was acquired by Rooster Teeth. The channel was initially created in order for Gavin to earn a Visa to move to the United States to work for Rooster Teeth. This side channel is for any material that does not constitute as a Slow Mo Guys episode, and features more laid back "out of labcoats" content that doesn't fit on the main channel and instead revolving around the shenanigans of Gavin and Daniel such as their vlogs, pranks, in addition to behind the scenes prepping, bloopers/outtakes, RTX panels and more stuff that they have racked up over the years but have never shown, as well as more technical videos such as "how to work the Phantom camera." As of January 2018, the main channel has over 9.8 million subscribers and 1,270,731,994 views while the second channel has 615,685 subscribers and 20,662,117 views.Ī second channel The Slow Mo Guys 2, was created on Februwith its first video airing March 27, 2016. The series consists of a wide variety of things filmed in extreme slow motion using a range of Vision Research Phantom high-speed cameras, capable of shooting over 343,000 frames per second. It has been described as the biggest channel for slow motion videos on YouTube. The Slow Mo Guys (often abbreviated as SMG) an ongoing long running Rooster Teeth Live action Streamy Award-winning science and technology entertainment YouTube channel Web series featuring extreme slow motion montage videos created, presented and run by a duo of British YouTubers and pranksters, Gavin Free and his friend Dan Gruchy, starring themselves and produced by Rooster Teeth Productions where they film many different things in Slow Motion. ![]()
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