Superbowl

As a video guy, I always have fun watching the Superbowl. But to be honest, I watch it more for the production values than for the game itself. For some reason, I’ve always been more into individual adventure sports more than team sports.

Either way, it was fun to see someone I’ve had the privilege of working with  – Len Dawson – get some air time during the trophy presentation at the big game. And even though I’m not a die-hard sports guy, getting to work with a Superbowl MVP and NFL hall of famer was pretty cool.

Anyway, a couple months back we did some testimonial videos for Associated Audiologists, in Kansas City, and Len Dawson was the main spokesperson. The project wasn’t heavy on effects, but it communicates well to it’s target audience and we had a great time putting everything together.

Click on this link or the photo below to view the final project.

Client: Associated Audiologists, Kansas City

Agency: Glacial Multimedia

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Remedy Drive: Hope EPK

This past September, I had a the privilege of directing the 2009 LifeLight Music festival in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. It’s the largest outdoor Christian music festival in the nation – and a highlight of my summer each year.

This time, we also had the opportunity to partner with Remedy Drive, a festival favorite, and record content for their Hope EPK. All together we covered the show with 10 ISO’s – 6 of which were part of the hardlined IMAG feed – and it was a glorious experience.

Of course, you can’t do this sort of thing without an amazing crew and a lot of teamwork. My deep, deep thanks go to Tim, Karsten, Dan, Cody, Justin, Sam, Scott, Rob, Luke, Seth, Micah, Isaiah, Theo and Amy (The only female I know who is brave enough to spend a weekend working with so many guys) for working to make the festival a success. Thanks team!

Anyway, check out the link and enjoy the show. And next year – plan on being there. It’s even better in person.

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Latest Project: Redeemer City to City

I recently had the opportunity to do an animation project for Redeemer City to City – a phenomenal church planting and content resource organization based in New York City – and I had a great time working on the project. More importantly, they were really happy with the final result and how it represented their identity. Check out the video below to view the final animation.

Redeemer City to City from Redeemer City to City on Vimeo.

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Meet Jack.

Check out my latest project:

Born 1/5/2009
8lbs. 13 oz.
20 in.
Beautiful
Strong
Loved
And created to know God.

I’ll be out of contact for a couple days as we get to know him. Thanks for stopping by.

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Free Looping Background

As I posted yesterday, I think it is critical for every motion graphic designer to constantly be learning. And it’s even better when that learning yields tangible results. Although work and learning can be separate endeavors, they shouldn’t always be mutually exclusive. Which means, if you’re taking time away from paying work to learn something new, that new knowledge should eventually show up in your projects in order to make it profitable.

This whole personal learning diversion started with an actual paying job. I’m currently working on a logo identity piece where the client asked me to make the logo look less like plastic – roughen it up just a bit – and at the time I didn’t know how to achieve what they were asking for. So, armed with a manual, Google, and couple tutorial sites, I got to work and was able to create the results they desired. And now that I know what I’m doing, I can get back to the real job, finish up my project, and make my discoveries pay for themselves.

On top of that, I thought I should make my discoveries profitable to you as well. So I’m offering my test scene from yesterday as a free looping background for use in your own work. Feel free to use it as an animated background in a project, use it as a displacement map, put it in your worship software, or use it for whatever else you come up with – and if you end up with something you are really proud of, I’d love to see what you did. After all, we’re all supposed to be learning.

Stats: TMG Cube Loop

Frame Dimensions: 720 x 1280
Duration: 3600 frames, 2:30 @ 24fps
Number of Cubes: 50 x 50 grid array; 2500 – Render Instances
Render Time: 19.45 hours – C4DR11.5, Mac OS 10.5.8, 2 x 3 Ghz Quad Core Intel Xeon, 10 GB

Download the Full Resolution Cube Loop here or click the banner for a preview.

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