I have been deeply involved in creating motion graphics for the past 7 years, and I lay claim to the oddity of somewhat bucking the norm for most of that time in my choice of tools. After Effects is (at present) essentially the Photoshop of motion graphics creation, but I have only begun to really…
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I recently finished up a project for rezlife student ministries entitled Double Dare, about boldly living out one’s faith. Process As with most of my projects, I like to come at the subject in an unexpected way if I possibly can. This particular series was not only about boldly living out faith, but also…
read moreThis is a video I put together for Easter 2012. The graphics were designed by my co-worker Kathleen Sylvestri. It even got some TV time over the last few days, which I think makes this my first commercial. Pretty simple animation, but I think it turned out well.
read moreGraphics and video for rezlife’s Grow Summer 2012. This is one of the first projects that I was actually able to work on post-transplant, so it was a little slow going, but I managed to get it pulled together. This year rezlife student ministries will be doing all kinds of missions work- in the Kansas…
read moreThis weekend proved an ominous beginning to my upcoming chemo treatment. On Sunday morning I woke up with what felt like the makings of the flu, which meant that most of the day was spent laying on the couch watching a History Channel series on the American Revolution. I should also mention that on Friday…
read moreThis video is for rezlife’s upcoming series Issues. The series itself is going to deal with some fairly heavy topics, so they wanted the graphics and video to be light-hearted. I decided on going with Sven the Cow because, well, why not? Sometimes sheer randomity is the best policy, in my opinion. Enjoy.
read moreThis is a video for rezlife’s 2011-2012 Sunday School curriculum, Character. This year is a focus on the Old Testament, as related mostly through the people who encapsulate most of its story. Thus, characters like Moses, Abraham, David, Adam and Eve, etc., form the nucleus of the curriculum’s content. Of course, the title Character is…
read moreThis video and graphics package is for rezlife’s current teaching series: Priorities. With this series I knew I wanted to really strip it down, going as simplistic as possible. With a series called “Priorities,” there any number of directions to pursue. I started thinking about what things define us in the modern world, especially younger…
read moreEvery year for rezlife student ministries I end up creating a entire package of design collateral: a brochure, (this year a booklet) connection cards, signage, screen graphics, etc. Along with that I also make an intro video. This year was especially tricky in that I wasn’t really feeling any ideas for it, even up to…
read morePhotoshop can be extremely unstable. Especially on my computer at work. It has this odd habit of crashing, and then taking about 15 minutes to complete the crashing process before I am able to use it again. Quite annoying. On Thursday it happened, and I was not inclined to simply sit patiently and wait, so…
read moreThis is a promotional video I made for Church of the Resurrection’s upcoming series Going Fishing. Nothing too out of the ordinary for me, but I thought it was kind of fun. Enjoy.
read moreVBC 2011 Missions Video from deviantmonk on Vimeo. I created this video for KiDSCOR’s 2011 VBC Missions project, which is providing clean water to families in the village of El Obraje, Honduras. I chose to go with a crisp and clean aesthetic for this one, since the theme is water. As far as I remember,…
read moreThe Real Social Network from deviantmonk on Vimeo. This video is a promo/series video for The Real Social Network, a 3 week series that is starting at Church of the Resurrection next week. I have to say that I really initially struggled with coming up with any kind of concept for this. One of the…
read moreThis video was created for my friend Eric’s youth groups’ summer camp for 2011. This year they are going with a tron-esque theme, and so I decided to kind of take it back to the old school Tron light-cycle vibe. Enjoy.
read moreI finished up this video about a month ago for rezlife’s summer 2011 camp. The whole aesthetic was actually built around the soundtrack- originally I was going to go with more of a 70′s vibe, but after hearing this track I thought that something with more of a late 80′s early 90′s feel might be…
read moreRepresent from deviantmonk on Vimeo. This is a quick turn-around video that I created for rezlife’s upcoming series Represent.
read moreI finished this video about a month ago, but forgot to post it. I will now remedy the situation. Enjoy.
read moreIn my recent post, I shared a few reactions to Apple’s unveiling- a sneak peek as they deemed it- of the upcoming Final Cut Pro X. (Interestingly, the presenter referred to it as ‘Final Cut Pro 10′ on a number of occasions. If the X really is a ’10,’ one sort of wonders what happened…
read moreLast Tuesday at the Final Cut SuperMeet the world was given a sneak peek at Apple’s newest iteration of Final Cut Pro: Final Cut Pro X. I wasn’t there, but I’ve watched some of the videos floating around online of the presentation as well as read some write-ups and reactions by people who were there….
read moreThis a video for KidsCOR’s Lent/Easter series Choose the Cross.
read morerezlife is starting a new series after spring break entitled ‘Grosser than Gross.’ My first stab at art direction for this series was a little too dark, so I decided to go with a cute and cuddly, albeit deadly scorpion named Serenity. Character videos are always fun, and it seemed to be well-received. And anytime…
read moreI finished up a new video today for KidsCOR’s series Families that begins this weekend. It actually came together fairly quickly, from script to final export, which is always nice.
read moreA few days ago Tech Crunch reported that a new upgrade to Final Cut Pro is immanent. The last half year has been a little nerve-racking for those of us who use FCP day in and day out, as reports have surfaced that the team working on the Pro apps had been reassigned to work…
read moreLast week I finished up a new series video for rezlife’s upcoming series Counting Sheep. It will be focusing on discipleship as well as the understanding that God cares for us and so we should care for others. Since the title is Counting Sheep, I wanted the video to have a somewhat dream-like quality to…
read moreThis last week I finished up a new piece for rezlife’s upcoming series, Lights! Camera! Action! I generally do animation for the videos I create, but wanted to go a bit of a different direction with this one. About a week prior Megan and I had purchased a 50mm lens for our Canon T2i, and…
read moreThis is a fun little video I put together for KidsCOR. This last month they did a series entitled “Is That Really in the Bible?”, which looked at some of the stranger stories in the Bible. As I was coming up with the concept, I noticed that Balaam and the Talking Donkey was one of…
read moreI finished up a couple of new videos this past week and thought I would share. The first is a promo for rezlife’s Souper Bowl Food Drive. I wanted to do something fun that also communicated what the event was about. Since the re-appropriation of ‘Super Bowl’ is often frowned upon by its trademark owners,…
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