"Where's Ben?"

My work for Central Christian Church in Las Vegas, NV continues! This video is a promo we produced for a message series called "The Benjamins" that ran in January of 2012. We completely shot this promo on a Sony FS100 with Zeiss lenses. There was very little post-production work on this piece compared to most of the other videos I've posted here. My post duties mostly consisted of video editing, color correction, and audio sweetening.

"The Formula For Happiness"

This video marks my first, official forray into 3d animation. And I'm quite happy with the results! The question box, confetti, and stars in this video were created using Cinema 4D, and rendered with it's built-in Sketch & Toon plugins.

Using these techniques, I was able to achieve effects I was never able to in After Effects. I'm definitely looking forward to expanding my 3d skills!

"Masks" And Echo Conference 2011

This week I attended my first conference: Echo Conference 2011 in Dallas, TX. It was incredibly rad to get to meet and hang out with other creative geeks from churches and production companies all around the country!

By far, though, the weirdest experience was on Wednesday night, after the first Keynote of the conference. Worship House Media had a special film festival of sorts and CentralFilms (the production company I work for) was one of the five producers they picked to debut what they call a "mini-movie". We decided to show one of our most recent videos called "Masks" (which you can watch above, if you so desire).

Just before the event, we were asked by Dale Carter of Worship House Media to get up after the video was shown and speak about the creation process of the mini-movie.

If you know me, you know I have a severe case of stage fright.

This terrified me.

Somehow, I willed my legs to walk up the steps to that stage and stand next to my boss and fellow CentralFilmer, Justin Jackson, and I even managed to say a few things about my involvement in the video before everything was said and done.

The conference itself was a blast, and I'm definitely looking forward to attending next year! Maybe I'll see you there!

George Lucas Strikes Back!

I'm not entirely sure how this movie avoided my radar, but this morning the trailer you see before you popped up in my Twitter feed. It's a new film produced by George Lucas called "Red Tails" about the Tuskegee airmen in World War II.

It looks absolutely stunning.

Must see it!

PSA: Little Big Planet 2 Is Released!

Just a little Public Service Announcement for you guys: Little Big Planet 2 is now available! Don't think about it, just go buy it . If you snag it soon from Amazon, you'll even get a $20 credit toward your next video game purchase! Huzzah!