"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!

That's Amore!

Continuing in the "My Work" series on my blog, here's a video I shot last year for Central Christian Church. I was the Director Of Photography and Video Editor on this piece.

Behind-The-Scenes Of "Jonah"

We're about to launch a new series at Central Christian Church called "Overboard: The Adventures Of Jonah (And A Really Big Fish)". And with said new series comes a new creative video go to with it. Since it is the summer and the number of projects decreases significantly, we decided to make a super-ambitious animated re-telling of the story of Jonah.

The project is nearing completion (after three and a half weeks of work) and to celebrate, I decided to share a time-lapse of the creation of two of the shots in the upcoming video. The video above represents 16 hours of my life presented in 2 minutes and 38 seconds.