N.U.N.C.H.U.K.S.

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This was a short video made for Young Life to advertise an upcoming ninja club. It was shown in the previous week's club to get the kids excited about everything that involves stealthiness. Again I had the help of Matt Wallace, of the Dodge ball commercial. We thought it'd be fun to to make a commercial for a home ninja correspondence course like the old Sally Struthers diploma at home advertisements.

Matt did the narration with the only exception being the brutally manly battle-cry at the end voiced by me. He also helped with the edit and coming up with a list of all things we believed ninjas needed to be adept at.

I used Photoshop to make the parchment and Premiere Pro to do the editing and text. The old Asian man clip came from the movie Kung Pow: Enter the Fist.

It was a lot of fun to make and all the Young Life leaders got to be involved. Hopefully I'll get to make some more in the future. Enjoy!

Young Life Golf Outing & Nerf Wars

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I was given the opportunity to make another poster for Young Life. This time for their annual golf outing fundraiser. I wanted to make something that had a little Scottish influence to it since that was the birthplace of the sport. So in Scottish clan tradition, I made a Young Life golf coat of arms. I used Illustrator to modify the shield and golf clubs, then brought it into Photoshop to create the rest of the poster. It's always fun to make stuff for YL.

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On a separate note we recently purchased an arsenal of nerf guns at work and decided to make some action photos. Below is the one I did of me wielding dual Mavericks. I have two images. The first one is the original photo we took and the second is me in the heat of battle. Everything was done with images from google image search and about 1 hour of playing around in Photoshop. It was just a fun exercise... a sort of graphics challenge.

Dodge Ball!

In my last post I talked about fun things I've worked on for Young Life so I decided to post a 30 sec. commercial my friend Matt Wallace and I made for a YL event. It's a commercial for an all-area dodge ball tournament that was shown at the various clubs around town leading up to the event. We just thought it would be funny to have some guys training up for the tournament with bad 80's big-hair rock music and cheesy graphics so that's what we made. We shot the whole thing in about 1 hour and edited it that night. Matt did all the vocals and V/O and I edited it and made the graphics. The graphics were all made in after effects and I just used the stock lightening effect which I always found a bit cheesy. Throw in some explosions and in-your-face 3D text and call it a night. Overall the commercial was well received by the kids and the closing "DODGE BALL!" gut-belting lyric that Matt threw in at the end became the de facto rock phrase to yell randomly at clubs the remainder of the year.

Western Carnival

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A while back I was a Young Life leader and while I'm no longer a leader, I still make posters and edit videos for them as needed. I was asked to make a poster for their end of the year event that is western themed - kind of a barn-dance type club. I used Photoshop and Illustrator to create the poster. I always enjoy making stuff for Young Life because they always let me have a lot of creative freedom when making things for them.