Kiss Cam

This is a segment that runs during the games and the winning couple gets a free meal to the sponsor's restaurant. I tried to keep with the theme this year and created the heart with neon lights. I made the lights and heart in Photoshop and added the effects in After Effects. I made the heart composition 32 bit float so the neon would really glow and pop. I rendered that out and then put it in a 8 bit comp for the rest of the piece.

It runs in 3 parts, but I assembled them all together for this.

2007 Basketball Head Shots

We were asked to keep the same theme from football and carry it over to basketball. So one of the common threads migrating from our football graphics is the metal and steam background. I used that in combination with new elements to create the head shot seen below.



The spinning transition was modeled and textured in Maya by Brad Sommer and given to me as stills. Everything else in the head shot I created in Photoshop and animated in After Effects.

Football Pregame Roll

This is a small snippet from the Purdue football pregame rolls that air on game day. They're basically a series of messages that roll on the LED wall. The frame was modeled in Maya by Brad Sommer. The content slides and compositing were done by me in Photoshop and After Effects. Everything we created for these rolls loop and were designed to be pieced seamlessly together in editing software.

Blast from the Past FINAL

I said in a previous post that I'd update the blast from the past video with a final render when done. Well we finished them so here's the final product. If you've been to any Purdue football games you've seen this on the jumbotron.

Purdue Football Poster FINAL

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So I know I haven't posted in a while. That's because I've been swamped at work and haven't had the energy to do so. Well, I hope to remedy that in the coming weeks and I'll start here with this. The final design for one of the Purdue football recruitment posters.

I played around with a bunch of different slogans and variants of the text and ultimately decided to go simple and just have "I am a boilermaker" on the poster. I sometimes struggle with combining the image with the logo and text elements, wanting the image to just say it all, but overall I feel these play well together.

As you can see I added the crossing hammers logo on the poster. I guess we're hoping this becomes a standard Purdue athletics logo and by branding everything we make with it, we'll achieve that goal. It worked for Purdue Pete (the boilermaker special is the official mascot) and we're hoping it'll work for us. Enjoy.

You can go to this post to see a little more on how I assembled the poster.

2007 Football Commercial

We were asked to make a 30 second commercial for 2007 football season tickets. The client asked for a simple football edit with a 3-2-1 countdown and information at the end. Below is what we came up with.

Brad Sommer made the train animation at the beginning in Maya. Louis Dierkman edited the video, Adam Ruud created the lower 3rd in Maya, and I created the countdown and end information in After Effects. We then took all the elements and composited them together in After Effects and added the grunge and camera shake. I also helped with the overall "look" and created the text for the Highlighted home games.

We were pleased with the final product. Hope you enjoy.

2007 Football Posters

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We were asked this year to create some posters for the Purdue football team. This is one that I worked on today and is in progress. It still needs text and logos applied and I'm still working on the overall look and may possibly change the sky. I took the pictures of the player, stadium and sky and composited them together in Photoshop.

[update]
I was asked by our creative director to add shoulder pads to the player that we originally shot without pads. He put on a pair of shoulder pads and a jersey that we have in the office and we shot a picture of him trying to match the light as best we could. I then took that image and cut out the pads and added them to the original image that I took. I also had to change the numbers on the shoulders to match the number of the player. Above is a link to the updated poster.

Blast from the Past

This is the first piece we've made for the upcoming Purdue football season and I'm excited about the way the whole look turned out. This piece is a 'guess the year' type of thing that will run during football games on the new LED wall Purdue is installing. Scott Horton is the creative director this season and he wanted a 300 look with some steampunk elements and this is what we created. Scott edited the little video in Premiere Pro that plays during the piece highlighting the events that happened that year. Adam Ruud and I created the base frames in Photoshop that surround the elements. Brad Sommer created the title and spinning numbers in Maya. And I assembled the whole piece in After Effects. To do that I edited the frames created by Adam in Photoshop so they would work the way I needed them to for the piece. I created the background in Photoshop. I then took all the elements assembled them in After Effects and put 3D motion to them and added a camera, lights, shadows, and color correction. I then animated all the pieces to create what you see below.



[ note: this is a rough version. the motion blur was turned off to shorten render time and the voice-over is a temporary one until we get the real one recorded. I'll update the video when we have a completed piece ]