This video is a sampling of all the sports graphics we made for football and basketball last year. We're gearing up to start conceptualizing the look of this upcoming football season and I thought this edit was a very good look back at the variety of graphics we made.
The edited piece was cut together by Scott Horton. All the graphics were a collaborative effort and most of the ones I worked extensively on are already shown in past posts.
Enjoy!
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I've been working pretty hard on a project that I can't post yet but here's an idea of what I've made for the project's DVD. It's a screenshot of all the after effects compositions I made for the menu's transitions. If you can count how many are there you'll get a prize. So in the meantime I'll post something I made today.
I was asked to make a quick background for the Purdue president's inauguration. It was used as a backdrop for the entire stage. Basically they just wanted something with the Purdue Seal on it. I thought it turned out nice for what it is.
I also found out that my "I am a Boilermaker" poster won a regional Gold Addy award and has been submitted to the national addy awards. I guess it's going up against the major players in advertising now. Wish me luck.
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My church has been on my mind recently because I'm helping them with a bunch of short little edits about revolutionaries. They're for a series of talks that happen over the next few months. Last night I found myself bored and I guess my church was still on my mind because I started making a desktop for their computers.
I used part of the church's logo and just wanted to use that as the central theme of a designed piece. After a couple of hours of tinkering I created what you see in the link above. If you'd like to download it just follow the links to the widescreen or 4x3 versions. The church's website is http://www.nvcl.org/
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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!
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Since I'm busy on stuff I'm not ready to post yet I figured I'd post some past work. A couple of years ago the Challenge conference came to Purdue and all the shows were held in the Hall of Music. We recorded every one and I was asked to make a DVD box set of every show.
I divided the shows up by day and created a 2-disc case for each day. The front covers of each case are identical - with the exception of the date, but the backs of each case are different to show the speaker for that day. It was a lot of fun to design and I hear the client was very happy with them.
You can see a snippet of the menus here.
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This year we hosted the 2007 ADDY competition. Because of this I was asked to make the screen dress for the awards ceremony. The ADDYs decided to have a Broadway theme and asked that I create my design to fit a Broadway look.
I started by taking the ADDY logo into after effects and created a neon version of it. I did this by creating mask splines and applying Trapcode's 3D stroke to them to create thickness. I then added the glow effect. I changed the comp to 32 bit float to achieve the hot glows and then rendered out a still of the logo. I brought that into Photoshop and created the rest of the comp.
The dancers I cut out and brought into AE to create the lights shining behind them. For this I made spotlights and applied Trapcode's Lux to make them volume lights. I rendered out the still and applied it to my Photoshop comp.
Hope you like it.
On a side note the "I Am A Boilermaker" poster campaign took home 1 Silver, 2 Gold, Judge's Choice and People's Choice ADDY awards. It was a fun night.
Recently Rob Schrab was kind enough to allow me to help him cleanup some books for his Scud omnibus. While working on them I ran across a panel of Scud discovering that his loaner arm once belonged to a werewolf and I found myself remembering how much I loved that illustration. One thing that I've always wanted to try was coloring a comic. Suddenly, with this panel drawn by Rob, I had a black and white comic panel to work on and found myself wanting to try it out. The other day I had some free time and sat down to work on it and after showing it to Rob and finding out he liked it I decided to post it here. Please be sure to go over to his blog to find out more about Scud.
I used Photoshop and a Wacom tablet to do all the work.
