[box]Since moving to Vancouver, I’ve been pretty busy with film school, drawing and learning some software, but as The Shining teaches us, all work and no play means you might chase people with an ax. So I needed to get outside and play. Luckily, a few of my classmates were eager to join me to [...]
[facebook] [retweet] With the year coming to an end I decided to make a clean break from some footage, so before archiving it into oblivion, I wanted to make a video out of the footage I have yet to use. The first video is from this year’s Flytec race in Florida, and the second one [...]
I’ve created several videos for Sewanee over the past year and they wanted something a little different than their typical slideshow of photos they do at year’s end. That’s when the idea for doing 2.5D animation came to mind. I’ve done it once before in a contest video that I did for Kiva.org (didn’t win [...]
[facebook] [retweet] Let me start this blog post by saying you can pick up a beauty dish from Amazon for $89 by clicking here. But if you’re a savy DIY-er you may want to try your hand and making one on your own. My original idea was to make a video tutorial on how I [...]
[facebook] [retweet] You may remember the Miracle One Wine videos I produced? Well, this same group has come out with another great wine in a ridiculously cool packaging, Bluebird Wine. They asked me to make an introductory video which you can watch below. They crafted this wine because they didn’t see any premium wines on [...]
I’m just learning to play the piano, and with John Lennon’s birthday yesterday I thought I might share one of the few songs I know how to play. I learned how to play it on some random video site that had horrible video quality, split the song into two separate videos, and had confusing instructions. [...]
I recently made a blog post about my trip to film at my alma mater Sewanee: The University of the South. I was hired to create three more videos for them and above you can see the first one in this next series. It is a short vignette on Coach Robert Black, who is also [...]
This year was the 20th anniversary for the annual Ballooning event in my hometown, Bowling Green, KY. The event was previously known as the Balloon Classic, now, it’s Balloon, Tunes, and BBQ. There are some big sponsors and all the profits go towards the United Way of Southern Kentucky. I was excited to go and grab some [...]
I’ve seen this effect used in some wedding photographer’s images with the heart shaped bokeh (blur) is in the background so I did a little investigating into how this effect is accomplished. You can watch a video tutorial on how I did this above, or buy your own kit that B&H sells, click HERE. This [...]
Here is the final video I made for the Sewanee Annual Fund, third in the series. (see the first and second one)
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