http://vjon.org/reel creative, technical, versatile, and always on message Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:46:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In this 2 minute animation, an engineer finds inspiration in his daily life to improve his product and help his co-workers. I was the director and lead animator. Illustrations by Aleks Sennwald, and quite a bit of additional animation by Toshi Hoo. http://vjon.org/reel/2009/be-inspired-animation-for-ptc/ I edited this trailer for a cool iPhone jet fighting game in my home studio. For the online, we actually downsize all the video to match the screen capture size of 480x360 – the native iPhone resolution. http://vjon.org/reel/2009/sgn-fast-video-game-trailer/ I was actually caught off guard by this one. This isn't just a local or regional Addy. This is the top national honor given to an animated web video by the advertising industry, and I was the animator and fx artist. Numero Uno. For the whole year. The only video ... http://vjon.org/reel/2008/flight-of-the-cfls-wins-national-gold-addy-in-web-video-fx-category/ _Trinchero Napa Valley "Mario Profile" When the Trinchero Napa Valley Winery wanted to announce that they had hired 4th-generation winemaker Mario Monticelli to head up their top-tier label, I was asked to edit a video profile introducing him to their employees and distributors. The result was this simple but elegant profile ... http://vjon.org/reel/2008/trinchero-napa-valley-announces-a-new-winemaker/ _Livescribe "In-Store Demo" I edited this point-of-sale piece for an electronic note-taking pen at Elastic Creative. The final appeared in a kiosk in Target stores, and we also cut a :60 sec spot for cable TV. Numerous FX shots made the piece a fun challenge. My After Effects and compositing skills enabled ... http://vjon.org/reel/2008/livescribe-target-in-store-kiosk/ I did some more challenging keys for a Sega spot produced at Mekanism. _SEGA: "Rally Revo" http://vjon.org/reel/2007/sega-rally-revo-composites/ For the Snickers "Feasters" Campaign, Mekanism shot a band of epic feasters on a cross country roadtrip. I was the greenscreen compositor, and shot the background plates along with Neal from Videology. Notable challenges here were the dust and reflections on both windshields, and the costumes, which included fur, green leaves, ... http://vjon.org/reel/2007/snickers-feasters-spots/ I edited and animated this 90-second viral at Mekanism in San Francisco. Troy Kooper's concept and illustrations of Brooklyn artist Aleks Sennwald that really make this project memorable. Especially in regards to the drawings, when you get handed such good material to begin with, its hard to go wrong. An ... http://vjon.org/reel/2007/pge-flight-of-the-cfls-viral/ _Adobe: "Sales 2006 Closer" Unfortunately I cant show the whole middle section of this sales conference strategy video because of my non-disclosure agreement. Still, there is some nice parametric type and filter usage in the open and close. I used Trapcode Soundkeys to make the graphic equalizer. http://vjon.org/reel/2007/adobe-sales-conference-closing-video/ The acquisition of Mercury Software by HP created the new "HP Software" division. This video backed the opening performance of their first combined meeting. The format was three HD screens, one of them in portrait orientation over 30' high. In order to produce three videos that time out with the performers, ... http://vjon.org/reel/2007/hp-software-corporate-kickoff/ Seagate staged a massive presence at the Consumer Electronics Show this year to kick off their new marketing strategy. The show, which documents the several installations and events around Las Vegas, was hosted by Robert Scoble of PodTech.NET. He also did quite a bit of his own blogging from CES ... http://vjon.org/reel/2007/seagate-ces-2007-corporate-direction-documentary/ I designed the live visual system and did motion graphics for the A/V performance opening of the Mercury World conference. The general session in the Bellagio grand ballroom held 3500 employees and customers. Mercury Software is a Fortune 500 company that does Network testing applications and web services. The ... http://vjon.org/reel/2006/mercury-world-conference-open/ For this series of executive presentations, I tried to create aspirational moments that represent TIBCO's core idea of "predictive business". I selected stock photography that conveys an impression of holistic awarenes in a comfortable, open space. These images were color-corrected and unified into a silvertoned world with a gradient background. Simple ... http://vjon.org/reel/2006/tibco-customer-satisfaction-graphics/ Some videos require the editor to have the grace of a ballet dancer. Some motion graphics require the precision of a watchmaker. Then there's another kind of project...the kind that requires the mad abandon of a drunk Weird Al Yankovic running the 100 meter dash. Ok, the title made you ... http://vjon.org/reel/2006/quick-and-dirty-2006/ I served as Senior Editor and Media Consultant for the video game company Square Enix, compiling their media for the E3 trade show in Los Angeles. E3 historically serves as a showcase for developers to put their new games in front of retailers. Kenwood's team built a striking 15,000 square foot ... http://vjon.org/reel/2006/square-enix-e3-environment/ _Adobe: "Spring" Two more case study videos for Adobe came my way this month. One was for the "Spring" website built by Juxt Interactive in LA. Its funny, I had never seen this brand of water when I did the video, but now I see it everywhere. The video is about ... http://vjon.org/reel/2006/adobe-flash-spring-by-dannon-case-study/ _Mercury: "Destination Reveal" I operated as a graphics/post boutique to make this 2-minute destination reveal video for Mercury's annual sales conference. The concept was tried and true–if the salespeople reach their goals, they get to go on a nice vacation with all of their co-workers. Uhm...sounds fun. As usual on this type ... http://vjon.org/reel/2006/mercury-software-destination-reveal/ _Adobe: "Cell Mobile Contents" _Adobe: "Hudson Games" _Adobe: "NTT Video On Demand" This series of videos profiled Japanese telecom, video game and mobile content companies who use Adobe products. I acted as the senior editor on a staff that included multiple assistants and translators. In general for these foreign language case studies, I ... http://vjon.org/reel/2005/japanese-case-studies-for-adobe-website/ When Intel needed a video to announce recent technological advances that would bring a new level of miniaturization to computing, they came to the Kenwood Group, a South Park agency I freelance for in San Francisco. I did the HD offline for the show, directed by Mike Van Metre and produced ... http://vjon.org/reel/2005/intel-handtop-corporate-vision/ I worked with renowned comedic director Randy Field to slam together the offline of this show. Like many match action pieces, the first cut was a breeze...then it was time to roll up our sleeves and do the work. There were FX exports to prep for graphics house Core Studios, ... http://vjon.org/reel/2005/sun-galaxy/ _Macromedia: "Hybrid City" This Japanese language video explores Toyota's "Hybrid City", a next generation website built with Studio8 by Basement Factory in Tokyo. It portrays Flash8 as a tool that can blend the line between advertising, information and entertainment. _Macromedia: "DCI" The Digital Content Institute in Taiwan is using Macromedia web design products ... http://vjon.org/reel/2005/macromedia-studio8-launch-website-case-studies-2/