NLC speaker intros

We decided to try our hand at some motion tracked light painting for the NLC speaker intros. Fun stuff, and it turns out you get pretty fast at tracking with repetition.

29 Ways to be creative

I can personally relate to all 29 of these.

29 WAYS TO STAY CREATIVE from TO-FU on Vimeo.

Nice.

I can appreciate the creativity behind this.

Revelation; series promo

I’m a sucker for movie trailers and here’s one we built to promo our upcoming series; Revelation.

Transition FX, you always need more

You always need more booms, whooshes, etc. Here’s a nice free collection I came across the other day.

Transition FX Demo by Bronto Scorpio

Mom’s Day Videos

A series of videos the guys created to support our services on Mom’s Day.

Fuse summer kickoff promo

Quick little promo I built for our upcoming Fuse Summer Kickoff.

MORE: series opener

Heavily inspired by Coldplay’s XY album art I give you the opener for our current series entitled “MORE.”

Turns out animating colorful squares is (1) a lot of fun and (2) requires more effort than I would have thought.

Technical notes: I built a FORM particle system, and that worked for the counter but I ultimately needed more control for the opener animation. Enter painstakingly placed and animated dots. Eventually I did work up to sub-comps (see if you can spot the repeating patterns).

Japan aid video

Here’s a little piece created to run onscreen this weekend to set up the opportunity to give towards the Japanese recovery efforts.

Unleash 2011 media

Here’s a little opener and scripture intro from this year’s Unleash conference. Fun stuff.

Christmas services promo

Here’s a little promo we ran this weekend for our Christmas services. I sweated much more time on the shadows and lighting than necessary, but I’m pretty pleased with how it turned out overall.

*** Note that this is the version that plays at our campuses, as it doesn’t include the Wednesday night service info.

Man v Wife

Here’s a little promo the team built to advertise our marriage series, Man vs Wife. Playing on the whole “I now pronounce you man and wife” / “step into the ring” / etc. vibe we decided to go all UFC-y with the series branding. I like the way it came out.

Man vs Wife promo from Ken Wilson on Vimeo.

Family Vacation series open

Series open for “Family Vacation.”

Family Vacation series promo

Old station wagon + panorama photos + a Ramones cover of “California Sun” + Magic Bullet Looks = Family Vacation promo.

Esther series open

New series, new opener. Here’s Esther.

Series Opener: Esther from NewSpring Media on Vimeo.

Esther series promo

So we said “make it like a movie trailer.”

True Love intro visual

Here’s another piece produced for NewSpring’s Easter services. Adam built this beauty and while it ultimately didn’t fit the right tone for the day is still a beautiful piece. Read his thoughts on it . (and feel free to download it via the Vimeo page to use yourself).

Easter Need to Know

For Easter we decided to continue the message of getting someone’s attention by messing with the formula to the Need to Know announcements. Travis and Will did a phenomenal job on this piece.

Punctuation series package

The moving visuals for our Punctuation series were heavily inspired by this piece, which I blogged a few weeks ago. How did we pull it off? The old fashioned way:

Design (After Effects, 15fps).
Edit clips in Final Cut / set to audio.
Export to JPEG sequences.
Print a contact sheet via Photoshop (File > Automate > Contact Sheet II).
Crumple.
Rescan (400dpi).
Reanimate (hold keyframes via position and rotation if you must know).

All told I had around 100 pages of printout across the open, counter, and promo. It looked something like this.

[OPEN]

[COUNTER]

Gasoline

To open our Easter 2010 services we asked the question “Have you ever tried to get someone’s attention?” Then we attempted to illustrate that point throughout the day in a variety of ways. The first was the opening song/video.

If you would like to download the version with the click you can get it here.