Beginning And The End | Process Video
Sermon Illustration created for West Ridge church in Atlanta. It's always fun to get back into some photo comping.
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The Revolution Is Born | Process Video
Process video of "The Revolution Is Born" illustration available at GracewayMedia.com.
Sundaymag.TV art screen-lapse
I had the opportunity to work on a illustration for this month's issue of Sundaymag.tv. The artwork was created for the cover story entitled "Distracting the Creative Process," by Gary Molander.
This article is a must read for any artist and creatives battling with distractions in life.
Below is a screen-lapse video of the process of making this piece.
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"Can You See It" Poster Design Screenlapse
I had the opportunity to design a poster and keyart for Southeaster Spanish District's 2012 Youth Convention. In talking with the director, he wanted artwork to show something big coming. The type was created in Cinema 4D with some compositing, texturing and color treatment in photoshop to finish it off. Below is a screen-lapse recording of the design process from beginning to end.
RESTORE Screenlapse by Paul Snyder
I’m a sucker for screen-lapse design videos. It’s a great way to see one’s process in a short amount of time.
This video comes from friend and fellow church creative, Paul Snyder.
Be sure to check out his post “Paul and the process of Design”.
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"First Love" Artwork | Screen-lapse Video
I love it when I get the opportunity to work for other artist. Andy Tallman asked me to design the artwork for his single, "First Love" that was released this wee.
Be sure to stop by his place and get the free download. You can preview the track on the screen-lapse video below.
Huge props to greyscalegorilla's LIGHT KIT PRO which made lighting the 3D shapes and tyoe fast and painless. If you're using C4D be sure to pick up a copy.
Unstoppable Poster Design in Under 5min
It's been a while since I've done a screenlapse video during my design process. Not only is it fun seeing a project go from blank canvas to finished, it is also gives me valuable insight to my process that is easily ignored during the "moment" of design.
During this particular project, I noticed that I spent a great deal of time exploring directions that never made it to the final piece. It just proves to me that 80% of my process is nixing bad ideas.
If you're wanting to try out the time-lapse screen recording for yourself, check out screenninja on the Mac App Store.
The backing track to the video is "the Resistance" by Josh Garrells. I've been play his album on repeat the last month. Be sure to download out his FREE album, and don't forget to leave a tip.
Check out the video tutorial on the bubble effect used on this poster here.
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Faith & Luck Series
Summer has started and have to admit I really had some fun with the design of this series. From art, stage, to atmosphere around the building. I believe this has to be one of the best series we've launched coming from the production team. I'm blessed to work along side some talented individuals that help make this all happen. Below is a break down of some of the key elements.
THE ART
Once we decided on a carnival theme I new where I wanted to go with the artwork. The reasoning behind going with the carnival theme was that the sermon content was going to be pretty heavy and wanted the brand to give it a lighter feel to balance it all out. I drew inspiration from some old circus posters I found online. Below are some rough sketches I started with.
One extra element we did for this series is that I designed some posters that were posted all over the building to promote the new series. This was something we hadn't done in a while. It helped create some buzz leading up to the start of the series.
Here's a timelapse video of the making of faith & luck art.
THE WORSHIP GUIDE
We like changing up our worship guide layout. I came up with a long double sided guide. The finish size came out to 4.5x10.25. In order to use something with this length we ended up printing on cardstock to give it some stability. You can download a sample of our guide here.
THE INTRO VIDEO
Oz, my brother who also works here, animated the artwork to make a pretty sweet sermon bumper. This was played right before the speaker went up.
THE STAGE
The stage was a huge team effort to pull off. We were blessed to have a professional carpenter come in and volunteer his time to build the framing system for the center piece. We used our large format plotter to print off patterns that we glued down to the frame. Jorge, our stage design guru, really made it pop by adding textures and lighting. We also created a center logo piece, that gave a nice background during speaking IMAG.
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Axis Wall Banners
I've been wanting to post this art for a while and was able to get to it today. AXIS, is our high school ministry here at the church. They came to me at the beginning of the year wanting to give their meeting room a face lift. We agreed on doing some wall art that had the key principles that they would be touching on through out the year.
Here's a little time-lapse of the making of it along with a short clip oh how it looks installed in the room.
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Dialogue + Time = Success
One of the many things that I love about my job is the opportunity to work with the different departments at the church. Student ministries is something that is close to my heart and I try to help out as much as I can in helping them visually communicate to their specific audiences.
The project above is a mail-out piece I did for our high school ministry. The computer time it took to finish this project was longer then most, but totaled out to about a days work, not including tweaks and changes during the proofing process.
I really enjoy seeing projects go from concept to finish piece. My favorite part is always the actual design work but in order for that to go smoothly there are several things that most happen outside of the computer.
I remember meeting with the high school staff and listening to them tell me why they wanted this piece. There first idea was to do a calendar of some sorts to hand out. While this was a good idea, we began to think of the events that would be this calendar. Some of the events didn't hadn't even been finalized and would have to push production back. With further dialogue we agreed that we didn't want this to be content heavy.
By the end of the meeting we both narrowed down the goal of this project which was: to create a save the date mail-out that would be cool enough to hang on a student's refrigerator at home.
The other key ingredient to this was time. Normally we have a two week turnaround. Which by most standards isn't very long. This was a project that could have been done quickly but I'm thankful they gave me plenty of time to finish it.
The whole project from start to finish took almost two months. It's not like we work on it everyday but this help to give me the freedom to experiment with the layout and time to let it sit. For me, I feel I can push a project more if I'm able to walk away from it and come back to it later.
The end result was great, they were happy and so was I. The projects that get me are the ones that I have regrets about, the ones that I wish I could go back and tweak some lighting or another element. With this one as soon as It rolled off the printer I was content.
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