Well, it has been a while since a worthwhile post came to these parts. I decided I am going to try to get back on the blog-bandwagon along with a couple of other potential web activities that you shall hear about soon enough.
I am posting a video that we will be using in church for the next few weeks as the sermon intro, between worship and the message. The series is “Just Breathe” and it is a 4 week study on the Holy Spirit.
I don’t know if it is good or bad to say that this video is the result of the better part of two days work, spread over a week. The graphic appearing at the end was designed by Chris for the series. I worked backwards from it to animate it and add motion along with all the text. Chris did the initial design in Photoshop I did all the animation in After Effects and created the “flourishes” that grow in the video in Illustrator. The text may change week to week, I am not sure yet.
The music behind it is “The Adventure” by Angels & Airwaves. (I tried posting on YouTube first but couldn’t get audio in there for some reason, so it’s hosted on my site and may take a bit longer to play.)
I just wanted to share another one of our videos. We are beginning a three week Christmas series this Sunday entitled “Be Still.” It is about, well, being still. You know, “Be still and know that I am God.” We saw a video at Drive Conference two years ago that made an impact on a lot of our staff and so we “adopted” their concept and made our own. The video was edited in After Effects and the graphics were created by my co-worker Chris in Photoshop.
The video will play following a prayer in the service. We will have all the lights out and wait about 8-10 seconds before we play it. That way there will be an awkward silence to get people’s attention and make the first word on the screen more noticeable. There is no audio on this video and there won’t be in the service either. If you get distracted, cut on iTunes and restart it. However, if you can’t make it through in silence, maybe you need to check on the podcasts of this series. HaHa.
Let me know what you think, and enjoy this special sneak preview if you are watching this before Sunday.
Travis
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Hey folks. At the urging of some coworkers I want to share another video done at SSCC. This is a video played in Rush Hour, our Middle School ministry. We use it each week as kids break into their small groups. The theme for the ministry is based around driving and cars, that is why you have a car bouncing in the video. The final copy of the video runs for the length of the song and is at full resolution.
This was done using Illustrator & After Effects. I used Illustrator to recolor and cut the car into separate parts for animation. Once in After Effects I created the headlights and then animated the driver’s side wheels, headlights and car body to move with different frequencies from the soundtrack. The headlights were created using a plugin called Lux and the motion was animated to sync with the music using a plugin called Soundkeys. Both plugins are from Trapcode. The song is “Love Addict” by Family Force 5. The background and waveform in the video were generated in After Effects as well.
Let me know what you think. Also, if you actually like it and want to use it for your ministry drop me a line. My only request would be that you buy a copy of the Family Force 5 CD for yourself so you have the right to play it.
