Also, I have planned to start amping up the video production aspects of my world again, after a nice long 8 month run of almost nothing but blogging as my main source of income.  I am attending KieransList.com’s social networking event tomorrow morning, in which I will be meeting with a lot of local business owners and hopefully be producing some more awesome new local content!

Now, I haven’t quit my blogging duties by any means, I couldn’t leave my amazing following… haha… I have a following?   But, I do love my fans and readers, and I have just recently started writing for The Pixel Art, Smashing Magazine and iPhone.Appstorm.net.  Hopefully more is in store for the future!

So if you are reading this blog, because we have met, or maybe you found your way here by means of one of my many internet outlets, and think we might be a good fit… why don’t you take a look at my Demo Reel, or check out my Resume?  If you are liking what you see you can contact me via email found in the sidebar, or my phone number found on both my reel and my resume.

I hope to be making some more entries more frequently here on the blog, but until next time…

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I haven’t updated this thing in a good six months probably.  Reason being, well… the other sites I have been writing on for work have taken quite the precedence.  If you wanna check them out its VideoHive’s Inside the Hive Blog, AEtuts+, CGtuts+, GoMediaZine, and GreyScaleGorilla.  There ain’t much to say for me though, the last couple month’s have treated me well… I got married in July, had an awesome summer… had our honeymoon in Vegas, and now we are about 10 weeks along with another baby due in June!  Thing are pretty nuts around here, so you can forgive me if I don’t update enough.

I hope to spend more time here as the months go on, but alas whenever I say that I disappear for a few months and make one of these apologetic posts and beg for forgiveness, so I will just say, “Until Next Time…”

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My newest article at AEtuts+, The Vente AE Tutorial Roundup From Around the Web showcases a ton of tutorial created in After Effects in the last month or so.   Please drop by AEtuts+ and give it some love!

As for other things on the horizon, I may be writing for a couple other sites, possibly helping with some training DVD creation, and quite possibly getting around to doing some tutorials of my own.  Now if I could only find the time to just breathe.

Also, something really worth mentioning, if you haven’t seen them already go to Nick Campbell’s GreyScaleGorilla.com and submit something to his 5 Second Weekly Projects.  Go out and MAKE COOL SHIT!

AEtuts+ has finally launched and has been running strong for a couple of months now.  This is a tutorial site unlike any other out there, because they are user-run, and only accept high quality effects and tutorials.  They have featured tutorials on popular effects like Pierre Michel’s Particular Signature effect, and various, very cool kinetic typography tutorials.

Run by Lloyd Alvarez of AEscripts.com, AEtuts+ is quickly growing to be one of the daily stops for a lot of rising AFter Effects artists.  I have been fortunate enought to have a weekly article that gets released on Fridays on various subjects such as inspiration, tutorial roundups, and informational articles like my latest article this week:  A Concise Guide To After Effects Keyboard Shortcuts.  If you click the thumbnail, it will take you to my author page at AEtuts+ so that you can see all the different articles I have published.  I am working on a tutorial for the site based on the beginning of the RockNRolla title sequence where Johnny Quid pulls out his guns and it shows the name of the movie.  The tutorial will be basically showing how to do the shifting in depth of field, moving in 3D space, and the transition from video to illustration.  =

That’s it for now, so check back often to see when I have new stuff published, and feel free to check out my Demo Reel.

Thanks!

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So I thought it was pretty cool… I have a friend coming over today and we are going to try to make the Poor Man’s steadicam for $14 so that will be a fun endeavor.  I am also going to have a couple more things coming up like my son and his “Lightning Ball” powers, Boujou motion tracking with 3D text like in FRINGE, and some more videocopilot tutorials.

We have built a pretty sweet green screen studio in my business partner, Earle’s garage.  We have a few too many light than I would like to work with, but its only because we don’t have the money to throw into really nice studio lighting for green screen. We also have a Sony HDR-FX1 which I will probably be shooting all my video with in the coming months so you can expect some cool HD stuff.

I have also began learning some industry standard VFX tools and programs like The Foundry’s NUKE and the Imagineer Products, Monet, Mokey, Mocha, and Motor.  I am also planning on delving into Cinema4D again, and I really wanna learn Boujou and PFTrack, Toxik and some other applications.  My Goal is to be able to start doing anything and everything VFX-ish in a couple years or so.  But to do that you need to know these things, and jesus… they’re freakin deep.

So for now, I will be just freelancing a bunch, and working on www.internet-spokesmodels.com, so if you want to hire me let me know… and if you live in my area (Seattle-Tacoma) and want to be a model for the site, you can get $50 everytime you are chosen to be a site’s model.  And if you want to use our service… go to www.internet-spokesmodels.com and click Contact Us and you can get a quote!

Later all.

I’m not gonna lie… I am freakin’ excited.   The video is going to be shot in a desert setting, so there is gonna be some traveling involved, as well as some intense days.  We are going to be shooting (more-than-likely) on a Panasonic HVX-500 P2 camera.  I was thinking of doing it to HDV, for the easiness of switching out tapes, but I can’t find a small enough camera that can shoot in 720P on HDV tape that would fit onto the steadycam and jib that we are building.  So I think we are going to have to go with the P2 camera.  Which is an awesome camera, except for the fact that it only hold 2, 16 GB cards  which equals out to around a half hour of footage.  So I am hoping that my work will let me borrow the 4 P2 cards that we have and the HD unit.  Oy… freakin confusing.

But yeah I mentioned that we were building a jib as well as a steadycam… if you are thinking of doing the same I suggest that you check out these resources here:

STEADYCAM

http://www.vimeo.com/1394069
http://videopia.org/content/view/202/229/

JIB ARM
http://video.thedvshow.com/video/Weekend-Extra-DIY-Jib-Arm-Cam
http://www.indymogul.com/post/3874/

I am going to making some modifications to the Jib Arm so that we will be able to control TILT up/down as well as linking into an external monitor so that the cameraman can see whats going on.

Anyways… not much else is happening in the meantime… except for me getting laid off for a few months at Emerald Downs while the season is taking Winter Break.  I’ll be back there in about 4 months but in the meantime I have to find a placeholder job, or possibly a full time BETTER job.  Either or, I’ll be working somewhere new in about a month… preferably in the industry.  Let me know if you have any leads.

Ummmm my newest haunt has been the new Videocopilot.net Forum so if you wanna check that out I hit up the After Effects subforum about 13 times a day

I frequent a youtube channel called AtheneWins. Its this crazy World Of Warcraft player with a reality show about how it is to be a professional gamer. Well, they have made a website called IPower, and on that website they have posted this video below. Don’t mind the picture of the girl… that’s just to get views… but seriously WATCH IT, it explains everything that is going on with this fight of Net Neutrality very well.

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So now you understand, we have to defend Net Neutrality. If we don’t the internet will become just like the rest of the world… commercialized.