My church asked me to make a quick video intro for a new 5 week sermon series titled "Five Words That Will Rock Your World." The graphics were already made, I just had to animate it somehow. It's been a while since I last touched Adobe After Effects, but I think I came up with something pretty decent.
I originally made this as a standard 4:3 video at 720x480 to fit on the projector screens at church, but I decided to re-render this in 16:9 720p HD so I can have a good archival copy for my portfolio and just so it looks great online. The original 4:3 video took roughly 5 hours to render out on my MacBook Pro (which I had to do 3 times due to various mistakes and errors!) and the larger 720p version took 10 hours!
The music is "Life Inside You" by Matthew West from his album Something To Say
Five Words That Will Rock Your World from Chris Barr on Vimeo.
Here's some great videos I've found recently. This first one is a short documentary by Northern Lights about a still working 8,000 pound analog letterpress called the Kludge. Beautifully filmed!
KLUGE from Northern Lights on Vimeo.
This is a great music video by McBess - I'm overly impressed that they not only made the animations, but also the music! Everything here was made by them (or this one guy, I can't tell how many people...)
Another great music video for Death Cab for Cutie's song "Little Bribes", but this one's made by Ross Ching. Really catchy song, which is really enhanced by this awesome stop motion/time lapse video.
Death Cab for Cutie - Little Bribes from Ross Ching on Vimeo.
Lastly, a series of time lapse video from Tokyo.
static : pulse from Samuel Cockedey on Vimeo.
Check out this video from Chad Pugh. He spent 40 hours in Illustrator and took a screenshot every 5 seconds while creating this amazing drawing he calls "Science Machine."
You can view the full length 18 minute "director's cut", or buy the print online.
Music by Portishead.
When a video is uploaded to YouTube, the default view is a 320x240 video stretched to fit in a 640x480 player with a low audio bitrate. For some newer videos, youtube also retains a full 640x480 copy of the video with higher quality audio. Sometimes you will be allowed to see a button that allows you to watch the higher quality videos, but it’s not on every video.
I recently discovered that by adding &fmt=18 to the end of the URL, you can view the higher quality video for those that have it! Check out the screenshot comparison below from the Starcraft 2 trailer:
Watch the videos here to see the real difference:
Standard: http://youtube.com/watch?v=30MBljXxg3M
High Quality: http://youtube.com/watch?v=30MBljXxg3M&fmt=18
For another example, here’s Radiohead’s “Nude”
Standard: http://youtube.com/watch?v=JsLn9Wl1u_Q
High quality: http://youtube.com/watch?v=JsLn9Wl1u_Q&fmt=18
Eclectic 2.0 is an incredible time-lapse movie all shot with DSLR cameras. Ross Ching went to some amazingly beautiful locations and set up his camera with a special slow moving tripod and the camera set to take photos at a certain interval. Watch and be amazed. Read more about this project on Ross Ching’s site.
Download it here: (Quicktime required)
480p (17.6 MB)
720p (182.9 MB)
1080p (359.6 MB)
After watching this, I’ve gotten really interested in making these types of movies. Unfortunatly for me, my camera doesn’t support taking photos at an interval without a special intervalometer I’d have to purchase.
Well I haven’t posted on here in a while because I’ve really been working hard to get my personal portfolio online. I started sometime last week, and it’s really been a much larger project than I first thought! The hardest part was finding old projects, and deciding how the portfolio itself should work. Now that I’ve selected all my work and completed it, take a look! Just click on the new tabs up top.
What’s that, you need a link right here? Ok, fine. http://chris-barr.com/portfolio/
This past week web work was a bit slow, so I decided to make some stuff for my church‘s new contemporary service called Seven30Seven. I spent a lot of time in Adobe After Effects, which I haven’t been in for a few years, and it took some time to get re-aquatinted with.
I made two videos for Seven30Seven, one is just a simple background to put on the screens that will animate in and stop, and the other one is a 5:00 countdown video so people will know when the service is starting. I also created a Youtube account finally, so I put the videos up on there. So either head over there and check them out, or just click the jump below to see them here.
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