Here is some of the first Red Faction Guerilla Media that just recently aired on IGN.
I was the Virtual Director of Photography on these shots as well as the Virtual Camera operator for the in-game shots. This video features no pre-rendered cutscenes.
Also, I had to play Manual Vsync, having to remove the visual tearing on some video files manually in Photoshop.
A slight modification to the Saints Row 2 ad I shot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omoutoKuib0
Now in German!
I was nominated for an Emmy again this year for Positive Putter
I was the Director of Photography, Editor, and Graphics on the commercial.
A small video showing off the differences between Saints Row 2, and Grand Theft Auto IV
I was the virtual cinematographer on this video. I was responsible for choosing and shooting shots. I also created the selects to send off to the editor.
This is one of the first things that I worked on at Volition. This is media for the Upcoming game, Saints Row 2.
I was responsible for Running the Virtual Camera on all gameplay footage, and Editing for some of the videos.
More videos after the break.
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I had an interesting job offer from a company that makes video games for current generation consoles (360, PS3), called Volition-Inc. They were the gaming company Responsible for the Classic Descent Series, and for the recent hits Red Faction, and Saints Row.
I found this company to be a good match for my video editing/compression skills, as well as my history with video gaming. I had always been an avid PC gamer from the start, and Working at Volition has been a nice breath of fresh air from local advertising gigs.
Since most of what I work on falls under my NDA I will be unable to report on anything in progress. However I will be able to show finished, public media for the two upcomming games, Saints Row 2, and Red Faction Guerrilla.
I’ve been quiet for a while now because I’ve been editing the feature length film, Fraternity House
It’s coming soon.
A dog’s journey with his owner on a wet fall day.
I shot these pictures and tweaked them in Phoshop for my portfolio and this guy’s portfolio too.
Current has picked up Muncie Dragway and is airing it right now on Comcast Digital channel 107, Dish Network 196, and AT&T Uverse 189.
They even have me on the front page right now.
Grafitti art is known as ‘tagging’ by those who are involved. The only legal tagging wall in the Midwest is in Muncie, Indiana. People come from all over the tri-state area to show their artistic skills here. In this story we follow a local’s tagging expierence.
In this video tutorial I will show you how to turn your large source video files into streamable or archive h.264 copies in the universally playable .mp4 format, and the best thing about it is that it won’t cost you a dime, and will look better than Quicktime, and Windows Media.
This tutorial assumes that you have MeGUI already installed, and that you have the video file in either mpeg, or AVI format.
One of the editors at Current.TV who saw Unnecessary Evil sent me an e-mail asking for more material. I showed him my website and he was most interested in Muncie Dragway. Therefore I have uploaded this Emmy Nominated piece to Current.TV’s website to possibly air on National TV.
Abstract: Shanon Poyser, a semi-pro racer talks about what it’s like to be female and race with the big boys in her class.
Inside a man’s heart the mind tends to run things back when you’re trying to end a relationship.
This was the video that made me a finalist at the 2006 AMD X2 Video contest.
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I’ve been in contact with Current TV about airing Unnecessary Evil, and I was able to get some of the producers to look at the other content on my site. They were interested but needed clean copies without music (so that they could add their own for licensing reasons).
So I had to break out the backups for some of these files. When some of these were created I was working with a max of 300gb, so almost after any project it was backed up straight to DVD+Rs (files were Rared up and spanned across multiple files, files burned with rar recovery records.)
Well I know that DVD+Rs aren’t dependable mediums for long term backups, but I had no idea that they would only last about 18 months before degrading to an unreadable state.