I had to create many videos for the EAH Christmas party. It all started off with this intro / welcome video.

 

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Central Baptist Church in Round Rock, Texas asked me to create a promotional video to introduce their building campaign. They wanted the video to be high impact and incorporate the building campaign logo and 3D models of the new building. This video was designed to cast the vision of building a new worship center and induce fund-raising.

Forward by Faith from Dave Curlee on Vimeo.

CSI Printing, located in Austin, Texas hired me to create a virtual tour* of their printing company. This was to be a walk-through tour starting at the front desk and proceeding through every department and ending up at the warehouse.

*Note: The tour currently found on their website is NOT the video I did for them.

 

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DLS-Telecommunications hired me to produce a short promotional / sales video that would explain the basics of their service and sales program. They wanted a fast-paced, high-impact video, that also included a short interview with the founder. We decided to go urban and patriotic at the same time. We shot at 4 locations in the Austin, Texas area, including in front of the capitol.

 

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I wanted to make a short video introduction on the splash page for DaveCurlee.com. I decided that this should also be a short sample of compositing work I can do. I took one of the photos I took while in Chicago last fall and wanted to have DaveCurlee.com fly in between the buildings. To accomplish this I:

• - Used Photoshop to separate the front buildings and elements from the back buildings and elements.
• - Extended the buildings and elements on the back layer to provide visual information for any panning or 3D camera movements in After Effects.
• - Imported the Photoshop layers in to After Effects and added to the comp, making them 3d layers.
• - Added the text layer and made it a 3d layer.
• - Placed a camera in the comp.
• - Adjusted the back and front layers of the photo on the Z axis so as to create some depth.
• - Slightly blurred the back layer to provide a sense of field depth.
• - Positioned the title layer between the front and back photo layers, adjusting for the perspective in the actual photos.
• - Animated the logo flying between the photo layers.
• - Created a shadow to be cast on the title when it passes behind the front layer so as to mimic the shadow on the building in the back.
• - Animated the camera panning from left to right and zooming in slightly.
• - Rendered and exported the comp and imported into Final Cut Pro.
• - Added the final title using Live Type.
• - Added the ambient downtown street audio.

 

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This sample contains and example of 3D match-moving, set extensions, and compositing. This comes from a church building campaign promotional video. I was given the CAD geometry created by the architects.

To achieve this I:

• -Imported it in to 3D Studio MAX
• -Positioned a video segment behind it to act as a reference for manually matching my original camera moves.
• -Animated the 3D camera movements according to my original video footage
• -Matched the lighting / sun positioning
• -Rendered the scene without the reference video segment
• -Imported that scene into After Effects.
• -Placed the 3D sequence in the comp with the original footage
• -Extended elements in the 3D video to better match up with the existing footage
• -Extended the parking lots to mimic the still images rendered by the architects.
• -Rendered the final comp.

*Note: The second clip is a slow motion view of the comp.

Scott Barkley and I made a trip to Romania back in the late 1990’s. Our purpose was to support a local missionary who works with Gypsy and Orphan children and document the success. These videos are being used to bring awareness to the work the missionary is doing and help raise financial support for her cause.

Touching Hearts - An Interview With Estera Cernat from Dave Curlee on Vimeo.

Scott Barkley and I made a trip to Romania back in the late 1990’s. Our purpose was to support a local missionary who works with Gypsy and Orphan children and document the success. These videos are being used to bring awareness to the work the missionary is doing and help raise financial support for her cause.

Romania - How Will You Respond? from Dave Curlee on Vimeo.

My friend Chris Novinger has a domain that he bought a few years ago. Eliterecipes.com He’s given it to Katherine and I. Very nice of him. What a great name. We’ve determined that it will be easier to brand that name, over RealcookN.tv. We’re going to keep the name for the podcasts, but now they’ll be RealcookN by EliteRecipes.com.

One of the video types I’ve done over and over for wedding clients is the romantic photo montage. This one was created for a couple celebrating their 35th anniversary.

 

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