While on a hike searching for water drops to photograph I spotted this leaf – covered with them. On the edge of the leaf, I noticed this ant slowly making its way across the bumpy field. As a second thought before finishing with my photographs, I snapped a shot of the ant. It was not until I was on the computer looking at the image larger that I saw that it was carrying a water drop of its own!
I am thrilled with how this animated logo turned out. Phase one of the current video production – complete!
There is a great sense of accomplishment when I get images out of my head and into a form that others can see. I have discovered that the more tools I have available for that purpose – the more the creative inspiration flows.
With this logo, the idea was to make the cog roll off the screen as the other words faded out and ‘gallery’ flipped out. As I was viewing the animation, the thought occurred, “Oh!…I can make the cog get smaller as it rolls out.” At that point, I stopped myself and said, “Enough! Call it quits when you’re ahead….”
I have been having so much fun gathering sounds to establish a sound library. My digital recorder now travels with me wherever I go. The ‘eventual’ idea is to upload them to a website, in a creative commons format, so that other image creators can use them for free. When I was first starting out, it was challenging to find free media to practice with.
If you have tips on a good site (that is not overwhelmed with advertising and possible spam / virus threats) …please send it my way.
A relatively new Redfern Studio product / service – web video.
Web Videos are a powerful, interactive way to tell the story of your business, profession, product, event or service by combining art, music, and voice with video capture and still imagery created by yours truly.
With my business and marketing background & my art and and portrait expertise, I begin mentally composing the visual elements of your presentation as soon as I first hear about your project.
I think everyone who works with people and who has a website needs to have (at least) one web video. Frequent, fresh web content is a MUST in today’s fast paced world.
As I have been working on creating a number of these to promote other local businesses, I realized that I needed to make one that promotes MY own!
At the Mall
Using music from local musicians Paul Kamm & Eleanore MacDonald http://www.kammmac.com/ and Redfern Transformative Art for background elements, we designed this professional development video for Bereavement Counselor, Heather Certik. Within moments of making it public on YouTube, she came up in the top four on Google, MSN and AOL search engines. From having no web presence (at the time of video publishing) to top placement on popular search engines, we are looking forward to hearing how her web video helps Heather find new clients and build her business.
Deer Creek in Nevada City
A few of the new art pieces created for the 2011 Nevada County Fair. Can you see the dolphin in the one above?
Historic Theater in downdown Grass Valley
