This was from a Christmas card photo shoot from 2019. For the past eight years, we have photographed custom themes for our family Christmas card. This year I had an idea to create a slightly devious and yet innocent curiosity that all children have. I fondly remember all the magical feelings I had when I was a young child and having endless wild questions to ask Santa. I would excitedly stay up late peering out the window occasionally to hopefully catch a glimpse of the the mystical man in red. I wanted to tell a story of a child wanting to happily plan and catch Santa to be able to answer all those burning questions they had. On part 2/side 2 was the enviable inability to escape sleep. Santa then magically slips in with a trail of glowing magic dust and amusingly peers over the sleeping child with his hands on his hips (shadow on the bed).I try to do the least amount of composting as I can and include as many real elements as possible for increased realism. This is just a quick Photoshop layer time-lapse that shows the before and after.

I had this idea for a year and I had to carefully think about how I wanted to execute it. I ended up buying two elves for this photo shoot. I took 40-50 photos of posing the elves in different positions using pins and fishing line. I used a tripod so the elves would all be on the proper focal planes. I recolored a handful of elves for some color variance. This was 3-4 hours of photography and maybe 10-20 hours of compositing. I also did a back side of the card which I will post.

This is a two camera interview style setup for the No, Seriously…. Mustard Seeds section of Jen’s website. It is episode 1 of sharing inspirational leaps of faith stories. If you have a story, submit it of Jen’s site in either written, audio or video format.

This is the first song that our whole family learned together. It was a My Little Pony: Equestria Girls song called Awesome As I Wanna Be.

Here are two examples of an instrumental song, Hume Factor, I wrote that was placed in a tv commercial and radio ad for Palace Resort & Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi.

This is a summary tutorial video I did for the Pure Metallic  floor coating company in 2017. I shot all the footage, edited it and did the graphic text. This is part of a full tutorial video that will have a breakdown of each individual floor coating step. I also used a head-mount camera that will be included in the full video set. I will probably have that listed here in the next few months.

Below are some tutorial videos I did for the Original Color Chips floor coating company back in 2009. I shot most of the video with very little to work with at the time. I helped write the script, did all the video editing, effects and recorded the voiceovers. I am currently working on another set of tutorials for a new product.  I am very excited to do something a lot nicer that what I did in 2009.