“Whistle Where You Work” Picked Up By Free Speech TV

Hello!

If you are blessed enough to have DISH Satellite TV, then you can watch a TV show that I’ve had a small part in. It’s called Whistle Where You Work, it’s been picked up by Free Speech TV, and it’s an interview/panel discussion show that tells the story of people who had the courage to do the right thing – to blow the whistle on wrong-doing and corruption – even though that integrity can come at a great cost. You can read more about it here at GAP’s website:

http://www.whistleblower.org/template/page.cfm?page_id=22

For my part, I did the intro graphics, an ad for GAP in the middle of the show, and I edit and do post-production for each show. It’s fun, but the heart and brains behind the show live over at GAP, and they are doing great work.

(above are the opening titles, with music donated to the show by Penmachine.)

Move Over, Nanook!

I have some good news! My short animated documentary, Pac(hyderm) Attack! is one of the 2008 Official Selections at the Anchorage International Film Festival! This is some welcomed affirmation as I struggle with a fiction script I’m writing.

Please check out the festival here: http://www.anchoragefilmfestival.org

And my short film here:
http://kristianperry.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/its-nice-to-be-recognized/

To sample Flaherty’s documentary classic, Nanook of the North, try this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_wS-Li-9eE

Fighting for the Whistleblowers

I’m doing some work this summer for an excellent group called The Government Accountability Project (GAP). They are the people that help men and women of conscience blow the whistle on unethical corporate or governmental practices….which is something that requires courage.

They are producing a television show to air later this summer, and I’ve produced a short ad for them. It was partially shot by me, and was put together in After Effects and Soundtrack Pro. Enjoy!

It’s nice to be recognized!

This last weekend, I had the honor of winning the award for Best Animation: Narrative for my short, “Pac(hyderm) Attack!”. It was also a great evening because I was able to provide all the motion graphics for the awards ceremony — all based on the Visions 2008 Bumper. I worked alongside the talented David Laster, who put together the DVD for the awards ceremony, and Prof. Maher, who gave us technical and aesthetic guidance – generally ensuring that the project went well and that the evening was a success.

There were some other excellent winners, and you can view the work at the American University SOC website. Be sure to check out Brad Lambert’s “Rhinos Rock”. It’s really wonderfully done and extremely funny!

Thanks!
Kristian

Visions 2008 Bumper

This is a variant of the Visions 2008 bumper for our HD monitors around campus. This is, of course, to promote submissions to the film festival. I was given some great guidance on the visuals, but had a perverse glee in doing the audio without any outside input! Of course, I’ll be happy to amend it if there are problems!

I really enjoyed making this. Too bad YouTube really compresses this sort of thing poorly. The shiny textures and lights really sing at the full HDTV resolution!

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Updated FAMA Bumper

I fixed up the reel element, using some fun tricks I learned to simulate 3D (Bevel in Photoshop, Glow in After Effects). This will tie into another bumper I hope to work on soon!

Pac(hyderm) Attack

This is a story my parents like to tell from their days traveling and working overseas. I interviewed my folks over Thanksgiving break and put this together.For this project I got to use the 3D (2.5D) functions of After Effects. I think it worked out well! Also, David Stamm came through with an excellent score for me. Thanks!

UPDATE! 4/24/2008

I’m submitting this to a festival, so I made some small fixes on imperfections that were bugging me.  Enjoy!

You can watch it here: http://kristianperry.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/its-nice-to-be-recognized/

Showing Work at iDMAa

I presented the following animated short at iDMAa: Beyond Boundaries. The short is called Dolphins, Ducks & Beetles, and was inspired by a radio broadcast I heard on WNYC’s RadioLab.

I constructed the objects in the animation with ink, watercolor, and paper, and eventually got it into After Effects for the animation. The banjo and narration were done by me one very very early morning!

I’d love to get feedback on the piece!

Candy / Strangers

This was my first real animation. I’d just learned Illustrator. A dash of Fritz Lang’s “M”, a dash of Buffy, with a hint of Iron Chef.
Enjoy!

Rebel Belle!!!

This was a fun exercise in Prof Maher’s Motion Graphics 2 course. The assignment was to perform a rebranding of the Lifetime Network, and then invent a new show for the network.

For me, this resulted in Rebel Belle: The year is 1860, and Mary Elizabeth Cooke is engaged to be married to the dashing but temperamental David Elliot Cross, Lieutenant in the 16th Pennsylvanian Cavalry. She was the only woman who could tame him, but she left him at the altar for her true love, Jefferson Ellis Whitman, Lieutenant in the 7th Virginia Artillery. Having given up her good name, family, and all she knew in her home state, she now tries to make her life in the South.

Her new home is wonderful, full of love and beauty, but when war breaks out, she has to make a terrible choice: support her husband and her community, or fight to end slavery and preserve the Union. Ultimately, she betrays everyone she has come to love in her new home and becomes a spy for the Union. Who is her contact in the North? None other than the jilted David Elliot Cross! Follow the adventures of Mary Elizabeth Cooke as she finds love and courage in a world of slavery, betrayal, and war!

Love. Betrayal. War. Rebel Belle.