Web Video Intro

Here's what I've been working on the last 2 days. This is a header video that (hopefully) will be put before all the webvideos we have on our newsroom site. The video will set an identity indicating the video is from BYU Hawaii, especially if these videos are reached from outside links and not our newsroom site.

Since this is a video is a "look and feel" piece, it will likely go through an approval process from several people. This could result in a number of changes.

Generic DVD Labels - BYU Hawaii

I was asked by a producer here to create some disc labels, in my spare time, to be used for printing on a multitude of discs - CD's and DVD's - which are sent out from the school. These are basically templates. The person creating the disc can then print a title on the available space. I was asked to utilize the middle only to save on ink and print time, rather than make full color discs. I anticipate making more of these in the future.

This is just a general campus disc. It features a Samoan tattoo design and a sort of photo to graphic element.
This one is used for things produced from or for the PCC.
This has a sort of spiritual, alumni, fulfill your destiny approach. This one is still in progress (there are some spotty areas still), and I'm not sure yet where it will be used.

A few people from different departments have seen these and are taking interest in having some more produced to meet their needs including full color labels and right half only or left half only designs. Again, this is a free time assignment for now!

All images copyright of BYU Hawaii and PCC

Scat Wallpaper

My roommate, Scat, asked me to help him resize this photo that was taken of him while he was dancing canoe show at the PCC. I kind of got carried away. I re-sized it, plus did just a bit more! This only took about 30 minutes or so. I kind of copied my blog header just a bit, but its fitting since Scat is Samoan. People call Scat "the rock" because he looks a lot like the Rock (Duane Johnson, WWF wrestler - Google him). This photo may help you see the similarity. Malo lava le fai maka uso!

Circle Island Tour CD Design

A few people from school commissioned me to make a CD cover for their company which just produced an audio tour of Hawaii. Its pretty cool from what I have heard. Good info about different locations.

At first I made a sort of collage design with a grunge background but they told me they liked the design I did for the choir tour, so I abandoned that track and did another sunset type design. So, let me know. But here are the designs.

The map was a bit challenging. It was hard to make a large map and fit all the directions on. I still need to add some things they want on.

Another BYUH Desktop Wallpaper

Today I didn't have too many projects going on so I took a creative holiday and made a new wallpaper for my computer...long overdue. I may play more with this later. I like the design, but the large amount of white on the ship is a little distracting with a lot of icons on the computer. It was fun though. I think I'm going to try doing one that's a little lighter next time. Any suggestions?

Sea Side Story - Motion Graphics

This was a fun little side project. Ryan Dean, another worker here at BYU Hawaii, directed and produced and edited a short film for a film festival here on campus. He asked me to help make a cool title sequence. So, I opened up After Effects and tried to have a little fun with the little time I had. This was the result (I start the video just before the graphics, so dont be confused if you dont know whats going on).

I also ended up filming part of this documentary. You can watch the whole thing on youtube here. Its a funny mockumentary about dance gangs at BYU Hawaii. Rather entertaining, and worth watching. It was awarded first place at the schools film festival (based solely on the graphics...ha ha, just kidding! Ryan did a good job!)

Ryan also made a commercial for a whale watching company. I helped to film it, but was swamped with finals and work the week we needed to edit, so I wasn't able to do much more than just log tapes. So I did have a part in this, but credit goes to Ryan. Click here to watch the Whale watching documentary.

Harmony with Aloha

One of the first projects that I was assigned to was the BYU Hawaii choir tour in China. There are many products of this project. The first was an audio cd which featured all the songs the choir sang on their tour in China and Mongolia. I was asked to create the CD cover and label. What you see is the finished product. It was printed on hundreds of CDs and distributed.

I have also been involved in making motion graphics for the video documentary. If you click here, you can see a segment of what I produced. It is an animated title sequence. It starts just over 1/3 of the way through the clip and is the only animation, so its easy to pick out. I also made some lower third titles that show the names of people as they are interviewed for this film. I will probably show these later when the show is finished.

BYU Hawaii Desktop Wallpaper

I was actually working on a video project using this type of design. When we decided that we werent going to use that video, I didn't want to waste the design, so I turned it into a computer desktop wallpaper for BYU Hawaii. I use it on many computers I use daily to show some school pride. I think its time to do another one too!

First T-Shirt Design

I was asked to create a T-shirt design for a ward here in the BYU-H 1st Stake. Although it wasn't chosen (I think it was too complex for the budget, plus, I'm not actually in the ward), I still thought it was a fun project.

I felt like their ward had really good unity and were a perfect example of a ward family. I liked the slogan from Cheers "where everybody knows your name", so I made the text to look similar to the Cheers logo. Obviously, there is a bit of style goin on too!

Devotional Attitude

This was one of my first projects at BYU Hawaii. I was asked to create an entire campaign for promoting devotionals, which kind of expanded into just promotion of devotion.

After researched I narrowed down the reasons to attend devotionals into 3 main categories: Spiritual, community, and leadership. I talked with Bill Wallace, known as Uncle Bill, and he helped me select some symbols to represent the three themes. I didn't do much with this for a while, until my boss, Duane, came and said one day at about 3, "I need poster designs to show at Presidents council tomorrow".

So I whipped these up in a few hours. They haven't made it to print, but the Hawaiian theme will likely be kept. Someone else is doing most of the project now.