Colin Harman

I created this, once again, for Blue Ridge Community Church. This is a short kinetic typography animation of questions people have asked as fears they might have of becoming a Christ follower. When people are looking for a reason to not do something, it’s easy to come up with reasons and excuses to shy away from it. It takes a lot more balls to just jump at something headfirst.

This was my first attempt at creating my own original music before beginning the design process, thus making it easier to sync to the audio for good beat hits, and to fit the length I would need. I made the audio with the help of my trusty friend Reason 4. You can view it below, or it’s hosted here on my vimeo.

So there comes a time in every (static) graphic designers life when he/she realizes that it’s time to move to something unknown and new. For me there were a plethora of things on the table. Street luge, giraffe hunting, baseball card collecting, hot dog eating contests, etc. However when I realized all of those would be complete wastes of time, I decided it was time for this boy to move into motion graphics.

I’ve had After Effects CS3 sitting in my applications folder and have never had a clue what to do with it once it was opened, thus inducing its immediately closing.

All that to say, this was my first dabble into motion graphics, and I have to say it was an adventure, yet I loved every moment of the learning process and the discovery that I was legitimately only scratching the surface of what this software was capable of. Though this was a bit of a daunting task to take on as a first project, 20+ hours of work later, here’s my result.
It’s narrated by Gary Rogers and it moves to the tunes of one of my favorite ambient bands Hammock.

Enjoy.

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