Let's get on the Road!

 

I am so grateful for the past 8 years of working at Wienot Films! I have been able to work remotely the entire time as the home base for the company is Austin, TX. During my tenure with Wienot, I have lived in Texas, Arizona, and Utah. It has been an amazing company to work for throughout the years. I have been both a contractor and I have been an employee. 

We have been able to make a lot of different type of videos and try a few different genres of videos, all on a traditional whiteboard with me drawing with a camera mounted above the whiteboard. We have worked hard to really carve out a niche with a style that is an actual whiteboard and the artist live drawing here and there with a high end animation feel. 

This adventure has been amazing!

Mountain Climbing!

I think this video has a nice aesthetic and is worth a watch. After some work we were able to smooth off all the little errors in production and make an amazing piece of art at Wienot Films. 

It happened to be my very first video to illustrate and although I have progressed a little on my drawing ability working with the whiteboard. It presents some unique challenges and quite an adventure with which to illustrate.

The story is about a gal that is trying to climb a mountain but at the beginning doesn't have the climbing buddies or the equipment to do the job. She is able to find the help just like the potential customer could find the help and community if he or she were a trucker! 

Great little video and I can't wait to do some more!

It's gonna be different after the first kid!

 

Before I started working at Wienot Films and during the time I was investigating the explanatory world of videos on Youtube I watched this cute video. I already had a handful of children at that point and I don't know if even then I remembered that brief moment when it was just my wife and I living the wonderful married life!

Since that time we have added a couple more children to our happy family and now we are even having the opportunity to seeing them leave on adult adventures like church missions and college. We have enjoyed our journey as a family from the early times with just my wife and I and then the addition of our first children. Each child has brought new challenges and a wonderful joy into our lives that has given additional meaning and depth to all the other things I do. 

There are changes and difficulties that come with having children but they are outweighed by far with the happiness and advantages that children naturally bring. 

Chinese New Year

Why would I want to talk about Chinese new Year in May? First of all I just recently had the pleasure of accompanying a friend to the Maker Faire in the Bay Area. 14 years ago I had the opportunity to learn Mandarin Chinese over in Monterey, CA and on a few occasions I ran over to the Bay Area to visit China Town San Francisco. It was quite fun for me as at that time in my life I had not been outside the country and this was the highlight of seeing other cultures for me. I had so much fun attempting to speak Chinese with all the good folks in China Town and enjoy the fun food offered in the Chinese Food restaurants in the area. I was not in the area for China Town New Year now was my visit to the Bay Area in May over Chinese New Year but the trip this time was filled with lots of hearing, listening to, and speaking just a enough of Chinese to again get me excited to try and better my proficiency in the intricate and amazing language. 

As I looked back on the fun videos I have worked on at Wienot Films and this one was a favorite. I got to do a large portion of the actual directing and worked directly with the illustrator and animator to get to the final product. I believe it is a great example of the sort of animated video that would work well on someones landing page or the style that could be a amazing explanatory video. It was a fun change from the normal whiteboard animations we produce and one that we look forward to making more of in the future. 

No matter what time of year it is, I wish you a happy time to celebrate, what ever time it is!

Word art video

We, at Wienot films, are always trying to new ways to share our art with you. These videos and the idea of taking words and drawing images that reflect the word has come from the inspiration of our children and their desire to draw and love of learning from others drawings. 

I thought at first that drawing an image from a word would be super easy until I started on trying to work up my own image to draw on the whiteboard. I could not believe how challenging it was to not simply copy all the other fun ideas that you can see out there. 

I’ve had a ton of challenges and successes working on and finding some nifty ideas to draw and I look forward to getting more suggestions on future projects. Although this is not a replacement for our regular client work that includes explanatory videos and corporate videos, we are trying to challenge and push our creativity and expand the ways we can share with more friends. 

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The tale of two Networks

What a great video to work on with some great people. I have always enjoyed being able to throw a little homage  to other creatures and this was the perfect chance to say thanks for the work of previous animators and game makers. I think we did a pretty good job of creating a corporate video in this hand drawn style. 

Boat Ride

I don’t get to draw on the white board for every corporate video we produce here at Wienot Films, but there aren’t many that I don’t have the honor of working on initial storyboards. This video for IHS Markit was a fun quick storyboard to work on before I got to hand it off to the computer animator. I really like the look of the hand drawn video but this one is a great style. It is an amazing product for some effective marketing.