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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Back to School Whiteboard Animation

It is an exciting time of year as kids are preparing with new clothes and ‘educational’ electronics. The elementary kids get to fill their new book bags with lots of shiny school supplies and everyone waits with anticipation to see who the new teacher will be for home room and find out how much school work they might be able to get out of in chemistry class.

For parents, it is a bit of a break for school to start, don’t get me wrong. We parents will be busy bussing kids back and forth to school, the science project due at the end of the first semester has to start this week planting seeds, and sack lunches don’t make themselves. But after a summer of keeping the next generation of leaders entertained and busy during the past summer, the school year is a welcomed break. Even if the school year brings work and worry, there is a moment of reprieve to which parents look forward.

The team at Wienot Films wanted to make this fun whiteboard animation to honor you. We recognize the hard work parents do both during the school year getting their middle school band students to that odd timed performance and all the hours of entertaining, carpooling, and care-taking during the summer months with swimming lessons, play days at the water park or skate park. We hope that after the kids get into class you can take a moment to yourself or maybe enjoy a cool beverage with a friend. But don’t take too long, you have the early pick up duty in the carpool this week. Good Luck and enjoy the show!

DirectDep's Mascot

One of the recent whiteboard explainer videos we produced at Wienot Films provided me a unique challenge. In addition to the regular storyboarding and final drawing of the whiteboard footage, I also had the challenging assignment of creating a cartoon mascot of sorts to represent the company. The company, DirectDep, provides a services connecting court reports doing depositions with attorneys who need them. I was thus charged with creating a fun mascot in the look of a stenograph machine. We affectionately called her Deppy.

We went through a few different versions of Deppy, getting feedback from the client throughout the design process. After narrowing the design to a specific look, I had to create two main versions: one with wings and one without them. We always want clients to be happy, so I even ended up producing different wing options to make sure we got everything just right. 

Another unique challenge of this video was creating a very stylized, more realistic look for the characters instead of something more cartoony. Our whiteboard characters are usually a bit more loose and less realistic in their style, making this video a fun challenge. At Wienot Films, we like to produce all kinds of whiteboard videos--from cartoony people to animals to toys to robots--so when I got the challenge to make the characters more realistic, it was a fun challenge. Plus at the end of the day, we always want the client to be happy. 

So with that introduction, here’s the final video:

For your next hand drawn whiteboard animation from Wienot Films, contact Marc and tell him Jim sent you. He’ll get you started on your next explainer video in style!

vacuum

Can't not draw a sweet old school vacuum with the hanging bag! 

The rat race?

Trying to get a few extra paintings posted from the weekend. It was a great 4 day weekend with a couple of holidays going on. I would have liked to have done a little more for Valentines day but felt a little too restricted by distance. I hope to make that up soon. As for now here is another painting in my 22 painting challenge. 

Mater's Monday

Here are a few of this past weeks drawing that were heavily based on other artists that I saw and wanted to emulate in one way or another. It has been great learning from the works of other artists as I progress in my own style and design and art.