Here some some examples of my projects at my new job with EMC Insurance. I have had a variety of work to do like posters, brochures, web graphics and animated videos. I worked on a video shoot for a commercial and made some animated pieces to use for the internal video. So far it's been exciting and I am pretty proud of what I have accomplished and learned so far.
Check out the EMC Insurance holiday video that I designed and animated. I pulled the star and the color palette from their holiday card and edited some Des Moines skyline illustrations. I drew the EMC Tower myself. This is my first video using After Effects and one of my first projects at my new job at EMC. I still am learning how to do easing in an efficient way, but I had a lot of fun with the star/snow effects and I am pretty happy with it.
Today is my last day with Gannett and the GIADC. I have worked here for 7 years today. I am going to miss working with all of my friends in digital and campaign team, but I will definitely stay connected. I'll miss the super casual atmosphere and playing ping pong everyday. This was my first real design job and I learned how to edit photos, animate in Flash and Edge, design logos and ad campaigns. I have been looking for a new job for awhile and finally found a design position at EMC Insurance. I'll be joining a much smaller team and will get to do all sorts of design projects and do a lot more animation and video editing. My family has been super busy lately with baby Mia, selling our house, moving in to our new house and now me starting a new job. I'll have next week off to watch the kids and maybe organize the garage so we can park our cars in there. I start at EMC on the 17th and I am very excited! I'll be joining my friend Justin Bartz at EMC so I won't be too lonely, but I'm only 3 blocks away from my Gannett friends so hit me up for lunch anytime.
I started testing out my camera (Sony a6300) with some astrophotography from my deck.
I didn't get any photos in the fair this year, but we had a good time and tried some new food.
The Big Slide
Aftermath of Ryker going down the slide.
The Leinie Lounger
My in-laws family reunion...
I took the family on a 3 day weekend trip to a couple spots along Lake Michigan.
Dome-oines
My wife wanted a "travel wall" in our living room so I went through some old vacation photos and sepia'd them. They look pretty sweet when they are all lined up like that!
