Book Cover Recreation Shot for The Fat Boy Chronicles

ECG is currently working on the movie adaptation of The Fat Boy Chronicles with director Jason Winn.  As production got underway, Jason decided he wanted to create an animated shot to imitate the look of the book’s cover, seen here.
I acted at the Special Effects supervisor on-set and worked with 2nd unit DP Jack Wallace [...]

A New Marketing Video for ECG Productions

We just wrapped up a new video that we plan to use as a targeted marketing tool.
We utilized a design style which has gotten very popular over the last year or so. You can see it on all the major networks, and all over YouTube. The style is called Kinetic Typographgy, which [...]

New Comcast Spots are Amazing!

The new Comcast spots are amazing!
I’m still trying to figure out how they did it.  I can’t tell where the video ends and the graphics begin.
The colors are amazing!  The song is infectious!  The forced-perspective is exciting.  The transitions are clever.  I can’t say enough good things about it. I think the best part may [...]

2009 East Coast Group Productions Demo Reel

We recently completed a new Demo for ECG Productions.  This short (30 sec) demo highlights our services and features the 3d logo resolve that I teased here.
You can watch the video here.

Main Title Design Emmy Race is on!

Call me ignorant, but I really had no idea they even handed out awards for main titles sequences.  Don’t get me wrong,  I think it’s very cool that they do.  But I have to admit, I can’t sit through an awards show to save my life.  I look forward to seeing who takes home the [...]

Graphics for BBBS (Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta)

Graphics for BBBS (Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta)
Posted by Trey on July 11th, 2008 No Comments Printer-Friendly

Last month we shot over 58 pages of script for Big Brothers and Big Sisters of metro Atlanta.  As I mentioned before in this post, we were commisioned to create a series of training videos which [...]

8 Free Plugins from Creative Cow

Sick of taking hours to create your own VU meter or EQ?

Take a few minutes and head on over to Creative Cow to pick up the free plugins they recently posted.  In my opinion, you can’t get enough plugins for your graphics programs.
Keep in mind, that if you use AE on a PC, you’re out [...]

Graphic Design for Maid Brigade

On Wednesday, ECG Productions shot 3 videos for Maid Brigade.  Each of the videos needs several motion graphics, which I have started working on today.
The company is really pushing the fact that they are Green Certified, which means that they not only use safe cleaning products, but they also use sustainable cleaning cloths, and vaccume [...]

Sometimes, all you need is a lens flare

Lens flares seem to add a little something special to all graphics, and they really help draw the eye to your graphics
They are one of the most versatile yet simplistic effects you can use. They aren’t too distracting, and won’t steal focus from the content of your graphic, but they’ll give it a nice [...]

Adobe Creative Suite 3.3

I’ve gotten used to software companies continually releasing new versions of their programs and charging an arm and a leg so you have to re-buy it. What a hassle!
However, it is hard to stay angry with Adobe. For starters, the Creative Suite is one of the most powerful design program packages on the [...]