Sophabulous Ways of Creating Thumb-stopping Media & Memories

Don't limit your vision to just work. You may be pleasantly surprised that we all love to learn about what our coworkers do outside of work.

Variations of animated social assets created for Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)'s National Prevention Week 2023 campaign

A layman's eyes always need some help. A dotted line to show where the glacier was. And a Statue of Liberty to give the viewer a sense of perspective and scale.

 

Whether it's a full-production video or a couple of animated slides with exciting news to share with followers, it's all accomplishable, and quickly.

Here's a 2-min video promoting a book launch for National Geographic photographer Michael Yamashita:

(This is a classical case of turning mostly still photos into a video narrative.)

Or we can thinking about a GIF snippet of a visual illustration of an idea or a change in the physical world. Below is an animated vignette of a pancaking glacier under Mt Everest.

An explainer can be as short as a commercial, such as this feature promo of a web site:

Or as detailed as this one:

Here are a few animated social event-promoting social shout-outs in various aspect ratios for Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.:

The same words, different ways of slicing and dicing (sorry for overload of choices):

I have two boys so a lot of family oriented projects are baseball, flag football and other youth athletic activities. Check out some of these highlights for inspirations or ideas that you may have. Your imagination is the fuel. The rest we can help bring to life.

The hand-saving rig that keeps my fingers unfrozen while filming flag football in winter:

Above: a tripod that elevates a GoPro like mini camera to a high vintage point and a chess phone mount that holds my phone, aka the camera viewfinder without freezing my hands working the phone while recording

Evan's athletic highlights from season 2024/25:

Note: you would definitely want to shoot HDR in the sun, and 4K preferable as you will have much more room to punch in when editing. Reach out if you are serious about filming.