The Owen Reel
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ADIOS, AMOEBAS!
Ryan demonstrated the inner workings of After Effects, Cinema4D, and Unity. In the quest to build a game called "Adios, Amoebas!," combatants (aka brown bag attendees) were educated on the basics of polygonal modeling techniques through a demonstration creating 3D "amoebas" in Cinema4D. Then, each Owenite was given an unwra…
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CAL HUM LAUNCH-LUNCH
The kind folks at Cal Humanities sent us out to our favorite local spot for a celebratory lunch. And we had fun. Thanks Cal Humanities, we loved the whole branding she-bang. Check out the video of the fine time we had. (Shot on the agency DSLR)…
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OWEN PORTRAIT EXPERIMENTS
We've been doing a fair amount of our own photography for clients. Shots of all types. These portraits of some (but not all) Owen folks were created while we were testing lighting and post-production techniques.…
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CONSUMER CELLULAR & GRANDPARENTS
For the second year running, we created some great video content to help promote Consumer Cellular's Grandparent's Day contest.…
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24 HOUR TURNAROUND 3D
Sometimes you get a call to do something fun. And sometimes that needs to happen super-fast-like. This was done from first phone call to final delivery in 24 hours. Ryan had fun, AJ at Adobe had fun (and liked it a bunch). We hope lots of people get to see it in upcoming Adobe work. Thanks AJ. Thanks Ryan.…
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GREETINGS FROM OWEN EAST
Our Ryan Donahue, Captain of the Owen Jones East Team documenting the view from the Owen East Office. This was recorded on a Flip cam, and slowed to 60FPS. Music credits go to the Texas Troubadors with their rendition of Danny Boy. So sad. So Pretty.…
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DIRTY DIRTY RICH CANON 7D FOCUS TEST
Owen having fun and working on using the manual focus and short depth of field on the agency Canon 7d. This was shot on a dining room table. The white seamless is a piece of poster board taped down. Lighting is provided by a simple desk lamp. The rest is the camera, Gaga, and After [...]…
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IN-FLASH DEBUGGER
While Flash Developers have many ways out getting trace output from Flash, I find myself often trying to debug a system I don't have access to. It may be behind a VPN, or the client may be trying to describe a symptom that I just can't recreate on my machine. When this happens, I opt for an easy-to-implement, low weight deb…
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OWEN HOLIDAY CARD 2010
For those of you out in the web-o-sphere who didn't get a printed version of our holiday card this year, here is a few photos we snapped today. They were printed locally by an amazing letterpress studio, KeeganMeegan & Co. If you're looking for a letterpress printer, they are a new friend of Owen, and he can't stop yackin…
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SAGE CORSON JOINS OWEN
Owen has been much remise in not getting to this sooner – and the fact that Sage has been kicking so much b-o-o-t-y around here makes it seem a bigger oversight each day. We are ever so lucky to have Sage. Sage joins us from Straub Collaborative where she was a producer + project manager where she was the main liaison bet…
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OWEN DIGITAL WORK IN GOOD COMPANY
This year at the Rosey's in Portland they're giving out a "People's Choice Award" Owen work made the list in a few areas (Brand Development & Print Advertising) but we also made the list in the Web Development category. This feels particularly good to the team here at Owen for many reasons – not the least of which is the …
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MARK RAWLINS JOINS OWEN
Owen is super thrilled to have Mark Rawlins joining the creative team. Mark has been full-time perma-lancing for a few months – and we all decided it would most awesome if we made it official. Mark previously worked Struck/Axiom in all its tradigital hybridness – both in Utah and here in Portland. Mark has also worked f…
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OWEN WEBSITE STUDIES
From time to time we give our own site a looking at. Below are a few that we've considered. Some had a short life on line, others never made it past the site map, AI and/or PSD phase. All of them were great fun to think about and design – and in some cases, code as well. A few were to be all HTML/CSS, and others are heavi…
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OWEN ADOBE BUDDIES LOVING BIG RED
Lucas and Rusty – both big fans of Adobe – yuck it up in their sweet new Adobe Branded Polo™ shirts. Some thoughtful person left these on the desk of Mr. Swick. We hope we can keep them.…
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NEROLI – A VIDEO PLAYER FOR ADOBE
Larry and I have been pretty deep in development on a media player for Adobe. It's quite an honor, really, to be involved with such an important component for such an important company, and we set the bar pretty high for what we wanted to accomplish with the latest rev. The primary goals were a migration to OSMF, a mobile-f…
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GORGE GROWN OWEN 7D TEST
We bought a Canon 7d a few weeks back – and intend to use it for various video projects and B-roll shooting when we’re working with other video production teams. The shots in the video below were all done hand-held on the standard automatic settings. Admittedly we did shoot at the 720p 60fps setting and slow it down to …
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OAK > TO > PDX
This was shot on an iPhone last night (September 17th, 2010) covertly on take-off during an OAK -> PDX return flight. The fog and the light was crazy beautiful. The track is a rough-cut from Driven Snow (Larry & Misty Reynolds) called Kid Gloves. I’m always homesick by this time on my business trips, and the music fit my …
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THE POWERPOINT CONUNDRUM
Everyone knows that PowerPoint gives people tons of control over presentations. An everyone knows why that is a good thing. Everyone has also seen the best PowerPoint template go south in the hands of people taking that control to new and more repugnant aesthetic lows. Yes it can be spendy to get custom presentations create…