Creative Cow Leader!

Imagination Creations founder, Ari Grunzeweig, has just been selected as a Creative Cow Leader! Creative cow is a leading peer based website where creative professionals and amateurs alike turn to in order to learn, find solutions to challenges, or just see the cool stuff people are doing the the creative world.

Creative Cow has been a great resource for me throughout my career. Their tutorials and user forums are always very helpful and generally provide fast answers to your technical questions. My two tutorials, Green Screen Billboard Compositing and After Effects Handwriting Tutorial are now featured on Creative Cow. I am hoping to be able to create more soon.

It is very exciting to be a leader amongst cows!

Have a look at my leader page here: Meet Ari Grunzeweig

Green Screen Billboard Compositing

Augmented reality is a technology where a user sees a static image come to life by looking at it through their phone or other enabled device. The challenge presented to me by my client was to simulate this technology, with out having to rent a city billboard. This was a fun project to tackle as it covered a number of different concepts and effects. Due to this, the tutorial is a bit long, but I think you will learn a lot!

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Here is a quick guide, but for all the details, you'll need to watch the video!

1. Film your scene 2. Film your billboard content 3. Edit scene 4. Design billboard content 5. Composite billboard into scene 6. Composite billboard scene into phone screen

Israel & Oversees

These represent 2 of my favourite videos of 2013. Beautifully filmed interviews combined with eye-catching 3D treated photographs and some very compelling Israeli stories of tolerance of rehabilitation. Produced and filmed by Eclipse Productions for Federation CJA, Imagination Creations was hired to shoot the still photos as well as to do all the editing and effects on both videos.

Take a look at the result in these amazing Israeli endeavours.

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We're here to help!

I believe that Quebec and Canada have Charters of Human Rights and Freedoms for a reason. So when the Quebec government proposed Bill 60, I wanted to take action. I conceived the idea for this video with the support of the Jewish General Hospital and it garnered the attention of the public as well as the media as I had hoped. The video is simple in it's design. Filmed on Wednesday and Thursday, edited on Friday and uploaded on Monday. In it's first 2 weeks online, the video was watched 16,000 times.

Word spread to the media, and the Montreal Gazette was the first to get in touch with me. Aaron Derfel interviewed me over the phone and his article was published the next day.

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Next came a Television interview on Global News with Aaliah Adam.

  This was followed by a radio interview with Barry Morgan on CJAD.

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  The news then travelled half way around the world and I was contacted by the Times of Israel

All in all, I am very pleased with the success of the video and the attention it received. I thank all those who helped spread the word and those who provided me with the guidance necessary to see the project through.