Echo Conference

If you pre-ordered a 2009 Echo DVD set, your order has been shipped. For everybody else, now’s the time to grab your set. As I mentioned a couple weeks ago, the DVD set includes some great stuff:

• Keynote Sessions from Ben Arment, Mark Steele, and Phil Cooke
• The Church Panel (featuring Carlos Whittaker, Bobby Gruenewald, Scott Hodge, Cynthia Ware, and Conway Edwards)
• The After Effects User Group
• Breakout Session MP3s
• Breakout Session PDFs
• 8 Motion Graphics Tutorials by Barton Damer and Trent Armstrong

Head over to the Echo Store to order yours.

In the weeks following Echo 2009, we sent out a survey to our attendees in hopes of a little feedback. In the survey, we asked attendees to share with us one or more of their favorite moments of the conference. Yesterday, I took the results, removed all the proper nouns (Phil Vischer, Phil Cooke, Ben Arment, Mark Steele, and Johnny & Chachi) and created a Wordle word cloud for a presentation. I admit, I was pretty pleased by the results:

The Echo Conference 2009 DVD set is nearly complete!  The set features 3 DVDs with a TON of content:

•  Keynote Sessions from Ben Arment, Mark Steele, and Phil COoke
•  The Church Panel
•  The After Effects User Group
•  Breakout Session MP3s
•  Breakout Session PDFs
•  8 Motion Graphics Tutorials

Just for fun, we’re including a sample of the Motion Graphics Tutorials here for free. From Designer and Animator Barton Damer, we have the first of his series on building a logo animation from Illustrator to After Effects and Cinema 4D.

Next up, Motion Designer Trent Armstrong take this first session to walk through turning a still graphic into a loop— or two.

Echo 2009 DVD Sets will ship out in two weeks, so pre-order yours today.

If you’re not familiar with Brad Zimmerman, he’s the handsome and charismatic host of ChurchMediaDesign.tv — a video podcast devoted to equipping church leaders with media and technology resources, tips, and knowledge. Basically, Brad invites you to spend an hour a week with him as he teaches you stuff you need to know. Head over to the website and subscribe to the podcast.

We’re very grateful to Brad and Adam (also from CMD) for running the live stream during Echo. Brad and Adam had a great setup, conducted some interviews, and even facilitated the stream of our panel discussion. Plus, they drove all the way from Michigan to help us out. Brad also taught a breakout and helped with the After Effects User Group, and we can’t thank him enough for everything.

Check out ChurchMediaDesign.tv today.

In case you missed it, or in case you need to see it again, here’s Johnny & Chachi’s 90s medley from Echo 2009: