Music video done for the Duluth Homegrown Music Video Festival. Participants pick a song / band at random and make a video.

Ever wonder what goes on behind the scenes of an award-winning, low budget music video? It’s wacky, let me tell you.

One of many web videos for ZMC Hotels. They are re-branding nearly all of their properties, developing new websites with added capabilities and increasing their use of social media and video.

A music video from the album It Is People!. Take a little trip with Tangier 57.

Winner, 2nd place in the 2012 Duluth Playhouse Short Shorts film contest.

Written, performed, and conceived by Tangier 57
Darin Bergsven as Thurston: Guitar, Vocals, Trombone, Percussion
Chris Bacigalupo as The Major: Bass, Keyboards, Vocals
Doug Hatten as Rain Clave: Bass, Harmonica
David Syring as The Professor N’ Marion: Trumpet, Cornet, Mbira
Paul Wartman as Dr. Pénè Mündé: Keyboards
Robert Linnemann as Salah Ascot Xanadu: Alto Saxophone, Vocals
Brian Barber as Geert “sticks” VanderWhacker: Drums, Guitar, Vocals

Directed by Chris Bacigalupo and Brian Barber
Animation and editing by Brian Barber
3D modeling by Chris Bacigalupo
Sexy rockstar poses by Darin Bergsven

A silly one for DSGW Architecture.

A short sweet video for Loll designs. Featured on their home page during the holiday season.
Tis the season to lollygag.

A third ad in the series for Center for Family Medicine.

A fundraising video for the Duluth Children’s Museum “Be the Spark” Capital Campaign.

I work with my own clients, with advertising agencies, and with production companies on design and branding in print, interactive and broadcast media. I also coordinate production, budgets, direction and the other parts of getting a project done.

Tools include After Effects, Flash, Final Cut Pro, Motion, Color, Corel Painter, Photoshop, Logic, Soundtrack, GarageBand, Premiere and more.

If you’d like to see some of my design and illustration work – the things that don’t move – be sure to check out my other site, brianbarber.com.

Contact Info:
Brian Barber
Duluth, MN USA
(218) 728-0853
brian@brianbarber.com

Some work from the last year or so jammed into a short, sweet package.
I did the animation, graphics, type, effects and most of the live-action shooting.

Clients include:
Loll Designs
Subway
Minnesota Power
Allete
Center for Family Medicine
4-Track Films
Epic Multimedia
Swim Creative
Grand Marais Tourism
perfectduluthday.com
Stokes Media House
and more

An introduction for a presentation. This design is based on an existing brochure and print campaign.

4-Track Films here in Duluth will have a special sneak-peek at their new movie, The Life of Riley. I did the DVD and poster design, and got to do some title animation for the actual movie.
Our band Tangier 57 also has a song in the movie. The local music in this is really impressive. I saw a rough cut and the music combined with the images is really powerful in places.
Other bands + musicians featured are Low, the Black-eyed Snakes, Charlie Parr, Haley Bonar, Mary Bue, the Alrights, the Very People, Cars & Trucks, the Keep Aways, Kathy McTavish, Crew Jones, Equal Xchange and Martin Zellar.

Before you lollygag on your new Loll furniture, you have to put it together. A video I did with basic assembly tips.
This and the Required Maintenance video are now on each of the product pages for Loll.

Here’s a piece of animation/live action shooting/greenscreen/motion graphics for Loll Designs here in Duluth. They make super-swanky, durable patio furniture out of recycled plastic milk jugs and stuff like that. You really just put this stuff together, set it outside and forget about it. This maintenance video is now on all of their product pages.

More How-to’s and general company information videos to come.

Shooting on the greenscreen

Lots of greenscreen and compositing fun in After Effects for this one.

An animated ID and copyright screen for Stokes Media House, a video production company.

Live action, animation and motion graphics mixed for 8 variations of ads for the Edgewater Resort and Waterpark.

Another TV ad done for Center for Family Medicine in Sioux Falls, SD. I did the character design, animation and editing, and characters were also used on billboards, print ads and signage.

Agency: Epic Multimedia

An animated TV ad and character designs I did for Center for Family Medicine in Sioux Falls, SD.

Agency: Epic Multimedia

What’s Brinner? It’s something wonderful somewhere between breakfast and dinner.
Animated TV for Subway.
Agency: SimmonsFlint

A collection of projects from the last year (and a little before that). A mix of retro-ish animation, integration with real-life footage, motion graphics, swoopy, spinning logos, special effects and more.

Big thanks to Steve Burns for letting me use the music, Troposphere.

There’s more than one way to Grand Marais, Minnesota. During Duluth’s summer of construction, marathons, and more, this is the suggested route. I shot and edited these little video vignettes for Swim Creative to get the message out for the Grand Marais Tourism Association.

Three Television ads for the Grand Marais Tourism Association. Footage was shot last year for another project, and re-used for these fun, quirky spots.
Everyone should take a trip to Grand Marais, MN. It’s lovely.
Agency: Swim Creative

More:

Here’s one I just finished up for Members Cooperative Credit Union and their mortgage department.

Fundraising campaign video for the United Way of Greater Duluth.

Grand Marais Minnesota just wanted someone to give them the bird … back. Someone stole the billboard extension, and the people aren’t going to take it any more.

Click here for the National Public Radio Story

Agency: Swim Creative

More adventures and outtakes here.

TV ad announcing expanded service to the Duluth International Airport.

Agency: WestmorelandFlint

TV ad to warn people of the consequences of burning their garbage.

Agency: Russell&Herder

Shot in beautiful downtown Indianapolis, at the Fountain Square bowling alley.

Cinematography by Brian Barber, Scott Denham and Steve Hill. Edited by Mike Scholtz.

One of many videos submitted as part of the Google Twin Ports campaign.

Thanks to Phrazer for sharing their footage.

I also created the Speedie Gigabit character and re-worked the Google Fiber logo for the Google Twin Ports effort.