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Dr. Cortney Baker, Executive Leadership Specialist

Doctor Cortney Baker, Executive Leadership Specialist

Shot with a canon DSLR and edited with Adobe Premiere and some Adobe After Effects.

http://cortneybaker.com

Dr. Cortney Baker is a speech therapist, business owner, entrepreneur, leadership expert, speaker, philanthropist, wife, mother of three, and proud native Texan. She received her doctoral degree from Pepperdine University in Organizational Leadership, where she conducted research on women who had overcome challenges in their careers in healthcare but had achieved incredible success. Cortney has a passion for helping others achieve their greatest potential, specializing in leadership development.

In 2003, Dr. Baker founded KidsCare Therapy. After experiencing the growth and success of the company, Cortney decided to follow her dream of obtaining her doctoral degree. She enrolled in Pepperdine University’s nationally ranked Organizational Leadership program beginning in the summer of 2012. However, on September 18, 2012, Cortney suffered a massive stroke in 2 places at the age of 37. She took the fall 2012 semester off to recover, but in true Cortney Baker fashion, she bounced back and re-enrolled in same program for the Spring 2013 session. She completed her doctoral degree in 2015.

Dr. Baker was named one of the top three finalists for Texas Business Woman of the Year 2014. She has become a much sought-after speaker and executive leadership coach and consultant for those attempting to achieve their full career potential. Cortney brings her humor, wit, experience, and savvy to each situation and is able to help others “just be real”.

Strange Dayz, Austin’s premiere Doors Tribute Band

https://mattkprovideo.com/2016/07/11/strange-dayz-austins-premiere-doors-tribute-band/

Strange Dayz, Austin’s premiere Doors Tribute Band!

Shot with a Canon DSLR and edited in Adobe Premiere and some Adobe After Effects!

RAIN: A FAN FILM ABOUT STORM

I just got to see THIS on the big screen at the Alamo Village theater in Austin Texas:

Uhh No its not “my” film (don’t I wish). I had a very minor part on the crew, a volunteer boom mike operator. But it was time well spent to be a part of something THIS ambitious!

Theres some many dreamers and talkers who BS endlessly about what they’ll do “someday”. And theres people like Maya Glick who organized a Kickstarter campaign to get funding and found Zane Rutledge and Jeff Stolhand to get in there and make it happen!

And DID they make it happen! Amazing quality shooting and CGI effects! And Kick a– acting from Maya and the rest of the cast!

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https://www.facebook.com/xstormfilm/

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5730804/

 

 

 

 

Paulina and Danny Baker Wedding Video

The lovely Paulina got married to the handsome Danny Baker on April 16, 2016 at “The Vista on Seward Hill” in West Austin.

Shot with a Canon DSLR, a Canon Camcorder, 3 go pros and a Feiyu G4 3-Axis Handheld Gimbal . Edited in Adobe Premiere with some work done in Photoshop and After Effects.

 

http://www.thevistaonsewardhill.com/

Vic Feazell, Lawyer Commercials

I shot these TV spots for Austin/Waco Texas lawyer Vic Feazell.

I used a Canon G20 camera and edited them in Adobe After Effects. I made the graphics in Adobe Photoshop.

 

http://www.withviclegal.com/

CALL (512) 372-8100

Holochess for Star Wars

Star Wars: The Force Awakens is full of eye-popping effects, both practical and CG. And if you were paying attention, you may have noticed a bit of stop-motion animation thrown in there as well. After the jump, watch a video showing the Force Awakensstop-motion sequence came together under the guidance of VFX wizard Phil Tippett. (Minor spoilers for Star Wars: The Force Awakens ahead.) 

The Force Awakens stop-motion sequence comes as a little Easter egg for fans. When Finn is aboard the Millennium Falcon, he accidentally hits a button that turns on the Dejarik holochess board. He stares at it for a moment, attracting Chewbacca’s attention, before turning it off. The moment has no real impact on the plot; it’s really just there as a fun callback for fans of the original.

As teased way back in JulyAdam Savage dropped by Tippett Studio to see Tippett and his team work on the stop-motion animation sequence. If you’re interested in Star Wars making-of lore, or just stop-motion animation in general, the video is worth a watch. Tippett and his team discuss the process of animating these little monsters, and also about Tippett’s work on the original film.

 

It’s interesting to see that J.J. Abrams’ preference for practical effects over CG ones for The Force Awakens extended even to the holochess set. It probably would’ve been simpler to recreate it in CG, but it wouldn’t have felt quite the same.

As Tippett explains in the video, bringing back the holochess set wasn’t as easy as dusting off the original models. “We got a call from [Lucasfilm president] Kathy Kennedy saying that they wanted to restore the original chess set from Star Wars, and the problem was that the characters that we had made, you know, close to 40 years ago, were in a horrible state of disintegration,” he said.

Though they knew exactly where the originals were — on a plaque presented to George Lucas — the figures were beyond repair. “They were made out of a rubber that disintegrates over time, and turns into like graham crackers,” said Tippett. So he and his team went into the archives and used photogrammetry to reconstruct the characters for 3D printing. The new figures are made of silicone, and should last longer than the old ones did.

Best of all, Tippett reveals that the holochess game as seen in The Force Awakens is actually a continuation of the holochess game from A New Hope. “We elected to pick up where we left off … and we just swapped out who wins this time,” said Tippett.

The Star Wars: The Force Awakens stop-motion sequence, along with the rest of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, is in theaters now.

 

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