Hello all!
My name is CJ Maynard, and I have been active in the local production community for almost 12 years now. My day job is working for a local production company, Perfect Image Video, where I perform all number of job duties, including Shooting, Editing, Authoring, Motion Graphics and Animation, not to mention a whole slew of not-that-interesting, more mundane tasks (like making DVD copies or transferring old family film). I have been with the company for 12 years now, and while there have been ups and downs throughout, I have no regrets. Working there has allowed me to embark into a fairly active freelance career as well.
I first discovered Blender 4 years ago, after fighting with a couple of low-priced, innefective 3D apps to try to increase my video toolset. I’m not even sure how I found Blender, but I did, I downloaded it, I felt quite confused and uninstalled it! About two months later, someone needed a simple 3D text effect, so back I went, fought through the tutorials, and here I am, a huge fan so many years later! Not only was the price not an issue, but the open-source mentality grew heavily on me, and now I try to support open-source in any way I can.
One way I go about doing that is hosting a community project, focused on the use of Blender for the purpose of online collaboration. This project can be found at www.openworldfilm.com, and is open to anyone who would like to be a member, regardless of skill level. I highly recommend joining if you’d like to be challenged and learn from others. One side note…”Open Projects” have received a bad rap due to the large number of poor proposals and failed attempts. The Open World Film Project has (as of this writing) the distinction of having just celebrated it’s 1 year anniversary, 4000th post and 60th member in the last two weeks! So we’ve been quite busy there. Feel free to stop by and sign up- we always welcome new people- also unusual in the webverse.
3D STILLS:
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ANIMATIONS:
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In-house promotional animation
Valve and Filter Product Demonstration
Minute White QVC Product Demonstration
McKinney Motorsports Logo Build
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ROTOSCOPING/CAMERA TRACKING:
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MUSIC:
(All my music is released public domain, and may be used in any way you like. Credit is always nice.)
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RESUME:
PERFECT IMAGE VIDEO
1996-present
Positions:
Editor
Animator
DVD Authoring
Graphic Design
Videographer
Film Transfer Technician
Duplication Technician
Customer Support & Training
New Service Development
Sales
My PIV Clients have included:
Black Belt Magazine
Trading Spaces Family
Sha Na Na
Sprung Monkey
Rhonda Shear
Cubic Defense Corporation
QVC (through representatives)
La Jolla Playhouse
Children’s Hospital
Rueben H. Fleet Science Center
Ingrid & AJ Croce (for Jim Croce)
The Short List
Gemological Institute of America
San Diego Housing Commission
Sam the Cooking Guy
California Library Campaign
Admiral James Stockdale
Nexa Orthopedics (now Tournier)
AVID Education
Chula Vista Police Dept.
Old Globe Theatre
Mighty XX Sports Radio
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BARRY JONES ROCK VIDEO PRODUCTIONS
(Green-screen based party & event vendor)
2002-present
Positions:
Head of new product development
Lead trainer
Lead technician
Sales
Clients:
Mostly private parties, but we did get the honor of developing a custom greenscreen action ride for Sam Raimi’s son Lorne’s Bar Mitzvah.
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FREELANCE:
2002-present
Clients have included:
The Mother Goose Parade 2006/2007 (producer/live producer/director/videographer/editor/graphics)
Valve and Filter inc. (Animation)
Home Depot (Independent video picked up by H.D. for regular rotation in employees’ lounges)
Miss El Cajon Pageant 2000-2006 (producer/live producer/director/editor/graphics/videographer)
San Diego Police Historical Museum (motion graphics)
Institute for Palliative Medicine (3D/motion graphics)
Access to Independence (3D/motion graphics)