“Santa Went Down to Georgia”

Recently, North Point Ministries made a lot of buzz with an in-service music piece, which made its way to the internet, then made its way to numerous blogs and websites, then onto CNN, the Today Show, etc.  Currently, that video has 1.6 million hits.

This isn’t that video.  This, instead, is a piece performed two weeks later (this past Sunday).  

Major credit to Eddie Kirkland for writing this piece (at least I think it was Eddie- someone correct me if I’m wrong) and John Williams for performing it so ably.  SCAD student and motion graphics extraordinaire Nathan Boyd and I collaborated on the on-screen graphics.  I modeled and animated the guitar fretboard and buttons/notes, while Nathan provided the scoring interface and bouncy Santa lyrics (which were perfectly executed, if you ask me).  

This was easily one of the most enjoyable challenges I’ve encountered thus far at North Point.  You could say it was a motion graphics piece of destiny (what with four years of Guitar Hero shredding under my belt).  The mechanics of the piece were tricky, but I had fun figuring it all out.  

So anyways, tell your friends!  Only 1.57 million more views and we catch iBand!