About me
Who am I?
My name is Austin Enos, a video editor, animator, and writer.
I'm a single pioneer serving in the English field in Puerto Morelos, Mexico. Nothing makes me happier than being able to tell stories, touch hearts, and make people laugh through film and animation. I love learning new skills and collaborating with others to produce something awesome!
Name:
Austin Enos
Email:
Age:
24
From:
Quintana Roo, Mexico
My Experience
Animation
I've made multiple shorts using Adobe Animate, but I can quickly learn any preferred tool.
Video Editing
The A/V skill I have the most experience with, both secularly and recreationally.
Script Writing
I've always enjoyed writing. Classic three-act structures with character-driven plots are a personal favorite.
Sound Editing
I've used Audacity to edit and mix the audio for all my projects.
Storyboarding
The first large project I worked on was an animatic for a script I wrote.
Portfolio
Showcasing some of my work
Dentist Promote Ad - March 7, 2022 | |
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In 2022 I started Dentist Promote, a company that produces personilized, humorous, animated ads for dental offices. I personally write, animate and edit the videos we sell. This is an example of the type of video we make for our clients.
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Electroguy Barn Camera Ad - June 27, 2021 | |
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A while ago the manager of Electroguy, a barn camera provider, contacted me saying he was relaunching their website and wanted a new ad for the new site. He told me all the information he wanted conveyed and sent me a sketch of how he wanted it formatted. After that I wrote the script and decided on the chalkboard style. Once it was approved by him, he gave me a few bits of text he wanted to scroll past the screen at the end. After that, I hired a voice actor to narrate and got to work. Really enjoyed working on this project!
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Anniversary Video 2 - March 27, 2021 |
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This video was a gift for some really close friends on their 5th Wedding Anniversary. It's based after a true story. At their wedding, a monkey (with a baby on its back) actually grabbed the Groom's hand and tried to walk away with him. After a good laugh from everyone there, the Bride and Groom shood her away. Of course, due to the nature of animation, I took a few liberties when adapting that story in this video.
This video was so much fun to work on! Every character had a physical element to them that added a unique challenge to an otherwise straight-forward video. The Groom had to be able to hold hands with both the Bride and the Monkey, the Bride's hair would stretch and squash a bit as her head moved, and the monkey's tail had to be hand-drawn as it moved (nothing I did to rig it with a skeleton looked good enough.) It was a pleasure to make something unique as a gift for some friends who meant so much to me. |
Animation Exercises |
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Since my first few animated projects were a minute or longer, I decided to practice some shorter videos. A website was recommended to me called http://www.moviesoundclips.net, which has a huge collection of lesser known audio clips from various movies and other entertainment. Animating new jokes and actions over pre-existing dialogue has been a great exercise. These are the short animation exercises I have completed as of now. |
Anniversary Video 1 - October 30, 2020 |
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This was a video created as a gift for my parents on their anniversary. Since I am one of three siblings, I chose one funny home video clip starring each of us. The coyote clip is my favorite, but I'm proudest of the alien clip.
Since we are amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, we were unfortunately not able to have a party in person to celebrate my parents' special day. So I contacted many of their friends, asking them to send in audio. A bunch of animated animals and aliens with the voices of loved ones felt like it would be a funny and sincere way to end the video. There were a few unique challenges involved in this. Rigging the coyotes so bending their legs before howling didn't look weird took way longer than I expected. Listening to a minute of audio and noting every single time the drum or triangle was hit was tedious. And framing the shot so all the characters could be on-screen at the same time without messing up the scale. But when my parents' watched it and loved it, their laughs and misty eyes made it all worth it. |
Whales English Commission - August 27, 2020 |
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| This was my first animation commission. A brother in my hall teaches English online, and was putting together an introduction video for his students. He had the idea of an animated clip of him riding a whale into the shot and then introducing himself. I loved the idea, and was happy to make it a reality. His character model was based after an avatar he had made in an app, and the whale was shaped like the teaching company's logo. This is the result. |
Wingin' It - May 29, 2020 |
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This was my second original video using Adobe Animate. After getting the hang of the program, I really wanted to create a full animated short film. The complex emotions and characters that can be conveyed through animated shorts has always impressed me, and it was so exciting to have the time to really focus on those elements in this project.
It was a fun challenge to clearly show what the characters were thinking and feeling without any discernible dialogue. This was my first time building rigs for characters. Designing Lester and Katrina (the names of the squirrel and bird, respectively) to have a wide arrangement of movements was tricky, but it paid off in the long run. Only slight adjustments had to be made for running, flying, falling, hovering, etc. It was a blast exaggerating their faces and body movements when they were surprised or afraid. The background was kept very simple. Partly for time, but mainly to make the characters really stand out and pop. Lester and Katrina are the crux of the story, and I never wanted the background to distract the viewer from something important going on in the foreground. There are some animation errors that I noticed late into post-production, and my voice acting could probably use some work. Nevertheless, it was a wonderful project to work on. It helped me learn many lessons, techniques, and methods that I can't wait to use and apply in the future! |
Nature Facts: The Bee - July 11, 2020 |
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This was my third animated short using Adobe Animate.
Some good friends were having a variety show over zoom for their congregation, and they invited my family and I to join in. I decided to make a new animated short for the show! The invitation came about two weeks before the variety show, so it was a serious race against the clock. I reused as many assets from previous projects as possible. As a huge fan of nature documentaries, a spoof of Planet Earth (and other similar BBC documentaries) seemed like it had potential. I asked a good friend in the hall with a Attenborough-esque voice to narrate, and he did such an amazing job! This was my first time redrawing the lines and objects depending on where the camera was. When the closeups for the dance sequence were originally finished, it looked off. It was hard to tell where the bees were standing, it looked kind of like they were floating above the hive. I added shadows to the dance sequence, and although it's a little glitchy, it seemed to do the trick. Choreographing the dances was a surprise challenge. It's far more challenging to translate real dance moves into 2D than I thought! Some of the moves had to be altered or changed from the storyboards. Hopefully the more iconic dances (like the Macarena) translate well in the final product. It was always a part of the script that a chart would get dragged onto the screen to explain the real-life science of how bees communicate, but it was a last minute change to make it a chalk board. I really love how it looks. Even though the animation itself is VERY simple in that segment, it would be great to make a full short entirely in that style some day. I AM sick of Boogie Wonderland now. After two weeks of hearing it nonstop, it may be a LONG time before I listen to it again. |
Frog vs Fly - March 29, 2020 |
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I've always been a huge fan of animation as a visual medium. A few months ago, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, like many others, I found myself with a lot of free time. I did NOT want to waste that opportunity. It gave me the chance to finally dive into animation! So after taking an Adobe Animate course, I planned out a story and got to work. The goal was to make something short, funny, and surprising.
Originally the short used a blank background. After showing it to a good friend with animation experience, he pointed out the fact that it made the frog being dragged away at the end look odd. A viewer might think the frog is staying still and the camera is moving. I'm so glad he brought that up, because it gave me the idea of putting the frog on a liypad in the swamp, which makes him being dragged offscreen seem more believable than being dragged across dry ground, like I originally imagined. It saved the suspension of disbelief and gave the clip a bit more character. |
2018 Branch Representative Meeting - March 18, 2018 |
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| The MAPS.ME videos lead to a couple of really neat opportunities. One of these was opportunities was the 2018 Branch Representative meeting. Since our branch was the Central America branch in Mexico City, our Branch Rep Meetings are in Spanish. In the past, brothers had translated it live while the video played behind them. This was an incredible mental strain, so in 2018 they decided to do things differently. That time, when we received the video file for the BR meeting, a team would translate all the dialogue, re-record it in English, edit it back into the video, and send the translated version to all the English congregations in the circuit. What made things tricky was that the Spanish video file was first available at 4PM Saturday, and the English video needed to be sent out by 10AM Sunday. I was asked to be the editor due to my previous work. The translated audio started getting sent to me around 10PM. The team worked so hard and was so amazing! The translators and voice actors did a fantastic job. A couple of us ended up staying up all night finishing it. Thanks to Jehovah, we were able to complete it! That was such a crazy night, and there was a ton of anxiety and excitment at the time, but looking back on it I can't help but smile. While normally working on personal projects or videos with another person or two, it was such a treat to work with a team of talented brothers and sisters giving their all to benefit the circuit. |
MAPS.ME Tutorials - February 12, 2018 |
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Full playlist here.
This was a fun project! Our circuit in Mexico had recently switched over to using an app called MAPS.ME to keep track of our territory. It was a pretty heavy change from paper territories. The circuit overseer knew I was really getting into video editing and film-making, so he asked if it would be possible to make a series of tutorials on how to use the app. Many found it confusing to get used to keeping track of territory and calls digitally, so the goal for the project was to make the instructions as clear and concise and possible. I wrote out the script, got it approved by the CO, and asked a friend in the congregation with a clear voice if he'd be interested in recording the narration. He was on board, so I grabbed my microphone and pop filter, and through a couple of recording sessions we got all the audio we needed. He spoke clearly and paused a lot when speaking. That was super useful when editing the audio. The Circuit Overseer really liked the end result, and I hope it ended up being useful to the brothers and sisters in the circuit! |
Full(ly Armed and Operational) House - December 6, 2017 |
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| This is just a goofy video I made for fun back in 2017. I got the idea randomly one day and spent a few hours putting this together. Put it on this website since it's technically my first time editing live action footage. |
Caleb Animatic - September 18, 2017 |
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Before I made this animatic, I had made some funny short videos with footage from movies. This video was my first time adapting a script I wrote into an animatic. I thought it would be a fun challenge to emulate the style of a "Become Jehovah's Friend" video and make the script feel as accurate as possible. Members of my family volunteered to voice the characters, which lead to some pretty hilarious moments during the recording sessions.
I tend to cringe when watching this video now. This was my first time storyboarding. The scale is often off, the proportions are a little weird-looking, and the sound leveling is all over the place. The lessons learned were invaluable, however. This animatic started me on a path that I'm still making my way down now! I love that every time I complete a project, I learn so much that helps me make the next one better. |