CVWmedia

07/12/2024

Look, Mom, we made the news!

We've been working with the visionaries at factor 110 event solutions on branding for these clinics for a few months now, and we couldn't be more thrilled to finally see them rolling out in real life.

Dental care will soon be more accessible to people living in rural Oklahoma, and those who can’t afford it, thanks to a new mobile unit.

07/01/2024

What's on your creative wish list? In our newest blog, our CEO Kevin digs up some CVW memories about what happens when you have more ideas than hours in the day and also the exact number of ideas as hours in the day.

Cinemagraphs!
Documentaries!
Beer labels!
A lab rat gone rogue!

Once upon a time, the CVWmedia team had a running joke. We’d say, “There’s another thing we’re never gonna do!” when coming up with random ideas. It’s a reference to an old Saturday Night Live sketch and a nod to the fact that we had important work to get back to. But guess what? Sometim...

06/06/2024

Our new 360° Reel is live, in all its immersive glory. Look around (and around and around), and hit us up if you need to capture an entire environment that really exists or create one that doesn't!

04/15/2024

Our newest blog is musings about our newest Sizzle Reel. Please check it out if you haven't yet! RIYL: little weird cartoon guys, grocery shopping, or cool graphics.

"And while we’re so fortunate to have a broad range of client needs, wants, and didn’t-know-they-wanteds to show, this time we wanted you to know that if you’re in the market (wink, nudge) for pretty much anything visual, there’s a good chance we can help. Here, we present to you a little of all of it: what we DID do, what we’ve been asked to do, and also what we CAN do."

We’ve been secretly working on updating our portfolio for months now, letting the course of our interests and professional development guide our direction. You’re about to meet some new CVW faces who’ve come to us because we wanted to learn more—more 3-D software, more textures and lighting,...

04/01/2024

Our new Sizzle Reel is here, so grab a cart, and meet some new CVWmedia faces!

03/01/2024

'Tis the season for wrapping our work on FBLA State Leadership Conferences for our partners at factor 110 event solutions. Every year, it's one of our favorite opportunities to stretch our creative legs and make something out of thin air. Here's a quick mix from the past decade or so while our Factor friends get ready for all the onsite action.

10/31/2023

On this, the spookiest of days, we're delving into the spookiest of intelligences. Here are some of CVW's thoughts on the good, the bad, and the ugly of AI!

In the grand tapestry of technological advancement, few innovations have sparked as much fascination, controversy, and awe as Artificial Intelligence (AI). A remarkable fusion of human ingenuity and cutting-edge computing, AI has woven itself into the fabric of our daily lives in ways both conspicuo

08/31/2023

Are we there yet?

No.

Are we there yet?

No.

Are we there yet?

No.

When do we get there?

Find out in our new blog.

Oh look, here comes another milestone! CVWmedia is turning 35 years old, and I’ve been known to get a little sentimental on these occasions. When we turned the big three-o , I took a look back at all the projects and people that made all this happen, but this time I’m thinking more about the fut...

06/30/2023

Context is key!

In our new blog, Olivia explains how the work we do supports, enhances, and actively participates in live events.

We do crowd interaction, environmental graphics, and much, much more. If you need a massive Christmas tree, to punch a Tundra off the road with a giant boxing glove, or a dance partner for a ballerina...we can do that.

They say context is key, and with a significant portion of our work played in live settings, we could not agree more. The full scope of the setting must be considered to really “set the stage,” creating a memorable experience for the audience. From the scale and colors to the visibility and tone...

05/01/2023

Internally, we're split on understanding why I requested this image. A new blog on our anamorphic work is live now.

Are you Very Online™? Then maybe you’ve seen a video of one of these digital billboards…

03/01/2023

Our collaboration with artistic directors Jamie Johnson and Christa St. John at the UVU Department of Dance is, if we do say so ourselves, en pointe.

Here's Olivia's breakdown of how exactly we put together a storybook ending for this beautiful ballet program!

Nearly a year ago, choreographer Christa St. John of the UVU Department of Dance approached us about producing a dance projection for Hansel and Gretel . We first worked with her as a graduate student at the OU School of Dance. Unlike Divertimento –our original projection partnership featuring a s

01/03/2023

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year, almost! These end-of-year messages become increasingly hard to write as each year lately seems exponentially more different than the one before. Last year was the first time CVWmedia worked nearly 100% remotely, disconnected in the physical sense but still, to be honest, kin

11/02/2022

Spooky season is over, but in case you're still in the mood to be a little bit weirded out, our October blog features a rundown of CVWmedia's creepiest work. Apologies in advance.

This October, we’ve celebrated crisp weather and crispier leaves, we’re capping it with something far less pleasant: a brief retrospective of all the creepiest work we’ve done, in honor of today, the spookiest of all holidays. We’ve hit a lot of notes here, starting at ‘This is vaguely uns...

09/01/2022

Our new blog has it all: cover songs; Timothee Chalamet; personal, frivolous soapboxes; and more! Find out more about us—who's really incensed by kettle chips, and who doesn't want your gift cards, okay!?

Oh hello, I didn’t see you there. How’s your summer been? Good, I hope. We’re picking up on our sports projects, but we found some time to ponder thought-provoking questions, like “What is a trilogy?” The answers will shock you. What's your favorite song cover? Becky: Cyndi Lauper’s “W...

06/30/2022

In our newest blog, CEO Kevin ruminates on the fifteen-year evolution of us discussing our work in-depth... every single week!

I remember it as if it were… fifteen years ago , now that I think about it. The year was 2007, and CVWmedia had long struggled with balancing a full workload while ensuring that our creative standards were as relentless as the number of projects that were coming our way. To adapt, we needed to f

05/06/2022

How exactly do pop-up books work?

What kinds of animals are least likely to go to jail?

If God had a three-piece country band, which instruments would they play?

Find out more on the blog.

In a perfect CVW scenario, we quietly produce really awesome stuff, and then someone else sees it and wants to work with us, and so on. For the most part, our new clients come via referrals from current clients, former employees, and personal connections. And sometimes, they come from the internet.

02/28/2022

Are you wondering what to do with those VR goggles you got for Christmas? Have we got the reel for you!

Our February blog talks CVW's 2022 portfolio facelift. We'd love for you to check it out.

Our first-of-the-year refreshes are here, and they’re reel-y something. Working almost 100% remotely in 2021 felt natural and more than ever spoke to CVW’s culture of independent work inside of collaborative projects. By the time you see something of ours go live, we’ve all had our hands in it...

01/03/2022

Happy New Year! Time flies when...time is flying. We made sure to close out 2021 with a little reflection and a 360° holiday card. Please take a look around, enjoy the frosty weather, and let us know if you find a few little Easter eggs.

We’re bidding adieu to another strange year, figuring out the next chapter of working together-apart and reflecting with gratitude on everything CVWmedia got to work on this year. As a thank-you to our clients, friends, and especially to our families—we’ve all commandeered parts of our homes t...

12/15/2021

Recently got to catch up with a CVW alum doing unreal work in music education. Here's just a *sampling* (do you get it) of what former CVWer Matt Kaney has been up to:

Groove Pizza is a playful tool for creating grooves using math concepts like shapes, angles, and patterns. Start working with one of the special pizza presets and add/remove toppings to adjust the groove, or click on the Shape Pizza tab and drag various shapes onto the big circle to play and explore...

12/01/2021

Hall of fame? Nah...Wall of Frames.

Our newest blog ranks the hilarious and sometimes creepy work we've done with the WKU Symphony program. What says "holiday" like "The Exorcist"?

One of the great things about CVWmedia’s diverse client roster is that we have a lot of opportunities to try out new things and see what happens. Such is the case with the Western Kentucky University Symphony Orchestra. Flash back to 2019 when WKU director of orchestras Dr. Brian St. John, a longt...

11/05/2021

You don't have to be a sports fan to enjoy mascots, candy, or...anthropomorphic cows (?). Our newest blog highlights some of the silliest sports marketing work we've done with our partners at Old Hat!

People love sports. It’s a chance to come together over a common goal, drink some beer, yell, and maybe paint your face. At CVWmedia, we enjoy sports both as fans and as producers.   Last year, unsurprisingly, we made very few new sports animations, but this year is a whole different ball

10/01/2021

♪ I want my C-V-W... ♫

For the latest blog, we did a music video roundup of some of our recent favorites.

The hugest of thanks to Kyle Reid, The Nghiems, Travis Linville, and some other people we can't talk about yet for your trust in us creating something on your behalf... or at least animating your creation.

Among CVW’s staff past and present are two former French horn players, a handful of guitarists of varying skill but similar taste in guitars, one decent bass player and one terrible one, a programming genius who makes creating music accessible to anyone with the internet , three home recording ent...

09/03/2021

Would you rather be invisible or be able to fly?

Are you a coffee or tea person?

We did a little "this or that" team Q&A for the blog, and it turns out we don't have many ketchup fans at CVWmedia.

You know what they say about all work and no play, so Olivia and I took a breather from all our summer work for a quick game of this-or-that with some of the CVW team.

08/05/2021

Our CEO Kevin wrote a blog that checks in on some of the wandering souls we've had the privilege to work with over the last several years. The relatively small size of our team means all of us acquire and hone pretty broad sets of skills and talents at CVWmedia, and it's so fun to see where those things go from here.

A couple of years back I blogged about a few former coworkers who have gone on to do amazing things using the skills that made them successful in their time at CVWmedia. You can read that blog here . Any great story deserves a sequel, and I have three more former CVWers to introduce to you.

06/30/2021

Live, from wherever... it's CVWmedia!

We create a LOT of pieces for live events. Our June blog provides a tiny glimpse into what it looked like for us to go from live to online to live-and-online in the last year.

Big thanks to our clients and friends at Enel Green Power, factor 110 event solutions, and elsewhere for the partnership, guidance, and faith along the way.

Last year, for obvious reasons, nearly all the event graphics we produced were for virtual events. We took our extensive experience with live events and adapted it to fit, both literally and metaphorically, an individual’s screen. Virtual event graphics are confined to the size of the viewer’s s...

06/01/2021

What do we want?
Degrees!

How many do we want?
All of them!

Our latest blog goes behind the scenes on our production of Travis Linville's newest music video—a 360° performance at a few eye-catching spots around Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Pull up your best spinning chair, and check out more on the site.

Our friend Travis Linville just released a new record ! For his latest single, “Blue Sky Bound,” we captured Travis and his band in the blue-est, sky-est way we could think of—a full 360° video in a few scenic, outdoor Tulsa locations. To set it apart from his other performance-based videos f...

05/03/2021

Now that live sports are coming back, we want to show you all an incredible project we partnered with Old Hat on last year.

For this blog on the Chicago Fire L-Train Race, we talk the Loop, Major League Soccer, and our dear friend Google Earth, who helped us out a lot when we needed to choose iconic Chicago landmarks to include.

Last spring, just a month before the pandemic abruptly shut down live sporting events…and everything else…we started working on a complex but rewarding 3-D project for a Major League Soccer team. The Chicago Fire FC saw the Space Needle race we did in partnership with Old Hat for the Seattle So

03/01/2021

Do you have a favorite Golden Globes fashion moment from last night? Olivia probably does.

Read more from her about our awards season contribution to last week's virtual on the blog. The show DID go on!

This time last year, like many years before it, I was in the midst of my favorite season: awards season. Since awards shows typically happen early in the year, they went largely as planned in 2020, right before live, in-person events pivoted to virtual or were canceled entirely. The local ADDYs (a.

01/05/2021

holiday wrapping — cvwmedia

Starting in March, CVWmedia was a whirlwind of figuring things out on the fly—new rules, new processes, and remote work IT adjustments, to say the least. We know that's not unique to us, and we have a lot to be grateful for as we bid 2020 goodbye!

We always approach the holidays at CVWmedia by taking some time to reflect and feel grateful for the year we’ve had and the work we’ve done. This year has been a truly wild and challenging one…but I’m sure we didn’t need to tell you that!

11/30/2020

deep cut: oklahoma link coalition — cvwmedia

We worked with the Kirkpatrick Foundation and Oklahoma Link Coalition on an animation that helps illustrate the link between animal abuse and other forms of abuse and neglect.

You can visit them here to find out more about the important work they do in Oklahoma:
http://www.oklahomalinkcoalition.org/

Every three years, the Kirkpatrick Foundation hosts the ANIMAL Conference as part of their Safe & Humane initiative: to make Oklahoma one of the safest and most humane places to be an animal, through education and advocacy. The Conference seeks to bring together people with different relat