Making the Serious Sam: The Random Encounter Trailer

Of all of the video game trailers I’ve created in the past 10 months, this was by far the most fun to assemble, and easily the most complex of them all. I’ve been looking forward to having the opportunity to sink a good amount of time into one of these trailers, so this was a pretty awesome opportunity.

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Making the Aquaria for iPad Teaser Trailer

Aquaria for iPad has been in the works for quite a while now, and Alec and I had originally discussed making a trailer for it way back in March at GDC. Over the last few months, as development was wrapping up, we were discussing how to best get the word out about the new version of the game…

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Making the Super Crate Box iOS Teaser Trailer

Making this trailer came up quite by surprise. I had no idea that Vlambeer was working on an iOS port of Super Crate Box for iOS, but I’m so pumped that they are! Rami shot me an email out of the blue and basically said, “Hey We’re announcing Super Crate Box for iOS in a day or so. Would you be able to whip up a trailer for our announcement?” I love the Vlambeer guys and everything they do, and I wanted to do whatever I could to help get the word out about their game.

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Making the Card Hunter Teaser Trailer

Back in May of this year, I was approached by none other than Jarrad Woods, AKA Farbs about making a trailer for a game he was working on… All of the previous videos I’d done were for the Winnitron 1000, and this would be the first video game trailer I’d been asked to make outside of that project, so I was pretty stoked!

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Making the Winnitron "Arcade Graveyard" Video

The place literally looked like a graveyard. The Jamma boards were all tagged and arranged alphabetically on an huge shelf, all separated by small pieces of cardboard. There was a whole room, with almost nothing but cocktail machines, stacked on top of each other like a crazy kind of puzzle….

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Making the Nidhogg Trailer

Earlier this year, myself and the rest of the Winnitron 1000 crew took a trip to the annual Game Developer’s Conference in Sanfrancisco. It was a pretty awesome trip, filled with good times, random encounters, and meeting a ton of really awesome people. One of the guys I met, literally in the last few minutes of GDC, was Mark Essen, the creator of an awesome game called Nidhogg.

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About Kert Gartner

I make Indie Game Trailers & Online Promotional videos.

I love Photography, Animation, Visual Effects and have over 8 years experience working as a 2D compositor for Hollywood Feature Films. I am an Adobe After Effects and Photoshop Certified Instructor, and teach at Red River College and New Media Manitoba in Winnipeg

I'm currently available on a freelance basis if you looking for someone to help you out with Photography, Consulting, Speaking, and Visual Effects Training.

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Tutorials at VFXHaiku.com