For our next trailer in this series, here’s the book trailer I made for Margaret Frazer’s The Boy’s Tale.

This was my first effort with the full version of Animoto. It’s probably a little too long, but I felt it was important to credit the review quotes and Animoto’s text limit forced those credits onto separate frames.

Continuing this sequence of “video trailers recently produced by Justin”, I have a book trailer for The Outlaw’s Tale by Margaret Frazer. This one is a little crude, since I was basically test-bedding the Animoto platform as a tool for quickly generating these things. (I’m still using it occasionally, but unfortunately it proved to be too limited even after you paid for it.)

You may also want to check out the book trailer The Bishop’s Tale that I shared back in April if you haven’t seen it already. I also provided the voice of Sir Clement Sharpe for that one.

I’m very busy with about a half dozen different projects right now, so for the next few days I’m going to be shamelessly showcasing some video trailers I’ve produced over the past few months. Hopefully you’ll find them interesting and/or entertaining. If not, I’m planning to be back sooner rather than later.

Up first: A trailer for the Oh! Gnomes! video game. Awhile back I mentioned the game, which is produced for Groundling Games (a small indie game studio for which I have done some minor scripting in the past). It is available for both Android and the iPhone. I had nothing to do with the development of Oh! Gnomes! then and that remains true now, but I did put together this trailer for them.

I’ve had this video open in a tab for several days now. It features some truly breathtaking time-lapse photography, and I’ve been playing it whenever I want a little inspiration for wilderness exploration.

I was working on underwater rules that would be both (a) useful and (b) simple when I came across this photograph. Although the explanation for this ladder is probably pedestrian, it evokes in me a deep sense that something is down there. Something strange or magical or enigmatical or terrifying. But something.

You’ve got a ladder leading down into a placid pool of endless blue-green. Small waterfalls babble and crash through the quiet confines of the emerald forest.

So you tell me: What’s down the ladder?