NET Ministries
Kerygma
There's a story behind this pot on our office shelf.
In 2020, NET Ministries asked us for a video about Kerygma, the Gospel message—the idea that we are broken, but redeemed.
Our first Spark Session led us to the idea of kintsugi, a Japanese tradition where you painstakingly piece broken pottery back together with gold. We hired local artist Tom Sherbondy to play the role of the potter, and to make all the pots that we used in the video.
Another concept that came from that Spark Session was putting animation on the potter's wheel and on the pots themselves. It was so simple, we were surprised no one else had done it before. (Props to Kevin Parry and Tee Ken Ng for inspiration.) That was, until we put dozens of hours into researching zoetropes, photoshopping frames of animation, and figuring out how the heck to measure the circumference of a handmade pot.
It was literally down to the minute to get these pots done in time for shooting. There's nothing like a looming deadline to keep you humble, but the video turned out way cooler than we could have hoped. Thank you to Ryan McQuade for the stellar animations!
Wanna see our full process?
(A.K.A. how many times
we screwed up…)