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Cartoon graphics for T.P. Outdoors Monroe's Wild Bill's Steals and Deals TV Commercial
Client Work

Motion Graphics for Advertising

Aug 8, 2022 by Riverbank Products 0 Comments #Advertising, #Motion Graphics, #Photography, #T.P.Outdoors, #TV, #Videography

Some of you may know about the photography we do, but the majority of the work that we actually do is more commercial advertising in nature. Work usually begins as photography or videography but then uses those images that have been captured to create advertising-related content for websites we maintain, brochures, magazine ads, or just content for social media pages.

Here is a recent TV commercial for T.P. Outdoors Monroe. This season, T.P. Outdoors Monroe began featuring one super hot in-store deal good for that week only. These commercials air weekly on the T.P. Outdoors Adventures TV show. First, we spent a day filming some products to be featured in the first few weeks of the season for special deals. Then it all had to be put together.

The T.P. Outdoors logo redesign for the Monroe store happened last year so it wasn’t part of this specific project but we did that too. The new Wild Bill’s Steals and Deals logo was created from a photo taken during a previous turkey hunt that was shot for T.P. Outdoors Adventures. From there, the photo was edited in photoshop to make the photo a little more cartoonish. Adobe Illustrator was used for completing the logo design for these ads. After that, the project was moved to Adobe After Effects.

This is where the magic really happened to animate the cartoon character and build the commercial. Animation like this required frame-by-frame animation to make things move smoothly. Rights to use a cartoon theif were purchased from an online resource but it still didn’t fit the exact look and actions that were needed for this spot. After Effects was used to edit the character for this. It’s an extremely time-consuming process and there are two different uses of the cartoon thief so it had to be done twice, but I think it worked pretty well.

While In After Effects, motion graphics templates were created for the products that would be featured in this series of commercials. It takes a little time to create these templates, but since the commercials would run weekly, it was much easier to create a template and then use that template over and over again. Once the templates and motion graphics were completed, everything then moved over to Adobe Premiere Pro for video editing and put all together into 30-second tv commercials.

All in all, there is over a week’s worth of work that went into this 30-second video using multiple software packages and years of experience doing this type of work.

Helice Target
Client Work, Events, Outdoor Industry, Photography, Recent Projects, Web Design

Client: Helice Shooting with Cottonland Gun Club at Kiper Farms

Mar 26, 2021 by Riverbank Products 0 Comments #Events, #Helice, #Photo, #Photography, #Professional Photography, #Shooting, #Shooting Sports, #Video, #Videography

Glynn and Mindy Kiper are North East Louisiana farmers with a passion for shooting sports. Like a lot of hobbies tend to do, their love of shooting the various disciplines of sporting clays grew into a business. They first built skeet and trap fields on a section of their farm near Mangham, Louisiana but were soon introduced to the sport of Helice shooting.

Helice shooting is an off shoot of live pigeon shoots that were popular for a time across Europe. Helice or ZZ birds as some call it, is some what similar to trap although 5 different target throwers with random presentations replace one trap machine. Helice targets are also not made of Clay used in traditional sporting clays targets. Instead they are made of orange plastic propellers with a center white cap. When a target is called for, the targets are already spinning and a single random target is released. If the shooter hits the target, the white center cap must be knocked free and fall within a ring or fence marked on the ground.

From the random nature of the targets to the materials used, All of these factors create a target that flys more like a live bird than any other form of competitive shooting. Where as a Trap tournament may require hundreds of targets to declare a winner, Helice tournaments are typically decided with just 30 targets.

Project details

Current Video Work

Cottonland Gun Club now features four Helice rings of their own as well as Skeet, Trap, and soon a traditional Sporting Clays range. They’ve grown and continues to be one of the nations leading Helice tournament locations. The spring 2021 Helice Open tournament sanctioned by the US Helice Association was held at Cottonland Gun Club. Below is our most recent video produced for Cottonland Gun Club which features this event.

Early Video Production

Starting in 2014, Riverbank Products was asked to film a short video highlighting a Helice tournament held at Kiper farms. The video was, at the time, one of the few Helice videos that could be found online. There were only aproximately four Helice rings found in the US. Since then, the sport of Helice has grown as has the Cottonland Gun club.

Website Management

In 2020, Cottonland Gun Club’s website had become very dated and was due for a refresh. Mindy Kiper contacted us and we began developing a new web presence for their business. The new website incorporates their branding and provides better information, about the Shooting Range and upcoming events. Riverbank Products was also able to take current photos from their events. This makes sure guests actually know what to expect when planning to visit for their next tournament.

Event Photos

Riverbank Products also takes great action shots and event photos. Below are a few of the images caputured from the 2021 Spring Helice Open Tournament.

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Do you need help promoting your business? From Photography and Video creation to print and web content, Riverbank Products can help you better market your business and reach your customers.

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TSS Turkey Hunting ammo
Outdoor Industry, Recent Projects, Uncategorized

Can You Turkey Hunt with a 410?

Feb 19, 2020 by Riverbank Products 0 Comments #Hunting, #Outdoor Photography, #Product Review, #Turkey Hunting, #Videography

Turkey hunting has been a favorite of mine for a long time. This year I want to do it a little different.

Apex Ammunition recently introduced their newest TSS turkey loads. The new Turkey Ninja TSS turkey loads in 410 are supposed to be the baddest 410 noggin knockers ever created. I want to put them to the test this year in my Great Great Grandfather’s Winchester Model 42 410.

Apex Turkey Ninja Shotgun Pattern in a Winchester model 42 in 410
Apex Turkey Ninja Shotgun Pattern at 30 yds in a Winchester Model 42 in 410

As you can see, they pattern pretty good in this old 410. I shot this off hand and standing. It hit a little high and left but that’s my fault and not the gun or ammo’s. I’m impressed with the results. I still got 20 hits in a 3″ circle and 85 in a 9″ circle. If I’d actually hit the center mark, this number would have gone up significantly. Even off a little, Its a dead turkey.

This was my Great grandfather’s gun. It was made in 1941 before the war. It was passed down to my dad to squirrel hunt with as a kid. I actually dove hunted with this when I was about 6-7 years old. Such an awesome gun and I hope to take a turkey with it later this year.

Photo of Deer harvested with kids
Outdoor Industry, Recent Projects, Video-Photography

Last Deer Hunt of 2018-2019

Jan 21, 2019 by Riverbank Products 0 Comments #270, #cold front, #Deer, #Deer Hunting, #First Deer, #Hornady, #late season, #Outdoor Photography, #pay-it-forward, #Ruger, #special needs hunt, #T.P.Outdoors, #Videography

In the south, winter takes different forms. Sometimes its bitterly cold and wet. Other times its pretty mild and wet. Wet seems to be the norm though and by January, it’s supposed to be cold.

This weekend started out in the upper 50s – low 60s. Quiet warm for January. That was before the front moved through. With in a few hours, an over night storm system would bring High winds and a deep chill. The temps dropped in to the 20s and deer season is almost over. Bill Petrus with T.P. Outdoors called and we setup another hunt. Surely this would get the deer up on their feet.

Bill Petrus hauling a deer blind we primarily use for special needs hunters.

Bill is a good friend and client. We work on a lot of stuff together but our favorite is the T.P. Outdoors Adventures show. We both love getting to take military veterans and special needs kids outdoors. Bill does a lot to help other people and has a lot of fun doing it along the way. He had a couple of kids lined up and one more hunt this year.

Bryce Buchanan has hunted with us many times. He’s taken a few deer on our show and even gone catfish noodling with us in the past. He’s a really cool kid and always fun to hunt with.

We also had Tylar and his dad Kevin Kelly with us. Now Kevin was on our show earlier this year but this time it was Tylar’s turn.

I hunted with Tylar and Kevin. Tylar got to harvest a doe earlier this year with bill but this time we were after his first buck.

Right at daylight, we had a nice mainframe 8pt and it was tough getting Tylar to wait till there was enough camera light available to shoot his deer but as soon as I gave him the go ahead, he let it rip. Made a great, ethical shot with his dad’s Ruger 270. His deer didn’t run far. As we soon discovered, it actually had a split brow tine and another kicker making it 10 scoreable points.

Although I didn’t get to watch Bryce harvest his deer, he was also successful. It came down to the last few minutes of available shooting light but they made it happen so both kids were able to harvest deer.

This was a great hunt to end deer season with. I’m sure we’ll be filming lots of other turkey hunts, frogging alligators and all kinds of other crazy antics for the next season of T.P. Outdoors Adventures. You can watch for the full story behind this hunt around July when our new season of the show kicks off.