About
I started PutnamFilms as a hobby. In early 2003, I began to mess around with some simple rotoscoping in photoshop, making mainly funny little lightsaber videos. Soon afterwards I started doing 3D animations in Blender, an open source 3D graphic editor. Laugh if you want, but it is a powerful little program and has taken me to great distances. My first large project was a documentary on the North Buncombe High school Marching Band. It was a very successful little film, and I went on to create a second, and considerably better documentary the next season. I also did a small project called "The Time Traveling Historians". It started as a joke, but so many people liked it that me and the production crew decided to keep going on the series. We are currently working on the third and final installment. I soon joined the Broadcast team at First Baptist Church in Asheville, North Carolina. There, I became familiar with A Viewpoint Production Video Studio, owned by Carl Gibbs in Asheville. There, we did a project for the 48 Hour Film Festival called, "A Fairy's Tale". I served as Camera Boom grip and assistant special effects artist. The film won best costume and best special effects. The next year, I started my own team called "We Make Pictures Move". Our genre was Horror. We won Best Special Effects and Best Lighting. In the 2007 48 Hour festival, We won 9 awards, including Best Film Overall. That film, Cosmo of 1932, will be going to the international level. In 2006, I filmed and edited a documentary on the Western Carolina University Marching Band. I will be doing the same during the 2007 season, and hopefully that project will go on to a few film festivals.
I am from Weaverville N.C. but I am currently enrolled at Western Carolina University, Studying Digital Motion Picture Production.
J. Aaron Putnam