Konrad and Paul has worked with The Webby Awards for nearly a decade now. From full video series to branded one offs to stop motion, we have done it all for them. We even built a custom pipeline that created 524 individualized shows for the winners of Webbys from Home during the pandemic. And then made the case study for it.
See a selection of some of favorite work made with The Webby Awards below.
The Webby Awards | Webby For Good
CLIENT The Webby Awards
CREATIVE DIRECTOR, DP John Christon
CAMERA OPERATORS Spencer Thielmann, Adam Nawrot
Webby for Good is a collaborative program formed by The Webby Awards and WP Engine to showcase Webby-recognized projects built to change the world. The creators behind each digital experience describe their process, the challenges they faced, the rewards they reaped, and the unexpected outcomes that came from driving real social change in the world.
Production and post by Konrad and Paul.
Webbys From Home
It was April of 2020, and it was time for the yearly Webby Awards. But of course, it was also the beginning of COVID. So our frequent partners at the Webby Awards came to us with an brilliant idea of what to do.
What The Webby Awards didn’t want to do: Make a long livestream nobody tuned into. Be like everyone else. Be boring.
What The Webbys wanted to do: Make a custom show for every winner, including individualized introductions, a custom award screen, their own personal 5 second speech, and let that export from a website for them to post on social media. All of that custom information would only be finalized about a week before showtime. That’s where we came in.
Besides creating all the standard animations you see in the videos, Konrad and Paul developed a way to export 524 custom videos for all the winners in two halves, so that the 5 second speech uploaded to the website could bridge the two. There was no way we had time to export all of these manually, so with some help from the internet, we built a tool for After Effects that could customize sequences, place them in a specified order, and export. Of course, that only worked correctly around 80% of time—for example, names or titles of winners over a certain length would throw off the text design—so we’d have to go in and correct those manually.
It was one of those all-hands-on-deck projects. Late nights and long troubleshooting calls. But the end result was worth it. At that very strange point in COVID, it was nice to change the conversation on the internet, even for only a day.
The Work That Made Me | The Webby Awards
CLIENT The Webby Awards / Vitamin T
CREATIVE DIRECTOR, DP John Christon
Production and post by Konrad and Paul.
The Internet Archive | 2017 Webby Award Lifetime Achievement
CLIENT The Webby Awards / The Internet Archive
CREATIVE DIRECTOR, DP John Christon
“The Internet Archive…is building a home for Universal Access to All Knowledge, open to everyone, everywhere, to use as they like. Open to all societies of the future that care to build on our triumphs and learn from our mistakes.” — Lawrence Lessig, narrator
Filmed with stop motion and massive stacks of paper that we were terrified of dropping.
Production and post by Konrad and Paul.
The Mitchell Baker Lifetime Achievement Award | The Webby Awards
CLIENT The Webby Awards
CREATIVE DIRECTOR, CINEMATOGRAPHER John Christon
Production and post by Konrad and Paul.