Little Introduction to Geoff Schultz

Well hello LOVE media readers. I just wanted to introduce myself quickly and give you a little background on who I am. Wanted to start off by saying that I am honored to be a contributor to LOVE media and it was literally an answered prayer, which I will explain shortly.

My name is Geoff Schultz, most people call me "G-off," and I am a currently the motion designer for Elevation Church in Charlotte, NC. I am married to my wife Cheyenne and we have a 5 1/2 month old baby boy named Boone (who is easily the cutest baby ever!) and have been living in Charlotte since summer of 2005. My wife runs our photography business full-time (www.lovestheschultzes.com) and is easily my favorite person in the whole wide world :)

I originally moved to Charlotte 2 months after graduating from SCAD (Savannah College of Art & Design) to work at Limerick Studios where I worked for just over three years. The summer of 2008, I felt God calling me to apply for the open motion design position at Elevation, which obviously panned out, and I have been blessed to be a part of an absolutely incredible move of God that has been happening through Elevation.

As I mentioned before, being invited to be a contributor to this blog was literally an answered prayer that I had been talking to God about the same night I ended up reading the first message that Carl had sent me telling me about LOVE Media and inviting me to be a part of it. It was on my heart that night as I thought about how to build out a plan to build a motion design team at Elevation as the church grows, to start focussing more effort on networking with other Christian designers and collaborating with them on projects. My desire at large is to create art (primarily in motion design) that will attract the attention of the world to bring Glory to Jesus. Obviously in order to do that, it is going to take more than just me and that is where this blog came in. As I came back in from walking my dogs (the time I use to pray on a daily basis) I felt a calling to, if not start, at least lead an effort to help unite Christian designers in not only producing world-class work, but to help support and encourage on another as we do it. Then, as I sat down behind my computer, I opened up Vimeo to do some searching and saw that I had a message sitting in my inbox. I opened and read it to find out it was an invitation to contribute to LOVE Media! I'm sorry, but if that isn't God's divine province in my life, I'm not sure what is.

Well, here I am. I'm believing this is without a doubt a place where God is calling me to be, to help, to encourage, to share, to teach, to learn, to grow, to just be among other believers who LOVE media ;) I look forward to meeting you as I write, you respond, and we learn more about each other together.

Just so you can get a taste of my work, I'd love to invite you over to my site: www.g-off.com

Hopefully it will be a blessing to those of you that are motion designers.

Till next time.

g-off

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