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True North

The Project

This video was created to introduce a new sermon series on the topic of apologetics entitled “True North”. The project centers around a compass that loses its effectiveness as confusion and noise about what the truth really is begins to get louder.

This project was concepted and created in 5 days using Blender 2.93. This project was a collaboration between myself and Danny Fajardo

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