Bobby Fischer Version 2

November 7, 2008


Bobby Fischer (Version 2) from Matthew Simon on Vimeo.

Here is an edited version of the infographic. We decided to cut the ending off after he dies because too many people thoguht it was already over before the rewind scene happens. We made a few small edits that we weren’t too happy with when we handed it in, and included an intro and credits on this version. Overall we are pretty happy with how it turned out.

Bobby Fischer Infographic

October 26, 2008


Bobby Fischer Infographic from Matthew Simon on Vimeo.
3 of us made this in about 6 weeks. It took about 280 hours of work and very little sleep. Julia and Ji Yeong made some amazing assets. They created basically everything, except the 3D elements which I did. We would have liked to end it after he dies, but the script continued.

Sliver

We had to design a beer for Branding class. I came up with Sliver. Its a “Live Beer” that is very healthy for you. A “Live Beer” had extra yeast and sugar added to the bottle so it continues to ferment until its opened. It adds a more complex flavour and has a smoother feel. Here is my label design and a couple adds.

Title Sequence - Chase


Title Sequence from Matthew Simon on Vimeo.

This project kind of got neglected because of the infogrpahic. I didn’t start this until 3am the night before it was due. So for maybe 10 hours of work put into this it didn’t turn out too bad. I would have liked to put a lot more time into one, hopefully I’ll get around that sometime. I just played around with some effects like glow and lightning. The type was made in Cinema 4D with the camera movements then brought into After Effects.

Spider Explosion

October 10, 2008


We needed to make a box explode in Cinema 4D. That was too easy and boring. After learning MoGraph, how could you not want to make a Transformer? This only took a couple hours and turned out pretty cool for my first try.

3D Chessboard


3D Chessboard from Matthew Simon on Vimeo.
Here is a 3D piece i made for our Bobby Fischer Infographic using Cinema 4D. It was pretty much our first time animating 3D so sorry if the camera is too nauseating. This is probably going to be used as the intro to our piece. There will be a couple more 3D elements added to this motion as well.

Slash T-shirt

September 18, 2008

Slash

Info Graphic

First post of term 3. We have been working on our Bobby Fischer info graphic for a couple weeks now and I think its going to turn out pretty good. Getting a lot better at After Effects and Bun is teaching us some cool stuff right now so I think we can make a really good motion piece this term. Expressions, lighting and cameras can do some amazing things. My title sequence will hopefully look pretty good too. Now, if only I had an idea…

Locked in The Cage no more!

August 26, 2008

The final few days in the Cage are now over. Hard to imagine that some of us were in there for almost 40 hours straight and many of us going on about 12 hours of sleep in 4 days. But we all finished. Everyone’s chroma key projects were really good and there were some wicked flash sites. Didn’t think I would see so much blood. Wow. Anyway, term 2 was ridiculous, the final few weeks at least. This break is nice, still catching up on sleep I think. Leaving for Alberta today, be back next week. Ill have to ask Aaron what the new name for Purple(new class room) is now. See you there.

Snowboards

Rome