Matt Simon

Just Another Psycho

Matt Simon — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 01:48:25 +0000

Music Video I made in Term 4 for Motion Design class. I got permission from Motley Crue to use their song and found an actress through VFS’s acting program. She pulled off a pretty good Psycho. We were supposed to cut the songs to no longer then 90 seconds but I added the guitar solo anyway.
Just Another Psycho from Matthew Simon.

Why hockey is the best sport.

Matt Simon — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 06:13:27 +0000

I saw this story the other day and thought it was pretty cool. Reminds me of when I played hockey. My grandmother died when I was about 15 and when I walked into the church I saw my entire team at the funeral. I didn’t know they were going to be there, but it shows the respect and loyalty hockey players have even at a young age. Anyways check out this story.

Blackhawks Roadtrip in Ontario

Demo Reel

Matt Simon — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:49:21 +0000

Demo reel from Matthew Simon on Vimeo.
A short demo reel I put together to get a creative brief for my final project. Its just a compilation of my work from the past couple terms.

Bobby Fischer Version 2

Matt Simon — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:27:48 +0000

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

Matt Simon — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:26:33 +0000

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

Matt Simon — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:16:40 +0000

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

Matt Simon — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:48:58 +0000

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

Matt Simon — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:11:38 +0000

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

Matt Simon — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:01:57 +0000

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

Matt Simon — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:48:04 +0000