Olde Timey Time Fun!

Scholar Search Intro from Matt Morrell on Vimeo.


This is the intro to a tutorial that will soon (very soon, we hope) be finished.  Thanks to Jeremy Stiborek for his excellent voice acting.  Another project featuring his talents can be seen here.

Boom!

Stadium explosion from Matt Morrell on Vimeo.


This isn't hating on BYU or Provo or football stadiums. I really like all of those. It's just the result of messing around with the Corner Pin effect in After Effects while pondering the possibility of making an action movie with my friends.  After creating the illusion of flight from a still photo, the natural thing to do is make something blow up.

Quick Animation

Tutorial Intro from Matt Morrell on Vimeo.

One of my coworkers designed this, I tweaked the letter spacing and added animation.

Corporate Presentations

Beleza Do Mar
This summer I interned at Excend Capital, a private equity firm in Salt Lake City.  Though my work there consisted of screening and establishing relationships with capital partners, I had the chance to do the occasional design project.  I created these corporate presentations from pictures and information we received from the Brazilian and Chilean firms looking to raise capital.  I'm particularly proud of the fact that I did it using only the Windows XP system fonts (I couldn't install any new fonts because I didn't have the admin rights).  If some of the tables appear out of place, it's because I took them straight from the docs we received.  Because the presentations were sent to potential capital partners after a non-disclosure agreement was in place, all the names, financials, and other identifying information have been altered or removed.  One thing that has not been changed is my estimation of the ridiculously amazing beaches in Sergipe and my desire to have a house there once I'm rich and famous.  Thanks to Greg Rockwell, principal at Excend for allowing me to put these up.

Corporate Presentation - Hacienda Maria Delgado

Updated Graphic

Egypt to China from Matt Morrell on Vimeo.

This is one of the graphics that I created for a tutorial update.  I made the first version of this more than a year ago, and this improves on that in several ways, not the least of which is the move to HD and the fact that a much more reasonable aircraft has replaced the B-52 of the previous video. 

Unfortunately the compression kinda destroyed a lot of the olde timey time film artifacts; I'll have to come up with a more robust way to create them in AE.