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.

Some old work

Administrative Council Disaster from Matt Morrell on Vimeo.

I did this for work last summer.  It's part of a movie my department created for the HBLL staff retreat.  The protagonist goes back in time (ala Back to the Future) to save the library from this terrible disaster that wipes out the Administrative Council.  It was one of my first compositing jobs and could definitely be improved on, especially if I took the time to rotoscope some of it.  The gratuitous fire at the end is to cover the laughing faces of our "actors."  Apparently the thought of their own demise was pretty amusing.