Book Trailer Scene Breakdown

Book Trailer Scene Breakdown from Matt Morrell on Vimeo.


Here's a breakdown of the scene I did for the booktrailer.

Book trailer scene

Book trailer scene from Matt Morrell on Vimeo.

This is a scene from a book trailer I'm working on for the book My Unfair Godmother by Janette Rallison. In the book a girl and her house get sent back to the middle ages, hence the modern house in the foreground.

ScholarsSearch tutorial online!

Here it is at last, citizens.  Featuring the voice talents of Jeremy Stiborek and the jubilant acting of Mitchell Wright and other sundry folk, it's pretty exciting.  It's also the first BYU Library tutorial available in HD, so all you videomongers with big screens can check it out in all it's glory.

Virtual Tour Online! Flash Catalyst saves the day!

Watch the BYU Library Virtual Tour 

After a titanic struggle of failed software, messed up codecs and behemoth files, my latest project is at last complete and was deployed online in a great celebration of mirth and revelry. You can see videos for the individual levels on YouTube.

The intended audience is students attending the BYU Salt Lake Center who are required to take a tour of the library for their freshmen English class.  This saves them the trouble of driving an hour south to Provo just to walk around the library for 20 minutes.

To create the tour, I took still pictures with a Canon DSLR then merged them into panoramics in Photoshop.  Then they were imported into After Effects and wrapped to a spherical background using the Trapcode Horizon plugin.  Once this was set up, it was simple to pan and zoom a digital camera inside the 3d environment and fly elements around in front of the camera in sync with the narration.  After the videos were completed they were converted to Flash video and sent to Adobe Flash Catalyst (which I began using after Adobe Captivate and Camtasia both crapped out on me.)  Flash Catalyst mercifully spared me the horrible non-interactivitiy of Captivate and the torture of writing endless lines of Action Script, for which I will be eternally grateful.  To me, Flash Catalyst is the way Flash should have been all along.

"Verily, Adobe because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to write ActionScript code: but from the beginning it was not so."

Graduation Announcements

I wish I could say I was making my own graduation announcements, but alas, these are for my little sister's high school graduation.

New Poster Design!

I did this poster for the Highland Jazz Festival.  When it gets as big as the Montreal Jazz Festival, I will be remembered as the designer of their first poster, and then I will be famous!  It was reported that Wycliffe Gordon, one of the featured artists at the festival, really liked the poster and the brick background in particular.  I was going for an old jazz club look, like it might be from a place like the Village Vanguard or something.  Thanks Wycliffe!

Poster

BYU New Student Orientation bookmark

Designed for Summer semester New Student Orientation

Library Poster

Pictures from Mars Pathfinder + Apollo missions + Atacama Desert + Oregon lavafield + way too many hours = acceptable lunar surface.  I created everything but the text in Photoshop.

For those unfamiliar with the BYU library, here's a picture:

Movie Poster!

At last I have finished the poster for the Studio 79 production "A Dame a Dozen" which has been hailed by critics as "awesome" and "the best neo-noir production in the history of cinema or even the world."  To see the film go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0cu9A5XgWI.

Digital Painting

I did this for my dad for Christmas.  It's hard to tell when this isn't poster-sized, but there's some Leonardo da Vinci sketches in there and the dark blue book is a paper he wrote with one of his grad students at ASU.  (The title is composed of extremely large and complicated words which I will not utter here.)  And then there's the Fibonacci Spiral.  It's an academic overload!

Photo manipulation

Fall is a great time to show off telekinetic powers.

Library Posters!

I did these to advertise the HBLL's Writing and Research labs. Once these went up, students started flocking to the library like auto makers to a government bailout.

Photo manipulation

NSO - HBLL Library

I did this for New Student Orientation, and the freshman thought it was cool.  Mission accomplished.