Book Trailers online

Trailerbook.net is now online! My multitudinous interests and projects now include making book trailers for authors to promote their books online.  Head on over for all your book trailer needs.  Tell your author friends, like our Facebook page, and check it out!

Hunger Games Titles concept

This is for a new project I'm working on with the best videographers in all of Provo or maybe even the world.

So it begins

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.

Engagement pictures

I'm planning on putting together a separate site for photography, but until that's done, I'll have to post a sample of pictures.  This is from an engagement shoot that I did last weekend.  Congratulations Ryan and Brittany!

New Poster - Typography Mania!

I just finished the poster for the second annual Highland Jazz Festival.  For this one I wanted to go with a more typography-driven design.  I wish I could go to the show.  Bobby Shew is the man, and apparently Jeff Coffin plays with two saxes at once!

Maya

I'm finally getting into 3D in a more serious way, so yesterday I followed a tutorial to create one of the most exciting things a human mind can conceive: a living room!  Creating shiny pots and shaggy rugs are really just humble first steps leading up to space ships, castles, tyrannosaurs, ICBMs, Decepticons, etc.

New motion graphics!

Electricity PSA from Matt Morrell on Vimeo.

This is a motion graphic project I did for the HBLL Green Team.  It will be shown on video screens throughout the library.

Green Team Logo Reveal

Here's a work in progress for the HBLL Green Team.

ScholarsArchive intro

ScholarsArchive from Matt Morrell on Vimeo.

Here's yet another attempt to turn some dull library instruction into something exciting.  I figure that if the beginning 30 seconds are interesting enough people are more likely to stick it out till the end of the tutorial. Jeremy Stiborek pitched in yet again with his golden voice.

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.

Dell Presentation

Matching Dell Final

This is a consulting presentation on Dell for a strategy class.  The group pitched in on analysis, I did the the design, everyone went home happy.

Scribd kinda messed up the graphics on a few of the pages.  Somehow the pdf got trashed in the embedding, but it actually looks ok on the Scribd website.

Draper Temple Footage - Wedding Video Greatness

On Labor Day my friends and I went up to Draper to shoot some footage with their new Canon 7D.  The resulting awesomeness can be seen here, and I'd say it turned out pretty great for their first time with the camera.  It features their buddy and business associate Mike in the staring role of the young man wandering the temple grounds and asking himself important, life-changing questions like "How is it that simple dolly moves can blow your mind?"

Luckily for the masses, these guys are starting a wedding video business, nay, a wedding video revolution!  Check out the video, forward it to everyone you know, and tell your engaged friends and family about the Sperry brothers' new venture.  They'll make sure the best day of your life looks amazing.

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.

Nuclear Launch Detected

Parallax experiment from Matt Morrell on Vimeo.

This started out as an experiment to see if I could take a still picture and turn it into an animated matte painting kind of thing, and it turned into this.