Hey hey hey....

Hey everyone, I've recently finished work in my FX animator job here in Luxembourg. Its been a wicked experience and i've learnt loads about TV animation and animating FX. I'm currently working on a showreel/portfolio update that I will hopefully be able to get up online at some point in the future. I've set up some new links on my blog to other sites of mine too.

On another note, Everyone must check out the work of Chris Graf. His work has been a massive inspiration for me, heres a recent video of his FX awesomeness!!!

Hey to the new followers! I'll have new posts up soon.

M

Check this out

Hey, first of all I have to recommend and give a big shout out to Ron Doucet and his awesome blog Flash FX animation. This blog has been really useful and inspirational for me, it contains great tutorials and links to other FX animators and work, including me! hehe check it out!

Flash FX Animation Blog

AIB jumble post

hey just an idea for the wild wild west topic in aib jumble this week, done in sketchbook pro.

buffalo wings?!

Been trying out the trial version of sketchbook pro. I wanted to try it out to see what all the commotion was about and its actually a pretty decent piece of software. Any one got any tips or tricks to share??

Pepper sketchin

 

 

These sketches of Pepper are a little old. Need to try and sketch her more.

Sketch dump

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Random mish mash of sketchbook people and a random wall feature thrown in there.

Luxembourg Sketch Crawl

I,ve put my images up on the Luxembourg sketchcrawl blog, Please check it out. It was a really good crawl yesterday, good turnout too.

Torch Fire

Torch Fire from Matt Timms on Vimeo.

Short loop animation of a fire on a torch.

I had a play around with some of the filters in toonboom. Its amazing what some glow and blur filters can do! theres a mixture of the two filters using different alpha levels and intensities.

  Trying to add more heat to the fire is always a must but I dound it interesting just how different the filters could make the FX look and how many re-use possibilities there could be. I like a couple of the really blurry versions on the top. It could be a useful technique for adding depth to a shot. 

Big Bada Boom!

Big Bada Boom from Matt Timms on Vimeo.

The mother firework hehehe. This was really fun to animate.

Rio

So, last night I went to see 'Rio' from Blue Sky studios. The main thing I liked about the film was how colourful it was, all of the different birds and the environments were stunning. The film had a good sense of design and the story, staging was strong. I was laughing for ages at one of the support characters voiced by will.i.am, especially for the line 'birds vs monkeys!' The only downer I had from it was it all seemed to wrap up a little too quickly at the end, but I guess the story was over and there was no need to dwell on what happens next. 

I would definately recommend seeing it. Even in !3D! lol