Work

Toblerone “Christmas”

Posted by Mat on Nov 11, 2008 in Featured, Projects | 2 comments

Toblerone “Christmas” is a new 15 second character spot from Hatch Studios. The ad features four stylized characters in an equally stylized Toblerone world where various objects throughout the environment appear to have the Toblerone bite taken out of it.

I worked on this project with PEN Productions. PEN was hired to do character modeling, unwrapping, rigging, and skinning. I supervised production in these four areas. Others involved with the project on PEN’s end include Paul Neale, Eric Harvey, Felipe Nogueira, Wendy Rozycki, David Emirzian, and Corey Hayes. Below is the list of full credits.

Robin Hood “County Fair”

Posted by Mat on Nov 2, 2008 in Featured, Projects | 0 comments

Robin Hood “County Fair” is a new character spot from Hatch Studios. This is the 4th in a continuing series of ads featuring the characters Elizabeth and Andrew.

I worked on this project through PEN Productions, who was called on to provide rigging and skinning for the three principle characters. I worked along side Paul Neale, Felipe Nogueira, and Eric Harvey on the project. Credits from Hatch’s website are below.

Pinky Dinky Doo Season 2

Posted by Mat on Nov 2, 2008 in Featured, Projects | 0 comments

I worked on Season 2 of the popular children’s television series, Pinky Dinky Doo. This season of the show was produced at Keyframe Digital Productions in association with Sesame Workshop and Cartoon Pizza.

I worked as lead technical director from September, 2007 to September, 2008 on the production.  The goal of the show was to achieve a 2D, Flash-cartoon inspired look, inside of a 3D world.  This seems simple in concept, but sure enough it was much more complex than initially anticipated.  The production presented many unique problems that required a lot of creative thinking to solve.

Trarch Muscle Testing

Posted by Mat on Jul 27, 2008 in Featured, R&D | 0 comments

This weekend was the first real opportunity I have had to start working on a rig I am planning to make for a character modeled by Nicolas Collings. The character’s name is Trarch and is an awesome piece of work, I can’t wait to start making some progress on this project.

Anyways, if you’ve checked out Nicolas’s website you will have seen Trarch in his side banners, 3d works section, and making of section and noticed that he is a very muscular character. Being the quick one that I am, I realized this would be a good chance to play around with some muscles.

Life Drawing

Posted by Mat on Sep 4, 2007 in Featured, Traditional | 0 comments

These are some of my life drawings from school.  I really enjoyed this class at Humber and was actually kinda upset we didn’t have it in our post-grad year.  Hopefully I will have more opportunities to do it in the future.

Down On The Farm

Posted by Mat on Sep 3, 2007 in Featured, Projects | 0 comments

A short animation from the 3D for Production – Broadcast Design and Animation, post-graduate class of 2007 at Humber College.

For our final project in our final year of study at Humber College, a group of students decided to work on a collaborative project. The goal was a two and a half minute animation that would be achieved through operating as a full production, with our program coordinator being our producer.