Creature Triple Feature!

Happy Halloween to one and all!  Today in the spirit of my favorite holiday, I present you three creepy shorts I have made.

First off, is Bert Snaps!  That's right, you heard me!  This is what happens when you get annoyed by a fun-loving trickster for 45 years.  I made this one over the summer when I was checking for the following programs to see if there were any bugs in them.  Motion and CineColor.  If I wanted to test them, I came up with an idea.  To me, Bert from Sesame Street is known for being a long-suffering soul who gets tormented by Ernie's tricks.  He doesn't bounce back and give Ernie a piece of his mind.  What if all that changes.  So I came up with this video that symbolically shows, what would happen if Bert looses it.  Made with Motion, CineColor and Final Cut Pro, this video freaked out my friends and said it was terrifying.




The next one is Out of the Ordinary.  Inspired by the movie One Million Years B.C. (1966), I came up with an idea to do a nice little short that is an exercise in compositing stop-motion animation with live-action.  I chose the prehistoric beast, Arsinoitherium (a prehistoric ancestor to the rhinoceros), as the subject to this short because there were a lot of movies which had stories of the creature's involvement, but it ranged from getting replaced or rejected (like Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger, Ice Age and Mark Wolf's Age of Mammals) to having the film itself be unmade (Creation, The Legend of King Kong and Jongor of Lost Land).  So here, I decided to let him be the star in this short.  The title was inspired by a quote by Daffy Duck when he saw a disguised Bugs Bunny and said to Elmer Fudd, "Does anything appear out of the ordinary?"  I mean, it is a great title.  This was made during the Summer. 




Finally, I present you Tyrannosaurus Wrecks.  This was for a Digital Toolbox 4 class.  I made this one when I heard that Jurassic World was coming and Disney's The Good Dinosaur is coming soon, so this was made in the Spring of 2015.  Animating one is easy, but creating one from scratch is a challenge.  All in all, who loves dinosaurs?



Tyrannosaurus Wrecks from Matthew B. Lamont on Vimeo.

So I hope you enjoy it.  Happy Halloween. 

The Minions Break In.

In the summer of 2015 the movie, MINIONS, took America by storm.  Newspapers, magazines, radio, TV and internet won't shut up about it.  Now I enjoyed DESPICABLE ME and DESPICABLE ME 2, so there is a chance that I will enjoy it.  I saw and I loved it.  I even ate the Twinky.  It was that moment that I got inspired to make a break-in recording (since I haven't made one in four years).



Enjoy.