BELIEVE IT YOU'RE NUTS (2014).

 Here is my first CGI animated short. It is done with Maya. I did the voices too. It was done for my Digital Toolbox III class at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt).

Enjoy.

Equality in Poland (2013).

 Here is an animation about equality in Poland that I did, in MassArt, back in 2013. It is based on the poster by Sebastian Kubica.

Enjoy.

BUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE (2011).

Here is my short animated film, BUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE (2011). Here I used a Zoetrope and a rotoscope technique. If I were you, I would freeze-frame a specific scene that is heavily influenced by Looney Tunes and other pop-culture references. In fact, there is some pop-culture reference at the end.

Enjoy.

Diabetes Factory Public Service Announcement.

Here is an experiment I made with the computer animation program Blender.

Enjoy.

The Humorous Humerus (2017)

My latest animation about the humerus bone.

Enjoy.

Ten Object Project (2012)

For this Animation II assignment, we had to use random objects, change them from one thing to another without the aid of digital effects. It has to be done practically. I sought advice from Flip Johnson and he told me to look at the films of Jan Svankmajer. I did and I researched some of the works of Al Jarnow (if I were you, I would look up the film CELESTIAL NAVIGATIONS THE SHORT FILMS OF AL JARNOW). After following the advice and research, I made it and it worked. This was shown in one of the Animation All School Shows and it was a hit. Enjoyable with a capital E! I hope you enjoy it.

The Visitors 2: The Helping (2012)

For Animation II, the class was assigned to make a Chindogu project. It is a Japanese art of making a simple gadget that would solve everyday problems, but that gadget is really ridiculous. Mine was a face mask to protect you from people who sneeze and cough without covering their mouths! During production, I was violently ill with a cold. It was spring 2012, flu season was happening, and Disney's JOHN CARTER came out. With that, I decided to let the aliens make a comeback. I decided to make a sequel. When it was shown, I was better (no duh thanks to Alka-Seltzer).
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Red Paint (2007)

Behold, my very first attempt in combining animation with live-action.  Also, my first attempt in doing a short movie with blood and gore as well as an exercise in dark humor.  This was made in Bunker Hill Community College as an exercise in telling a flashback.  If you are looking for Herschel-Gordon Lewis or early Peter Jackson, then you have come to the wrong person.
This picture is made in the style of a silent movie because of sound problems. If you like silent movies, then you will enjoy this one.


Enjoy.

The Dinosaur and the Missing Link (2005)

I am going to take you back.  Way back.  Back before there were animation programs like i-stop motion, Frame Theif, Dragon Frame and Stop Motion Pro.  Before I knew Final Cut Pro. There was something I learned on Discovery Channel's Mega Movie Magic about stop-motion animation.  Record for one frame, stop move it a bit.  Record for one second, stop, move it a little bit and so on.  The result was choppy and sluggish moments.  I was unaware about the EOS FAX Umatic Animation Controller so I sent it to Adobe Premiere and changed the speed of the movements and added in the voices.  This was The Dinosaur and the Missing Link (2005) a remake of the 1915 classic by Willis O'Brien. 
Yes, today is his birthday.  



Hey, this was my first animation.  Your first is not your best. 
Enjoy.

New Demo Reel!

Presenting a new Demo-Reel!
I hope you enjoy it.

Demo Reel 2016 from Matthew B. Lamont on Vimeo.
 

Dinosaur Daze Technical Issue

On Friday, I was going to continue working on Dinosaur Daze, but something happened.  The Athena 16mm Motion Analysis Projector malfunctioned.  Adam Savje, my Stop-Motion 2 and Optical Printing professor was in charge of the projector.  It malfunctioned because there was something wrong with the internal functions, so he sent it to the Film Cage and it will be sent for repairs.  I asked him when was the last time it was tested and working well.  He said "Two months ago." 

I told him that if the projector gets fixed, I would skip a work day and make up for the skipped work day.  He agreed.

Yes folks.  Currently, I am working at MassArt's Tech Central department.  I am doing inventory and making an animated safety film for the department.   So here are some pictures of the supposed dynamation shots for this 16mm production. 

This projector is used to study motion and timing.  Scientists use it to study motion.  Coaches use it to help athletes improve their skills.  Filmmakers and animators use it not only for rotoscoping, but for combining live-action with stop-motion animation.  While regular projector burn the film when paused, this one doesn't and the film never burns up.  You can move a few frame forward or a few frames back.  It is a great projector (pity that it malfunctioned).

Super Bowl Spot

I hope you are enjoying your Super Bowl Sunday, so I present to you the Super Bowl spot for Dinosaur Daze.



Here is proof that I was working very hard on that project.  I started as early as Fall 2015.

Wrap your brain around that.  All is left is the the combining of the live-action and animation with the Athena Motion Analysis Film Projector, editing, music and sound effects.  I got enough dinosaur sounds, but this project is due out in the Spring of 2016.  Be patient because Rome was not built in a day.

Happy Holidays!

It's that wonderful time of year!   I hope you are having a nice holiday,  so here is a message from the cast of the upcoming movie Dinosaur Daze. 



Happy Holidays 2015 from Matthew B. Lamont on Vimeo.

Enjoy and have a Happy New Year.

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. 

Believe it You're Nuts!

Ah yes, here is my final assignment for Digital Toolbox III.  It is a funny one that takes a good lampooning on futuristic science and technology.  Even though I graduated, I continue taking extra courses just to boost my portfolio.


Believe It You're Nuts from Matthew B. Lamont on Vimeo.

Enjoy

The Rabbit The Squirrel and The UFO

Rabbits, Squirrels and Flying Saucers. Oh my!
This assignment was a fun challenge.  It took two weeks to complete.
My first attempt on the squirrel looked awful.  I found out where I went wrong.
It looked like the program, Maya, cannot accept altered shapes, so I decided to use shapes that it is familiar with.  What you are about to see, will be explained (in rhyme).


The Rabbit The Squirrel and the UFO from Matthew B. Lamont on Vimeo.

Enjoy.