New Music Video! Push it to the Limit.

That's right!  You heard that song on South Park, The Simpsons, It's Sunny Philadelphia and Grand Theft Auto 3.  It is Push it to the Limit by Paul Engemann.  This music video features the goofy-buddy duo from the current Disney cartoon series on Disney XD, Pickle and Peanut. Boom-Boom-Boom-Boom-Boom-Boom-Boom!


Enjoy!

Nutty about Peanuts!

Yes, I like Peanuts and I grew up on the cartoons (my first Peanuts Special was It's Your 20th Television Anniversary Charlie Brown (1985). It's a rare one.) and the comics as well as the merchandise.  It got me through good times and tough times.  I saw The Peanuts Movie three months ago, and I loved it.  In fact, I loved it so much that I made a break-in recording called Hey Peanuts.




Also, there is proof that it is taking the nation by storm.

There you have it. I hope you enjoy it, because I haven't updated this blog in a while.  Stay tuned for more posts.

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. 

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.

Breaking In Again

After I made "A Trip to T.U.F.F." I found the words on the birds.  Popular birds.  Birds that happen to be not only popular, but angry.  This was Angry Birds.

It started in 2009 and got popular in 2010.  A there was merchandising, cartoons, a comic book and a movie was announced.  Not to mention spoofs.  So when I saw how popular Angry Birds was, I decided to make a break-in recording of it.  Instead of calling it "Hey Angry Birds!"  I came up with a better and sophisticated title, "Birds that are Beyond Upset."





This one, akin to "A Trip to T.U.F.F." got aired on Anthony Logatto's show, "A-log on the Airwaves."

I hope you enjoy it.