Matthew Vogt Style
Animation
The Incomplete First Episode.
Jul 4th
Rooting up the past again, this was around 2004-2005 in which friend, Isaac Mulgrew and I co-created the seed of an episodic comedy series titled Heroes. Two heroes, one a roided rage and the other a genius Telekinestor.
*Warning* It’s never past the “animatic stage” meaning there will be missing audio, storyboards appearing instead of footage, and the all time production’s favorite – changing to temporary character builds….
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This was to be the first of many episodes, the first glimpse of our living characters and their routines. Looking back it’s super cliché but that’s what made us laugh. Enjoy!
Out to Launch – Shortfilm circa 2005
Jul 4th
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Made by our team of independent learners, aka Twisted CG, under Bill Henderson – 2005
I contributed character animation excellence.
We even had an original score composed for it too! Ah – the golden years!
Introducing Lawn Mower Man!
Jun 25th
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I saw this gentleman whilst driving home a sunset ago:
He was wearing a white dress shirt, classy shoes, suspenders and mowing while smoking. The glare from his glossed hair was nearly blinding…
Teapot Flip!
Jun 19th
Oi! A simple test of animation principles and a crash course in keying (animating) effects in AfterEffects! Great success yet again Matthew!
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A New Animation!
Aug 12th
Did this for May’s ten second club challenge.
Design Journal:
I thought about what the speaker didn’t have. In this case the first couple of things that came to mind I ran with (thanks intuition!) comfort, attention, understanding. I then thought how would I feel in his shoes? Yes, I did some acting, bearing the office’s laughter, keeping in mind how bad I want what he’s lacking. Did some stick/box man gestures and broke down the energy of the voice track. (modeled stuff, rigged characters) Keyed (linear) poses holds/inbetweens and kept smoothing and adding details all the while posting on forums. I found, after I blocked and knew where she was going, if I focused on 100 frames at a time, looping & taking notes I stayed focused on the details (chunk at a time). Lit scene and did a speedypaint, added gong and dusted off hands.
