Posted in Animated Features, Artwork, General, Iona.LABS, Strange Tales on Sep 1st, 2008 4 Comments »
Outside Hollywood has an interesting article concerning animation schools. They assert that school is a waste of time and that to become a truely great animator, all one needs is a good resource for tutorials and time.
The example they use to prove their argument is a popular student project known as “Colins Bear”. [...]
Posted in Annabelle's Bistro, Artwork on Jul 4th, 2008 3 Comments »
So my little dog Annabelle has engaged in a little side project. Apparently she enjoys buying and selling real estate in the Seattle area. Who knew?
Some guy took one of my older concept sketches off of my blog a while back and stuck it on his site. I did ask for the [...]
Posted in Annabelle's Bistro, General, Iona.LABS on Jun 27th, 2008 No Comments »
B.J. Aberle, good friend and Sound Designer on Annabelle’s Bistro has recently entered an online competition to remix a Glen Phillips song. He is currently doing very well in the competition, (Seriously, I listened to about 50 entries and his remix is by far the best.) but he needs your help to win!
Check out [...]
Posted in Animation, Annabelle's Bistro, Artwork, Iona.LABS on Jun 25th, 2008 5 Comments »
Ok, I am sitting here and watching South Park, drinking a nice glass of wine, and revising my treatment…again…
I showed it to my boss and friend Jim Ferolo and he came back with a few suggestions. Mainly that my main characters motivation for his actions later on in the piece were pretty vague. [...]
Posted in Artwork, General, LEGO on May 27th, 2008 2 Comments »
In which our heroes battle Skype, technology, and the language barrier to discuss LEGO as an artform. And as artists, do we build for ourselves or for others? And why the heck do we play with LEGOs anyway?
Check it out!
Posted in Annabelle's Bistro, Artwork, Iona.LABS on May 21st, 2008 2 Comments »
While sifting through an old folder of concept art I came across this early sketch of the bistro from my short film. I thought it was pretty cool so I figured I’d stick it up here.
Posted in Animated Features, Animation, Annabelle's Bistro, Community, Illustration on May 20th, 2008 No Comments »
Here is a brief clip from the film: The Triplets of Belleville. The unique nature of the film makes it just a joy to watch and the story is quirky and original.
Or so I am told.
I haven’t actually seen this film yet which is odd because it looks to be right up my [...]
Posted in Animation, Annabelle's Bistro, Artwork, Community, Iona.LABS on May 15th, 2008 4 Comments »
I sat down the other night to write a finally write a treatment for my animated short: Annabelle’s Bistro. There was a Woot-Off going on while I was writing it and I ended up buying a Roomba. (That is a story for a different time perhaps.)
Anyway, 3 beers and 3 1/2 painful [...]
Posted in Artwork, Bradley Multimedia, General on Apr 30th, 2008 2 Comments »
Toward the end of my last big project, My computer started having some fun with me. It was quite scary knowing that the graphics card was slowly dying in front of my eyes as I was racing to finish on time. I just tried to ignore it as best I could and [...]
Posted in Artwork, Iona.LABS on Mar 26th, 2008 5 Comments »
I had a few quick minutes after work, so I decided to pull out the old Wacom tablet. The picture is really messy, but I will just call that a “stylistic choice”.
Actually I think there might be something I can mine from this idea of a surfing robot… Lets see where this goes from here.
-Matt
Matt Forcum
Currently employed as a Motion Graphics Artist at The Iona Group and as an Instructor in Character Animation at Bradley University
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