Torch Fire!!

Another collaboration with Gill! This time a great explorer design for some nice 2D torch fire animation. This was from another lesson on the 2D FX course on Bitey. It's a tricky element to animate, but it can be a lot of fun. I've been trying to think more about what's actually happening to the FX whilst animating recently, what's making it move compared to the technical aspects of arcs, spacing etc. So I was thinking this was an oily flame and it was getting pushed about a little by the wind. It would have been cool to animate the characters hair to help show the breeze and shadow layers etc but this exercise was to focus on the torch. Big shout out to Rufus for helping me with the comp, really helped to give it some heat.

 

Bitey 2D FX Torch from Matt Timms on Vimeo.

Bitey FX Course

Way over a year ago I signed up to the 2D FX course on bitey.com. Its a great course and is really useful for hints and tips regarding animating SFX in a traditional 2D manner. :) Which of course is just how I like them :D So if your interested in taking some cool FX lessons head on over to Bitey.com

So although I've incorporated some skills learnt from the lessons in previous work, im now starting to work on some of the exercises on there own.

So this is some work from the first 6 lessons, lightning, match flame, incense smoke, ripples and flag/cape wave. I did miss the gravity out...whoops. I guess it effects all animation though.

Big thanks to my lovely girl Gill for her cool character design for the cape wave anim. There should be some more collaborative stuff from us coming soon :)
Hope you enjoy :)

Bitey 2D FX tests 1-6 from Matt Timms on Vimeo.

explosion studies

been studying some explosion designs from various shows/movies. Some of the designs are so detailed its amazing that they are animated! 

Oscar

Me and Gill adopted Oscar in the new year. He is an adorable cat and at 13 he is very chilled out and loves a good nap. I expect he will be quite a regular post on here.

sketchbook collection!

This is a big selection of various sketches from the last few months:

Life drawing session - people were acting out a story of a bird and a tree, was an interesting session, shame there weren't more dynamic poses!

Various people watching 

some hand studies from a tutorial

old zoo sketches

here's some sketches from a couple of different zoo outings a few months back. just noticed they're sitting haha not very dynamic!

2013 2D FX Reel

Hey everyone, So a new year is upon us and im now able to show some of the work from the second season of The Amazing world of Gumball! I worked as the Lead 2D FX designer/animator and worked on a lot of cool FX through out the series. Im able to show stuff from the episodes that have been aired so heres my new reel.

 

2D FX Reel 2013 from Matt Timms on Vimeo.

enjoy! M