Old brew.

Hey Blog,

long time no spreken. It's been a long time since my last post so I thought I'd share a couple things I've done lately. I blame the recent absence on all us humans out there. The MEGA consumerism of Christmas has kept me well and truly indoors this summer in a shopping centre of even greater proportions, and under an air conditioner which must be bigger than all the bedrooms of my entire life put together. The nick-name for the one I work at is 'Knifepoint.' And believe me, it didn't get this title purely because it rhymes with the actual name - it well and truly lives up to the reputation. Christmas time in particular seems to have brought out the crazies.

Just today, I picked up the phone and the guy on the other end asked me what the shop phone number was. A slip of the tonge you might think, but it was the first question to leave his lips!

Now that the madness has finally subsided tho and I'm back on the firm and constant ground of the 9 to 5 I think I can handle the occasional odball over the phone. So, now that I'm back with fully functioning eyes it's time to let the creative cookery begin.

Hopefully the new year brings something good. But for now, these are the bits and pieces of late.

A CD cover for a production mob called Aura Music. They already had the idea scribbled down and just needed someone to realise it.

A wedding invitation for my brother and his fiance - It comes in magnets as 3 parts which fit together to make a whole. My sister put the text on it later.

From a picture I drew months ago - just made it all propper so I can maybe use it on a T-shirt.

Well, night night for now.
Sleep will wait for me, but unfortunately the world wont tomorrow.

L.

Too busy

Super busy lately, but tonight I thought I'd post a photo which I got processed today. I've been enjoying the unique nature of film photography lately. I'm used to seeing results straight up so I'm always surprised when it comes out. Mostly it's the colours. This photo turned out way cooler than I thought it would - the colour and texture seems to be amplified in a way that I never would have got digitally.

Canon EOS 500 with Kodak400 film.

Leanne and Giselle - you guys rock.

Hopefully soon I will have some time to post a few freelance jobs I've been doing lately :)

Noble Cause

A friend of a friend of mine is currently raising money to support Headway Victoria. Headway is a support organisation for people with acquired brain injuries - Shane's (fundraiser) cousin Julia is one such person who requires help form these guys as she was struck by a motorist earlier this year.

So, basically off of his own back Shane has started something called the 70 in 7 project where he will be watching 70 films in 7 days. I'll let you guys do the maths, but needless to say it's going to be pretty epic. He's devised a bunch of clever ways people can contribute - one of which is chipping in to force him to watch a particular movie. And I believe he'll watch anything.

Most people have steered clear of the shockers, although I did see Weekend at Burnies up there. Here was my choice :P



Here's the site if you'd like to check it out. 70 in 7
The final movie will be a cinema screening of A Christmas Carol on the 6th of Nov.

Needless to say, I'm pretty impressed - a great idea and a noble cause.

Happy Friday everyone.

A piece of procrastination

This was inspired by the cover of an old book my flatmate is reading. It's not meant to be anything specific. The rings (in particular the colours) were the starting point and the fella is just an appropriately strange guy from my sketchbook. I'm sure it could go further but I always seem to do these things at 1am :P

Night night.

BLOGGERRIFFIC

Hey all,

I have a new blog where I'll be posting photo type stuff. I've just started getting into it a bit lately and figure making regular posts might help me to improve a bit.

If you wanna have a look there's a link over there ------->

Cheers,

Leath.

Job perk

I've been getting into photography a little bit lately so I thought I'd share a photo with the internet.

This one wasn't taken with my new fancy pants camera tho - we were given the chance to take home a loan camera from work. The idea being, muck around with it, take some photo's, and the best one in the company (100's of people unfortunatley) wins a laptop. The challenge behind it is that it's a cheap samsung compact camera.

I went for a walk around my neighbourhood tonight and I think this was probably the best one I got. Not the best photo I've ever taken, but it's going in the competition. Wish me luck :)

Camera Test

I bought a new camera! Woohoo for me.
Anyway, it's actually a still camera, but the video function on it is half of the reason I got this one. This is a bit of footage I took the other day when I went out to take photo's for the first time.

Apologies for the poor quality - unfortunately it's gone through way too much compression to get it up here. I will also remember to put slugs in my next edit so u can read the text etc. But for now I couldn't be bothered so here u go...

Camera Test from Leath Mattner on Vimeo.

Highly recommended

I wasn't sure what to make of it at first. It's not your typical animated story...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvfgLBMmtVs

You'll have to follow the link cause it looks crappy when I embed it here.

L.

Paper table

My friend Giselle's living room table is currently under a platter of scrap paper. There's something very inviting about sitting at a table you can draw on at will - this is one that I did the other day while a movie was on :)




I added a bit of colour in photoshop.
Hopefully I'll put something a little more finished up soon.

Art release

I've been working a lot lately which, as a result, has been working me into a strange lot lately.



This is just a kind of release scribble which was partly inspired by how my neice draws and partly by my brain activity tonight.

100th Post!

This blog was originally set up for animation type stuff but it's been over a year since I've actually animated anything. So here's some moving pictures which I've been working on lately. It's for my friend Patrick's short film (Bird Brain) - I'm also doing a lil bit of animation for the title and a couple of other art bits which I posted about earlier.

I have very mixed feelings about this shot. For some reason I was never completely happy with what the character does even though there are contextual reasons for it. On the other hand I'm happy that I saw it through to this point. It proved to be more of a task than I thought and I'm finding it really hard to look at the end result with any sort of natural brain.

Would love to hear what you guys think.

Thanks.



Bird Brain from Leath Mattner on Vimeo.

MARY AND MAX!!!!!!!!

Hey all,

just a lil public service announcement / shameless promotion to say that Mary and Max (the one I worked on) hits cinemas this thursday (April 9). So, if you're not going to be chillin in the pews at your local church I highly recommend getting a possie together to go and see it at one of the cinemas I've listed below.

Apparently opening weekend is the most important time to go and see it as the level of sucess determines how long it will be showing in cinemas for. Also, I hear that if it kicks ass it has a better chance of selling to America and actually making some profit :)

So here's the trailer....




And here's where you can go and see it...

NEW SOUTH WALES

Opera Quays

Byron Bay

Newtown

Mega Castle Hill

Mega Macquarie

Bondi

Miranda

Tuggerah

Wollongong

Tower Cinemas Newcastle

Chatswood Westfield

Broadway

Cinema Paris

Cremorne Orpheum

Roseville Cinema

Collaroy

Norton Street

Academy Twin

ACT

Dendy Canberra

VICTORIA

Kino

Chadstone

Melbourne Central

Cinema Nova

Waverly Pinewood Cinema

Sun Pics Yarraville

Belgrave Cameo

Westgarth Theatre

Balwyn

Cinema Como

George

Brighton Bay

Elsternwick

Southland Europa

Jam Europa

Knox Europa

Geelong

Rivoli

Albury

Doncaster

QUEENSLAND

Indooroopilly

Garden City

Chermside

Maroochydore

Pacific Fair

Cairns City

Portside

Balmoral

Graceville Twin

The Barracks

NORTHERN TERRITORY

Darwin City

SOUTH AUSTRALIA

Megaplex Marion

Norwood

Trak Cinema

Wallis Mitcham

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Grand Warwick

Grand Bunbury

Megaplex Innaloo

Carousel

Luna Leederville

Luna Essex St

Cheers guys and I hope you enjoy it.

BIRD BRAIN - by Patrick McCabe

I've been watching a lot of vimeo this morning and am all inspired to create. Unfortunatley I don't have time tho today so I thought I'd post something I did a while ago.

These are some concepts for a live action film which i'm doing a lil animation for. It's titled, "Bird Brain" and is being directed by my mate Patrick McCabe who also worked on Mary and Max.

I've posted a final artwork for the film on my folio blog over there ->

No Mo

hehe... thanks for the comments guys. Please let me know if this still looks like a moustache. I can't tell anymore and i'm a bit sleepy tonight to go comparing it to stuff.

Ta :)

Back in the game

Hello blog,

today was a pretty good day so I thought it would be a good idea to post something useful - well, useful to me at least.

This pic was inspired by a woman that was swimming at the pool tonight. her hip to shoulder ratio was actually this cool. She would have made a great figure drawing model. The guy she was with probably would have too for that matter. I tried not to look for too long though cause I'd like to go back there again.