Saturday 26 August 2017

Safety poster

A rifle safety poster made for SAF Basic Military Training Centre.

Done with Krita and GIMP.

Tuesday 21 March 2017

Creature Design

Designs for a new creature, based on various existing animals.

The first one is a more animalistic, bat-like version, with turnarounds and anatomy drawings. The second is a turnaround of a more humanoid version.

Done with graphite pencil.



Monday 6 March 2017

Bag & inventory design

Designs for a character's bag.
Here, it is a trunk belonging to an exorcist. On the left is the original concept, and in the middle is some of the items laid out. To the extreme right is a drawing of a realistic recreation of the trunk and its contents.

Drawn traditionally, inked in Photoshop.

BottleHead turnaround

Turnaround for the preliminary designs of the main character of "BottleHead".



Room Design

Design for a character's room, which in this case is a teepee-like tent.

Inked traditionally, sketched in digitally in Photoshop.



Sunday 5 March 2017

Poster design

A poster designed for a story called "The Trickster". Done with Adobe Illustrator.


Monday 27 February 2017

Bottlehead Animatic

A self-initiated project: a 30-second short about a guy trying to catch the bus.

This is the animatic for the animated short. Some parts ended up differently in the final cut.



BottleHead Animatic from Matthew Sim on Vimeo.

Resume


Dragon


Creature design: Dragon

An ancient dragon that lives deep below the earth.

Done in Photoshop.

Dialogue animation

A short animation of two guys facing off in the rain. Done with Maya.

Audio from Hellboy II: The Golden Army, animation by Matthew Sim.



Matthew Sim Dialogue Animation from Matthew Sim on Vimeo.

Roam - Nagoya Castle

An animatic for Roam, a student project about four characters travelling around Nagoya, Japan.

In this scene, the characters visit the famous Nagoya Castle.


castle scene from Matthew Sim on Vimeo.

Roam - Osu Kannon Temple

An animatic for Roam, a student project about four characters travelling around Nagoya, Japan.

In this scene, the characters arrive at the Osu Kannon temple, after chasing one of their members who got blown away by the wind. Then they meet some of the temple's regular visitors...


osu kannon temple scene from Matthew Sim on Vimeo.

Bottlehead

A self-initiated project: a 30-second short about a guy trying to catch the bus.

The project is a mixed media animation, animated with both Photoshop and Maya, composited in After Effects and edited in Premiere Pro.



Matthew Sim BottleHead from Matthew Sim on Vimeo.

Sunday 26 February 2017

Fantasy Character Lineup

Demon Hunter

A character lineup based on the mythologies of cultures in the Anatolia region in Turkey.



Wednesday 22 February 2017

The Chase



An animatic of a short story, in which a gnome trying to steal a large gem... from a dragon living in the subways.



The Chase from Matthew Sim on Vimeo.