Marcus Matossian's Blog

Desmeem with the MENA Design Research Center

Marcus Matossian — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:41:49 +0000

I was recently commisioned by the MENA Design Research Center in Downtown Beirut to come up with a short infographic animation that would give an introduction to their new project DESMEEM. Check out the final animation and drop your comments.

Frutta Natural 30 sec

Marcus Matossian — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:33:33 +0000

Last year I worked on a 30 sec commercial for Frutta Natural, a Nigerian beverage brand.
This was part of three commercials I worked on for the company besides Frutta Milky drink.

The first animation is the Final version which the client agreed upon.

FRUTTA Milky Juice 15 sec TVC

Marcus Matossian — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 08:45:27 +0000



FRUTTA Milky Juice 15 sec TVC
Worked on creating a 15 second TVC for an African brand of juice products. Milky Frutta Juice is the first from three TVCs I've been working on.

Modeling was done in Cinema 4D R12, Texturing in Body Paint 3D, Liquid simulation in Real Flow 4, the animation and rendering in Cinema 4D. Hope you like it.

Milky Frutta TVC in progress

Marcus Matossian — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 13:15:58 +0000

Click image for a larger scale view

I’m currently working on a new 15second TVC for an African juice brand called Frutta. Here are a few renders of the fruits after modeling and texturing them.
Modeling was done in Cinema 4D and texturing was done in body paint.

Final TVC coming soon.

Breakfast & Eggs

Marcus Matossian — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 10:45:51 +0000

Poster (click for a larger preview)

teaser 1

teaser 2

A few weeks ago while I was out with my friends Pete Wylde and Doreen Toutikian we discussed shooting a short that revolves around a relationship between a guy played by Pete and an egg that we later named Gloria Eggerfield. Shooting started beginning of April and is expected to finish by the end of April, since we’re only shooting in the weekends. Two teasers were developed by me during April that involve an egg in a certain situation getting smashed and a poster for the short.

Hopefully we’ll finish the shoot this weekend and I’ll be able to edit it and upload it for you all to watch. Until then, enjoy the teasers and poster.

Testing Realflow 5

Marcus Matossian — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 10:39:07 +0000

real flow with cinema 4D

I’ve worked on realflow a few times before, but I’ve been trying to give it some more time and get around understanding what each tool does. And since scorned will have some liquid based modeling in it, I decided to sit down and give it some more time. The results I got were quite amazing. The new feature of HYBRIDO for large volume liquid particles was one that I loved!

Hopefully, I’ll be able to put some more time in this software and design some pretty cool things with it soon. Until then, here’s a preview of three bowls I made in cinema 4D and used realflow to simulate the liquid and import it into C4D again.

Scorned update

Marcus Matossian — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 10:33:53 +0000

Top view of the set design (click for a larger preview)

set design (click for a larger preview)

set design preview shot 3 (click for a larger preview)
As most of you know, I’ve been working on scorned a short music video for quite a while now. A lot of changes have been made since my last post for scored. Originally the video was supposed to be taking place in a forest. A few renders were uploaded a few months back of example renders I made in cinema 4D for the short. However, due to the concept of the video, I felt like the forest was a bit of a cliché and a bore. So I decided to design a new set that had more meaning with less of a clutter and more of a focus on the main character in the story, which will be played by Tatiana Toutikian.

I don’t wanna spoil the video by giving too much info about the concept. However, here are a few render shots of the new set design.

2010 in review

Marcus Matossian — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 13:07:15 +0000

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is on fire!.

Crunchy numbers

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 3,600 times in 2010. That’s about 9 full 747s.

In 2010, there were 24 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 46 posts. There were 72 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 10mb. That’s about 1 pictures per week.

The busiest day of the year was June 21st with 63 views. The most popular post that day was New renders .

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were facebook.com, en.wordpress.com, forums.cgsociety.org, debakir.com, and networkedblogs.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for underwater girl, girl underwater, girl, underwater, and girls underwater.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

New renders June 2010
3 comments

Girl Underwater November 2009
3 comments

BLOOM BY MARCUS November 2009
6 comments

Water Girl November 2009

Girl as a mechanic October 2009
3 comments

Christmas 30sec animations “MAC DDB” & “Rolling Film House”

Marcus Matossian — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:34:13 +0000

I was asked to create two seasons greetings short animations for both “Rolling Film House” & “MAC DDB”.
I used cinema 4D to create both animations and then edited them using Adobe’s After Effects.
For MAC DDB I used some of the elements they use in some of their presentations such as the chilly pepper and the match stick, as the characters and then rigged them to animate.
As of the Rolling Film House I used the similar technique Tim Clapham has demonstrated in one of his tutorials for 3D World Magazine and used snow flakes, Christmas balls, film rolls and a film clapper along with the mograph tool to create the animation.

Hope you all like it,

Oh and Merry Christmas!

Rolling Film House Seasons Greetings

MAC DDB Seasons Greetings

Christams “seasons greetings” animation for MAC DDB

Marcus Matossian — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:51:46 +0000

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Currently working on a small animation as a seasons greetings animation card for MAC DDB.
Finished designing the four characters and rigged them.
I’m gonna start animating them on Monday. Hopefully all will go smoothly and I’ll finish on time!

Here are a few test renders I’ve made.

Minty from batminton

Chillie from hot chilly

Characters first test

testing camera movement