Animator and Motion Designer

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What Does He Do?

Browse selections from my most recent motion design projects below.

recent past work | non-animated work

News

IT IS THIS by Rizza Alee & Shidan Majidi

A documentary short film is about snowboarding in Kashmir’s ski resort Gulmarg and is sponsored by and shot entirely on GoPro cameras. On June 11th, IT IS THIS won the Audience Award at the Astoria Film Festival. Thanks to Rizza and Shidan Majidi for bringing me in to do title design and animation!

ROLE: Title Design & Animation

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A Future Shouldn’t Be Fined for Debt Free Justice

An experimental documentary studio AntidoteFX created in collaboration with Lowy + Lacar for Debt Free Justice, A Future Shouldn’t be Fined won a Silver Telly Awards for Branded Content: Social Impact.

ROLE: Motion Designer

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So, Who Is This Guy?

I’m Matt McLaughlin, a motion designer and animator.

Professionally, I excel at creating 2D animations with After Effects, Premiere Pro, Photoshop, and stop-motion. I love telling stories and finding interesting ways to explore visual mediums.

As a child, I spent time drawing and making animations and flipbooks. I also spent a lot of time shooting short films with a Super-8 camera and drawing visual effects directly onto the film.

Before diving into motion graphics, I designed and created interactive experiences for online — mini-sites, landing pages, flash animations, etc. — promoting television shows, books, and authors. I drove branding and traffic with my designs on social media and in emails and newsletters.

I love animation of all kinds, but stop-motion has a special place in my heart.

See more of my work on Instagram, Behance, Dribbble, Vimeo, and LinkedIn.

Motion Design Skills

Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Media Encoder, iStopMotion, animation, motion graphics, stop-motion

Other Skills

HTML/CSS, responsive design, Brackets, Bootstrap, Squarespace, WordPress, brand promotion, journalistic supplementation, illustration, relationship management, Formstack

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praise

It was a pleasure to work with Matt. We thank him for his support, vision and patience in a project that was a first for us. He did a valuable job for us in a short time and thanks to his timing we were able to realize our project easily. We are already excited to work with him again on our new projects.

Blanc & Noir, Piano Duo/Selin Şekeranber and Yudum Çetiner

Matt [is] a joy to work with. He was constantly open to hearing ideas and critiques and applied everything with great understanding and speed. Not to mention he has a great design aesthetic.

Dino Tsaousis, Creative Director/Flame Artist @ Loudmouth VFX

I worked with Matt on Court TV’s Stupid Crimes and Misdemeanors blog for CourtTVnews.com. Matt is exceptionally smart and creative. He always came up with hilarious, pitch-perfect ‘toons, even for stories that were hard to illustrate.

Tracy Majka, Editorial Content Specialist @ L.E.K. Consulting

I couldn’t recommend him more!

Kalika Sharma, Motion Designer, Instructor @ KalikaFX and Antidote LLC

Matt immediately grasped onto the vision and produced a number of striking imagery and a promotional teaser that made the video so much more powerful and successful in honoring frontline health workers.

Shidan Majidi, Producer and Director, E Pluribus Unum

Matt is organized and meticulous in his planning and execution. His knowledge and experience in the field has been instrumental to the success of projects we worked on together.