A Christmas Jingle

Here is the Christmas card I did for my new animated little company Kalina Pictures and Airfoil Media. Have a very merry Christmas, happy New Year, and an all-round amazing holiday season!

Louis the Fish

Louis the Fish from Matthew Kalinauskas on Vimeo.

I was on my honeymoon and I drew a fish with a big mouth on the shower door. I thought is would be fun to see this fish sing the last bit of "What a Wonderful World". The song itself was first recorded by Louis Armstrong in 1968 and it was written by Bob Thiele (who, at the time, went by George Douglas) and George Weiss.

This Project was just ment to used as an animation exercise. I wanted to figure out some technics to help me with a 4 minute animated short that I am working on.

Two by Two... again

Yes yes, I understand that I have indeed posed my Student film, "Two by Two", on my blog before... however I have been reviewing my online uploads and it occurred to me that I don't really use my hotmail account anymore. Not that there's anything wrong with that. It's just, I now use Gmail. The ONLY problem that I face now is what do I do with my old YouTube account [the one that I set up when my email address read something like (but not literally) centaur362@hotmail.com?]

This all had come to the surface this week and here's why: I was just going to upload a new 30 second animation exercise I recently completed (still to come). I went on my old YouTube account and found that I had messages waiting for me from TWO YEARS AGO! Like, personal ones, from creative developers and stuff! LAME... SAUCE! I felt like an idiot. So now I need to streamline this online stuff.

Some people may say, "Dude, just get a Vimeo accunt, they rock." And to those people I would say, "Thanks I have one of those but I am only able to upload, like 500 MG a week or something... and I don't want to pay $10 a month... not yet anyway. I'm still kinda on a spending freeze."

Other might say, "Hey bra, just make a new YouTube account through Gmail." And to THOSE people I would say, "Thanks, but what about my first account? It has almost 4,000 views and I am vain."
*sad-face

I deliberated long and hard and have come up with a solution.

I am going to upload to Vimeo AND YouTube! Streamline!

I'll keep the original posting of Two by Two up there because, you know, gotta reach 4,000, but for all my new stuff I'll have it up on my new YouTube and Vimeo.

This was a long and somewhat unnecessary post just to say, I am reposting Two by Two AND it has been slightly improved for your viewing pleasure.

Two By Two

So my buddy Vlad just uploaded his student film "C-Block" to his blog and it got me thinking... why haven't I done that yet? So here it is. My student film from my graduating year out of the Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning (breeaaath*) BAA - Animation program of 2008.

Enjoy!

-Matt

Head Above - Silverlane - Official Video

My band just finished another music video. I edited it and did the banners for it. It was a lot of fun to do. My good friend Randeep has a good friend Sean. Sean has a good friend at Budget (the car rental place) and at some lighting warehouse (they do movies). David (my brother) has a good friend Alex who has an amazingly trusting dad (in a good way, not a gullible way), Bill, who owns a company that makes office furniture. They have a large shipping bay that we could use.

We shot the film all night, along with our friends T.J., Phill, and Bridget, and Sean. I think me and my brother got home at like 5am... we got there at 4pm the day before. So pulling all of our resources together we've finally been able to get this one in the bag. The song is called "Head Above" and it's off of Silverlane's newest EP entitled "Neanderthals to concert Halls". I hope you like it!

Check it out www.silverlanemusic.com