Purple Plant
Portfolio of Matt Gillmore.
a little collection of this and that...
Last Updated May 9th, 2007.
A great sampling of my work is here, focusing on websites, but also including Flash Animation, Music, Art and Mixed Medium. While this sample is by no means my complete body of work, what I have here should be enough to give you an idea of my capabilities and style.
American Airlines Vacations
American Airlines Vacations Portal.
American Airlines Vacations is the travel portal of American Airlines. They are in the process of converting to a new third-party booking engine and redesigning their website. I was of great assistance in ascertaining the capabilities of the third-party engine and in designing a front end that complimented the features and achieved AAV's objectives. Over the course of the contract the oversight committees and corporate board approved my designs for the new look and feel of the website.
Sunny Schlenger
Sunny Schlenger, Bestselling Author, Motivational Speaker.
Sunny Schlenger is a bestselling author and motivational speaker. Sunny was pleased with her original website but was ready for a new look and feel. I redesigned Sunny's new site from the ground up according to her input and direction. I created new proofs for her business printed materials from her existing designs.
Equine Experiences
Equine Experiences
Dr. Allison Sinclair is a therapist in Dallas TX recently certified in Equine Facilitated Experiential Learning. Allison has no previous website or hosting experience, so I took care of everything for her from designing and building the website to registering the domain and hosting.
WordSpace Texas Non Profit Literary Arts Group
WordSpace Texas
Wordspace Texas is a non profit literary organization in Dallas Texas promoting cultural literacy and the arts in many form. I was very pleased to design and build this site for them, as well as straighten out their hosting mess and set them up with new hosting.
XO Corp in Dallas TX
XOCorp...
XO wanted their website redesign to reflect the light, clean, clearing properties of their odor neutralizing product. They wanted a look that was simple and streamlined enough to appeal to their industry, while glossy and pretty enough to appeal to their end consumer. They also needed a way to have a simple vendor directory that customers could use and that XO employees could maintain themselves. I designed it and build it, including a back end system where they can administer and maintain the directory database, all on their pre-existing hosting.
HomeCare Contracting, Inc.
HomeCare Contracting
Focusing on Home Contracting for the Elderly and the Handicapped, HomeCare Contracting had design and build a simple splash page for contact and marketing, which I also host for them.
Bhutan Vacation in 2006
Bhutan Vacation Email Advertisement...
I designed this email advertisement for a Vestal Media client. I created all the graphics from images supplied by the client.
The Heartless Stone by Tom Zoellner
The Heartless Stone...

I designed theheartlessstone.com for a Vestal Media client. The header was designed in Flash MX and the photographs were supplied by the author. All other graphics are my creation.

Financial Website Template
A Financial website template...
The centerpiece of this template is its Flash header. The rest is loose design based on the looks of other financials websites.
My First Flash Game
Another Asteroids Knock-off...
What the world needs is another Asteroids knock-off. This is my revamped version of a tutorial and their version which you can see here. I redesigned all the objects, added explosions on the asteroids and the ship, added a shield function which depletes your score but protects your ship, and reworked the controls. This is my first Flash Game.
Under the Sea Website Template.
About this template...
I designed this website from scratch in about 15 hours inside a 36 hour time period. I designed the header in Macromedia Flash MX with a 9" x 12" Wacom tablet and pen. I experimented with different ways of animating the plants and the fish and I set them on uneven timlines so the loop doesn't feel quite so static. I looked at a couple photos for reference but mostly drew everything up from imagination, including animating the colorful swaying plants.
Personals Dating Assistant Ellen in Dallas, Texas.
My recent work...
I put www.girlyware.com together for a Vestal Media client. They provided the template and the content. I hot-rodded the Flash header and put it all together. I completed the project in three days.
James O'Barr .net the creator of The Crow
The creator of The Crow...
James O'Barr is the creator of The Crow, a record-holding black-and-white graphic novel adapted into the cult movie starring Brandon Lee. The site that I created for James is completely dynamic. Galleries can be created and populated from back end forms on the fly. Pages can be added and sorted into categories from back end administration. All with minimal HTML and FTP knowledge. This site sustains tens of thousands of visitors a week.
CrowFansOnline
CrowFansOnline...
The original incarnation of jamesobarr.net, now defunct, shown only in screenshot here.
Matt and Austin Comic Stip
Flash Comic Strip...
For over two years and almost 200 episodes I cranked out a browsable comic strip. I won lots of awards and had hundreds of thousands of visitors a month. But ultimately the fame and the pressure would cave me, and I would give it all up to charity and become a Hermish Monk.
Real Estate Broker Mike Mansfield
Real Estate...
I've done a few Real Estate websites and I like this one for its light airy look. It's not the stereotype that you expect a Real Estate Website to look like.
Political Race Website Design
My only political website...
I put this together for Mike Mansfield who gave a run at a Dallas City Council seat, only to find out how truly dirty politics can be. He had a great first run and ended up with a good looking site out of it.
Dallas Anglican Church of the Redeemer
When you work for the Church...
Ya can't complain about it, cuz God's listening. Heh. But I'm especially proud of this menu I created. Note the clip art that I rerendered and colored from the original version on this before screenshot. They maintain their own website now, so it sometimes is a little off...
Skin Therapy Clinics
Skin Therapy Clinics in Dallas...
This site was a lot of fun with all the lips and design. Plus the subject matter was pretty plush...
XO Corp in Dallas TX
Ecommerce Delux...
I built this store from the ground up. Every single thing in place was created by me. It ran for over three years and did very well and then sold out.
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Web Animation...
Music Video Misty by Matt Gillmore
"Misty" is a song I recorded with three of my good friends. I wrote all the lyrics and recorded all vocals. Animating the video for it took me six weeks. I designed everything in Macromedia Flash 4 with a 9" x 12" Wacom tablet and pen. This work was completed in 2000.
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Music Video Kill the Brain by Matt Gillmore
"Kill the Brain" is a song mixed from samples by my good buddy Austin. It's my first Flash Animated Music Video, so it's the great testing ground. This work was completed in 2000. All things considered, it still holds up, and the song is quite catchy.

Artwork...
"Ellen Awaken" - Colored Pencils and Mixed Media by Matt Gillmore
"Ellen Awaken" is an experiment in mixed media. I sampled images from the web including a space warp, an explosion, and time-exposed traffic lights and mixed them all together with my own inks and colored pencil. The end result is printed on linen textured paper and is quite stunning.
"Penny" - Colored Pencils and Mixed Media by Matt Gillmore
Another experiment in mixed media is this collaboration between digital photo and my colored pencils to produce a photo you couldn't get in real life.
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"Cats" - Digital Photography brushed and deffected by Matt Gillmore
Of my dozen oil paintings I have only this one digital photo of my first painting, painted over 20 years ago when I was 15. It measures 18" x 24" and is oils on stretched canvas.
"Cats" - Digital Photography brushed and deffected by Matt Gillmore
I took a digital image of my cats, brushed out all the stuff in front and back and threw a filter on it for this wonderful image. Looks absolutely great printed on heavy paper.
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