Animations

“It was a real pleasure to work with Matthew from start to finish on this project. He really gets the science and is so interested in it that it was a real pleasure to discuss ideas with him. He followed the brief well and produced an impressive animated summary of our recent work. This animation has helped us convey our major findings in a very accessible way to a broad audience and also made us pause and think about open questions to tackle in the future.”  

–Girish Mali (Group leader at the Dunn School of Pathology, the University of Oxford) September 2025

“Matthew has a gift for conveying the essence of a molecular mechanism, born from his deep biochemical understanding, creativity, and taste. We highly recommend working with him.”

–Anthony Roberts and Katerina Toropova (Group leaders at the Dunn School of Pathology, the University of Oxford) August 2025

“It was such a pleasure to work with Matthew on the trypanosome project. He immediately understood what I wanted and he made it sound so easy no matter what challenge I threw at him. I now use his animations not only in my talks but also during teaching of my students.”

–Dr. Simone weyand (Independent scientist, the University of Cambridge) January 2023

“Working with Matthew on this animation was a real pleasure! He generated a captivating animation for us showing how an activating factor binds to and primes the gamma-tubulin ring complex for more efficient microtubule nucleation. He was extremely professional and worked closely with us to ensure that the animation was as scientifically and conceptually accurate as possible. We will definitely work with him in the future and we highly recommend his services!”

–Prof. Dr. Michal Wieczorek (Assistant Professor at the Department of Biology, ETH Zurich) May 2025

“Co-transcriptional RNA origami is a new technology, and I always struggled to explain in words how exactly it works. Matthew’s animations appear in all of our talks and people grasp the concept immediately. Having the visuals made a huge difference for us and working with Matthew was great – especially because he understands the science behind the animations so well. Thank you Matthew!”

–Prof. Dr. Kerstin Göpfrich (Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg University) October 2024

“Working with Matthew Clark to animate the CaMKII holoenzyme—a highly dynamic molecular assembly that my lab has been studying—has been a thoroughly rewarding experience. Matthew’s depth of knowledge in molecular biology and his particular ability to illustrate the complexities of intrinsically disordered protein regions truly set his work apart. His animations brought to life the dynamic nature of CaMKII, which is challenging to capture with static images. Matthew’s professionalism and proactive communication made the process efficient and enjoyable. I highly recommend his services and look forward to collaborating with him on future scientific visualization projects.”

–Dr. Steve Reichow (Principal Investigator, Oregon Health & Science University) June 2024

“Working with Matthew on this animation of the CAND1-SCF E3 ligase complex was an excellent experience. His creativity, attention to detail, and ability to visualize complex scientific concepts were outstanding. The final animation exceeded my expectations, and I highly recommend his services for anyone looking to bring their ideas to life.”

-Dr. Mohammed Shaaban (Radoslav Enchev Lab, Francis Crick Institute) July 2023

“It has been a pleasure working with Matthew Clark. He has been extremely professional, efficient, and great at communicating from the storyboard stage to finally delivering the four animation scenes. Matthew has a great knowledge of molecular biology and is deeply curious about biology, this is part of the reason why working with him to develop the animation has been very efficient. I would highly recommend him and his service, I will certainly approach him again to develop animation for future scientific outreach activities.”

–Professor Tung Le (Group Leader, Department of Molecular Microbiology, John Innes Centre) December 2022

Journal covers

https://pubs.acs.org/toc/chreay/122/21

“I have commissioned Matthew to design a front-page journal cover depicting a synthetic cell, a highly complex scene comprising dozens of objects and particle effects in a three-dimensional arrangement. The design process was very efficient and I was given multiple opportunities to give feedback. Matthew effortlessly came up with a rough draft after I described my idea and all the following inputs were skillfully implemented according to my wishes. His creativity and conceptualization greatly facilitated the process and made it a great experience with a stunning final product. I would highly recommend anyone to reach out to Matthew with your ideas that need illustration!”

–Dr Stephan Hirschi (Oxford Department of Biochemistry) August 2022