Quick Watercolor Studies

Go Jetters @ The Bafta's

Delighted to have been working on this show for over a year.
It was nominated today for a BAFTA in the Pre-School Animated Show category.
Kudos to the talented team of people in both Boulder Media and Giant Animation Studios.

Life Drawing 04

Partly finished drawing from life in pastel and charcoal pencils (2B pencil under-drawing).

Life Drawing 03

Life Drawing - graphite powder and grey and black charcoal pencils on grey paper

Saturday's Life Drawing

1 hour life drawing study

Gone a'sketching

It feels good to get back into sketching from life, especially when on a holiday.
(0.5 felt tip pen on paper)

Life Drawing

I recently joined one of the Life Drawing studios here in Dublin so I could get back into drawing after too long a break.  The drawing was done using black charcoal pencils on A3 paper (approx. one hour long pose).

"Geist" @ the IFTAs

Geist - Trailer

Some amazing news! Giant Animation Studio's short animated film "Geist" won the IFTA Award in its category yesterday. I feel really lucky to have been given the chance to do a bit of animation on it. Check it out! (click on the link in the title)

Go Jetters

This is the sweet looking show I've been working on for the past few months in Boulder Media (a show done in collaboration with Giant Studio and BBC). It's a pre-school show in which the four Go Jetters and Ubercorn, a disco-dancing unicorn, travel the Globe together. They need to reach a famous landmark before it gets "glitched" by Grandmaster Glitch and his Grimbots.

It will air today 26 October on CBeebies (UK) at 17:20. Check it out!

For more info head over to their FB page: Go Jetters Facebook Page

Terry Pratchett's "The Duel"

Terry Pratchett's The Duel 

An older project I've been fortunate to have worked on as a trainee animator. This amazing short written by the late Terry Pratchett (Discworld) was created and directed by Giant Animation as part of the Animation Hub 2012, a work experience programme set up for students to work on live projects. Click on the title to watch the video.

Animation Art Show 2014 Piece

This is my piece for this year's Animation Art Show. It's my take on both The Boxtrolls and the original story Here Be Monsters by Alan Snow. I hope you like it and feel free to drop a line about it. Also, if you want, you can pop over to the show and auction which will be held in Dublin in aid of Irish children's charities.

Details of the show:

Venue: Atrium Space at the Temple Bar Gallery + Studios on the weekend of the 17th of October with the art auction taking place on Sunday the 19th. All proceeds go to the Jack and Jill Foundation and the ISPCC.

Watercolor Studies

Two of my best quick watercolor studies

(from a photo and from life)

Hill town Observatory

For some reasons I love hill towns and observatories, so here it is. I started with a pencil sketch and made some changes to the design as I started to block in the colors.

I tried to keep the palette limited and have the accent on the cable car. I wanted the painting to look like one of those old postcards.
I got inspired along the way by one of Ian McQue's ink sketches and one of Ralph McQuarries' illustrations (check Pinterest for his work). Maybe it's not the best composition or color scheme for it but I loved working on it.

My Show Reel and Film

Below are the links to my grad film and this year's show reel. They are both password protected because the film is entering the festival circuit and my show reel includes copyrighted work. However, I will make the passwords available by email only for animation companies interested in my work. Thanks for dropping by :-)

Show Reel 2014

Hunted - My Film

Back at it

Apologies for the very long absence, college has taken ALL my time.
Here are a few backgrounds from my own little film done while there.
Unfortunately I can't upload animation from it as it will do its festival run (hopefully).
It's a short story about two brothers out on a hunting journey.
It was all done with TvPaint and Photoshop.
Thanks to all involved.

Animation Hub Exercises

Basic animation exercises to refresh my knowledge of the animation principles. (3ds Max)

https://vimeo.com/68246533

https://vimeo.com/68246535

https://vimeo.com/68246534

https://vimeo.com/68326610

https://vimeo.com/68326611

https://vimeo.com/68397441

More Joe and Jack

Here's another episode I worked on: http://www.rte.ie/player/ie/show/10063750/

Joe and Jack episode

Joe and Jack on RTE Two.
Note: RTE's website will keep only 15 episodes available at a time so the link in this post is outdated now.

Finally one of the Joe and Jack episodes I worked on as an intern (in Affinity Tech) this summer was aired on RTE 2 last Thursday (September 13). It's nice to see the whole episode and make sense of the scenes I worked on. I've got a few good seconds of animation in there: 3:24-3:31, 5:41-5:43, 5:54-6:03 but my favorite bit is the one at 5:27 - 5:32. We had a good laugh about that in the studio. Thanks every one there (especially Mick, Joe and Graham). Looking forward to seeing the rest of the episodes we worked on.

Render try out

I was watching one of Gil Rimmers' DVD on character design and I really like his sketchy render of his grayscale studies. Here's my attempt at the same rendering technique in PS. His theme was boxers at the turn of the 20th century.

Stealth

On Vimeo: stealth

Another short exercise in Max 2012 using the same free rig.