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Coda Concepts

2012-01-24T12:18:00.002Z

Busy times. These are some early concepts that were done for presentational purposes
a while back on Alan Holly's, 'Coda.' (Character drawings by Alan)

Kerry

2011-10-21T01:31:00.001+01:00

I've just started working on a new film with Alan Holly (Director) and Rory Byrne.

We went down to Kerry to storyboard for a week. These are some images from that trip.

The Long Walk Home

2011-10-18T23:41:00.005+01:00

Film related concept image on a new project

Day Off

2011-09-23T01:53:00.002+01:00

I had the day off today, so I made a drawing for a friend. This is how it turned out.

Keeping it Simple

2011-09-18T05:10:00.004+01:00

Images from a series of illustrations / animations done for the good folks over at AAD
for the National Adult Literacy Agency

Site Characters

2011-08-12T04:40:00.001+01:00

I made these months ago and apparently hadn't posted them / took the post down.

They were originally characters for animated gifs for a website.

Underwater Accident

2011-06-08T22:58:00.003+01:00

Working with your mates is pretty much as good as it gets.
This is a small part of a background image that got away.

Dear Land Lord

2011-05-05T13:35:00.001+01:00

More Film related imagery and playing with type

Floating

2011-04-20T05:47:00.002+01:00

Sound

2011-04-18T16:56:00.008+01:00

I've just moved into a new studio space with some friends. It looks like this. Well happy.

Something else

2011-01-20T15:57:00.007Z

Something small from something bigger

Commercial Concerns

2010-11-13T08:14:00.010Z

Some work in progress imagery from a freelance CG project. Beer eh?

Music Promo development

2010-10-19T14:10:00.006+01:00

Music promo sting, style frames/development imagery

Colour Sketches

2010-09-17T14:14:00.017+01:00

Female character design sketch/mock up for a potential series of illustrations

Further design roughs below

Nothing Steady

2010-07-09T19:54:00.002+01:00

Personal project development image.

Eircom

2010-06-04T14:23:00.009+01:00

These are some stills from various stages (style frames - final comp) of an Eircom ad I worked on a few months back. I never got around to posting them. Apologies to anyone who's seen this guy around a lot lately... My role on this was 2d Design / Animation and Compositing

Sharp As The Knife

2010-06-02T23:07:00.005+01:00

This is from something of my own I started a while back but never came back to quite yet.

Jim

2010-05-06T17:44:00.009+01:00

Style frame with one of the initial character designs, as a pitch for some press material. I do like this one

This Is No Game

2010-04-21T23:22:00.008+01:00

Roughed up concept image for a short film, I really hope this one gets made

Family

2010-04-15T01:48:00.010+01:00

Initial Character Designs for a Commercial pitch, using simple geometric shapes and brand colouring. They said no thanks, but I still quite like them anyway.

The Lighthouse Keeper

2010-04-07T18:39:00.012+01:00

Initial character design for Fastnet Film Festival Trailer. Everyone loves a lone fisherman do they not? Arrr

Cold Spring / Warm Colours

2010-03-13T16:04:00.006Z

Haven't posted much up here of late, I'll try to get around to it over the next couple of weeks.... This is an image from an idea that has been sitting idly on my computer between jobs.

Winter

2010-02-16T16:17:00.024Z

I spent my winter in Dublin where I got to do some design & animation work with uber hip purveyors of fine imagery: D.A.D.D.Y.

Above are images from some of the work I was doing there. At the bottom; work in progress stuff, above that some of the final images used in the T.V. ads. At the very top are some more work in progress images made for a pitch they were putting together.

...and yes that is a big, dubious and familiar "M"

VFX & Compositing Reel 09

2009-10-06T18:20:00.011+01:00

This is a Reel containing work made in the past year whilst studying in MA Digital Effects 08/09 in the NCCA, UK.

All work was completed by myself, except the second shot, (00:31 - 00:44) where my role was the work on the birds, compositing and colour grading.

Softare used: Houdini, Shake, Nuke and Photoshop.

Music: Múm - Marmalade Fires

Related link: Cg Whiz Competition

Growing Sculptures

2009-07-27T09:45:00.012+01:00

A still from a project I was working on.

Colour Tests

2009-07-07T03:05:00.012+01:00

Graded footage stills from MA project. Thanks to the lads from back home for helping out as extras!

Practical Characters Comparison

2009-06-29T19:05:00.007+01:00

Updated characters to be created practically and shot on green screen to
add to the comp. I made this for generating cutting patterns, final scale and colour reference.

Escape From The City

2009-06-10T22:23:00.014+01:00

I made this character as part of my idea pitch for my masters project, and took these various photos of it in basic situations as visual reference, to give some indication how a CG character might appear in similar setups and help sell the idea as a whole...

Audio Driven Animation

2009-06-10T21:25:00.013+01:00

chops test from Ronan McMeel on Vimeo.

This is a test that came about from a course personal inquiry into an area of interest: audio driven animation. It's not light matched or integrated properly, just an r&d test with CHOPs networks in Houdini, using the audio stream to procedurally drive the animation. I read through Andrew Lowell's excellent book: "Simultaneous Music, Animation, and Sound with Houdini," to produce this effect. Check him out, http://www.andrew-lowell-productions.com/

Music by Junior Boys.

Escher Exercise

2009-04-04T00:38:00.013+01:00

MA Digital Effects, Term 2 group project. An interpretation of M.C. Escher's, 'reptiles,' shown at the bottom.

Central image; the original footage shot on set.

Top image; a still from the final composite, with added CG elements.

Made with James Roberts, Dave Schott & Frank Dumont

Dry For Wet

2008-12-07T08:00:00.007Z

Still from final composite.

Still from original backplate footage

MA Digital Effects, Term 1 project. A roughed out concept image.

Blue

2008-09-03T09:30:00.015+01:00

"Blue," Designed and Animated by myself over the last two and a half months, for the good people at Flickerpix, as part of their, "Days Like This," series commissioned by the BBC.

Audio provided. Temp score. Titles and Credits to be added.

Photoshop and After Effects.

check Flickerpix for more details

Further imagery from BLUE below:

Doodling Between Renders

2008-08-05T20:24:00.003+01:00

Anywhere But...

2008-04-30T15:06:00.001+01:00

Greedy Bird

2008-04-24T17:06:00.001+01:00

Forgotten

2008-03-19T17:50:00.008Z

seasick steve was at a loss. so he grew a beard. he was moving at 15 knots with nowhere to go. above, his skin caked and peeled in the sun, heat inflammed his whiskey nose. but below, he was below. below decks, below sea level and yet it remained beneath him to admit his defeat through loneliness. he sat for some time in his empty store. when he'd pick up radio signals, they were always in an asian language now, and their music pierced at his apathetic ear. so at night, steve, in all his haggered salty being, would take his guitar and under a bare lightbulb, he sang of his woes to any creature in the dark who would pause for concern.