Sleepy Hallow

Did a picture for the Boulder Art Blog that I'm contributing to. The theme was witchy women and the Tim Burton 'Sleepy Hallow' sprung to mind. Its a film where practically all the female characters are witches so its no wonder I thought of it.

This is the two witch sisters in the woods when then meet the Hessian and future headless horseman.

Sketchbook Page

 

I have been drawing a lot into my sketchbook and then going back and watercolouring all the drawings I liked. This is just an example of one page but its hard to scan them all for posting.

Here is some more drawings of the bunny on the top left of the page above. I'm calling the bun 'Mun' for now.
 

Froggy

Hopefully this green won't hurt your eyes.

I am hoping to start updating more often as I started to have a bit of free time after a busy month moving countries (again). Stuttgart is my new home for the next 6 months or so :)

Tschüss!

Marmalade

 
 

It's funny, I still find myself drawing Marmalade years after I finished my graduate film. You can even see her in the previous post! Guess I feel she has a lot more potential.

Trying out a different design with her here. Done in photoshop but based on the pencil sketch here.

Also, this is my 100th post! hooray for wasting time on the internet :D

Tumbling

If you wonder what I'm up to inbetween blog posts you can see over on my new tumblr for all you hipster folk. I'm going to keep it for rougher and random sketches. The proper stuff still goes up here :)

Heres a sample of some of the nonsense (nonsense, nonsense!) thats been going on over there.

Keepfit Cabbage

Bit of animation here. This is a chap me and Ciaran thought up one day in a silly mood. He's a keepfit cabbage and he's a serious jogger.

Also if you like please check out my short films, I've posted the links to them on the right hand side. Thanks! :)

Painted Presents

I made two little painted pictures to give as presents recently. Octopus & bumblebee. Good combination.

done with watercolours and a pen :)

Little Watercolour Monster

Some watercolour sketches of the Little Monster I posted before. The small drawings are really wee.

ASF

I have begun an interesting course called Animation Sans Frontières. It is a training programme that brings together lots of different animation people from across the EU. The idea is to develop a project, to learn about how you can get it funded and bring it to the stage where it can be pitched at a professional level.

The first module, which is already complete, was at the Filmakademie in Ludwigsburg, Germany. I learned a lot and met some great people. I'm now looking forward to the next segment in Budapest!

Sketches of a couple of things I have been working on at the ASF.

New Showreel

It's been a while since I did a showreel so I though I'd put one together.
Take a look at what I've been up too...

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Little update: coloured some drawings that were on my computer. The little boy is from the previous post and the little bean is just that.. a little bean.

Sketches

Some drawings I drew while in Denmark.

Tea Fae

"Here, have a cup of tea" is one of the greatest sentences ever said out loud.

This is a little commission I did for a friend. It should be pretty self evident from the title whats going on. Watercolour and pen and stuff.

Apple Blossom Fae

I realise this is bordering on the kitsch but.... Ok I don't actually have an excuse other then I like it. Its nice to be watercolouring again too.

Little Monster

A scary little monster that I started doodling the other night. He's eyes are a little wonky.

Snufkin

I visited Sweden recently hence moomin interests.

Thanks Niclas :)

Ninoo

I made this for my final project at the 3D character animation course in the Animation Workshop, Denmark. It 's a professional 15 week course to learn Maya from scratch. I really enjoyed it there and met some wonderful people, my classmates, teachers and others in the college.

I spent a week travelling Sweden when I had finished and got to meet Niclas in real life, much to the envy of everyone! I even got hugs, it was aces.

(ninoo is playing in this weekly screen of stuff near brick lane, London this monday if anyone is near there and bored.)

Just a little update.

This is an ink drawing I had in a sketchbook. Little fishermen.

Getting on well in Denmark, we're on to the last project on the course now. I might put up the animatic I made for my final project soon.

Looking forward to a little trip to Sweden too :)

Dancing

Its good to dance.

Watch Donkey online!

My film Donkey is finally online on the Irish Film Board media hub here: http://www.thisisirishfilm.ie/shorts/donkey

Its great that the short is now available online for everyone to see along with my Colour Contamination film. It extends the life of the shorts past film festivals.

Thanks for looking :)