Character design development. The bottom image of Isabelle is really where I want to go with it.

More Isabelle concepts. Some colour work this time. Isabelle with blonde hair and a red dress (both done in watercolour, watercolour crayon and charcoal pencil) and Emily in the purple dress and brunette hair

'Isabelle': film conceptual work

Quick sktech of Isabelle making daisy chains. 'Isabelle' was a short film pitch about a primary school girl who was being bullied because she was so tall

Baby Ahoy!

I compressed this to nothingness! But you get the gist!!!! Last years film.

Life update!

Havent been on blogger in months. Now in my final year in college. Just at the conceptual stage of my film. Also writing a dissertation at the same time. Its all go!

Oscar in his fish

Finished scene i animated in my college short film

Baby Ahoy test screening

This is the film I am directing in college at the moment. My team mambers are Bruno & Brian. This clip was a team effort. ......Films are hard work!!!!!!!!!!

Its just a quick cycle of Oscar, the baby, in his imagaination, riding on the back of his toy caterpillar across a tree trunk in a forest. It has mistakes in the animation and colour, but you get the idea!!!

oscar and frog

This is Oscar and frog. They are my characters for the film this year, which I am working on with Bruno and Brian. Well under way with production at this stage. Only 7 weeks left!

characters-work in progress

Just working on a film idea for my degree next year. Starting to work on character designs now too. A LOT of work still needed, but definately a start.

portrait

portrait using a palete knife and black & white acrylic paint

hands

Black & white oil pastel, black oil bar and black & white acrylic

feet

black & white feet using acrylic paints, black & white oil pastel and black oil bar

Another abstract experimentation

Lying down pose. Using black & white acrylic paint and a palate knife.

Abstract painting

This is the biggest painting I've ever done! Its over five feet tall! Anatomically its not accurate but I'm still proud of it!

Gesture in oil bars

Quick gestures in oil bar

Proud standing pose

Quick standing pose

Lighting in life drawing

I was aiming for a kind of subtle atmosphere in this piece. The lighting was very strong and the model seemed kind of sad and lonely holding the teddy. I tried to capture some mood.

vibrant colour life drawing

Life drawing is an essential element to the animation course I'm studying in. This year is a year to be more experimental with media, composition and colour and there is less focus on getting the anatomy perfect because we've been working on that for 3years. In this piece I tried to be bolder with my colour palate.

Time to Blog!

Totally new to this whole 'blogging' business. Hoping to meet some people, see some art, learn some art related things, get some feedback on my work, that sort of thing. Im in my fourth year (of five) in The Irish School of Animation in Ballyfermot. Making my film this year and hoping to be finished pre-production very soon. Thats keeping me and my team pretty busy at the moment.