Photocopy at Galway Film Fleadh

Our last year's film Photocopy has been selected for the Galway Film Fleadh! The Festival will be taken place between 6th to 11th of July, I'm not sure about the exact day of screening yet.

Old Stuff (part 2)

Some stills and early renders from Photocopy, a film that I worked on in ADA1. Not too sure if I can put the film online yet, as that would forfeit its festival eligibility.

Old Stuff (part 1)

Thought I'd post some of my older work that I've gathered throughout the 5 years of college. Although, I don't think there is a single piece of work here from my first year of college. And the rest of these have gone through countless editorials and reviews. so perhaps it would be more accurate to call this a selection rather than collection. So here goes:

2006-2007 (CCHND 1)

Play Beyond

Modeled this in Cinema 4D, back before I even knew how to use 3DS Max. For those that do not know, this is Sony's Playstation 3 console. I'm a bit of a gamer and back in 2006 I was rather exited about the console coming out, so just for the heck of it, I modeled this, before the console was even out for sale, basing it only on the screenshot that I saw of the system.

Gesture Studies

Gesture drawings were never my strength, although I do feel that I've made some massive improvements in the area. Strangely enough, I find it much easier to do gesture using less conventional gesture tools, such as paints or chalk, as oppose to charcoal or pencil.

Paintings

Painting, a personal discovery on my part. I didn't expect to enjoy it as much as I did in CCHND 1 and 2. Its definitely something that I would love to come back to at some stage.

3D Haribo Sweets

Stills from a short advert that I was working on, with a few other people...

3D Layout

Back then, this was my biggest undertaking to date. And it was also then that I learned that iof I did all the modeling first and left all the texturing to the end...that would be a bad idea.

2007-2008 (CCHND2)

Colored Layout

This is probably my favorite 2D layout project that I've done, it is also the last one. I do hope to come back to doing some 2D work some day.

Walk Cycle

The character is a caricature of myself. I think it took me only about an hour to do this walk-cycle, and I haven't really done much 2D animation since then.

Showreel 27/05/10

Tried to mainly concentrate on my film work for this showreel. I'd appreciate and and all feedback I can get on it though...

Boom and Title

So, I came up with a place to put the title of the film, all in all, it will be appearing in the 4th scene of the movie, which is a bit strange, I suppose, but it will hopefully turn out ok.



And here are some of the high-action scenes, with explosions and stuff.

KABLAMO!

Found a nice little method for doing explosions in 3DS Max. No particles, volumetric lights or expensive plug-ins required, plus it renders pretty damn fast too. Here is the tutorial from youtube of how it can be used, although, personally I find tht it doesn't really work that well if you're going for the realistic look. Since, with Spark, I'm going really cartoony, I think this method will work nicely.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRyFJ9kK1ko

TV Show

So I decided to have a little robot-themed tv show on the TV screen in the 2nd flashback. Animated in After Effects, surprisingly took a bit longer then expected. But I like it now, for the simple animation it is...