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May 23, 08:16 AM
Yooooo, Been up to my eyes lately so im gonna post a couple of things of mine that are mine and not under NDA ( most of my drawing lately is owned by somebody else hence the lack of posts) sooooo here we go.
I was asked to do a new page of The Hip Hop Opotamus book I did for Brent Pope. Looks like he might be able to get Jedward to be involved so I did an extra page of the book featuring the Jedward Meerkats! I posted up the inks of this on twitter and a lot of people guessed who they were without any hints whatsoever so I suppose that's a job well done. That hair cut is just so iconic I guess you could give anyone a fringe like that and people would guess that they're Jedward.
This one is an ICN noodler guest post. I was asked by the very cool and very talented Gary Reynolds (go here to check out his new character 'BLU i' on his blog) to do a spot again! I was very happy to. It was around the time that Maurice Sendak past away. I'm a late comer the book and the work of Maurice Sendak but felt compelled to do a tribute all the same.
And this something I did yesterday. If you haven't read "I Kill Giants' by Joe Kelly and J. M. Ken Niimura, then you really need to. It's an awesome book and Barbara Thorson is a great character, I can't believe more people aren't talking about her and this book. She's such a likeable character and she has some of the best dialogue I've read in a long while.
Anyways I hope the 3 pics cover me for being slow to post so until next post, G'luck!
May 03, 02:14 PM
Yooo, so long time no post.
Apologies, time at the drawing board outside of work has been tough to find. Buuuuuuuuut I did do this last week.
It's the culmination of a number of warm up sketches and about 2 hours of cleaning it up after work one day. I drew it for my Brothers missus Maria, she was sound enough to draw me one for my birthday back in December so I thought it would be cool to repay the favour.
First time I've ever drawn Tank Girl, I'm a big fan of Jamie Hewlett, so I'm pretty sure subconsciously I drew her in a way that's more reminiscent of his style than anyone else.
She's a lot of fun I'll def be drawing her more. She's pretty outrageous so you can do a lot of fun stuff, originally I was going to have her light her cigar off of her pants as they were still on fire/burning and upon reflection I'm raging I didn't do that. But pretty happy with it all the same.
March 25, 12:12 PM
Hi all so here's something I've wanted to post up for a while now. This is,
Carmen Sandiego Adventures in Math: The Island of Diamonds
It's a career highlight for me since this is a cartoon I used to watch when I was younger. It was also my first gig as a character designer aaaaand this game is on the Wii, the first major console I can say that I have a product on. Well its not 'my' product, but I got a little slice of that production pie, and it was tasty. Here's hoping for more character design jobs, they're a lot of fun. And more work with the HMH crew, they were great. Here's just a taste of some of the characters I did, I did quite a lot but I'm only going to post up a few.
You'll notice this style is far more realistic than I usually do, just shows that you have to be fluent to some degree, it's still that two-tone style that I'm used to so that really suited me. I guess all those figure studies I do really paid off for there. It really tested my posing as well, as all the characters had to have a 'waiting at the bus stop' kind of feel, so no big outrageous poses and something more passive was needed.I feel like I still managed a good variety
If you want to check out the trailer for the game go to the Nintendo website here you'll spot some of my designs throughout, along with work by,
Gary Reynolds
Wang Zhuo
Viv Duignan
Tommie Kelly
Stephen Mooney
So I guess there's nothing left to do now than advise you all to go out and buy the game! Go buy the game :P
All this work is © 2012 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
February 27, 04:40 PM
Just testing out my new Blogger iPhone app. Here's some figure studies and a Hulk doodle I posted up on twitter a little while ago.
Here's an old doodle of the Hulk. Think I drew this while waiting for some feedback on some boards
Messed up the likeness on this but happy enough with it
This guy just seemed happy that it was sunny day
February 26, 02:34 PM
Hi Folks!
I got asked to do an ICN Noodler post by my friend and amazing artist Gary Reynolds
Please visit ICN if you don't know of it it's an awesome website.
So here it is, did a fantasy type piece. It features a Dire (Thanks for that idea Mark, loads better than the werewolf one) Wolf, Dire Warrior and a Dire Princess.
I decided to put up my various stages of development here too. Here's the roughs
Here's my digital inks, and what I submitted to ICN. I had every intention to paint it up for ICN but unfortunately I just couldn't find the time.
At this stage I think a lot about line quality and my use of black. At the moment I'm really enjoying using deep pools of black and leaving just enough of the shape in there so the viewer can make out where things start and end.
I enjoy this stage a lot, there's something almost meditative about inking.
And here's the final piece, managed to find the time yesterday to get stuck into painting it. Just got stuck in really, threw caution to the wind, I have more fun with it that way. It took me a little longer than usual to paint this, I had to make a new palette and being partially colour blind this tends to be a long trial and error process. Fun all the same tho.
Tried to give the sense of this being a Dire Princess, with her loyal pet Dire Wolf and her trusty royal guard. I don't usually approach 'fantasy' art but I was looking at a lot of Frazetta lately and well that guy just cant help but inspire.
Hope you all like!
February 13, 01:42 PM
Yo so here's a pic of the Plaque I designed for a mate of mine. My mates trainer and close friend had a surprise birthday party and my mate and the guys at the gym got together and organised this Plaque.
I was given a pretty cool theme, something along the lines of 'The Last Irish Warrior' with some Samurai influence to it for good measure. It was a fun easy gig to do, I'd be happy to do some more.
My mate and his trainer do Mugendo, if you don't know about it you should check it all out here, it's a class Martial Art. And the guys training here are some of the best.
Just got this photo the other day, I hadn't seen the final result until now. Well happy with how it turned out and more importantly my mate ( the client) was too!
Thanks for the gig Fergal
I was given a pretty cool theme, something along the lines of 'The Last Irish Warrior' with some Samurai influence to it for good measure. It was a fun easy gig to do, I'd be happy to do some more.
My mate and his trainer do Mugendo, if you don't know about it you should check it all out here, it's a class Martial Art. And the guys training here are some of the best.
Just got this photo the other day, I hadn't seen the final result until now. Well happy with how it turned out and more importantly my mate ( the client) was too!
Thanks for the gig Fergal
February 25, 12:55 PM
So it's been a while since I posted anything. Believe me I have good reasons but lets get started with some new posts. Since I haven't had the time to do any finished or digital work outside of the studios/jobs I'm working in at the mo, I'm going to post up drawings from my sketchpad to keep the blog more active. These drawing range from good to fail, some are just ideas, me exploring a shape anything really. So here goes a few doodles and I'll talk about em as I go. If you follow me on twitter, you'll have seen most of these before but there are some new ones that I've only done in the last day or so that I haven't tweeted or anything with other than post here. Hope you like.
These three heads are three figure studies I did while waiting for a friend. Goes to show it's always handy to keep a sketchbook with you at all times. these range from about 3 to 5 mins
Just wouldn't be a sketchbook of mine without some Spidey doodles
Another figure study. Saw this guy on the bus, pretty happy with the shapes I used in this. And considering it was drawn on the bus, pretty happy with the line quality too.
Random eye in my Pad... my 'eyePad' a hur hur hur
Seen this guy reading the paper on the bus. I was really pushed for time on this one as I almost had to get off at my stop, pretty happy with it tho even if it is rushed
I was watching 'How to Train Your Dragon' thought I'd have a go at drawing sum vikings. I don't really like this sketch myself but its been received really well on twitter. I'll be drawing more Vikings so! This is Pro-markers, tippex pen and a sharpie
Two more people who I actually see pretty regularly on my bu. Always keep that sketchbook handy
Some swallow studies. African or European, that's up to yo. Some prelim studies for a tattoo design I'm working on.
More figure studies, people I drew while waiting around in town. That woman actually had a freaky long neck
Some doodles I did in front of the telly
Another tattoo design I'm working on
Some more telly doodles. When I finished drawing this guy on the left I realised he looked really pervy, so I gave him something to perv on.
Been watching Supernatural, I dig this show so here's Bobby and a Leviathan... and a strange dark figure cloaked in shadow
Another telly doodle, quite happy with this one, I reckon I'll ink it up soon
This is a submission for the collective thinking blog. the theme was 'The 7 Deadly Sins" I went with a pretty Wrathful Hulk. He's choking the security guard for letting Rick Jones into the testing grounds, Banner is watching in the background.
Been having some crazy dreams lately about the Witch from Left for Dead chasing me down Patrick street in Dun Laoghaire. Its good for me that zombies don't know any Ju Jitsu, but she packs a crazy amount of cardio, she never stops running.
Tried something new here, not ecstatic about this one yet, but I want to bring this into PS and paint it up.
and here's the last one. This is Jack the Ripper. Poor composition here, really missed my marquee tool and paste option, but i do like the idea. I'll draw up some more of these soon and get em all right.
Here we go, more posts soon! Maybe even tomorro!
December 03, 09:14 AM
yooooooooo
Long time no post, apologies, I've up to my eyes in work for the past while and very happy to be able to say that. I've got a tonne of these types of sketches at the ready, been doing some traditional work for a spell now as my Wacom is left in studio most of the time.
Here's Marcus, I'm going to paint this up in a similar fashion to my Cuchulainn post. stay tuned, I havent gone anywhere, I'll blitz the blog with posts around Christmas!
Long time no post, apologies, I've up to my eyes in work for the past while and very happy to be able to say that. I've got a tonne of these types of sketches at the ready, been doing some traditional work for a spell now as my Wacom is left in studio most of the time.
Here's Marcus, I'm going to paint this up in a similar fashion to my Cuchulainn post. stay tuned, I havent gone anywhere, I'll blitz the blog with posts around Christmas!
October 11, 11:44 AM
Due to the last few months being kinda mental I'm getting back into a comic I started. I tweeted some of the designs a while back. Here's page 1 it's still in progress but I just wanted to post it. More so because now that I've blogged it I'll definitely see it through. It's written by a good friend of mine Eamonn O'Neill, check out his work here he's an amazing writer.
What we see here is Jim, a detective based in Dublin and Skull Boy, a person that only Jim can see and interact with. The story begins with a pretty major event in Jim's life, he's just had to shoot a young boy in order to stop him from blowing up himself and everyone else in and around the school. The story follows Jim as he tries to get over the whole situation, while dealing with an extremely violent group of 'soldiers'. I'm being vague on purpose, I'll sell it better when I have more to show.
It's a great story and promises a lot. As ever Eamonn's dialogue is pure genius. I'll keep u all updated with it as the comic starts to take shape.
October 06, 12:30 PM
And as always I tried something new here too. I reversed my halftone dots, so instead of using the actual dots themselves I used the area around them. Just thought it would give me a more 'square-er' feel when sorting out the building silhouette.
I had a lot of fun with this one. I kept it B&W for obvious reasons. Since the theme was about birds I tried my best to keep them as much a character as Black and White are in this piece. I like the idea of the crow resting on blacks club and White playing with the only dove in the whole city.
White's imagination is a great element to play with. In the film about half the things he's interacting with aren't really there and some times he just floats in mid air. I thought I'd have him play with a dove that may or may not actually be there, that's up to you.
I'll blog again soon, laters!
September 28, 08:07 AM
Hi folks,
Here's an update on the blog that isn't just from the Collective Thinking Blog. Brent Pope got in contact with me again to produce a Christmas card for the National Children's Hospital in Tallaght. I thought I'd throw a non 'texty' version up on the blog, just the illustration itself. Here's George Hook and Brent Pope with their snowman. Hope you like.
Merry Christmas!
Ben
August 27, 06:43 AM
Okay so it's another collective thinking blog post and it's another new style im trying out. I tried it with Spidey last month but I couldn't really get my head around it, I think it's starting to click with me now though. As soon as I started painting over mistakes rather than erasing them it all started to work out. I'll definitely do a few more of these, I really enjoyed it, and it's always great to learn a new style. Lots o fun to do and pretty handy to have professionally.
Here is Cuchulainn. I freakin Love Cuchulainn! I've been drawing him and reading about him since before I can remember. But I've never drawn him like this. Actually before I drew this I would have thought it to be near blasphemy to produce something like this about Cuchulainn. Well here we are, the piece is finished and I actually kinda like it, so it cant be that blasphemous.
My original idea about this was to have a close up on him sitting down with "Gae Bolga" ingraved into his gun. Gae Bolga was the name of his spear, it was a weapon that pretty much killed whoever and smashed through whatever got in its way. I really wanted to involve it in my painting and since I've been looking at a load of Ashley Wood lately I thought what a better way to involve it than as a big honking robot. And with the Ashley Wood influence so to came the Steampunk style.
Hope you like it!Until the next post, laters!
Here is Cuchulainn. I freakin Love Cuchulainn! I've been drawing him and reading about him since before I can remember. But I've never drawn him like this. Actually before I drew this I would have thought it to be near blasphemy to produce something like this about Cuchulainn. Well here we are, the piece is finished and I actually kinda like it, so it cant be that blasphemous.
My original idea about this was to have a close up on him sitting down with "Gae Bolga" ingraved into his gun. Gae Bolga was the name of his spear, it was a weapon that pretty much killed whoever and smashed through whatever got in its way. I really wanted to involve it in my painting and since I've been looking at a load of Ashley Wood lately I thought what a better way to involve it than as a big honking robot. And with the Ashley Wood influence so to came the Steampunk style.
Hope you like it!Until the next post, laters!
September 22, 07:35 AM
Alright so i figured yesterday that my main idea for the this months post is taking me a little longer to crack, so on the odd chance that it takes me a little longer to figure out than the months deadline here's something I knocked out this morning.
I think I was only kid to prefer Leo over Raph, I just thought he was the best. and when i thought about it as I was drawing this, there are some Leo and Spidey character similarities, that maybe the reason why I love both those guys. But if anyone ever aks i'll say its cause Leo had swords! :)
Tried something new with this as well. I like the ink spatter and roughness of it all i reckon ill do more of these in the future and also go on to take em a lot further, watch this space.
The other post im working on is obviously Spidey (there's no way I'd be leaving him out), he'll be done in a different style alltogether
Go check out the rest of the posts under the same title here http://collectivethinkingblog.blogspot.com/
"Remember what master splinter thought us" - Leonardo
I think I was only kid to prefer Leo over Raph, I just thought he was the best. and when i thought about it as I was drawing this, there are some Leo and Spidey character similarities, that maybe the reason why I love both those guys. But if anyone ever aks i'll say its cause Leo had swords! :)
Tried something new with this as well. I like the ink spatter and roughness of it all i reckon ill do more of these in the future and also go on to take em a lot further, watch this space.
The other post im working on is obviously Spidey (there's no way I'd be leaving him out), he'll be done in a different style alltogether
Go check out the rest of the posts under the same title here http://collectivethinkingblog.blogspot.com/
"Remember what master splinter thought us" - Leonardo
July 06, 06:28 AM
Here's some illustrations I did for a new children's book called 'The Hip Hop Opotamus". It's in collaboration with Brent Pope, all is left is printing it. I'll be sure to give an update when its in the shops.
I did a pitch for a cartoon series of the same characters with a great bunch of people, I'll post up the finished bible and animations as soon as they all get the go ahead.
Please pick up the book it's for a good cause. Brent and I want to do it for a suicide prevention group, when we decide on the particular group I'll let you know and you can support em all you want by buying as many copies as you want ;).
Anyways I hope you like what you see, I posted up some more of the images, obviosuly i didnt post up all of em cause I want you to buy the book.
I'll in touch soon with the name of the charity that we have chosen, laters!
June 14, 07:56 AM
So I was pretty sly this month, managed to knock out a monthly post with a well over due favour for a friend of mine. My mate does a lot of racing and he asked me before Christmas would I do some kind of dinosaur design for his racing helmet. So months n months later here it is. Sorry mate, turns out I don't have as much time as I thought I did. At least u get the rest of the racing season out of it.
His racing helmet is white so I kept the bg white and the rest of his racing gear is red so, red felt like the right colour for the dinosaur.
Above is a test with a font and the bottom is a bigger version of the raptor for the blogs sake. Nice and early with the monthly post this month so anything else I post will be bonus points!
This is the main graph for the helmet I should get the finished design up after a bit more work with my m8, maybe by the end of the month... I've kept him waiting long enough.
Alright so below is iteration1. painted in a scale-ly texture on the dinosaur head just to bring a bit more life to it. Obviously its no longer gonna b a white helmet
June 11, 02:49 PM
Above is cartoon I saw last month, in and around the time the SEALS got Bin Laden (duh!). I just thought it was cool, so when anna picked the theme for this month, I thought I would do my own version of the piece. Just got informed that the artist of the original piece is J.D. Crowe. It's such a powerful piece.
Turned out referencing these two guys was pretty tuff, couldn't find the same Helmet that's in the original one, but while looking I saw that the SEALS also used another hat so I thought I'd use that one (I was also pressed for time). This is just my interpretation is all. I put the two towers in the BG cause thats pretty much what I saw when I looked at the original, it's almost like America is complete again... I dunno, The cartoon really worked for me, just hope I did some kind of justice to it.
Kinda found the time to do this one from my breaks away from complete frustration, went back to pencilling a few pages l8ly for my folio and one day it just wouldnt click (one of those days), I didn't give, I just turned to the monthly post for a breather. I kinda feel like moving away from something can usually lead to a break through as well, so here's hoping the breakthrough will come... still waiting.
I'll post those pages I'm pencilling up asap.
Also go check out the rest of the posts for this month here http://collectivethinkingblog.blogspot.com/ . theres a few up already and there will be more before the end of the day.
L8rs
Turned out referencing these two guys was pretty tuff, couldn't find the same Helmet that's in the original one, but while looking I saw that the SEALS also used another hat so I thought I'd use that one (I was also pressed for time). This is just my interpretation is all. I put the two towers in the BG cause thats pretty much what I saw when I looked at the original, it's almost like America is complete again... I dunno, The cartoon really worked for me, just hope I did some kind of justice to it.
Kinda found the time to do this one from my breaks away from complete frustration, went back to pencilling a few pages l8ly for my folio and one day it just wouldnt click (one of those days), I didn't give, I just turned to the monthly post for a breather. I kinda feel like moving away from something can usually lead to a break through as well, so here's hoping the breakthrough will come... still waiting.
I'll post those pages I'm pencilling up asap.
Also go check out the rest of the posts for this month here http://collectivethinkingblog.blogspot.com/ . theres a few up already and there will be more before the end of the day.
L8rs
August 26, 08:00 AM
here's a doodle from my sketchbook, was workin on a crazy hobo theme for the monthly blog post but work got int the way of me finishing it (a good complaint). but here's the doodle anyways, i was playing with the idea of one of those crunchy nut weirdos u see on the ads. this guy has just gotten so addicted to them he is now homeless, unshaven n unhealthy.
this is Eric. Eric was once a really successful business man, but now Eric has lost everything and has actually sold the shirt of his back just to get his hands on a box of crunchy nut corn flakes. he is now the worst kind of junkie... a crunchy nut, poor Eric
this is Eric. Eric was once a really successful business man, but now Eric has lost everything and has actually sold the shirt of his back just to get his hands on a box of crunchy nut corn flakes. he is now the worst kind of junkie... a crunchy nut, poor Eric
May 04, 10:44 AM
Here's some teasers of the kids book I'm working on for Brent Pope.
The above one i did for Brent, he brings round some of my art to readings for kids. The kids get him to sign the pictures so i did this one for him to sign rather than just have a page from the book.
This is a page, 3 of the boys wrassilin'!
Here's another page, sum monkey's making fun Of Hip hop
The above one i did for Brent, he brings round some of my art to readings for kids. The kids get him to sign the pictures so i did this one for him to sign rather than just have a page from the book.
This is a page, 3 of the boys wrassilin'!
Here's another page, sum monkey's making fun Of Hip hop
April 17, 09:17 AM
Hi folks,
Here's some work I did yesterday while winding down from Pegbar and blitzed in inspiration from The Book of Kells. I try do some figure studies as often as possible, but usually end up having my ambition being beaten up by a thing called life. But yesterday i got a chance and I took it. I really find that this kind of drawing exercise is really important and immediately you can find it helping you out in a number of ways. As David Colman says figure studies are as important to the artist as weightlifting is to the footballer. so here's some very rusty 'lifts'
no:1
no:2
Figure study - This girl was really summery, a back half slung over one shoulder and kept tugging on her cardigan, don't know why. She was standing around waiting for her bf to come back from the pay machine. its the only figure study that I'm posting up, the rest were pretty shocking. Used pen on this one, as it makes me more decisive with my line. which is kind of important when you're drawing people who aren't posing or know that they are being drawn.
no:3
Memory drawing - This dude saw me drawing people, he didn't approve soooooo i drew him... he looked angry
no:4
Memory Drawing - my favourite drawing of the day by a long shot. I left the carpark and did some drawing outside (it was actually nice out in Dublin) and when i did i saw this oul fella. He walked out of a shop and started rolling up a smoke. Not once did he actually look at what his hands were doing! not once! he just kept looking all around him n before u knew it he was smoking his way down Henry street. awesome. In my figure study i did something i thought was interesting where i scribbled in his legs while having no outline, didn't really carry that idea the way i wanted to in this sketch but here it is anyways
laters!
April 01, 09:01 AM
Hi folks here's this months monthly post, it's still a work in progress, I really rushed this so I reckon when I actually go to colour it I'll prob start from scratch again, I just put blacks and grey more so just to have something in to hit my monthly deadline. watch this space I'll prob do a full break down from start to finish with this post when its completed. Back soon
March 15, 06:19 PM
Here it is! our (Flip n Roll and Pegbar's) new studio in the media cube, massive big space, plenty of light, kitted out and rent free for one year! Boom! more pictures to follow as soon! theres a whole other side of the room!
aaaaaaand heres my home studio
still rockin the animation disc
aand the newest addition, band spanking new iMac. hanging up above it is stills from Spidey 2 and a signed Romita Snr and Alex Ross Spidey print. and of cource wanda wacom. and my big lebowski mouse mat... it really ties the room together
2 constant sources of inspiration
set up an-mhaith!
March 02, 07:07 AM
Hi folks!
a piece i did for the awesome artist Will Sliney for the Eclectic Micks Birthday is up! Go over to their blog and take a gander at their awesome posts and wish em a Happy Birthday! http://eclecticmicks.blogspot.com/
a piece i did for the awesome artist Will Sliney for the Eclectic Micks Birthday is up! Go over to their blog and take a gander at their awesome posts and wish em a Happy Birthday! http://eclecticmicks.blogspot.com/
February 27, 06:14 PM
BIG NOSE BIG NOSE BIG NOSE! Okay this months post was really hard, struggled to find the time for it these were the best i could muster, by the by i submitted a piece to the eclectic micks blog for next week, if/when it goes up ill post it up here too, its a tad more interesting to look at than 28 sketches of myself, did my best with em to make it as interesting as possible tho.
laters
Ben
February 22, 06:34 AM
here's this months piece. turns out that as soon as the aliens come down and start to blitz us, the only thing you can depend on is you robot butler. Kinda liked the idea to this one, may do a short story or sumthin with it. Kept it black & white for that monster movie feel
be sure to check out the rest of the months posts on http://collectivethinkingblog.blogspot.com/
Also im posting up on a new blog as well. theres a load of cool short stories and poems on it, the dudes are sound enough to let me draw on their blog. You'll find them at http://inkkillers.blogspot.com/ check em out if u get the chance
January 28, 09:02 PM
Here's some very late posts for December, someone else in the group can pick a demotivational poster for me. really enjoyed doing this, i might revist it later on and tweak the ending a little. it was drawn in a big rush as i didnt have any free time before christmas. any kind of free time that i did have was spent getting christmas presents and general chrismassy stuff. and then during my hols i scored waaaaay more time off than i thought i would, so i spent it in Wexford, away from my laptop so i couldnt edit the drawings. then as soon as i got back up it was hell for leather, so im only posting it up now.
Any ways here's my Bad Santa, sending a load o fake santa dummies down chimneys, with loads o fake blood so he can scare the living crap of those on the bad list... and maybe the good list too.
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May 23, 03:20 PM
Week 8 of semester 2. My new assignment is of Stewie climbing over a wall. I was pretty happy with my blocking pass
May 08, 08:16 AM
This is my re-blocked pass of my assignment for Animation Mentor last week. The final animation will be done for next weekend, but since I haven't posted in a while, here is my current pass. Needs some work still, but I'm happy with the basic animation.
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December 01, 11:03 AM
Here's a low quality render of the flash animation I produced for Meetings in the Jungle. I did the pre-production, and post-production. The asset building and animation was done by myself, Brian O Shea and Joe Maher. Sound and music was created by Robert Spencer and Brian Boylan. Opening and Closer screens were designed by Eamon Cassidy
October 20, 07:12 AM
Nichola Kehoe’s Showreel Takes All The Right Steps
So surprised and delighted with Charles Kenny's review of my new showreel that it gets a post on my blog!
So surprised and delighted with Charles Kenny's review of my new showreel that it gets a post on my blog!
October 18, 10:02 AM
This is my latest showreel. It is predominantly Flash animation with some After Effects and 2D as well. Hope you like it ;)
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I went to the Greg McGuire Cinemagic animation workshop. We were put into groups, I was with Maureen and Shahed. We had to design a creature and either draw it or model it with play-doh. We designed Steve the Hig (a hamster-pig). He was then scanned into the computer. It was a fantastic class. I had a lot of fun!
December 27, 07:10 AM
iloveblackrock.ie from Daniel Spencer on Vimeo.
Ben – Designs and story boards
Niki- Modeling and Animation
Niall – Modelling and Animation
Anna – Background Colours and Textures
Myself – Modeling and Animation
Brian Boylan and Rob Spencer – Music
This was part of our submission to the 'I Love Blackrock' competition. I worked on this part. We won the competition so 2011 is off to a great start and Im very excited :)
We won a space in the media cube for a year, rent free
http://www.mediacube.ie
December 14, 04:52 PM
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Untitled from niki-kehoe on Vimeo.
I've been working on 'Jungle XFactor' with Ben Hennessy (bennessy.blogspot.com) Dan Spencer (danielspencer.ie/blog) and Anna O Sullivan (sunnysully.blogspot.com)
Ben was director and designer.
Dan was animator, sound/music engineer and compositor.
Anna worked on the backgrounds.
I was an animator on the project.
I animated these scenes and some more that were edited out in the final edit:
November 08, 06:00 AM
A few of us have gotten together to do a project where every month we pick a theme and do something artistic in response.
Here's the new blog
http://collectivethinkingblog.blogspot.com
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October 12, 09:16 AM
well Ill start the long awaited blog.... now how to figure out how to post pictures......
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Flip N’ Roll is an Animation/Multimedia Co-Op. Flip N’ Roll’s members are Niall Gillespie, Ben Hennessy, Nichola Kehoe, Anna O’Sullivan & Daniel Spencer. Each member holds their own reputable history and client base. As a collective we intend to broaden our abilities by using one another’s specialties on bigger and more challenging projects. Flip N’ Roll offer a number of services including Character Design, Storyboards, Graphic Design, Animation, Motion Graphics and Flash Development.
