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.

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 :)

Flower Faerie

This is a bit of a cross post from my plushie blog. I did a commission recently for a friend (pre-denmark!) of one of my own designs. It was great to be able to make it and a bit of a challenge with the eyes.

Interviews

Did a couple of interviews recently about my art and plushies. Here's the one I did with @rcade and another I did for deviantart.
Check them out if you're interested.

In other news I'm heading to Denmark in a couple of weeks (for whole four months). I have so much to do, plushies to finish, move house, and pack everything into two bags.
Also, I keep losing t-shirts. This one for example:

Its been lost to the t-shirt gods.

2011 - Year of the Bun

What a great excuse to draw more buns. This time they are making peace/rabbit ears/'11 sign.
Used a bit of ref and a bit of imaginations for these.

The King Plush

So I got around eventually to making the King plushie that I blogged about here before. I was really looking forward to making him and I'm liking the way he turned out. I made him so that he can be hung on a wall to display him properly.

I did mean to take photos as I was sowing but completely forgot about that. Still, here he is in all his regal glory.
For sale now in my etsy (US) and dawanda (EU) shop

Flapjack

Flapjack is the best! Out of the briny blue yesterday I started drawing flapjack and k'nuckles.