Firefighter

A quick effort sketching a firefighter.

Dog portrait

With some time off for Easter - two bank holiday weekends - I took a short camping trip. I also ended up dog sitting. Unusually the time off conincided with some unseasonably warm and dry weather. We treked in the Connemara National Park. If your visiting this part of the world do try to make your way there.
This was a photo I took of the dog after a little Photoshopping.

This image is how it started out.

Easter Bunny

Lolling Lizard

I  have kept working on the vectors and choose a lizard as the next unwilling victim.  I ended up with very much the same colour scheme as the last one but it was not intentional.

Lolling Lizard

Spring Sheep

Last Sunday was the first really spring day I got to enjoy. There may have been some earlier but as I work in a room with no windows I may have missed some. 

The fields were full of sheep and their lambs in sunshine. One of those days when it is just great being there.

Animation Shorts

The creation of an animation short is an interesting exercise.  Gone are the days when the cartoon was played alongside feature films in cinemas.  Instead these creations don't really have a readily recognisable forum or stage where they can find wide exposure. 

The form itself is interesting as it is usually the work of just a small group of people or maybe just one brave soul like students creating course work or a professional looking to explore personal boundaries.

This can mean that the vision is less likely to be diluted and daring it its execution.

The Internet has provided a place to show off these creations with some finding fame on the likes of You Tube.

An example of a personal project is Ryan Woodward used his considerable  gesture drawing skill  taking it to produce an evocative piece of animation The Thought of You.  There are more details on the process on his site http://conteanimated.com/

Thought of You from Ryan J Woodward on Vimeo.

This animation was created as a video for an Australian group the Audreys song Sometimes The Stars.


Sometimes the Stars from The Audreys on Vimeo.


There is an interview with  the director Ari Gibson and art director Jason Pamment here

Out of Sight   was  a graduation project by Yu Ya-ting, Yeh Ya-hsuan and Chung Ling from the Department of Multimedia and Animation Art at National Taiwan University of Arts.  It is a hand drawn imagining of the world perceived a blind girl.