Indy doodle

Just a day behind on this week's Tuesday doodle - for the Irish Sketch Society again - a quick Indian Jones...

Holy Doodle, Batman

No doodles for two weeks - sorry about that - work has been crazy, plus I've been writing when ehat little spare time I have. So here's a quick Batman that I did for the Irish Sketch Society on facebook. Tis the Bat Man... (biro and tippex on paper)

Final life doodle

Here are some my latest drawings from the final of Niall Laverty's Gesture Drawing for Animation course - it's been another great course, that went by too quickly!

Stand Up for Life Drawing

More Life drawings - this time standing poses...

Figure doodles

More from Niall Laverty's Gesture Drawing class. This week I invested in an A3 sized brown paper pad - which meant I got to have fun with black and white chalk!

More Life Doodlin'

No post last week - apologies for that - work is pretty crazy at the moment - not too crazy to find time to get a little bit of life drawing done. These are 2-5 min poses using charcoal and felt tip pen for a change!)

Also in case you don't know we've put up Episode 2 of the Flipped Animation Podcast (feat. Sony story artist/director Fergal Reilly) - www.flippedpodcast.com

Life doodles

More life drawing doodles from a new term of Niall Laverty's Gesture Drawing for Animators class in Trinity. Didn't get too many great drawings out of the evening, but, you know, first day back at it...

Hydey-Hi

This Tuesday's post is late again - sorry about that. Here's a sketch of a Mr Hyde type character I did for a class I'm teaching to students at the Irish School of Animation. I'm teaching the (2D animation software) CelAction. - we've been rigging this fella - which explains the not too pretty T pose!

Pirate doodle

Here's this weeks sketchblog entry - the theme was the "easy going rogue" _ at least I thought it was! Also, if you haven;t already - please check out my new Irish Animation podcast "Flipped" - www.flippedpodcast.com

A Quick Digi

Completely forgot to post this yesterday. A quick digi-doodle for the drawing blog - the topic was "The Spiritual Assassin"

Random Tuesday

I've been rushed off me feet with work at the moment - intense, but exciting stuff. Here's a slightly older character design for these weeks doodle...

Random Sketch Book Page

Happy New Year 2013 - hopefully this year will be a happy, healthy and busy one for you all. It's already shaping up to me interesting for me - I'm working on an animation podcast - the first episode of which should be released by the end of January - so watch out for that! In doodles this week, I've scanned in a random page of a sketch book...

Top 10 Films of 2012

So it's that time for the year again. Here's a run down of my favourite films of the year - bearing in mind that I didn't see

all the best film 'contenders'

10. Skyfall

Back to basics and some much more - ticked all the Bond boxes and looked brilliant.

9. Margin Call

Taught, thriller(ish) filled with moral ambiguity and great performances

8. Wrinkles

Moving Spanish animated feature

set in an old peoples' home

7. The Imposter

Almost unbelievable documentary about a man pretending to be something he's not...

6. The Descendants

Excellent, slightly low key drama - wonderfully put together

5. Paranorman

Brilliant stop motion combining 80s adventure with 70s horror, great humour and fantastic animation

4. Argo

A fantastic story that manages

to perfectly balance drama, tension and humour

3. The Raid

Makes you wish all martial arts movies were as good as this

2. Moonrise Kingdom

Fantastic, charming, funny Wes Anderson flick.

1. Martha Marcy May Marlene

Creepy, haunting, extraordinary story of life in a cult - outstanding performance from Elizabeth Olsen.

A few special mentions in the following categories:

In the 'Not As Bad As They Say' category...

John Carter of Mars

Prometheus

In the 'Every Bit As Bad As They' Say...

The Man with the Iron Fists

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

and finally in the 'Not As Good as They Say' category...

The Hobbit

The Master

Shame

Here's to a good film year 2013 - see you on the other side with more doodles!

Merry Christmas

Happy Christmas to all... hope you have a great holiday and normal doodle services will be resumed in the new year!

"Classic" Doodle

I've been busy with writing and boarding duties this week, so to keep the blog warm, here's one last post of design work from the Mr Ace video

Dark Doddle

This weeks offer for the sketchblog was "The Intimidating Musician" - I might have gone overboard with this the intimidating...

Ahem, er, Wednesday, doodle

Sorry folks, didn't get this posted yesterday, so here is this weeks Tuesday memorial doodle - form the sketchblog - The Jubilant Binman...

The Ace Man Cometh

So, for the last few months I've been making a music video for the horrendously talented Pale blu Jak, and finally it's finished!

Big thanks to Neil, Nicole and John for letting me do this little project for them and for agreeing to all my crazy ideas. And a special thanks to Graham Corcoran for the most of the background art and Jorge Ortiz and Bruce Ryder for helping out with the animation. Enjoy!

Sir Doodles of Tuesday

I've been all kinds of busy recently, so here's some notebook doodles for the ol blog this week

Sorry sir

A late blog entry (depending on your time zone I suppose!) this Tuesday. I've been ridiculously busy recently finishing a music video project I'm doing and so below is one of the designs of a squirrel operating a mechanical tree - as you do. Look out for the finished product very soon!

Tuesday the doodelth

This week sketch blog doodle ... The Aesthetic Anteater

Tewsday Doodle

This week's sketchblog effort. Theme was "the Short-tempered Clown"...