Tuesday Teaser

Here's some designs for a little animation project I'm working on for the wonderful Pale blue Jak

Texturey doodle

Playing about with textures in the Photoshop....

Memory Sketch

Back in the Tuesday doodle vibe again finally with this bit o nonsense. Another "memory sketch" - remember someone on yer way into work and then get them down quickly when you get in. This sour looking lady was on the bus this morning - I can't remember if her skin was blue or not....

Le Best of Annecy 2012*

* Best of Wot I Saw

Yesterday I arrived home from another fantastic animation festival at Annecy. This year was particularlly special as Ireland was the spotlight country for the festival. Animation Ireland, The Irish Film Board and SDGI did a great job of promoting and putting together Irish events, retrospectives, exhibitions and of course parties!

On a personal level, this was lovely for me as I've only been back in Dublin working for a year and it finally gave me the opportunity to meet some of the wonderful folks from other studios around town.

Features

I got to see a few screenings and thought I post a couple of best stuff that I saw. Of the features, I saw and enjoyed The Lorax, Le Tableau, Zarafa and (having gone in to the screening, wanting to not like it) Madagascar 3.

The stand out film for me was the Spanish feature 'Wrinkles'

Shorts

I got to 3 out of the 5 shorts in competition screenings and saw and enjoyed this year's worthy winner 'Tram'

Below are a selction of other shorts that I really liked too...

The People Who Never Stop *teaser* from florian piento on Vimeo.

Second Hand from Isaac King on Vimeo.

Extracto de Lagrima from Carlo Vogele on Vimeo.

How to eat your Apple (teaser) from Erick Oh on Vimeo.

and finally the wonderful 'A Different Perpective' by Chris O'Hara

"A Different Perspective" Trailer from Chris O'Hara on Vimeo.

Other Bits n Bobs

There was as always lots of other stuff going on in the festival. With the Ireland focus going on, I nipped along to various Irish networking and special events - the one on Thursday featuring a moving speech from Tomm Moore. The culmination was a great night 'painting the town green' at Finn Kellys on Friday night - it was the party of the festival.

Most of the 'making ofs' were booked out by the time I got meself organised, but I did get along to an impressive presentation by Brown Bag about their new feature project 'Deep'.

I was also helping out on the (2D Animation software) CelAction stand in the MIFA and saw a great case study presentation from Celaction, Adobe and Jamie from Karrot Animation about their heart warming series 'Sarah and Duck'.

I also managaed to fit in one of the TV series in competiton screenings with some great stuff like 'Circus Show', 'Regular Show' and 'Save Your Planet'. This was the first time I had seen the fantastically mnetal, wow-I-can't-believe-they-actaully-made-this 'Secret Mountain Fort Awesome'.

So that's it for Annecy 2012 and that's enough text I reckon - the next post will have drawings in - I promise. Merci Annecy - à la prochaine!

More grannies??!

Tryin to get back in saddle of posting after some up and down time....

Yellow Doodles

I'm gettin pretty slack with this Tuesday doodle business, been working on some interesting stuff, so sorry bout that. Here's a couple for yesterday...

Tuesday.. you know

I'm not a massive fan, but really can't help doodling a light sabre wielder ever now and then...

Lil' Old Ladies

Apologies for the lack of posts recently. Here's a quick one of some little ol ladies for a project I'm working on...

Doodly doodly

A final few notebook doodles as I finish writing...

Three Days Worth O' Doodles

I've been busy with work and writing for the last few weeks, and as a result it's been a bit too quiet on Tuesdays around here. So to make for that, here's three Tuesday worth of patented Work Notebook Sketches™ ...

The Tuesday Usual

Mental week at work this week, so an oldie, for this Tuesday. Here ya go...

Taken in 60 seconds

So no doodles today - all singing, all dancing in beautiful technicolour - my 60 second version of Mr Liam Neeson's opus "Taken" for the Empire Done in 60 Seconds Competition ...

Another Reaper

More deathly doodles from my brain

More doodles

Another "concept art" scribble for an idea I'm working on...

Tuesday(ish) doodle

Em, so I forgot to post this last night, but it's still tuesday in many parts of the world, so that's my excuse and I'm stickin to it!

This is a little bit of 'concept art' for a short film script I'm writing. Hopefully I'll get it done, and then made, of course...

Searley doodle...

The cartoonist Ronald Searle passed away today. He was, most agree, a cartoon http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifgenius and he was a huge influence on my work. One of those artists who not only drew brilliantly, but drew funny.

So to honour the maestro, in my own tiny way, here's a vaguely Searle-esque doodle. He may no longer be with us, but his influence will live on through the countless others he's inspired over the years...

Crisp Monster

Todays Tuesday doodle - a monster struggles to open a packet of Irish "Tayto" crisps...

Merry Christmas

Season Greetings everybody!! (I know this is a few days late but hey, it's Christmas!

Tuesday Noodles

No Popcorn this week - been busy at work, so I'm afraid it's notebook doodles for this Tuesday...

Blues Popcorn....

More Tuesday Popcorn scribblings....