Freelance

Hey,

Thought I'd post a snipped of work that I did for a freelance job. The role was character design and animation for various Sprites to be included in an iOS game.

Following the guidelines set I redesigned the initial design sent to add more character and personality.

This was the sprite sheet that I developed for the 'swimming' character, this animation was the default walk animation.

I would post more but don't want to until the game has been released, so as not to spoil anything. Be sure to check out Somnium Entertainment (Ireland) and their other releases.

Fallen

Here's a link to a animation video that was developed for the course I just completed.

https://vimeo.com/105550204

Thought I'd throw it out there.

New Beginnings

For the past couple of years I've been using this blog to upload images and videos of work that I've done.

And for the past couple of days I have been thinking to myself that I should expand on that. Not only should I write and show my stuff, I should write and show other people's stuff.

Art. Graphics. Film. Animation. Geek stuff.

Quite frankly anything that amazes me, inspires me and makes me smile. Or you (That is if anyone gets in contact).

So here's to new beginnings.

A Good Year.

It was a long year but I can say that I have officially passed my Masters degree at Trinity College in Dublin.

With it over, I'll be resuming my regular posts of artwork and projects. I'll probably overhaul the design of the blog soon with a possibility of an official website, may aswell make use of these HTML5 and CSS3 skills I now have.

For now, I'll post some of the work I did over the last year, I did post some previously but there is fair amount more.

All of this work was for a group project aptly named TZD, which revolved around a Zombie Apocalypse on the Trinity College campus. The site should be live soon so I'll add a URL soon.

Been a long time...

Well it has certainly been some time since my last post, mainly due to commitments with University. Fear not that shall change now, behold the majestic (ok, maybe not) artwork I made during the gruelling past few months on the Masters course I've been on.

Ahoy!

Quick update of my POV-Ray experiments, which will now be submitted as the assignment for that module, hope it does well.

A Wet Beginning.

So my first post from the University Campus at Trinity College. Exciting! Or not. So today I shall now show you a marvellous and spectacular sight. Wait for it...

POV-Ray! For those that have no clue, which will probably be a few. It's a 3D graphics piece of software that uses coding to build a scene. I've been experimenting with it the past couple of weeks and I'm about to show off my effects.

As you may have keenly noticed I've been practising by making water.

Three Dimensional!

Well I am once again using 3D Studio Max again. And with this opportunity I've been able to render off some images of one of my old projects when I was doing the Bachelors. Unfortunately all my other work was either corrupted or quite frankly isn't very good. Thankfully I was proud of this piece so I shall show it off.

As you can see it's a tank. Can't remember what sort of tank. Ah well.

And then there was cake!

I lied. There's no cake. 

Well thought I'd mess around with using font in my images and editing it using Filters, thought this came out pretty nicely and so here it is.

No Picture! Oh. My....

Well there is a first for everything and this will be my first post without actually having any accompanying picture to go with it. But instead you will getting a brief update from me, myself and I.

So as some may have read in a previous post, I moved over to Belfast, Northern Ireland which is great but a few days ago the real reason I moved finally happened. I am now going to be situated in both Belfast and... wait for it... Dublin *shock* I know your amazed, right?

Anyhow I am in Dublin studying at Trinity College doing a Masters of Science in Interactive Digital Media. With this comes a massive workload but I shall endeavour to continue to update this site with either my free time work and possibly any work that I am or have worked on during my 1-year course.

And there we go. That's the story.



P.s. I won't forgot to post some accompanying picture next time. I hope. Maybe.

Flash!

Ahaaaaa! Savior of the Universe!

Well maybe I'm not up to Flash Gordon's caliber but I'm certainly trying. Today I have a couple of speed paintings I did over the weekend. Both done in Photoshop and for some reason or another they both revolved around the concept of large tails. Don't quite know the reason but when I get an idea in my head I stick with it.

Let there be Colour!

It's been a long time coming, but I have some finished paintings *gasp*. I've been working on my painting for awhile now, I have a few larger pieces which are still ongoing but I have a collection of smaller pieces which I shall unveil to the world.

Both were completely done in Painter, from blank canvas to finished piece, after I read an article in ImagineFX.

Discord.

Well a great many things have happened over the past few weeks but no doubt the main point is that I have moved. From the town of Bury in the North West of England to the capital of Northern Ireland, Belfast.

This has recently stopped me doing quite a bit of my art but I am finally all set back up and ready to crack on.

This piece was finished just before my move, was a scan of a previous drawing which I then imported into Painter and used watercolour to add a little more character.

Hot. Hot. Hot.

My word, this weather is almost unbearable. Well as you may have noticed I have been absent for awhile. Been here and there with Glastonbury being a big part of my time away. Anyway, here is a sketch based loosely on Monkey from the computer game Enslaved: Journey to the West.

Femme Fatales.

Whilst browsing through my sketch pads, I've realised I haven't scanned quite a lot of sketches. And from them here are two female fantasy characters, both designed so as to impart the idea that they could seduce any man to do anything they want.

Wild. Part 2.

Unfortunately it wasn't sunny today. Real shame but thankfully the grey clouds didn't put me off from my drawing session in the garden. Continuing on from my previous post these drawings are all based on possible wild animals and creatures.

All were drawn on my larger A3 pad so my A4 scanner couldn't scan the whole image but I hope I managed  to get the best possible scan.

Wild.

Well it's been great weather recently so I've took my sketch pad outside and been drawing under the blazing sun. And here are my two favourites from today.

If this weather continues then I'll no doubt be spending more time in the garden with pencil and paper. 

Scribble.

Just a couple of quick sketches that I did whilst watching some Television shows. First off we have a Thundercats sketch, the new show which unfortunately may not continue after its first season has some good quality designs without distorting the original 80s show.

And as for this one, I was watching Game of Thrones, or more accurately a scene with Daenerys Targaryen and her young dragons.

Dollface and Buttercup.

Meet our lovely two ladies. Well maybe not in a dark alleyway at night. These two were drawn using the strange idea about how would a mad scientist go about being locked up in his den being lonely but also requiring company. So here were the ideas, mannequins dressed up but boasting some lethal weaponry to defend their master from outsiders.

Dollface

Buttercup

Extra Extra!

Similar to my Lich picture, this one was so large I had to scan both the top and bottom and merge together in Photoshop. Anyhow, this image is in essence how I think my brain would look if draw on paper. Enjoy!