Happy New Year :)

So a new year is upon so and over the Christmas Break I have being doing a little redesigning on The Girl and the Whale, after taking time off for turkey and chocolate of course. 

So here is a new concept for the Island in both a line and colour form. It was drawn with a new programme I am trying out call Zeus Draw. It is a great vector drawing programme which was used for the line version then coloured in Art Rage with a little colour tweaking in Photoshop.

Happy Christmas to All and to All a Goodnight

The end of the year is upon us once again, how time flies when your having fun. I would just like to take this opportunity to wish everyone out there a Happy Christmas from us all here and have a great 2009, wow the end of the decade is nearly here too. 

So we are all off tomorrow to our various homes around the country and I cant wait for my visit from Santa. 

The Irish Film Board Launch

We had a chance recently to socialise with the industry of Galway, at the recent Bórd Scannán na hÉireann/The Irish Film Board launch of their films catalogue, which we were duly included in with "Miss Remarkable and her Career".  And Thanks to Simon Perry of the IFB for his kind words about the project.

So picture to the left is, (from right to left) Tomm Moore of The Cartoon Saloon, Director of the upcoming feature "Brendan and the Secret of Kells", in the middle is Barry O'Donaghue of Barley Films and director of the feature "Caribou" and then there is myself.

And below are two members of A Man & Ink, Mr Michael Lennon and Donal Mangan, an animator on Miss Remarkable. With behind the controls of the camera, Candice, another animator on Miss Remarkable. A great night had by all.

Great External Links

So a couple of new things have been posted to the World Wide Web recently that are worth checking out.

The official french Brendan and the Secret of Kells trailer has been posted to the ever expanding YouTube and can be found here. 

Its great to see the snowdrops in full flow, after all the people who worked on them.

And in the world of shorts, the award winning Nora Twomey has started up a blog where you can see two of her films in full. It brings back alot of memories watching From Darkness.  :)

Miss Remarkable Continues

So we are continuing on with the animation of Miss Remarkable and everything is going great. We have a few finished scenes so I wanted to post some stills to illustrate the style. The film is completely black and white and the scenes are based on Joanna's graphic novel of the same name. And all this is with the participation of Bórd Scannán na hÉireann/The Irish Film Board. Our thanks to Emma and Andrew.  :)

A New Little Project

So the recent Junior Film Fleadh has just finished here in Galway, the last film was shown on Saturday 15th Nov. But not only were there films shown at the festival but before each film there was shown the promo animation produced by ourselves. It was a piece we created in Apple's Motion and told the story of the magic of cinema coming from the projector to the screen.

The Girl and the Whale - another image

So it is wet & windy here in Galway today so it inspired me to a storm concept for The Girl and the Whale. I hope you like it.

Another Redesign

So sometimes you can just not be pleased with something, so we have gone for a new redesign on our site again, so check out the new site, just images for now with video to be added soon. Enjoy.

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Oh and for the eagle eyed here is a sneak peak of a new show we are working on.

Recent Pitch

Ok so while we are waiting for the machine with the photos of Miss Remarkable to come back from the Mac Doctor here is an image from a recent music video pitch. The video tells the story of the world waking up.

It's Official

We have finally gone officially into production our new co-production Miss Remarkable and her Career, although we did start animation a month ago we wanted to wait to announce it until we had put pen to paper on our Bord Scannan na hEireann contracts, which we did last week. And thanks again to Orla for all her help.

Miss R is a co-production between ourselves, Lisbet Gabrielsson Film AB (Sweden) and Bullitt Film (Denmark) and is based on the graphic novel of the same name from Joanna Rubin Dranger, who is also directing it. We are producing 75% of the animation here under the guidance of David Rylander of Rylander Animation based in Sweden. So there is alot of skype and emailing going on. But we are also responsible for the english voice record which we are planning for early December.

A little history on our involvement is that myself and Lorrain met Lisbet, Joanna and David at Cartoon Forum last year and have been putting the co-production together for the last 6 months, and thanks to Barry O Donaghue of Barley Films for his immense help there.

I shall post some images and production photos soon.