Here’s a couple of scenes I animated to show animation companies that I know my stuff. I mixed the sound track myself with ‘fruity loops’ sound collection, edited in SoundFordge and Vegas. Animation done with Flash. I did upload a YouTube version of this but the compression took away from the line quality so decided [...]
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New Animation
Posted: 20th January 2012 by RobotBash in AnimationTags: Flash animation, Irish Flash Animator
Flash Symbols of Character
Posted: 20th January 2012 by RobotBash in AnimationTags: Experienced Flash Animator Ireland, Irish Flash Animator, Peter McCormack Animator
To continue on with the showreel animation I mentioned in the previous post, here’s the symbol breakdown of the character I designed. The animation is to be limited so I kept the symbols to the minimum. Check this out and if you’re hiring get in touch at peterjmccormack@gmail.com.
I’m working on an animation showreel at the moment and wanted create a few new pieces to mix in with commercial work. There’s not much call for animation in the region I’m in so don’t have much recenty commercial work. Old work includes a couple of flash animated series I worked on for RTE, a [...]
Flash Animation – Auld Ones
Posted: 30th March 2011 by RobotBash in AnimationTags: Animation, Auld Ones, Flash animation, Irish animation
Auld Ones 1 and 2 was broadcast on RTE Network 2, with both series run several times. Here’s some samples of Auld Ones: Auld Ones Clips Auld Ones Series 2 Auld Ones – Tommy’s Liver Aul Ones series 2: Ready, Steady, Coddle!
Character Designs
Posted: 30th March 2011 by RobotBash in AnimationTags: Animation, Character Design
Character designs I did some time back for a short flash animated cartoon called Seanachaí, Stroyteller Of Ireland. This played at Darklight and one other film festival in Dublin (can’t recall the name of it!) and got lots of laughs. Character head design that was to be used in a future episode that never got [...]
3D Max Walk Cycle
Posted: 24th October 2010 by RobotBash in 3d Modeling & Animation, AnimationTags: 3d animator Ireland, 3d model animation, 3d walk cycle, Animation, bi-ped 3d animation, Irish animator
Okay, this is an old walk-cycle but I wanted to include it because I’m working on new 3d animations but I need something in the site now on the off chance someone is thinking of hiring me and needs to see a sample. This is just a basic character made with boxes, rigged and animated. [...]
beautiful mixed media animation… A SHORT LOVE STORY IN STOP MOTION from Carlos Lascano A SHORT LOVE STORY IN STOP MOTION from Carlos Lascano on Vimeo.
CHEATIN’ pencil test #1 and #2 – by Bill Plympton
Posted: 12th March 2010 by RobotBash in AnimationTags: animators, Bill Plympton, line test, pencil test
Well do I remember lining up for the line tester in Ballyfermot with my first ‘bouncing ball’ line test drawings. There’s something special and raw about line tests. We’re so used to seeing beautifully finished special effect enhanced pieces of work that it’s sometimes easy to forget there are real people behind those creations. Watching [...]
Irish Animation Success
Posted: 12th March 2010 by RobotBash in AnimationTags: An Animated Irish Invasion, Ballyfermot, Cartoon Saloon, Irish animation sector, Irish Oscar success, Oscar, Oscar winners, Oscars, The Irish Oscars 2010, The Secret of Kells
While this blog is NOT about the Irish animation industry or intended to document the latest news in animation in Ireland or beyond, I think it would be remiss of me not to at least link out to news articles related to recent Irish animation successes. The Irish Oscars 2010 Over the past 10 years [...]
How To Succeed In Animation
Posted: 3rd March 2010 by RobotBash in AnimationTags: How To Succeed In Animation
I updated the blog with some more links to interesting and useful websites, scroll down to the bottom of the page. While we’re here, I want to draw your attention to the site of Gene Deitch. Gene has published his book ‘How To Succeed In Animation’ and there’s more than a few good pointers in [...]
"Hedgehog in the Fog" Ёжик в тумане
Posted: 26th February 2010 by RobotBash in AnimationTags: Animation, Hedgehog in the Fog
“Made in 1975 by genius Russian animation director Yuri Norstein.Multilayer technology used to create a fog,it is an actual smoke blown in between class frames.” This is a stunning film! I’m not really sure what to make of it to be honest. There’s something dark and primeval about it that makes me feel uncomfortable watching [...]
Academy Award Winning Cartoon Moonbird
Posted: 26th February 2010 by RobotBash in AnimationTags: academy award winning animation, animation and film, moonbird
MoonBird Hubley 1959 Academy Award Winning Cartoon Moonbird Getting a little tired of 3D Pixar animation style or just looking for something a little different? This ‘old school’ cartoon ‘Moonbird’ is worth looking at.
Mother of Many (2009) directed by Emma Lazenby [clip]
Posted: 24th February 2010 by RobotBash in AnimationTags: animation and film, Bafta award, Mother of Many, short animation
Bristol film-maker celebrates Bafta award success Nice timing, simple but effective use of Flash. Where can I see the entire 6 minutes? Find out more about this production here. “A short clip from Emma Lazenby’s BAFTA nominated short film, Mother of Many.The most dangerous journey needs a helping hand. Directed by Emma Lazenby. Produced by [...]