Character Design

Playing around with some designs for a new project.

Sushi Bear Part 4

Sushi Bear enjoying some steak for a change!

Sushi bear returns

So the person who ended up buying my art auction painting just so happens to own a little sushi/noodle shop and he also happened to be opening another new restaurant. Happy with his purchase of my sushi eating bear he subsequently asked if I'd interested in doing some more paintings for his new restaurant featuring the same bear, kind of like a mascot I guess. I happily agreed to accept the commission and below are the (almost) finished pieces. Due to time constraints these are not paint on canvas, like the original, but digital instead.

Film Update

Just Thought I 'd give an update on my short film A Different Perspective. The film has already screened at several festivals including;

Annecy International Animation Festival

Belfast Film Festival

Galway Film Fleadh

Fest Anca

And the film is due to be screened at the following festivals over the next couple of months;

Odense Film Festival (Denmark)

Anibar International Animation Festival (Kosovo)

Busho (Hungary)

LUCAS (Germany)

Concorto Film Festival (Italy)

Bristol Encounters (England)

LIAF(England)

XXII Message to Man International Film Festival (Russia)

WFAF Varna (Bulgaria)

Schnit International Short Film Festival (Switzerland)

Small Cinema Festival in Moston (England)

Kerry Film Festival (Ireland)

Animasyros (Greece)

TINDIRINDIS (Lithuania)

Bradford Animation Festival (England)

ANIMAGE (Brazil)
Uppsala (Sweden)
CINANIMA (Portugal)
Cork Film Festival (Ireland)

So if you happen to be in those countries why not not check it out!

***Update***

The film will have it's American premiere at the Los Angeles Irish Animation Festival.

JibJab eCard

A while back I animated a little eCard for the great guys over in Jibjab. It's being launched on their site this week and you can watch it here. They were also nice enough to feature me on their blog which you can see here.

Auction Painting

Here's a little painting I did for a great charity auction being organised here in Dublin. For more details check out this site http://animationartshow.blogspot.ie/

Acrylic 8"x8"

Salmon

Salmon from Chris O'Hara on Vimeo.

A little animation featuring audio from the film "Step Brothers". Enjoy!

Busyness cards

Some potential business card designs

Annecy 2012

I was delighted to find out today that my short film "A Different Perspective" is part of the official selection for Annecy this year. I had already booked flights and accommodation to attend the festival in June but today's news now makes the trip that little bit more exciting!

Here's a little teaser/trailer for the film, it's not easy making a trailer for a 2 minute film!

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

Mythical Bikers

A couple of illustrations from another blog I was involved in that I thought I'd recycle here.

Annie!

Another award for "The Amazing World of Gumball", and probably the best yet!
Gumball won the Annie for best animated television production, Congrats to everyone who worked on it!

Smear Drawings

I always enjoy incorporating "smear" drawings into my animations and I'm always fascinated when I see other peoples approaches when using this technique in their work so I thought I'd do a post featuring some of the smear drawings I created for previous projects.

Cartoon Brew

Nice little plug from Cartoon Brew today, nice way to start the week!

LINK

Poster

A little film poster thingy

Gumball Animation

Here's a sample of some of the work I did on "The Amazing World of Gumball". Unfortunately the audio's out of sync slightly on some of it.

Copyright 2011 Cartoon Network

And the BAFTA goes to.......

"The Amazing World of Gumball" just won best animation at the Childrens BAFTA's, great stuff! Hopefully I'll be able to post a reel of some of the work I did on the show soon.

Finished

FILM.IS.DONE.

Street Rex

Back when Dinosaurs roamed the streets.

Retro Yeti

The Elusive Bigfoot

A Deering escape

Yellow Snow

Absolutely abominable!

Cavemen

Thought I might as well stick these up seeing as Eimh
posted his stuff. I was asked to do some designs for a Short Short pitch and these are a couple of examples of what I came up with.

Short Film clip

Nearly there!

Film

Some more animation from the short film I'm working on. The animations pretty much finished so I've started with the compositing and should get around to the sound soon enough.

Background

BG for the film, though I'll probably change my mind again!

New Dog

Dog Barking from Chris O'Hara on Vimeo.

Film

Dog

Here's some test animation for the film

Short Film

Heres a few design explorations for a short film idea. I'm going to try make it over the next few months. Not sure which one I prefer, feedback welcome!