Posted in March 2009

Granny O’Grimm on the festival circuit

We just received word that Granny O’Grimm has been awarded the Best Comedy award at the Hearts of Gold Film Festival in Australia.
This follows on from the audience award for Best Animated Film at the Omaha Festival which Granny picked up last month. (more…)

Granny O'Grimm on the festival circuit
31 March 2009

By Darragh O'Connell
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Making Of Somniac: Lighting

This is an extra bit of info about Somniac, the short film we have been working on directed by Rory Bresnihan. My task on Somniac was to light and render the CG background worlds we created for the live action character to fit into. Here are a few lighting and render tests from the quite early stages up to now.
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Making Of Somniac: Lighting
31 March 2009

By Paul Sheehy
Posted in Animators
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Can you tell what it is yet?

“Can you tell what it is yet?”
                              - Rolf Harris

I have talked about two inspirational animators in my last blogs. These could have been referred to as ‘obituaries’ and this new blog is about another inspirational character, but this guy is still - very much so – alive and kicking!
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Can you tell what it is yet?
20 March 2009

By Richard Keane
Posted in Animators
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Making Of Somniac: Behind the scenes

Somniac is a short film by Rory Bresnihan that we are producing here in Brown Bag.  The film consists of a Live Action character who was shot on a Green Screen set, then later integrated into a CGI environment

Somniac has presented a few challenges to us when it comes to Digital Effects – here are some of the challenges we faced and how we dealt with them.

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Making Of Somniac: Behind the scenes
18 March 2009

By Shane Collins
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Making Of: New Tayto Chickatees Packs

When Dynamo came to us and asked if we’d be interested in doing designs for the new packs of Tayto’s Mighty Munch, Chickatees, Snaps and Johnny Onion Rings, my response was probably less than professional. It involved a lot of jumping up and down begging ‘Can we???? Huh, huh? Can we? Pleeeeeeese!’. Not my finest hour!
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Making Of: New Tayto Chickatees Packs
18 March 2009

By Bronagh O'Hanlon
Posted in Animators
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Errol Le Cain

Errol Le Cain was an amazing illustrator and designer. He illustrated many books and also worked in the animation field, being instrumental in the background design of Richard William’s ‘The Thief and the Cobbler’. (more…)

Errol Le Cain
6 March 2009

By Nicky Phelan
Posted in Animators
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Frameworks ‘09 deadline

The Irish Film Board recently announced the application date for the next round of Frameworks.

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Frameworks '09 deadline
5 March 2009

By Darragh O'Connell
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