My good friend Richie Baneham deservedly won the Oscar this year for his work on the Visual Effects of Avatar. It was great fun hanging out together at the Academy Awards and seemed a long way away from where we first met at Ballyfermot Senior College.
It’s amazing to think that we shared a credit on what was our first film, and there we were nearly 20 years later at the Oscars!
Oscar nominees Darragh, Tomm Moore & Richie Baneham
It was back in September 1990 when a gang of us started the ADS (Animation Drawing Studies) class at Ballyfermot. The end result of that year was that a group of us started making a short animated film – we were mostly working on this bad boy from around March – April 1991.
