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       SILLY SUNDAYS

             

                  

         Co-Director

Currently I am co-  directing the upcoming TV-show 'Silly Sundays' by Nuria González Blanco.

I'm involved frostoryboard onwards: Final  animatic sign-off, character design reviews, location reviews, in close cooperation with Art Director Fran Bravo.

On to Layout, BG reviews, character posing supervision, animation briefing, FX and Comp reviews, and QC.

 

Finally, music briefs, music reviews, and sound premix reviews

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  MY FATHER'S DRAGON

             

    Assistant Director

I worked across  departments such as reviewing character animation, character posing briefs and reviews, character design reviews,  FX review, general quality control and continuity across several other related areas, and between studios.

I was also involved in team casting matters such as testing, hiring, and liaising between departments overall.

 

 

Awards:

2023 Annie Award       nominee for Best Animated Independent Feature

2023 Annie Award Nominee for Outstanding Achievement for Directing in an Animated Feature: 

Nora Twomey

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 THERE'S A MONSTER IN MY KITCHEN

                  

        Co-Director

 

I co-directed this short film for Greenpeace with Tomm Moore.

I was involved across several departments such as reviewing art direction by the wonderful Maria Pareja, Posing, character animation, clean-up, Comp; music briefing, and post production.

 

 

Awards:

Annie Award winner 2021 -  'Best Sponsored Animated Production'

Irish Animation Award nominee

- Best Short film 2021

 

Watch it here on YouTube:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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DORG VAN DANGO

      

 Co-Director   

Co-Creator

 

I co-directed 52 eps

by 11 minutes, with Matt Ferguson from Wild Brain studio. 

I directed the Saloon departments Character design, Location design, worked closely with the board supervisor Ben Tomczyk-Bowen; reviewed animatic edits and 52 scripts with story editor Nick V. Murphy.

On to post production, music briefs and reviews, all the way to final picture sign-off.

co-created this show with fellow Salooner Nora Twomey.

Awards:

Best Director of an animated series 2021 - Winner, Irish Animation Awards

Best Music - Winner

Best Program (Leo Awards) - Nominee

Youth Media Alliance Awards of Excellence - Nominee

Best writing x 2 - Nominee

Irish Animation Awards

Best Performance, Actra Awards


 

 THE BREADWINNER

 

Animation Director

+ Posing supervisor

I supervised the 'Real world' animation team,overseeing the consistency of the rough animation across the two studios.


Leading up to this I supervised the posing team responsible for key animation reference.

I contributed to 

pre-production development, including character animation tests.

 

 

 

 

Awards:

Academy Award nominee

Best Indy Feature Film, 2018

Emile Award 2018, Winner -

Best Character Animation in a 

European Feature Film

character animator, director, co-director, animation supervisor, character design, editing, Animation Director at Cartoon Saloon

 SONG OF THE SEA

   

 Assistant Director  

Animation & Posing

I supervised the in-house team of character animators and oversaw the quality of the animation across  two studios.

I also supervised the Character Posing Department and clean animation.

 

At the pre-production stage I contributed character animation tests to inform the character modelsheets.

 

Awards:

Academy Award Nominee 2014

European Feature Film of the year 2014

character animator, director, co-director, animation supervisor, Co-creator of Dorg Van Dango, Co-director of Dorg Van Dango, character design, editing, Animation Director at Cartoon Saloon

 THE SECRET

OF KELLS

Animation

supervisor

I supervised the overseas team of character animators

and was part of the

in-house character posing team responsible for keying out the scenes.


I helped develop the animation style through extensive 

animation tests and character posing.

 

Five years prior to
production I was part of the team that produced the original trailer titled "Rebel".

Awards:

Academy Award Nominee 2010

Annecy Audience Award 2010

 

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