Here are some of the notable projects I have worked on over the years:

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   GREENPEACE: There's a          Monster In My Kitchen 

       

                   My role:  

             Co-Director

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I co-directed this short film for Greenpeace with Tomm Moore. Art Direction by Maria Pareja, storyboard by Iker Maidagan, written by James Sellick in collaboration with Mother London.

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'Monster' tells the story of how industrial meat wreaks havoc on forests across South America. Industrially produced meat is the world’s largest cause of deforestation.

I co-directed across different departments on this short, reviewing and critiquing art direction, character animation, Posing, clean-up, compositing, post production.

   

Awards:

Annie Award winner 2021 -  'Best Sponsored Animated Production'

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Irish Animation Award nominee

- Best Short film 2021

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     DORG VAN DANGO

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                  My role:  

              Co-Director   

              Co-Creator

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I co-directed 

52 episodes by 11 minutes, with Matt Ferguson from WildBrain studio, and co-created this show with fellow Salooner Nora Twomey.

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In-house I directed the Saloon departments such as Character design, location design, inhouse animatics with supervisor Ben Tomczyk-Bowen; animatic edits with editor CianMcGarrigle;

reviewed and critiqued 4 script drafts per episode with story editor Nick V. Murphy.

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Post production tasks

included music briefs

for composer Leo Pearson; 

sound design mix sign-off at Gorilla Post;

and online edit.

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Awards:

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

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Best Music - Winner

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Best Program (Leo Awards) - Nominee

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Youth Media Alliance Awards of Excellence - Nominee

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Best writing x 2 - Nominee

Irish Animation Awards

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Best Performance, Actra Awards

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    THE BREADWINNER

 

                  My role:  

       Animation Director

       & Posing supervisor

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I supervised the 'Real world' 

animation, overseeing the in-house team of character animators, and overseeing the consistency of the rough animation across the two studios.

I supervised the posing team responsible for key

animation reference;

and worked in

pre-production development, including character animation tests to inform model sheets.

 

 

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Awards:

Academy Award nominee

Best Indy Feature Film, 2018

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Emile Award 2018, Winner -

Best Character Animation in a 

European Feature Film

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        SONG OF THE SEA

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 My role:  

     Assistant Director  

Animation & Posing

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

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I supervised the Character Posing Department

as well as overseeing the quality control of the clean animation.

 

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

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Awards:

Academy Award Nominee 2014

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European Feature Film of the year 2014

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        THE SECRET OF KELLS

 

My role:  

Animation supervisor
& Posing artist

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I supervised the overseas team of character animators

and was part of the in-house character posing team responsible for keying out the animation scenes.

I also helped develop the animation style through extensive animation tests and posing reference.

 

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

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Awards:

Academy Award Nominee 2010

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Annecy Audience Award 2010

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