Purveyor of fine visual funk & dope steez

2011 – the year when a lot happened…

ciaran — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:05:11 +0000

2011 was super busy for me, thanks to all the agencies and companies who got me involved and were down for some collaborative all-round radness. Here’s a few of my favourite motion graphics pieces from during the year… Karmarama: KTV news Back toward the end of April when we were all enjoying the unseasonably warm [...]

Perspectives of various formats

ciaran — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:52:00 +0000

I recently helped out good friend, citizen of Bray, Co.Wicklow and cinematographer of epic proportions Phil Evans with his Format Perspective documentary. Bankrolled by clothing brand Carhartt, Format Perspective is a 1 hour documentary and extremely sexy coffee table book about the work, life, motivation, visual style and of 6 skateboard photographers from various parts [...]

90 seconds of your life you’ll never get back

ciaran — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 23:12:08 +0000

Long overdue, this is my latest motion graphics showreel featuring some of my favourite work from over the past 18 months or so. Best viewed HD, full screen and full volume – for more info on what shots & work make it up, check this out. Enjoy…

surround sight

ciaran — Wed, 25 May 2011 23:25:56 +0000

Following on from a busy April was a more hectic and busier May. Topping off the month, which included some tidy regular jobs and unfortunately turning down a handful more, was this batch of live visuals for Range Rover’s Evoque Live launch. The purpose-built 150-seater theatre/cinema had a screen measuring 4m high x 40m wide, [...]

once you started wearin’ those shoes…

ciaran — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 19:47:39 +0000

These were good laugh to do for DC toward the tail end of the summer. Made the trek to Truro, several train journeys over to Cardiff and traipsed around Bristol with all the kit, got busy with the aould camera, the boys all delivered the goods on and off the board, then I went and [...]

Change of a lifetime

ciaran — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 10:30:36 +0000

2 weeks of work crammed into 1, many late nights, crashed renders and a boatload of top shelf design in conjunction with agency Mason Zimbler gave rise to this massive piece for Microsoft’s annual Partner Network Conference in the US during the summer and again in the UK in October. More info on the project [...]

ffwd

ciaran — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 17:59:04 +0000

This is an intro sequence I designed for a kids’ educational drama programme called Fast Forward, shot here in Bristol by production company Gauntlett & Son. Pretty heavy use of Trapcode’s Form on this one to create the strings in 3D space, along with a little Particular here & there for added flavour. Soundtrack by [...]

HDSLR, depth of field & dubstep.

ciaran — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 07:57:11 +0000

Recently picked up a basic Canon 550D with an f1.4 50mm prime and this is the first project I’ve used it on with another company. Seems pretty nifty so far – really enjoying the obscenely narrow DOF the prime lens can achieve, making footage look like a photo. The workflow & ergonomics of using a [...]

Droplets Series 2 launch night

ciaran — Wed, 26 May 2010 12:25:52 +0000

Check out this quick piece with Jam Factory design genius Gav Strange about his Droplets launch night some weeks back for which I did some motion design of epic proportions… Pretty stoked to see the animation projected on the Banksy wall opposite 50-50 that night. Props to Gav and Makinov for putting this together.

Slams, stunts & steez

ciaran — Fri, 21 May 2010 15:06:15 +0000

Eventually found some time to polish off and upload this edit I’d made back in 2005 with a ton of old footage I’d shot that productive summer skating a lot, filming a little on a rickety old trv900. Found it just the other day while packing up to move house and through a combination of [...]