Festival Animedia 2012 - The Jam Thief selected!

I am happy to announce that The Jam Thief has been selected to be part of the next Festival Animedia that will take place in Panamà in February.

Halloween 2011

Fire Werewolf in bloody mist... Happy Halloween everyone!

The Jam thief - Festival Selection!

I am delighted to announce that in addition to be showcased this November at the CineMe animation events in Bristol, The Jam Thief had been selected at the Cartoon Club Festival 2011 (Rimini, Italy) in the Signor Rossi Awards. Yippee!

Character Design - Penguins-CGI and Flash-

Those are some character designs I've done earlier this year for a Los Angeles based studio in regards of a CGI project feature. This sample includes preliminary sketches and color proposition made in Flash and Photoshop. The main goal was to keep it fresh, colorful and fun. So here it goes some quirky penguins!

Hairy Baby- Observational Drawing

This a quick doodle from memory. I saw this baby fast asleep this afternoon. He had those curiously located spots of hair on his skull. Cute but strange. I thought it was best to put this on paper (in this case photoshop file) while it was still fresh in my mind.

Fantasy illustration style

I was just experimenting with Photoshop brushes and this comes along.  I quite like the painting feeling and it was a long time I wanted to show a little more 'video games/realistic' side of my abilities.

Dancing Stones - Flash Animation

Dancing Stones from Theresia McCearney on Vimeo.

This is a little Flash/ After-Effect animation I have made for the Pepsi MoFilm contest 'Forever Young'.
What's more ancient that the centuries old stones circles?
However what's make you think those stones are dignified by the age: all they want is dance!
The only brief we've got was the line 'Forever Young' and I come with this 'archeological' story (one of my interest). One streak of inspiration come from the folklore (another personal interest) attached to those ancient stones: they are said to dance some nights and go for a drink at the nearest river...
I love those stories...
The production went quickly: a month including concept art, storyboard, layout, animation and compositing, all by myself
Another rule of the contest was to limit the animation to 1 minute sharp including the Pepsi starting and ends credits.
I didn't keep the Pepsi credits in this version as for rules reasons.
Characters and vehicles animation were done in Flash. I just jazzed up some bits with After-Effect sfxs (shake and smoke etc but no particles).

Tale of the ShapeShifter - Visual Development/Character Design

Tale of the ShapeShifter - Visual Development from Theresia McCearney on Vimeo.