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.

Season's Greetings everyone!

A All Vector/All Flash Animated Greeting Card.
You could recognise the little Santa fellow as I posted his model sheet earlier on the blog.
For a best quality, check the vimeo version at:
http://www.vimeo.com/18047359

Happy New Year Everybody!

New Character Design Demo available on Vimeo

http://www.vimeo.com/18049523

I have uploaded an updated demo of my work as a character designer on vimeo.
Please take a look by using the link above.

Character Design- Von Ape Yre, the Vampire Monkey

A personal work of my own. Traditionnal model sheet and clean-up and color in Illustrator.
Just imagine the suave vampire cliche turning into a maddened baboon in full tantrum.

Storyboard Samples

I just realised I forgot to show some samples of storyboarding.
Here we go: 3 different styles. They are all extracts from longer projects and I reviewed the presentation so they could be seen on one page (the originals are on the traditional template).

Character Design for London based Studio

Here are some of the work I have done as character designer for a London based studio. The final client being really sensible about confidentiality issue, I have deleted all informations revealing the title of the project and the client's name.

The brief insisted about how the characters and groups of characters will have to be immediately recognisable. As the storyline focused on streets sports I've seek inspiration in streets Arts and graffitis as well in Hip-Hop, Surf, Skate Punk codes for thoses ones. They are all inscribed in a trapezoidal shape. I also wanted flowing lines so they could fit nicely in the animation of action scenes.

The sames, inked.
Another group, inscribed in an inversed triangle. They are quite different of the humans because they are not, er, human-beings.



The baddies

At least, a colour study.