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I’m a freelance motion graphics designer, available for hire doing all manner of cool shit with After Effects, Cinema 4D, Premiere, Final Cut, Trapcode and all the usual goodies.

I love to shoot, direct & design video, motion graphics & animations.

I take loads of photos.

I’m passionate about art, design & aesthetics in general, particularly mid-late 20th Century retro flavoured design, propaganda artwork & interior design from the 50s to the late 70s – everything from the likes of Alexander Roschenko to Dieter Rams to Werner Panton to Peter Saville. Comedies like Look Around You & Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace get me laughing.

Background

I learnt to edit video on 3 SVHS decks & an edit controller making skate videos in the late 90s, eventually getting to experience the joys of a Media 100 with a 10 Gb hard drive (yep, ten gigs…) in uni back home in Dublin. After travelling to Australia for a year & coming back home, it was time to move on somewhere foreign & left Dublin again in 2004 to chase a career in design in Bristol. At the time, although I was already leaning strongly toward motion graphics & video in general, I wasn’t quite sure what path I was taking, and still did the occasional job in with print design which has helped out big time.

These days, I’m still skating, shooting, editing & designing footage for various companies, agencies & clients, wrestling computers & taking photos, all that good stuff. Enjoying myself.

Clients, employers & projects include

DC shoes, Endemol, Mason Zimbler, Microsoft, Toshiba, Gala TV, Motive skateboards, The Harmony, Vans shoes, Sidewalk Magazine, Kingpin Magazine, Skate Magazine Australia, Quiz Night Live, Rubberductions, Mentor Digital, Hurricane Media, Ableye Productions, Freeloader Productions, Olaus Roe, Fixel & Epoch.

Collaborations

Always keen to do something worthwhile, always.   I’ve recently done some more bits again with Ableye which I’m interested to see how they turn out. I’ve also done a few pieces with Jam Factory, which was cool as all of Gav’s work tends to be print-based and he’s a kick arse designer which made things way easier for me! I always like to stay busy in my spare time with a barrel-load of various projects, from skate films to photography to writing for magazines to doing tutorials – that kind of thing – it keeps me progressing. Got an idea? Give me a yell!

Fine print:

Epic bodge job WordPress theme based on the Pixel theme by 85ideas.com. God knows how long I’ve spent hammering my face with my fist in a vain attempt to get this version (v8, the latest of a long legacy going all the way back to terrible attempts at 800 x 600 Flash sites in 2002) working with some semblance of consistancy… Having said that, punching yourself in the mush rarely helps when typing & has done precisely nothing for my modelling career, unfortunately.
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Want to find out more?

Got an interesting project to work on?

Drop me an email to ciaran(at)ciaranoconnor.com