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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 Nathan Ng - www.beneaththebed.co.uk

Gotta love how the animation’s colours clash with this here web site!

Amidst the day to day professions I’ve got on the go, such as wearing smoking jackets, testing cognac and Cuban cigars, alongside the awesomeness of motion design, I’m also cutting together a new showreel. The best/worst part has been working out the intricacies and complications involved with multipass renders, object buffers and not using motion blur when exporting from C4D and doing my best to avoid crucifying my arse to my face.

Footage looks pretty damn good I have to say, but sweet jesus it better when it takes 3 hours to render each frame!

Rejoice! What you see before your very eyes is the sporadically updated portfolio of me, motion designer & video director, Ciaran O Connor.

Took me aaaaaaages, but battled through in the end to finally finish off my new portfolio site.   It probably would’ve been done about a month ago should I not have spelt “/%postname%/” wrong, leading to much self harm & face punching – goodbye to the modelling contract then. Anyways, got it fixed, eventually. Next up is a new motion graphics showreel and an embarassing look back at previous incarnations & works in progress of this site, some of them are utterly shocking.

Imaginatively named after myself, I hammered together some CSS & imagery of jubilation to bring you something full of dubious joys and questionable delights from my world of work & assorted play.

First thing you’ll probably want to check out is my motion design showreel, then you probably should subscribe to updates right here. After that, it’s all up to you – enjoy…

Once more I was enlisted to join the Big Push, this year with DC Shoes and what a trip it turned out to be. Tricks were landed, slams were had, record buttons weren’t hit, epic footage went down, stress was screamed, the good times they did most definitely roll.

Check out our entry online at mpora.com and then do us/me a favour & vote for DC, we’re currently dead last, heheh!

Now then, another rare, but meaty, update for the masses! Motive’s DVD, Dimensions, is done and dusted. Never fun when a deadline for something like this is brought forward by a month, but everything eventually worked itself out. After too much stress, ballache & a chronic lack of sleep that is, but the whooping and hollering from the crowd before, during and after the premiere night made it worthwhile, along with all the gargle folk bought me.

Dimensions is out around NOW with the October issue of Sidewalk magazine, which works out around 20,000 copies or so. Along with coming free with Motive boards, it’ll also be available for download from www.motiveskateboards.co.uk and the usual video sites when the following issue rolls around.

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