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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!

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.

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…

So design overlord Gav Strange aka Jam Factory had a new series of his Droplets vinyl toy launch last Saturday, complete with a batch of 50 customised versions from various art & design goons from up & down the country. He sent me over an Illustrator file & this is what I did to sexify it with C4D & AE, which he then projected on the wall outside. Shit hot! Get on down with the interweb geekout at jam-factory.com and at Droplet’s flickr pool. Props to Gav, everybody was stoked & he was beyond hyped…