First Year Animations

One of my first year groups recently completed these animations in our art class. I'm so impressed with how much they learned and how well they applied it, we had very limited time to complete these animations and I thought that we would still be working on them after Christmas, happily, they all got done in time for the Christmas break. So proud of them!

Animation Summer Camp Work

So here are the rest of the animations the young people did in our animation summer camp. So proud of them all! They all did so well and it was so great to see how happy they were with their work!

Animation Summer School!

Mars Party from Maria Murray on Vimeo.

Sample animation from this summers Animation Summer Camp. We were delighted with how it went! The group were great, 13 kids aged 7 to 14, they all worked really well together and produced some really great work!

The camp ran from the 18th - 21st of July in the Educate Together school, Herons Wood, Carrigaline.

Animation Summer School!

I'm running an animation summer school this July in Carrigaline with 3 other facilitators, i'm really excited about it! The site is animationspace.weebly.com/. That came together very quickly during the week, weebly.com is the quickest / handiest thing ever.

I am not an artist

Had fun doing this little gif today for I am not an artist. It popped up on design you trust during the week so I filed it away to do at the weekend! It's curated by Soon in Tokyo, I think it's a really cool idea, like a digital version of contributing a patch to a quilt, wonder how long it'll run for?

It was done in photoshop cs4, which has a very handy animation feature. Feel like I did something productive with my Saturday now, which from the outset seemed like it was doomed to a be a hangover write-off!

Catastrophe Video (Jean Jullien)

I really enjoy Jean Jullien’s minimalistic, colourful and slightly whimsical illustrative style. I keep an eye on his website for exhibitions and new projects, which is how I chanced across the Catastrophe video for NIWOUINWOUIN (no idea how that’s pronounced!).

This video is typical of Jean Julliens style, I love it! Great use of colour, lovely stop-motion style, though it could possibly have all been done in aftereffects. Great tune as well, love the bouncy/happy hardcore vibe to it, and the video is bang on in capturing it’s fun, slightly hyper buzz!