Aoife's Animation/Art Page

Mistress of Chat

2011-05-05T16:53:00.007+01:00

Here's something I did for a bday gift for a friend of mine who's initials are M.O.C. She wanted to be a superhero with the power to 'CHAT'...so I reckon she's Mistress Of Chat;)

Here she is busy texting on her iPhone, on a call while she flies, chatting on the internet and chatting the good old fashioned way in a bar;)

and here's the rough and it's progression;) 'real' painting is alot tougher than digital painting..without the comfort of the undo button! but yeah i was getting carried away doing crazy bouffant hair, even though my mate doesnt have that kind of hair, so I had to pull it back a bit. Turned out alright in the end I think. Few volume issues but it was just a bit of fun;)

My Short Films in Full

2011-03-31T14:12:00.001+01:00

Rat Race from Aoife Doyle on Vimeo.

Rat Race 2009

Nana's Strawberry Preserve from Aoife Doyle on Vimeo.

Nana's Strawberry Preserve 2010

Smedias2011

2011-03-22T21:23:00.002Z

Nana's Strawberry Preserve has been shortlisted at this years student media awards along with some other nice films from ballyfermot!!! ;) Good luck to all!

Gumball Sneak Peek

2011-03-22T21:16:00.005Z

here's a sneak peek at 'The Amazing World of Gumball'!

I did some work experience on this show at bouldermedia in dublin last summer;)

Me in the Indo!!!!

2010-11-10T14:20:00.003Z

Me in today's Irish Independent, at my desk in the Cartoon Saloon (with Walter and Pernille in the background go team TopCat) It's not as bad as I thought it was going to be haha. Except for the bit where it say's I'm gonna have my own studio in five years...she caught me off guard with that question haha.

Rat Race Strikes Again!!!!!

2010-10-14T20:45:00.002+01:00

Woo Hoo!!! Just found out Rat Race will be shown at the Red Stick Animation festival in Baton Rouge Louisiana! Nice;)

Foyle Film Fest 2010

2010-10-01T12:48:00.002+01:00

Just found out Nana's Strawberry Preserve has made it into this years Foyle Film Festival!! woo hoo!!!! Might have to take a trip up the north for that one;)

Rat Race at Kerry

2010-09-30T14:00:00.005+01:00

My ISA student film RatRace from 2009, which I made with Rory Wolahan and Nicola Hyland, has been selected for the 2010 Kerry Film Festival!

Gumball Work Experience

2010-08-03T15:24:00.004+01:00

I just finished up 7 weeks work experience with Bouldermedia in Dublin, where I was working as an animator on their new show 'The amazing world of gumball'. The show looks amazing and is very funny. Keep an eye out for this one when it airs ;) Think it's gonna be mega!

Today's the Day!!

2010-05-26T10:59:00.002+01:00

BCFE end of year show tonight!! Can't wait to see everyones films finished. Should be a good night;)

Oh and check out my new link on the side for my May2010 Flash animation showreel.

Film Poster

2010-05-24T18:26:00.002+01:00

Film poster for my graduate film 'Nana's Strawberry Preserve'. The film is one of ten chosen to be shown at the IFI this wednesday;)

Film Done!!!!

2010-05-18T00:29:00.001+01:00

Woo Hoo just doing the final render now;)

Opening layout

2010-05-16T04:52:00.003+01:00

Here's the layout for the opening shot of Nana's Strawberry Preserve. Two walk cycles and one layout left!!crunch time..only 2 days to go!

Jam Spatter

2010-04-01T23:47:00.003+01:00

Ding Dong Nana's Dead. I enjoyed doing this one...i looks like it belongs in an episode of Dexter:P

Final Kitchen counter layout

2010-03-12T13:03:00.003Z

Final Kitchen counter layout for Nana's Strawberry Preserve.
Bottom image - Final render of Layout
Top image - Render with characters placed into environment

Katie Final Model

2010-03-01T13:33:00.001Z

Different choices for Katies dress colour

2010-03-01T13:31:00.000Z

Nana Coloured

2010-02-18T21:52:00.001Z

Nana final colour model built in Flash;)

Test Scene from NSP.

2010-02-04T13:26:00.001Z

Test Sc. NSP from Aoife Doyle on Vimeo.

First Test Scene from Nana's Strawberry Preserve. Backgrounds not final. Need to tweak them a bit;)

Character Designs for NSP

2010-01-20T19:39:00.005Z

Model sheet for jam loving Nana!

Model Sheet for Katie. Weird little upshot one at the end;)

Wardrobe Schmordrobe

2010-01-20T19:37:00.001Z

Tedious effort to find the right outfit for katie aaaaaaarrrggghhhhh ;)

Rough Colour Boards

2010-01-20T10:01:00.002Z

Rough colour boards. Pastel and colour pencils.

Concept Colour for Sequences

2010-01-20T09:44:00.005Z

Exterior Nana's house and strawberry patches.
Interior of Nana's kitchen.
Poor Nana floating in the Jam Vat!!

Animatic 1.2

2009-12-16T20:38:00.003Z

Animatic 1.2 from Aoife Doyle on Vimeo.

Ok so here's the animatic i'm running with now.
Prob gonna be the last one I tinker around with.
Some small changes I want to make but this is
99.9999999% of what its gonna be yay!
Thanks to Nickster for all his great pointers;-)

Animatic 1.1

2009-12-14T18:50:00.005Z

Animatic 1.1 from Aoife Doyle on Vimeo.

Here's a more up to date version of my animatic.
Still not exactly what I want it to be but getting there.
Think it needs more tension and to be timed a
wee bit better. I'm working on it;-)
(no music on this one)

Quiz Night Poster

2009-10-26T23:58:00.002Z

This is a quick poster I did as a favour for some mates of mine. Just thought I'd post it up here. It's been a little while since I put up something new;-)

Best in Show

2009-10-15T02:15:00.002+01:00

Rat Race is in the 'Best in Show' - A showcase of the best digital media graduates 2009!
It's opening tonight at the Digital Exchange. Should be fun;-)
Show runs from 16-23rd October.

Nana's Strawberry Preserve First Draft Animatic

2009-10-13T18:07:00.004+01:00

Film idea for this year got the green light today.
This is the 1st draft of 20panel animatic.
Mmmmm....Jam!

Teapee

2009-10-03T00:05:00.006+01:00

Here's just a little something I did in corel painter for some friends of mine. It's two little native american girls enjoying some tea outside their teepee/tipi.

Back to College with UP!

2009-09-17T00:19:00.005+01:00

My lovely friend Nicky brought me along to a special screening of UP with Pete Docter in Cineworld on Sunday! I loved the film. It was so lovely. The 3d aspect really added to the film.
Anyway our first warm up project of the year was to create a visual response to a cinema trip. So here's my little UP inspired one. Tis me watching in 3d;-)

Galway Film Fleadh '09

2009-06-11T13:24:00.001+01:00

Woo hoo! Just got news that 'Rat Race' has been chosen for this years shorts programme
at the Galway Film Fleadh;-)

Final Poster for Rat Race

2009-05-20T00:24:00.002+01:00

This is the final poster which will be used at the end of year show next week.
Each member of our team gets credit for this image. The pencil drawing and bg by Rory. Title lettering by Nicola. Poster edited and characters coloured by me.

Colour Chart to Finished Colour Stills

2009-05-13T23:58:00.002+01:00

This was the final approved colour chart for Rat Race. Colour story chosen and
drawn up by me.

The following are actual finished stills from the film. You can see we kept very tight to the
original colour chart.

2009-05-13T16:58:00.002+01:00

This is the final scene from RatRace. Sad and jobless;-)

Depressed Boys

2009-05-05T00:08:00.001+01:00

Ok so this is how the characters are going to look in the final scene. All jobless and depressed!
I might give Mr. Blue some stubble too. Haven't decided yet;-)

Run to office

2009-05-04T14:15:00.004+01:00

This is my second last scene from Rat Race.
Running to the bosses office, slapping each
other as they go.

Truck out from Boss' Office

2009-04-10T16:44:00.003+01:00

This one is another camera move. Just a quick truck out
from the Boss' office. Partitions moving up slightly
to help the effect. The bg for the interior of the
office hasn't been created yet. That's why it's just
grey in there at the moment. (Again this shows
black in preview, but it is here;-))

Short scenes

2009-04-09T17:19:00.009+01:00

Haven't had a chance to put up anything new in a while.
I've been working on short scenes lately..not very exciting..but here's a couple.

This is just the establishing shot of the movie with a little camera move. BG's by Rory.

This one is the second last shot of the movie. Just after they've been fired. Just a little rain i animated. (ps don't know why this vid shows as black in preview??but press play anyway..it's there i swear;-))

2nd split screen gag

2009-03-13T14:58:00.003Z

This is the second split screen gag in the car
chase. Only one more split screen to go. It's
a good job 'cause I'm starting to see everything in
split screen;-)

1st Split Screen Gag in Race

2009-02-28T13:56:00.007Z

This is the scene with the 1st Split screen gag from the film. Mr. Green's arm was not fun to animate;-) Deffo not split screen friendly. The 2nd Split screen will be much better as it's Mr.Blue doing most of the action and he's great to animate.
(Weirdly, the action looks a lot slower when you watch it this small. Looks a lot faster at normal size?)

The Boss

2009-02-18T21:11:00.002Z

The finished model sheet of 'The Boss' character. (line drawing by Rory, built up digitally in flash by me.)

Cars

2009-02-13T20:43:00.003Z

Here's a still image of what the finished cars look like. The characters are roughly stuck in to give an idea of what they'll look like inside. Can't wait to get moving and animating the scenes with the cars. (Pencil drawing by Rory. Built up digitally in Flash by me.)

Thought Bubble Scene

2009-02-10T18:46:00.004Z

Here's my third finished scene from the film.
The BG's to be added later. Trying to pick up the
speed now and start lashing out lots of scenes.

Rat Race - Breakfast Scene part two

2009-01-26T00:43:00.007Z

This is the new souped up version of the breakfast scene for Mr. Blue. Again, Backgrounds to be added later. This clip is a bit squished - It will be widescreen in the final edit.

Yes we can!

2009-01-22T23:24:00.003Z

In the spirit of the week that's in it....here's a little something I did for fun. I love those Obama posters.

Rat Race - Breakfast Scene Animation

2009-01-21T21:16:00.004Z

This is the first real fully animated scene for my college film 'Rat Race'. I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out. The backgrounds are to be added later.

Mr. Green Flash Model Sheet

2009-01-16T19:24:00.005Z

Mr. Green Built up in Flash - (as before, original pencil drawings by Rory. Partly built by Nicola, finished and textured by Me.)

Mr.Blue Flash Model Sheet

2009-01-05T22:29:00.004Z

Mr.Blue - Finally built up in Flash
(pencil drawing by Rory,built up in flash and textured by me)

Life Drawing 2008

2008-12-19T14:46:00.004Z

Some paintings etc. from life drawing class this year. My first return to life drawing in six years.

Test Scene

2008-12-15T22:41:00.003Z

This is the first test scene from 'Rat Race', a flash animation film i'm directing in college.

Concept Art

2008-11-19T17:31:00.004Z

Here's a concept image from my student film 'Rat Race'. Its about two guys who race to work thinking they're going to get a promotion but end up getting sacked instead.
(top image-pencil sketch by Rory-built up digitally by me, rest of images designed and rendered by me)

Flash Samples

2008-11-13T22:46:00.001Z

Some Flash Animation samples. These were just some small little projects i set for myself.(the bottom four, although showing black in the thumbnails...will actually play if you click on them.)

Furby Faces

Owl Flight

Wonder Boy

Friggin' Frog

Crab

Crazy Rocket Ship

Free Runners

2008-10-08T21:15:00.000+01:00

This was a visual response to free runners performing on the quays as part of the Dublin Festival.
It's still images laid on top of an empty background with animation inbetweens in flash.