Elegant 3d Design & Efficiency.

The RTE Sport department asked me to generate the 2 GAA cups in 3d for various graphics in 2008. They were built by analyzing photographs of the original cups. I photographed them in person in the GAA museum in Croke Park, this turned out to be a waste of time however. The original cups were so badly damaged, they weren't a suitable reference for the build so I had to use images of the replicas. I even saw 'CONNO' scratched into one of the originals, it looked like it was done with a compass! They really were two battered entities.

Opening animation of a children's TV slot on RTE (Ireland). The inspiration for the animation is drawn from http://www.airfield.ie/ where most of the series was shot. The programme will be on RTE in the Autumn. Audio composed by Ray Harmon. Design and animation Alan Eddie.

This is a group illustration project concerned with the socially unacceptable and illegal acts of cruelty committed in the Bible in the name of our Lord. http://bookofgenocide.blogspot.com/ I will contribute this piece to this interesting idea by Alan Dunne and Steve McNally. This is the wonderful passage: Elisha & The Bears And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head. And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them. 2 Kings 2:23-2:24 Would you slaughter 40 kids if they had a laugh at your comb-over ? I think this passage clearly shows the motivation to create monsters such as the Devil. Maybe then it won't be so funny.

'They are near your socks' was an entry for the Footlocker, sort of make them a free advert competition. They pay you 65 pairs of sneakers (€1000 ish) to make an ad for them and save €125,000 for themselves. I know 2 things in life, good math, and how to wiggle ears independently so I went for it! Boy did I lose!

Well well, I have been busy making a short film with Alan Dunne (or to put it another way not busy at all). We decided to put an extreme lack of planning at the center of this project and just sort of wing it. Our prep work involved 5 min of scribbles in a pub. To look out for: Alan Dunne's earrings are 20c coins sellotaped to his ears. The military arms on my hat are literally 2 cigarettes. My Ford focus is actually not a horse. When Alan is at the window we lost Edward (the cat) so in a brilliant piece of problem solving I suggested to keep stroking as if there was a cat present. If you have seen 'Sommersby' you will know that the central plot is ridiculously funny, which renders this piece of work as something more somber. mmmmmm.

A little girl interprets her local priest's advice as absolution for her murders. This is a black-comedy-horror from the depths of rural Ireland. This was a final year film in DLIADT, Dublin, Ireland. The Priest is played by Michael West and the girl by Lisa McKeon. Created by Alan Eddie in 2000.

Just to remind you of Gay's skills in interviewing : http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=s8T0Q03oJSc The greenscreen shoot was completed in about two hours. Gay had never done a greenscreen shoot before, but once briefed, took it in his stride. It can be difficult when you have to guess at your possible surroundings might be. It was shot by Dave Perry, with makeup by Fiona Hogan. The 'Bullet Time' technique was achieved by rotating Gay on a rented turntable. In creating the 3D and effects, we actually rotate the scene to match Gay's movement. While leaving the virtual camera static, this makes us feel the camera is travelling around Gay. An RTE News promo made a few years ago was a main reference for this technique. First, we edited the greenscreen footage to the track, then we keyed out the green. Then it was simply a case of generating all the imagery and compositing it all together. Perhaps 'simply' was a bad choice of word. We shot footage on camp...