This is a link to a little interview I did a while back after “Lights Out” got some attention. Thought I’d wait for Piranhabar’s “Avatar Days” hype to simmer down a little before I’d post it.
Check it out, the questions were more directed at my experience in the industry so far than the teams but I do my best to include everyone. If you’re not asleep by the second question, I’ve done well!
A lot of sites have been mis-informed about my status on Avatar Days, I did not direct this film and I just want to make that absolutely crystal clear. I was a VFX artist on the film and it is Gavin Kelly’s baby, not mine. I am very happy to have been a part of it. Here is a list of credits:
Directed by Gavin Kelly
Produced by David Burke
Production manager Marc Long
Director Of Photography Fergal O’ Hanlon
Editors Paul Giles, Damien O’ Connell
3D Animation Lead John O’ Connell
3D Animation Will Sharkey, Cormac Kelly
RED Camera Kindly Supplied by “The Production Depot”
Music by Steve Lynch at StellarSound
Digital Transfer Technial Assistant Cathal McHugh
Compositing Arron Ingles, Declan MacErlane
If you liked it, it is the hard work of all these people that made it possible.
Please visit http://www.piranhabar.ie for more of our work.
Cormac.
Hello all. After a long time under-wraps for various reasons I can finally bring this one out into the fresh air! Fans of World of Warcraft, this one’s for you.
This is a short film I worked on a while ago called “Avatar Days”. What makes it a little bit special is that the whole thing from filming, to vfx right through to compositing was done inside 4 very sleepless days and nights. I was part of the team on this one alongside John O’ Connel, Will Sharkey and director Gavin Kelly.
The documentary follows 4 MMORPG players talking about their online persona’s as we see them go about their daily lives against the dreary backdrop of an overcast day in Dublin city…as their Avatars!
This one picked up a few awards along the film festival circuit and was definately a fun one to work on. The bottle of “Kick” the Mage is holding in the queue is the same one that kept me awake helping make this sucker.
EDIT: Big thanks to Danny O’ Dwyer from CitizenGame.co.uk for featuring this on their front page. Cheers man!
Hello Iphone/Ipad users/everyone. My vids are now available on Youtube for your viewing apathy! If you hop on over to my channel you’ll find my recent vids and some reaaaaaaaaaaly old videos which pre-date me actually having any clue what I was doing in CG. You may point and laugh at them as you please.
http://www.youtube.com/user/cormaction#g/u
Here’s “Lights Out” on youtube so you actually see it on your Iphone/Ipad!
Ok folks, for those of you who’ve asked, I’ve put together a very simple breakdown/walkthrough of “Lights Out”. It basically takes you through the process from start to finish in what I hope is a fairly visual and simple way! The orignal “Lights Out” was made for an extra wide LCD strip on a reception desk in under 10 days so my sketches were quick and dirty but it should give you an idea of my thought processes hopefully. Anyway, enough chit-chat… here is is:
The music is a track by Deework called “Lose My Fire” which is being used under the creative commons license. Check out his stuff at: www.deework.com
No, I’m not having a mental breakdown (just yet anyway!) but this is just a quick post to let you all know that, due to a few little requests I’ve been getting there shall be a little breakdown/behind the scenes type video of “Lights Out” in the near future. RSS me to stay in the loop. Many thanks for stopping by and don’t forget to leave feedback on what you’d like to see in the future!
Just a quick thanks to anyone stopping by who’s been adding “Lights Out” to various vimeo groups and sites. Really encouraging to see some people like it at least 
EDIT: Big Shout out to the Vimeo staff who were derranged enough to put it up on “Staff Picks”!
EDITED EDIT: Bonjour to all the French speaking Fubiz visitors. J’espére que vous appréciez mes vidéos! Feel free to leave your thoughts in the comments.
As promised I’m back with some 3D Stereoscopicness. This post see’s a little animation I orginally made for a reception desk (that sucker is is 3 HDTV’s long: click here for the orginal with no sound) get a makeover for normal screens. This also see’s my first foray into sound design which was interesting since there is something robotic in motion pretty much all the time. No servo’s were hurt during the recording of this animation.
Here you’ll find two versions of “Lights Out”. The first being the regular Bland O’ Vision and the second in the slightly less bland, Stereo… O’ Vision. Dust off the old Red and Blue 3D glasses for the latter and prepare to be underwhealmed by the almost imperceptible addition of depth! I kid, I kid, It’ll blow your socks off…so wear two pairs.
Aghhh robots.
Ok, for this once I’ve brought our future overlords together to make up the 2010 ICAD logo. The turnaround for this puppy was short, just a week. It was a fun one though since I pretty much had full creative control on all visual aspects of this from design right through to editing. Haven’t got my teeth into anything music videoesque edit wise in a long time so it was nice to get back in that saddle! The guys at thesoundbutlers.com pulled together some awesome sound in just two days for this one. Beware….it’s dark in there for the first 10 seconds so bring a flash light.
All work completed at Piranhabar.
Dry spell? Fear not, there will be some personal work up soon enough. Get your 60’s 3d anaglpyh specs at the ready cos I’m mucking about in the passing fad that is stereoscopic 3d. More to come but for now, I’ve added a link to my Linkedin profile which I’m updating sloooooooowly but surely.