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Nominated for SMedia Animation of the year
Last month I received some great news that our “Help Change” animation was nominated for a Student Media award for Animation of the Year. http://www.oxygen.ie/smedias_2011_shortlisted_nominees.PAGE4122.html
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The awards were last night in the ‘Grand Social’ sadly we didn’t win; but it was still wonderful to be shortlisted from so many entries!
Thank you to everyone for your support!
Shortlisted For Darklight film festival!
This week our “Help Change” animation was shortlisted for the top prize in the 2010 Darklight “My Environment, My Film” competition! Please head on over to Vimeo and check our animation out, every view counts!
Recently our group (Folks & Folks) was brought to Bratislava for the Biennial of animation.
We had the wonderful opportunity to screen and present our work to some of the most prestigious animation schools and professionals in Europe.
It was an amazing experience and a wonderful opportunity for us all.
I was hired as a freelancer by SimplyZesty.com to create a short animated ad for worky.com to be used in a viral campaign.
Illustration and storyboarding by Shane Delahunty.
The deadlines were very tight!
Sound such as music and narration were added later by SimplyZesty.com
Final video available here…
The Animation created for our final major project in college. Done by Eoin Brennan, Eoin Cody, Shane Delahunty and myself.
Help Change is a short animation built on the frameworks of stop motion animation. The animation addresses the issues of climate change, anxiety and depression. The message is not a scientificaly proven theory; it is a point of view built on the foundations of a fictional script.
The overall aim of the animation is to make the viewer more aware of these important issues that concern Ireland. Such a public issue, climate change, and a personal one, depression/anxiety, are not usually tackled as one. Climate change is an accepted problem, whereas depression and anxiety have stigma attached to them. By displaying such an ignored issue in Ireland (depression/anxiety) beside the widely accepted issue (climate change), we can suggest how each issue is equally as important as each other.
Help Change shows how the world has gone through many changes since its creation. It illustrates how these changes have affected both the world and its people. It suggests several changes that we can make concerning the planet, its people and ourselves. It intends to cause the viewer to think about these changes, question what the main issues in our lives really are and consider what could become if we all in fact did change.
Our aim was to display this message using creative and engaging animation, a clear and concise narrative and an adherence to high industry standards.
