I was so delighted to participate in a panel discussion with Joe Sutherland https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-sutherland-a4939880 and Christina Halstead https://www.instagram.com/risuquin/ for Toon Boom. We chatted about our careers and the different directions a career in the animation industry can take you. If you’re interested in a career in animation, hopefully you might hear something helpful 🙂
Thanks for having me Toon Boom! https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1719996493
Wuuuuhuuuu! Season 2 of Dead End is finally on Netflix!
It’s FINALLY here!!! I had the most amazing time working with a spectacular team on this project! I love it so much! So excited to finally be able to share it with everyone! Watch it! Love it!!!
Delighted to have joined the amazing Dog Ears in Derry as Assistant Director on their brand new project with Cartoon Saloon in Kilkenny! It’s top secret for now, but I cannot wait to be able to tell the world about it! It’s going to be stunning! http://cheersdogears.com/
I am so lucky to be involved in Netflix’s new show, ‘Deadendia’, being created by MysteryQ in London. I have moved into the Pipeline Director role for this project. It has been seriously challenging stepping up to meet the demands of this role through the Covid-19 pandemic, but the team are phenomenal and I’ve been loving it!
Cannot wait for it to air on Netflix next year. It is so much fun! It’s charming, clever, spooky and funny. Hamish has created a stunning diverse range of characters, with our main character Barney being transgender and Norma being neurodiverse.
You can read a bit more about it here: https://kidscreen.com/2020/07/02/netflix-takes-a-spooky-turn-to-deadendia/
We worked on this absolutely amazing little Christmas short in Blue-Zoo. It’s a music video for Scouting For Girls Christmas song “Let’s Not Go Away”. It was directed by Blue-Zoo’s People and Talent co-ordinator, Katie Gascoyne, who won a blind pitch for it. It was a really quick turn-around (just 6 weeks) but the 2D team got a chance to jump in and create and it was incredibly good fun!
I rigged Mandy, the main female character. And some background characters too.
Nickelodeon has released the first episode of “It’s Pony”, the show I’ve been working on, as a Christmas Day special. I have been loving working on this show. It’s so cute, funny and charming. Be sure and keep an eye out for it on Nickelodeon in 2020!
In August, I had the privilege of training some of the next generation of animators in Toon Boom Harmony at the Access:VFX Summer School. The kids that came along blew me away with their talent and energy to learn. I was so impressed!
For the class, I made a very simple little rabbit rig in Toon Boom Harmony and had my students make him jump. I did a little demo animation as well!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45i5uvtJNf0Â – 00.32sec onwards (Wheeler rigs in action!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YxCASF5Iqo – 00.52 sec onwards for chef rig, and 01.03 sec for munchkin rig
I rigged things on Dorothy & the Wizard of Oz! It was the first show I worked on as a Toon Boom Harmony rigger. I started on props & worked my way up to incidental characters. I rigged on Littlest Peg Shop for a short time after that. Now I rig on Rescue Bots Academy and rig main and incidental characters.
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