Creature Gifs 2

This is the second of the creature designs and animations I made in flash for a game I worked on in a small studio about a year or more ago, I don't know if the game ever went ahead but, they were made to assist the player in solving puzzles.

 

Idle animation: Lean and wing wave, 

for when the creature sits at the top of the screen waiting to be used.

Attack/magic animation: Blowing fire

for when the creature uses it power

Spirou et Fantasio

Spirou and Fantasio franco belgian comic series I discovered a few years ago when a cartoon version showed up on the television. I was curious to know more about it and when I found the comics I really fell for it. It has also introduced me to various other European comics I might never have heard of and encouraged me to start learning french again.  I've even been to Belgium to meet some of the artists of the series.
This post is for some of the Spirou fan art I've done over a few years, sometimes experimenting with different styles along the way.

What happnes when it's Spirous birthday on the job? Fantasio wouldn't forget to celebrate.

Squirrels don't really enjoy new years fireworks.

This way or that way? This is one of my earliest pictures of them.

An illustrartion Based on a comic by Rudy Spiessert from the Spirou 75th Special

Spirou is actually meant to mean squirrel.

Zantafio! Fantasios evil cousin with his minions.

Zorgulb the other main villain of the series, sometimes...

At your service ;)

Seccotine: super snoopy fellow reporter

Creature gifs 1

I worked on some creature designs and animations in flash for a game in a small studio about a year or more ago, I don't know if the game ever went ahead but this is one of three creatures created for it, they were made to assist the player in a puzzle game.

 

Idle animation: wiggle wiggle, for when the creature sits at the top of the screen waiting to be used.

 Attack/magic animation 1: Front flip, for when the creature uses it power

Attack/magic animation 2: Bouncy bounce, I wasn't sure about the front flip so I also tried out a different movement

Unhappy Halloween

I hope you enjoy this old art of a witch having an existential crises for Halloween.

 Don't get too scared now.

CelAction Animated Gifs

A few months ago I took a weekly class in the animated program CelAction. I learned a lot from this. In the class we were thought how to create a character, add rigs to it and the principals of animation in in the program as well as having character interact with props. At first we used pre made characters built into the program but we were able to put together our own character in the last few weeks.

My character is park ranger hedgehog called Henrietta, before this I had only sketched her in pencil so creating a lineless version in Photoshop was something very different.

CelAction was an interesting program to work with, at first it looks very imposing and difficult to manage but once I understood it and got to work on some real animation I found it worked really well.

Auto CAD Models: 3D Tools

Example of a 3D bracket used to support

Glass doors and Walls built from a real life example.

 Same tool with a different angle and realistic coloring.

 Example of another glass part bracket tool.

3D AutoCAD Progress designs

Recently I completed a course learning 2D and 3D Auto CAD, It was very interesting and I learned a lot I had never heard of this program before.

 These are screenshots I took show some of my process when when creating a 3D Model,

Watering can from an exercise.

 Half of a 2 part tool used to secure large glass walls and doors 

referenced from real life as part of a work experience project.

Working in CAD is different to any other graphics program I've used before, I think modeling in, 3DS Max or Maya feel a bit like clay they way you push and pull on various parts and smooth them out but CAD is a bit like carving shapes into stone. I usually cut into the shape more than mold it.

2014 Show reel

Show Reel 2014 from Janette Monahan on Vimeo.

This year I got the chance to work on a documentary and sprites for a video game which I added to clips of my short films. As well as the animation I also designed everything featured. The pink characters were based on designs featured on a decorative plate from the Cake Cafe who I created the animation for.

Endure Doumentary

About a month or two ago completed work doing animated map graphics which I was approached to do for the feature length documentary: Endure. It follows a pair of cyclists who travel around the world in order to raise money for charity. The website is available here.

The map featured in the background of the website is my design.
Here is the full image it shows the routes taken by the cyclists on their journey

Below is an out-take I made that was for a test film when I was trying to decide the look of the graphics I thought about having the paths led by two different coloured cyclist symbols

 in the end though it wasn't used but I quite liked working in this style.

Spring Time (2012)

Spring Time from Janette Monahan on Vimeo.

My graduation film from BCFE. I created it using a mix of hand drawn 2D and 3D animation. A young girl has trouble sleeping made worse with the appearance of a loose bed spring.

Saoirse

Saoirse is a children's book I worked on in aid of the charity Aiobheann's Pink Tie. The series, of which there are currently two in an ongoing series are written by Mick Rochford tells the story of a fairy who is on the search for magical gold hearts and the adventures she finds along the way.

I created designs for the characters and Illustrated the first book with help from Dillon Maxwell, The Second book was illustrated by Lucy Toner.

Both books are available on kindle (click images for links).

 

These are some of my images from the first book

 

Below are some concept sketches for the characters.

             Saoirse                                     Teegan

Alden

Alden's Mother

 Draft sketches for one of the pages

Spring 2013 Gesture drawings 2

More drawings from Nialls' gesture life drawing classes the poses ranged between 1 and 3 minutes. I mainly used graphite and charcoal but for poses longer than that I switched to oil pastels.

Spring 2013 Gesture drawings 1

During February and March I did another gesture drawing class with Niall Laverty. The poses shown ranged ranged between 1 minute to 3 minutes.