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

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

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.

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.

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