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Lovelace and Babbage

The pocket universe that opened up out of nowhere and swallowed my life. As featured in Wired and the BBC, THRILL to the amazing exploits of the crime-fighting duo at the dawn of the digital age, only at 2dgoggles.com

A-To-Zoo

Daily Animal Warmups, Alphabetical. At A-To-Zoo. Just started these but finding them relaxing!

Agricultural Report

A short film I made in 2004 with the help of the Irish Film Board and Barley Films. It was meant to be a ‘learn computer animation’ exercise but has played at over a hundred film festivals and was nominated for an Annie Award!

Natural History of Selborne

I once typed out 40 years worth of the journals of the 18th century naturalist Gilbert White, for no particular reason. They are absolutely lovely and you can read them all at The Natural History of Selborne.

Tutorials

Some Notes on Comparative Anatomy

It’s a mighty big subject obviously but for this talk I focused on looking for squash and stretch in the skeleton. Useful for animation and also for rigging. It’s easy for humans to forget how squashy-stretchy most animal skeletons are, because we ourselves are built very upright and straight with all our bones pretty much [...]

Till the Cows Come Home

Here’s some of my notes on four-legged walks (our feature animal: COWS!) for a class I’m teaching at the Animation Workshop, for those who might find it useful– as always, study as much as you can from reference and understand WHY the action is as it is.

Cat Anatomy Notes– The Spine

Just got back from teaching a few weeks at the always relaxing and inspiring Animation Workshop. I agreed to do a short course in animal animation in 2D before I remembered that I haven’t animated on paper in three or four years– yikes! They tend to ask me to teach something with animals when I [...]