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Cocodrillo

Lifedrawing Dump

Old Life Drawing.

For Lisa's handywork

Some designs which you can see in fully fabricated glory here

Lolo

Messing about with some lighting

You can better see the rear lit window here, and the shiny gold clasps on the dungarees.

A scan of the final framed piece

Lightbox Film Festival - Sligo

Hi all,
Will be hosting a stopmotion workshop at this years Lightbox festival, on the morning of Saturday the 7th. There's loads of great films at it too; including the Fierlinger's My Dog Tulip, Jan Sverak's Kooky and a selection of shorts curated by Michael Connerty.
Here's the festival schedule:

(Click for full size)

Hope to see ye there!
E

Otto's Animation Party

Janey it's very yellow...
Made with the assistance of a number of hyperactive 10 year olds and Lisa Powell (who's been busy animating her own stuff since: link)

Fanart

for CD

Rooster Photo Stream

Hi all,
Here's a flickr set featuring work that myself and Pádraig created while making The Rooster the Crocodile and the Night Sky.
More recent goings on to come soon,
E

Misc

Did some drawing with my little brother and sister over the weekend

Frank Lloyd Wright

For +S5

DCNYF Animation!

Hi all!

Here are the results of the recent animation worksops. I hope you enjoy!

DCC & DCNYF Animation workshop 2011/Rabbit from Eimhin McNamara on Vimeo.

School Tour

LINK

DCNYF ANIMATION WORKSHOPS!!!

Hi all!

As I mentioned previously, I've been planning some workshops with Dublin City Council Libraries and Dublin Chinese New Year Festival as part of the Chinese New Year celebration's this February. We've managed to put together a programme of workshops that will cover a good range of Dublin City, 10 workshops in all, 6 thaumatrope workshops which are in partnership with local primary schools and 4 flipbook workshops which are available to book by contacting the host libraries.
(For the flipbook classes I'll have thaumatropes with me as well in case anyone wants to try their hand at that too)

Here is the timetable of activities:

Tuesday February 1st:

1. 1000-1100 - Thaumatrope Workshop
   Location: Mary Queen of Angels National School (Already pre-booked by a school)
   
2. 1200-1300 - Thaumatrope Workshop
   Location: Dolphin's Barn Library (Already pre-booked by a school)
   
3. 1500-1630 - Flipbook Workshop - Recommended for ages 8-13
   Location: Walkinstown Library - Contact details to book a place: Link 

Wednesday February 2nd:

1. 1030-1130 - Thaumatrope Workshop
   Location: Pembroke Library (Already pre-booked by a school)
   
   
2. 1200-1300 - Thaumatrope Workshop
   Location: Charleville Mall Library (Already pre-booked by a school)
   
   
3. 1500-1630 - Flipbook Workshop - Recommended for ages 8-13
   Location: Finglas Library - Contact details to book a place: Link

Thursday February 3rd:

1. 1030-1130 - Thaumatrope Workshop
   Location: Pearse Street Library (Already pre-booked by a school)
   
   
2. 1200-1300 - Thaumatrope Workshop
   Location: Ballymun Library (Already pre-booked by a school)

Saturday February 5th:

1. 1100-1230 - Flipbook Workshop - Recommended for ages 8-13
   Location: Coolock Library - Contact details to book a place: Link

Saturday February 12th

1. 1400-1530 - Flipbook Workshop - Recommended for ages 8-13
   Location: Central Library @ the Ilac Centre - Contact details to book a place: Link

I will be assisted by two 2nd Year Ballyfermot Animation students Adrián and Kellie, as well as my fellow Dún Laoghaire graduates Rachel and Lisa.

Special thanks to Geoff Power and Anne Gannon for allowing me to participate in their project, which I hope is the first of many.
All the best,
Eimhin

PS. Unfortunately I wasn't able to facilitate a stop-motion workshop, but something is in the works that might come to pass in the next few months. I hope this guy is some consolation in the meanwhile.