Ruraí an Róbó

I'm currently working on a Robot named Ruraí in 3Ds Max, using Vray. He is still in the early stages of development but I plan on rigging him for animation and compositing him with video footage in After Effects using motion tracking. I will make a short video about an average day in his life around Brighton. I also plan on doing some Augmented Reality experiments with him.

Here is his development so far;

 

 

Random Videos

Beard in a Bottle
A silent movie style stop motion animation.



A stop-motion, graffiti style animation of a moustache riding a unicycle. Just messing around with After Effects.



Mortal Kombat
Very rough After Effects.

Q-art

My exhibition piece is a series of QR (quick response) codes, each representing a project I’ve done this year. These codes contain my year’s work, while also acting as stand-alone pieces of work themselves. When each QR code is scanned with an iphone or smart phone, you are taken to the piece of work it represents online. If you do not have access to a QR code scanner, you can enjoy the aesthetics of the code as a work of art in itself.

I also modelled a cube in 3Ds Max, each face of the cube with a different QR code. I was hoping to print it using the university's 3D printer, but unfortunately I wasn't able to use it because the printing guys we're too busy with other projects and didn't have time before my assignment deadline.

YCN British Music Experience

A college assignment for which I received a YCN AWARD
My claim to fame, published in the Argus.

My original idea was to make an online promotional video for the BME website. As they want to educate people about the history of music in Britain I thought of making some sort of virtual pop up book showing the development of music in Britain through the different eras. I decided to make flyers, in the same style as the graphics from the pop-up book, to accompany the online video. These flyers could be left in tourist information points, hotel lobbies, cafes, bars and restaurants, which would help increase the number of tourists visiting the BME. On the back of each A6 flyer would be a marker for an “Augmented Reality” experience. The BME have an “Interactive Gibson Studio”, giving visitors the opportunity to play various guitars from the Gibson family. I thought about making an AR online experience, where the user can play a virtual 3D guitar, and get a taste of the British Music Experience.

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AR Demo

Rough Promo Video

Beyond Earth - Augmented Reality Textbook

An augmented reality textbook prototype, which I made for the "interactive brief" in uni.


This is the best AR tutorial that I have found so far.

Demo video with AS3 in the background (It's best to view it in full screen so you can actually see what's going on!)


Demo video in fullscreen without the action script in the background.

Rough Photoshop mockup of what I wanted the book to be like:Experimenting with geometrical shapes in AS3:

Importing 3D models:

Design Futures: e-Map

This is my response to our "Design Futures" brief, the first assignment on the DMD BA course. The concept of an “e-Map”. A portable map made from touch sensitive, flexible e-paper.


Rough Demo

A rough video demonstrating the possible uses of e-paper.

Sainthood Platform Game Prototype

A rough prototype of "Sainthood" a game I made as part of a college assignment. There are still a few glitches but I'm working on them.
Level one: Tegan - collect the halos and avoid pies to achieve "sainthood".
Level two: Sara - Fly around and collect the halos as they appear at random. Level two is still under construction.

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Sainthood Prototype level 1

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click on game screen to play, then use arrow keys to control character. Collect halos without touching the sides of the screen!

Bonus level prototype Sainthood

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Second Year CSN

My completed work so far in second year.

Crabbie's Ad:


My CSN show reel:


Sound Driven Animation:

A screen shot of my portfolio site in dreamweaver:

Three rough photoshop mock up designs for a joomla cms site for the CSN sports department:

Screen shots of my 3D interior (an attic) modeled in 3Ds Max:

I rendered it out using mental ray settings. Unfortunately I had to lower all it's render settings as the computer kept crashing mid frame, so the quality is not very good.

First Year CSN

Here is some of the work I produced during my first year in Coláiste Stiofáin Naofa.

The DVD cover I designed for my portfolio (including guides).

This is a vector trifold brochure I designed for a taekwondo class.

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Screen shot of a website I designed and built for local band "Hot Guitars".

Screen shot of an my interactive flash jigsaw game.

My first experience with Flash. Short animation, "iPenguin":
A channel Ident for a teenage television channel called "Red":
A channel Ident for a children's television channel called "The Den":

Personal Work

Here's some work I've done in my spare time, experimenting with different styles and techniques.

Just messing around with After Effects and green screen footage. Very Rough.


The Prickly Sheep






Bad things happen when I'm bored...