SO I was doing some work with Johnny Ball of Think of a Number Fame from the 80s. I just directed a few pieces of interaction between the IZak9 Characters and the man himself. 1fuklll day of filming followed by a week or so of edits, animation and compositing. Here’s a quick snippet of the outcome.
I don’t know much about pokémon to be honest. I can understand the genius of the design etc and how amazingly popular they are sure but they just…well…. I just don’t get it to gbe honest. Anyway I’m part of a group of people that meet up in google hangouts and do a bit of work together in the evening after work is done and this task was to redesign a Pokémon character so I did…. this is my interpretation of Gible…. the Pokémon guy…. whom I had never seen. Here you can see a breakdown of sketches all the way through to the final animated character.
In 2014 Lagan Media Productions, a Belfast based production house, approached Design at Magee Lecturer Mark Cullen and past student Christian McGilloway with a project involving the animation of Irish poetry. There were 12 poems in all and Christian and Mark were tasked with gathering a team to produce the content for the series
Lagan media produced briefs for each of the poems and the team was assembled. This comprised of Design at Magee lecturer Mark Cullen and past students Christian McGilloway David Kerr, Niall Carlin and Una Gallagher. They were joined by a friend of Una’s, Katie O’Kane.
The programmes aired in October 2014 on BBC Northern Ireland weekly for a 12 week period and they are currently on repeat on the same channel on Mondays at 10:25pm. You can watch the poems on the BBC Player here: BBC Player Clips
Blianta an Cogaidh by Máirtín Ó Direáin and animated by Lecturer Mark Cullen was nominated in the prestigious Celtic Media Awards ceremony 2014.
The poems were also included in a mobile app. The Filliocht Anois app features poems from 5 poets in CCEA’s Irish Poetry A2 level curriculum and include biography, audio readings, quizzes and feature the animations themselves.
The app is available on iTunes here: IOS app
and on Google Play here: Android App
Further Information can be found on the Northern Ireland Screen website here: NIScreen Article
For those of you with regional difficulties using the BBC iPlayer you can view the award nominated Blianta an Chogaidh below (subtitles and title screens were added in post).
After years of working between manifestcg,com and designatmagee.com I’ve decided to make a new site under a more recognizable name, markycullen.com. markcullen.com is some gardener bloke from the US apparently.
www.manifestcg.com will remain up for the time being until I transfer some of the content over to the new site.
I have set up forums for various disciplines which you may want to use while working on projects for feedback or peer learning. You can register by selecting the forums link at the top of the page or on the right of this page. You will then receive an email with a password and verification of your registration shortly afterwards. You can then join in the forums.
If working on group projects you may want to set up a private board for your project. I’ll set that up for you if you need it. Just let me know!