The Works of Mark Mullery, Animator, Film-Maker, Illustrator and Musician
Dublin’s Synth Eastwood, who selected The Office Environment for the 10th Darklight Film Festival late last year, will be taking their entire Darklight Short Animation Programme to Birmingham’s Flatpack Festival. Great news! The screening is at 11:30am in the Ikon Eastside on Saturday 27th of this month.
Watch: The Office Environment
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The Office Environment is being screened as part of the Chicago Irish Film Festival on March 10th at 7:30PM in the Beverly Arts Center. Tickets for the shorts programme are $20 or $15 for BAC members.
In other news, The Office Environment was nominated for a Royal Television Society Award, and the ceremony took place in RTE. Darragh Duffy and Eamonn O’Neill who I went to college with were both nominated as well and the award for best animation went to Darragh so congratulation’s to him!
It has also been brought to my attention that The Office Environment has been chosen by IADT to represent the National Film School in the Cilect Prize this year. Just being chosen as the sole representative above all the film/documentary/animation produced in IADT last year is a huge honour regardless of whether it is shortlisted or not. Frankly I’m amazed, particularly given the strength and quality of the animation produced by the graduating class of 2009.
I’ll be doing a few months work with the Galway based animation studio A Man & Ink starting early next month. Can’t wait! If you live in Ireland you might have seen their short series “The Variety Show“, on TTV just before Home and Away. I’ll be using the little known and poorly titled Anime Studio Pro, which is actually a great program! It’s not a million miles off Adobe Flash but much more suited to professional animation workflow and has a great bones system that’s similar to 3D Studio Max combined with an After Effects style timeline. Jeremy from A Man & Ink does some great tutorials on the program and I picked it up after about an hour! If you’re interested, there’s a layout explanation, a straighforward Bouncing Ball Tutorial, and an Animation Process Video all up on Vimeo.com.
Just thought I’d stick this up. If anyone went to the IADT Graduate Exhibition they may have picked up one of these as a postcard. I only did about 20-30 and they were all gone by the end so that was cool.
So my graduate film ‘The Office Environment’ has been selected for the Galway Film Festival in the category of Best Debut Short Animation. Going to tighten up the edit if I can before sending it off on miniDV and once it’s been screened I’ll put it up on Vimeo for y’all. Then I’m never going to lay eyes on it again for the rest of my life.
