Niall Byrne Showreel 2016

Niall Byrne Showreel 2016 from Niall Byrne on Vimeo.

Here is my newest Showreel showing off the best of the stuff I worked on the last few years.  I haven't done a Showreel in ages and its about time I did one. So anyway here it is. I have gotten to work on lots of different projects and this shows off my favorite bits,  there is a little label on the bottom left so you can see what I worked on.  also if you want me you work on any freelance animation or illustrations feel free to contact me with this email aaniallbyrne@gmail.com

Thanks again,

So much for watching.

Love is Blind 2013

Hey guys and gals.



HappyValentines Day, this is my final year film Love is Blind.  I did it back in 2013 and have been letting it go out to a few festivals over the last couple years but now its finished going around and has found a happy home here :).  What a better time to share it than Valentines Day, so if you like a silly romantic comedy you found it.

thanks so much for watching :)

Five Nights at Freddy's after effects animation

Hey Guys and Gal's.  This is a little test I did in after effects.  I wanted to do a little animation gif in after effects so I used the photoshop files of the fnaf characters to I made in the Illustrations.  I built up there layers and added extra pieces and body parts to the characters.  the most work was building Chica because I could really only use her head, I didn't build a full body for it so I built it using shapes and duplicated parts of Bonnie and Freddy.  I also added a couple spark effects to make the characters look more broken.  I kept the animation really stiff because there animatronic, I'd imagine they would have moved.  I also did a quick brick back ground in photoshop so the characters would fit in more. I also added a lot of shading and tints to the characters to make them look more menacing.

It was an interesting test just to see what I could do with after effects and photoshop.  I might do another one with foxy and mangle in pirate cove.  but we'll see :)

if you like the animation check out the fnaf illustrations to see what they looked like before.

http://www.redbubble.com/people/niallbyrne/collections/404526-five-nights-at-freddys?order=popular

https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/155730-we-love-foxy-and-mangle

https://www.teepublic.com/show/155733-we-love-bonnie

https://www.teepublic.com/show/176469-we-love-chica

https://www.teepublic.com/show/255763-we-love-freddy

also follow me on tumblr or twitter if you wanna see more :)

http://madmanwithagraphicstablet.tumblr.com/

https://twitter.com/Phoenix_tweetin

thanks again, for check out the blog :D

Dragon Master

Hey guys and gals,  This this is my illustration for the Animation Art show 2014.  The animation art show is an annual exhibition and auction that takes place in Dublin in aid of Irish children's charities.  I donated the first ever print to the Animation Art show first So that it could make as much money for charity as possible, and thank you to everyone who bid on it.  Here is a link down below.

http://www.animationartshow.com/

The piece I gave is an original Digital Painting of  "How to Train Your Dragon 2"  I love this Film and I believe its one of the best animated films this year.  Everything in this movie moved me so this is more or less a tribute to the movie.

Break Down

I Started of with this original Sketch of just Hiccup, but I felt this wasn't strong enough by itself.

So I added Toothless and swapped Hiccup around and altered his clothes to be on the right side.

I then did the outline and started coloring.  but I took special attention  to the flat coloring of the characters so the flat color stands on its own as a piece.

Once all the flat tone was done I went in to each of the characters and painted in the different areas of  leather, clothe, scales and hair to make it look like the texture of the characters in the movie right down to the blush and freckles on his face. I also added to a contrasting light and and color to ad some atomshpere.

Hiccup has multiple different painter textures for his costume and face.

Toothless took the longest as I was experimenting with many different brushes to recreate his scales
Here are a couple of Zooms the Characters.

Anyway I hope you enjoyed this breakdown.

if you want a print of the High Resolution of the Illustration follow the link below.

http://www.redbubble.com/people/niallbyrne/works/12900596-dragon-master

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Daniel Bryan Progression

Hey guy here is a quick gif of WWE superstar Daniel Bryan.  I'm testing out the best setting for gif's and I want to make other animations I have into gifs to people can watch them straight away, instead of uploading them to vimeo.  Also the focus is Daniel Bryans hair growth since starting in wwe in 2010 to now I think its funny how radically his hair and beard has grown since he started.  

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MegaMawile vs MegaCharizard

Mawile vs Charizard from Niall Byrne on Vimeo.

This is a animation test I did in flash and comped in after effects.  It is more of a test to see what I can get out of working in flash and learn the program better.  I want to make a collection of these animations for a while so that there is more animation on my blog.  I'll be picking out all the mega pokemon and giving them a battle animation of some kind, the newer ones will be more cinematic than this one which is kinda flat.

the reason why I started with these two is because they are the ones I use in the game the most, well I all ways use mawile, I love her mega form and its the strongest pokemon in the game.

This is the second pass rough of the animation and the rough is frame by frame of the animation. I then did the final line for the characters using the symbols and everything the get it done quicker.  Almost everthing was broken up into different layer because of charizard alone.  He breaths fire and has an constant fire on the tip of his tail, but mega Charizard slow has fire coming out of his mouth to, all of which needed to be animated.

This is what the characters looked like after they were all finished in flash.

After the animation is done a comp it in after effects.  I dont have a break down because there was just to much to back track.

But eventually after all the the extra shading and glow effect are done it looks like this.  The background was done in photoshop and comment if you can see the easter egg lol.

Hope you all enjoyed this.  

I will be makeing this into a collection of animation tests with all the megapokemon.  If you like it share it around and comment with possible ideas for another one :).  Also if you want any custom images or comissions send me and email.

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Showreel 2013

Niall Byrne Showreel 2013 from Niall Byrne on Vimeo.

Hey Guys, here is a link to my Showreel from last year.  Hope you enjoy.

Mega Mawile rough animation

Here is a rough piece of animation I have been doing with flash.  I'll be starting the fine line when I have all the fire animation for Charizard done.  The animation is of a Mega Mawile vs a Mega Charizard X from the new Pokemon game that came out in October.  I love the games and love Mega Mawile so I wanted to do a little test.  I was thinking of making this a series of animations of either pokemon I like or of the other mega pokemon it the new game.  It will be a while before the fine line is up, I'm still deciding wether to use flash or tvpaint.  we'll see what happens.

Phoenix Medium Rare Film 2012

Hey guys, Me and mate are putting this online now. Its been 2 years of entering festivals and now its finally online.  This was the first film I made in college with my classmate.  I would not have been able to put it do it without them :).

It was entered in

Student Media Awards April 2013

Fingal Film Festival Award/ April 2013

 Galway Film Fleadh July 2012

and won the

Royal Television Society Award as an Undergraduate 13/02/2013 for Short Animation Film 

I haven't posted anything about the success of the Phoenix film on my blog so I want to do it now.  Please check out the film either here or on Gavin Hoffmans channel the more views the better thank you so much for taking the time :)

Felix the Phoenix

This is Felix the Phoenix from Phoenix Medium Rare 2D version.  Some of my friends asked me what the birds name is so I named him Felix.  Its a quirky name for a quirky film.  I heard somewhere that it means Happy in Sweden or somewhere so I believe it suits.  I wanted to make a few giffs for the blog but I can't get them to work, properly of the blog site right now, I can only get them to work as a post. so I'll post this one up for now.  It was all done in TVPaint, all the animation, all the airbrushing and shading of the bird.  I'll be also putting a link to the two student films I've worked one that were my original concept so I'll see you soon.

Primary Secondary Tertiary Action

Primary Secondary Tertiary Action

this is gonna go in my show reel eventually, took a long time to work out the animation of the characters.

Merry Christmas 2010

This is a christmas video i made last year, i made it in less than a month during college.  I thought it would be nice to share it on my blog. Merry christmas guys 

Showreel 2011

my show reel, finally got around to making one.

Linguini vs the World(Ratatouille vs Tangled)

this is my final animation assignment in college. The audio is from scott pilgrim vs the world and the disney characters are flynn ryder(tangeled) and linguini(Ratatouille) .

i think its funny and i hope you will to ;D