Early in 2017, I was approached by Simon O'Neill (www.simononeill.org) to work on a short film for the Irish Film Board's Frameworks programme. The project was shortlisted for funding, but ultimately was not made.
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This is the design for the central character in the film. He is a cockchafer beetle.
Below is a background scene I prepared for the film. All scenes in the film would have been presented in this style - The foreground and background elements are drawn separately in ink and watercolour and composited together, enabling parallax and depth of field effects.
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I designed, painted and inked the environmental elements before putting them together in Photoshop. My partner Niamh Gill did the lighting for the scene.
