Unexpectedly there’s been a lot of discussion about my Rotating Grid Illusion… It got on the front of the TED blog and since has been exhumed, examined, ripped apart and reassembled by many people from the science community. As with Octocat, it’s great to see people reinterpreting my work, especially since I don’t consider myself remotely scientific (or in the case of octocat - retarded). I’ve updated the original post here.
In light of all this discussion about optical illusions, I present my rarely seen Ident animation, the original short film which I now use as a logo. The effect you see in this is called a bistable percept, an image or shape that can be interpreted in 2 ways at once. In this case, a rabbit and a bird. Other examples of bistable percepts here and here.
I’ve uploaded the latest installment of the animated pill-sized hyper-narrative Please Say Something.
The entire series has now migrated to Vimeo, which serves full HD versions of every episode. Enjoy!
There is also now an official Youtube channel which I’ll use for random clips that don’t fit the Vimeo page.
After recieving a bunch more Octocat fan art I created this dedicated page : http://www.davidoreilly.com/octocat-art
Founder of Digg talks about iHologram :
Full Octocat feature on g4 :
A conclusion finally comes to the Octocat saga.
With the release of Octocat 5, the last episode, it became impossible to hide I was behind it.
First of all, I’d like to thank everyone who made video responses and fan art. It’s been amazing to see this kind of reaction to my animation and it’s really humbling. I will collect and post everything over here, though it truly deserves it’s own site. Feel free to send anything I missed to octocat (at) davidoreilly.com
I hope none of you are disappointed that there’s no 9-year-old kid in Chicago named Randy Peters. I think the last episode should make up for any bad feeling. I wanted it to have such an ending because you all had so much invested in this.
Many of you are expecting the 18 disc Blu-Ray Octocat box set. It’s not quite ready yet, so for the moment I’ve uploaded a high-definition version of all the episodes back-to-back. The last episode can now be seen in it’s full quality.
FULL LENGTH OCTOCAT ADVENTURE
(click here for high definition)
I’m sure I’ll be accused of misleading people again, but I won’t apologize for that. Why? Because you’ve all proved one vitally important point: audiences don’t need polished, slick animation to find a story engaging. They are happy to follow the worst animated, worst designed and worst dubbed film of all time, and still laugh and cry and do all the things you do watching a so-called “high end” film. Its amazing, I’ve never been so excited about independent animation.
Octocat’s journey on Youtube has officially ended, but who knows what the future will hold for him.
CLICK HERE FOR OCTOCAT ART PAGE
I’m in the great city of New York this week for the all-singing all-dancing conference of Pictoplasma.
For those attending, I’ll be premiering about 8 minutes of new work, including new episodes of PSS and a completely unseen 6 minute film. I’m looking forward to showing it all.
The new work will be online Monday 8th September, so check back then if you can’t make it (cheapskate).
