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おねがいなにかいって [日本語版]

David — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:23:40 +0000

Here is the Japanese version of my film Please Say Something.

I made this with the translation help of Nobuaki D oi.

NEWS! I’m heading to TOKYO in a few weeks to speak at the Graphic Passport conference, tickets available HERE. Ill be in Japan for a couple of weeks doing other stuff, really looking forward!

BLACK LAKE

David — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:40:11 +0000

My good friend Jon Klassen came over to Berlin in October. We decided to make a small video, we sketched out some ideas, Jon did some designs and I took it from there.

The result is this 2 minute video loop which doesn’t really fit into any category except here, online, right now, this very second, for you and you alone.

Note: if you head over to the vimeo version there’s a loop feature if you right click over it…

Those of you in London: this is showing at the “A Foundation Gallery” at Rochelle School, London E2 7ES. It’s a show dedicated to collaboration stuff. Details Here.

edit: Wow, thank you Cartoon Brew, Motionographer & Shape&Colour

Jon is currently exploring the American wilderness (really) but we will probably put some development work from this project when he gets back.

U2 – Crazy

David — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:20:32 +0000

I just directed U2‘s latest music video for the song “I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight”. It can be seen below or by clicking on the following link.

The video has been given an exclusive premiere on Youtube.com, taking over the front page in Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain and the US. If you’re not based in those countries it should be viewable very soon!

The video is now viewable in HD on my Vimeo page here.

Credits: Directed & Characters Designed by David OReilly. Art Direction, Production Design, Concept art by Jon Klassen. Animation & Rigging by Chris Hutchison and Daniell Brown, with extra animation by Steve White. The video was produced by Colonel Blimp and made at Lumiere Studios in London.

M.I.A. Visuals

David — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:00:17 +0000

Here are some stage visuals I recently did for M.I.A. The deadline for this was extremely tight, everything was done in a few days in preparation for her Coachella gig last weekend.

Here was the first test I did before any brief, it wasn’t used in the end but it’s my personal favourite. You can view this with red/cyan glasses, the gun’s distortion is in true 3d space.

This is a composite of some of the other ones I did, more in line with M.I.A’s aesthetic. (unfortunately compression kind of kills the flat colors/strobe effects). Since these were rendered in extreme widescreen I compressed them both into one video. The left audio channel is for the song “World Town” and the right the final version of “Bang”. Listen to them separately with headphones.

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David — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:27:24 +0000

Here is my sequence for the PSST!3 project, part of an animation with Chris Harding of Shynola & David Shrigley, the full film can be seen here. This features the head of Walt Disney, which can still be downloaded here.

(Watch in HD here)

DENMARK

Thank you again to everyone who came to my talks at Lynfabrikken and Republikken in Denmark, and especially to Lasse Schuleit for setting it all up. Both places are totally amazing workspaces for creative people, I wish there was an equivalent in Berlin or London.

Please Say Something finally released!

David — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:11:04 +0000

Here it is, my latest and greatest short film Please Say Something! Winner of the Golden Bear for best short film at the 2009 Berlinale.
*DVD in the works, many extras & other shorts included, drop me a mail for notification. Should be ready next week*

I worked hard to make this free online, so pass it around to everyone you know and if you have a blog, embed it. Embed it several times over! The downside of making it free is that some festivals will no longer value it and certain channels wont buy it, and the only real way of making up for that is to spread it far and wide. Help prove that the web as a distribution model for animation works!

The film is under exclusive distribution by Future Shorts, proudly being the first ever HD film on their channel.

*update: feature on BoingBoing!
*update 2: comments are enabled for the first time on this blog.
*update 3: youtube seems to wash out the colors/subtitles, check the vimeo instead
*update 4: feature on Motionographer

God Bless Us, Every One

David — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:24:58 +0000

Floaters, Merchandise, Octoplush

David — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:31:03 +0000

I took a step out of narrative to do this piece for the massive Illustrative Zurich exhibit which opens on Friday.

Floaters from David OReilly on Vimeo.

The actual piece is a seamless loop.

“Floaters are deposits of various size, shape, consistency, refractive index, and motility within the eye’s vitreous humour, which is normally transparent. They may be of embryonic origin or acquired due to degenerative changes of the vitreous humour or retina… Floaters appear as shadow-like shapes that appear alone or together with several others in one’s field of vision. They may appear as spots, threads, or fragments of cobwebs, which float slowly before the sufferer’s eyes. Since these objects exist within the eye itself, they are not optical illusions but are entoptic phenomena.”

STORE

After several requests (and people started producing this stuff without permission!), I opened a store where you can buy some Octocat merch. I did a few other limited edition designs for fun. Take a picture wearing this stuff and you win a prize.

Also, I’m a ‘Boards magazine “director to watch” this month, which actually has nothing to do with surveillance. It’s great to see them interested in stuff outside the commercial world.

These Octocat plush toys were made by Gina Beastly, she rocks.

Ident

David — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:09:28 +0000

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.

OCTOCAT ADVENTURE

David — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:34:10 +0000

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

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