THESIS DEADLINE DOOM AVERTED!

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Finally finished my thesis for this year.

Thank god.

I had lots of fun writing this and I will deeply miss our late nights spent together with me consuming high amounts of sugary caffeine filled liquids during the all nighter sessions and gaining agonising back and wrist pains which still do spring up from time to time. A little momento of my good friend Thesis.

You shall be missed.
R.I.P.

On other news the class is going out on a bender on Monday. I hope everyone remembered to print an extra copy of their thesis to burn in the bonfire. As a symbol of our love for them of course.

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Chris Judge

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Yeah so we had Chris Judge drop up to the college for a lecture which was organised by CAS (Collaborative Arts Society) and I managed to snag a kick ass print. I'm uber happy. I'm going to frame it and love it forever. Not only that but there was a feast of cake afterward and all were merry in diabetic induced comas.

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This be the print titled "Winter Walk".

The princess and the frog

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I was lucky enough to attend the Irish premiere of Disney's The princess and the frog. Got to meet some of the peeps involved so that was awesome. It was absolutely jammed though. Kids were dressed up as frogs and princess's (if that's how you spell that) and it was loads of fun. Also went to a lecture with Andreas Deja and Peter Del Vecho the next morning which was nice. I'll stick up some photos later.

Props to Jenny once again for being on the ball and bringing a camera with her to these things. Check out her blog.

The truth of the matter is that I actually photoshopped myself into these photos. Hence the same pose in every one of them. Its a conspiracy! Jim Corr would be proud of me.

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(In order from left to right)
Simon Cowell. I mean, myself, Anika Noni Rose AKA: Tiana, Jenny Keane

It was really cool that Jenny took a time out of her glamourized lifestyle to take a picture with myself and Anika. We were both thrilled. The legendary Jenny! Who's have thought it. Anika was even hyperventilating.
Myself and Director Ron Clements
Myself, Director John Musker and Jenny Keane

TODAYS DOODLE

A typical Wednesday class meeting

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Yep.

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CALENDER

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Here's my contribution to Conall's calender. It's for April. It is based on one those little instances that life produces. It has no connection to that month.

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SHU-FU

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Women seem to feel the need to learn self defense in these dark and dangerous times but I think they have forgotten that they are already trained in the deadly art of Shu-fu. They walk around on stiletto ice picks of death. Ever hear of the phrase "killer heels"?

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PANDA TELEPATHY

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Captains (b)Log. ....And they don't like what your thinking

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Secretwars

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SecretWars. 20 artists. 2x4 foot canvas. 90 minutes.

That sums up SecretWars pretty much. A group of 20 artists battle it out in a qualifying round to get onto team dublin. We were given a canvas of 2x4 foot to display our kung fu in 90 minutes.

A bunch of the guys from college got together and we did what we do best. Got drunk and drew. I had a great time and I will definately be doing it again. I recommend this for a night out , even if you are just there to watch.

Check out their blog: http://secretwarsdublin.blogspot.com/

This was my entry for the competition.

This is the gang (from left to right) Leigh Arthur, Conall Kelleher, Conor Finnegan and Rachel Feury and below is their corresponding art.

Here's some random boards I snapped.
And here are the winning boards
This is the madness that is Secretwars. (where's Rasta Wally?)

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ITS THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN

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Captains (b)Log. Just to prove I still have that Friday feeling.

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Whoever wrote that PDF thing is a genius

John Canemakers farewell

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Unfortunately John had to leave sooner or later, so after a hungry mob of animation students (me being one of them) demanded pictures and signatures he set off into the sunset and for the wesht of the country.

Props to Jenny for the photos!

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John doodles (part 2)

More!

John doodles (part 1)

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Academy award winner, John Canemaker, ( http://homepages.nyu.edu/~jc7/ ) filmmaker, writer, animation historian, teacher and artist dropped into the college for the last two weeks and lectured. Nice guy. So that has been the highlight of the academic year so far. While in his lectures I doodled some charicatures of John. He gradually develops into a tortoise. Never showed him the drawings. I wonder if would he have been insulted.. Have a gander.
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PRODUCE PLETHORA PRODUCTION PAGES

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Well my Production manual is due tomorow and its been hell to cobble together something worth presenting. I'm exhausted and sick with a cold but all thats left is to get it bound. For your ocular pleasure I'm adding a couple of images from the book.

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