#Cúl an Tí

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Cúl an Tí by Seán Ó Ríordáin

(Translation)

The Back of the House (Cúl an Ti)

At the back of the house is a land of youth,

A jumbled beautiful space among

The farmyard beasts unclothed, unshod,

Nor knowing the Irish or English tongue,

Walking the way.

Yet each one grows an ample cloak,

Where chaos is the heart of rule,

And in that land the language spoke

Was taught of old in Aesop’s school,

Long passed away.

Some hens are here, a chicken clutch,

A simple duck, though fixed of mind,

A big black dog with wicked looks

Barking loud like a good watch-hound,

A cat sun-baking;

There, a heap of bric-a-brac,

The cast-off treasure stuff of life,

A candlestick, buckles, an old straw hat,

A bugle quiet, and a kettle white

Like a goose waking.

Here the tinkers come uncouth,

Blessing generously all they see,

Feeling at home in the land of youth,

Seeking cast-off things for free,

All over Ireland.

I would go back in the dead of night,

The treasure gilded in the moonbeams’ reach,

Perhaps to see in the eerie light

The child-wise Aesop’s phantom teach

His ghostly learning.

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Fé Bhláth - In Bloom (Ireland 2018) dir. by Ross Stewart, featured at the San Francisco International Film Festival 2019

Cartoon Saloon in collaboration with Fócas Films, Kíla and Imelda May

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Early concepts for the characters in Cúl an Tí.

I wanted to design fairy folk that weren’t the typical wings-and-wands type. These are inspired by Irish folklore, especially the stories about them getting up to mischief!

I was also testing out how the design would look depending on the animation software we used. The last image was a test to see how closely I could match the look in different programs. The original characters were designed in Photoshop, but we ended up animating it in Flash 8 (yes really!)

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Animation Ireland Announces the Irish Animation Awards 2019 Nominations! Space Chickens In Space,Vampirina & Doc McStuffins leads Nominations

Best Animated Preschool Series (up to 6 years)

Claude- Sixteen South

Doc McStuffins Christmas Special- Brown Bag Films

Pablo: Back and Forth -Paper Owl Films

Pete the Cat: Sandcastles- Amazon/Cartoon Saloon

Vampirina: Going Batty – Brown Bag Films

Best Writer for Preschool Animation (up to 6 years)

Becca’s Bunch: Acorn King– Amy Stephenson & Shane Langan Claude- Ciarán Morrison & Mick O’Hara/ Sixteen South

Peek Zoo- Emma Hogan/ Dream Logic Studios

Mya Go Karting– Amy Stephenson & Shane Langan/ Piranha Bar

Doc McStuffins Christmas Special– Chris Nee, Brown Bag Films

Best Writer for an Animated Series

Space Chickens in Space: Food Fight -Kristina Yee/Gingerbread Animation

Space Chickens in Space: Alpha Chuck -Mike Heneghan/ Gingerbread Animation

Space Chickens in Space: Floofy Flibby Kiss-Kiss- Ciarán Morrison & Mick O’Hara / Gingerbread Animation

Transformers Cyberverse: Megatron Is My Hero -Peter Di Cicco/Boulder Media

Vampirina: Home Scream Home -Chris Nee/ Brown Bag Films

Best VFX as part of Animated TV Series or Film

Becca’s Bunch -Niall Mooney, Marc Bell, Mark Byrne/JAM Media

Brain Freeze 3 -Ian ‘Benjamin’ Kenny/ Kite Entertainment, Turnip & Duck

Space Chickens in Space – Paul Ruttledge/ Gingerbread Animation

Cúl an Tí: Laoi an Lagáin -Lily Bernard & Cúl an Tí team/ Cartoon Saloon

Pete The Cat: Blackout!– Amazon/Cartoon Saloon

Best Director of an Animated TV Series

Danger Mouse– Aidan McAteer & Rob Cullen/ Boulder Media

Littlest Pet Shop -Gillian Comerford/Boulder Media

Peek Zoo– Kealan O’Rourke/ Dream Logic Studios

Space Chickens in Space– Tommy & Markus Vad Flaaten/ Gingerbread Animation

The Day Henry Met- Gary Gill/ Wiggleywoo

Best Animation

Bernard Dunne’s Mythical Heroes– Hugh Farley & Ian Kenny

Hopscotch and the Christmas Tree– Tim Frost/ Ink & Light & Kinomind Films

Pete the Cat -John Peavoy, Dave Ridges, John Walsh/ Cartoon Saloon

The Bird and the Whale– Eimhin McNamara & Carol Freeman/ Paper Panther

Vampirina: Acrobat Boris – Matteo Ceccotti/ Brown Bag Films Team

Best Music

Danger Mouse: Melted– Sanj Sen and Dominic Lawrence /Boulder Media & Windmill Lane

Peek Zoo- Niall Byrne/ Dream Logic Studios

Late Afternoon– Colm Mac Con Iomaire/Cartoon Saloon

The Doc McStuffins Christmas Special– Stuart Kollmorgen/Brown Bag Films

The Bird and The Whale– Chris McLoughlin/ Paper Panther Productions

Best Sound Design

Angela’s Christmas– Steven Maher and Peter Blayney/ Brown Bag Films

Danger Mouse– Dominic Lawrence and Sol O’Carroll/ Windmill Lane

Pins and Needles– James Nolan/ Brown Bag Films

Space Chickens in Space – Shane O’Toole, Barry Reid,Mark Fitzpatrick/Gorilla Post

Transformers: Matrix of Leadership – Dominic Lawrence, Simon Bird and Ryan Quinn/ Windmill Lane

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@astrokiwi the bird from cúl an tí :'(

Fallen bird

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Some of the first drawings I did for the Cúl an Tí film I directed last year.

I was trying out some basic character shapes and expressions, searching for a spark. This is when I find sketchbooks very useful, collecting thoughts and ideas on the go.

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Its been a while... but here is some more concept art from the short, irish language film I directed - Cúl an Tí. You can see some of the early design work in post from last year here!

With these concepts I was working out the use of negative space, colour and texture. It took a bit of time to get the balance right between the backgrounds and character.

As I said before we animated the short in Flash 8. Since I designed the characters with the software in mind, it was a pretty fast way to animate it but...its kinda crazy since software from 2005 and pre-adobe!! The reason being was that we simple didn’t have enough new licenses. Sometimes you gotta work with what you got!

It was a bit of a draw back at first, but actually the limitations of the software were a good kind of challenge. I used it a lot when I was starting out in animation so we were able to avoid many of the glitches :)

The film, along with others from the project, will be screening at Kilkenny Animated this weekend!

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Here’s the first image I can show from a short film I directed this year! It’s from a project called Cúl an Tí that combines a number of Irish language songs with animation. The song I have is actually called Cúl an Tí itself, and its adapted from a poem of the same name by Seán Ó Ríordáin. It’s produced by Cartoon Saloon and Focàs Films, with music composed by Kila.

I’ll be revealing more artwork soon! Very excited about it :)

For all those in Ireland it should be airing on TG4 in the autumn Spring 2017. For more info check out the twitter or facebook.