Eoin Ó Drisceoil

Hi there! I'm a scruffy-haired 2nd Year Animation student at IADT Dún Laoghaire. Here you can see a selection of my drawings and animations. Come in and make yourself comfortable, I'll get you a cup of tea!

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This is my most recent pencil test, a quadruped walk cycle. Almost all of the animation principles I had learned up to this point applied to this cycle in some way or another - from the bouncing ball like motion of the chest to the wave-like reversals of the tail. Getting the front and rear legs to work together smoothly was a very enjoyable challenge!

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This is side-hop animation which I created for my 2nd Year Animation Principles class. I learned to utilise reversals in line of action to convey a sense of shifting weight, and enjoyed getting to draw such a familiar character.

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Here’s the first treadmill walk cycle I animated in my 1st Year Animation Principles class. I grasped the idea of planning keyframes and breakdowns through of this, and had so much fun breaking the joints in the arms and making the walk extremely silly.

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This is the second treadmill walk cycle I completed in 1st Year Animation Principles. Working in perspective was tricky, but an enjoyable challenge.

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This was the very first pencil test assignment I was given at IADT - a bouncing head! This taught me so much about timing, spacing, squash and stretch, and how most characters are constructed through mapping details onto simple three-dimensional shapes.

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Here’s a character performance assignment I animated using my lamp rig. I tried to have the lamp appear sad, shocked, and finally happy!

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Here’s a walk cycle I animated recently using a character model that my Flash lecturer supplied. I had fun playing around with the hair’s overlapping action!

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Here's an exaggerated run cycle I animated using the character model I was given.

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This animation's poses and timing had to match a storyboard I was given - animating within these constraints was a challenging and rewarding exercise!

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I designed this group of characters for a World Building project in my 2nd Year Design class. I tried to give each character a unique body shape and silhouette, while also unifying their designs through common visual motifs. I had so much fun imagining these characters, their world, and their narrative, and hope to create something larger with them in future!

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This is the first of several environmental sketches I made for my 2nd Year World Building project. I came up with two locations with opposing visual language - a warm, friendly, rounded forest village and a cool, frenetic, orthogonal forest city. I tried to implement everything I had learned in 1st Year Design about negative space, silhouette, texture, and colour.

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Another environmental concept for my World Building project - the home of a benevolent, sorrowful forest spirit who represents death. I wanted the dense branches of her tree to resemble poisoned, darkened veins.