Meanwhile from Stephen McNally on Vimeo.

Winner Miglior Montaggio, La Guarimba Film Festival, Italy 2015
Winner Don Quijote Award for Best Animation, Galway Film Fleadh, Ireland 2015
Winner Best Student Film (Dušan Vukotić award), Animafest Zagreb, Croatia 2015
Winner Grand Prix Next Generation Brussels Short Film Festival, Belgium 2015
Winner Best Animation, Sehsüchte, Germany 2015
Winner Best Animation, The Smalls Film Festival, UK 2014
Winner Best British Animation, Anifest Canterbury, UK 2014
Winner Special Mention Animfest Athens, Greece 2015
Winner El Rey Award for Excellence in Animation, Barcelona Film Festival, Spain 2015
Adobe Design Achievement Awards Honorable Mention for Animation and Storytelling, 2015
Critics' Choice Selection Anifest Canterbury, UK 2014
Royal Television Society Award Nominated, UK 2015
McLaren Award Nominated, UK 2015

Blending CG 3D and 2D drawn animation techniques, Meanwhile follows four characters traversing a city, each lost in their own separate worlds, trapped in their memories, regrets and frustrations. Meanwhile uses bold colour schemes and fragments of narratives to examine empathy in urban insularity.

Official Selection The Smalls Film Festival, UK 2014
Official Selection Indie Cork Film Festival, Ireland 2014
Official Selection Anim'est Film Festival, Romania 2014
Official Selection Cinanima Film Festival, Portugal 2014
Official Selection London Short Film Festival, UK 2015
Official Selection British Shorts Film Festival, Germany 2015
Official Selection Ciné Privé Film Festival, Belgium 2015
Official Selection Landshuter Kurzfilmfestival, Germany 2015
Official Selection Flatpack Film Festival, UK 2015
Official Selection Monstra Film Festival, Portugal 2015
Official Selection Mecal Film Festival, Spain 2015
Official Selection Atlanta Film Festival, USA 2015
Official Selection Animfest Athens, Greece 2015
Official Selection Brussels Film Festival, Belgium 2015
Official Selection Festival du Cinéma européen Lille, France 2015
Official Selection Sehsüchte Film Festival, Potsdam-Babelsberg, Germany 2015
Official Selection Friss Hús Film Festival, Hungary 2015
Official Selection Seoul International Cartoon and Animation Festival, Korea 2015
Official Selection Northwest Animation Festival, USA 2015
Official Selection Brooklyn Film Festival, USA 2015
Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival, UK 2015
Official Selection Anima Mundi Film Festival, Brazil 2015
Official Selection Maremetraggio ShorTS Film Festival, Italy 2015
Official Selection Galway Film Fleadh, Ireland 2015
Official Selection La Guarimba Film Festival, Italy 2015
Official Selection Rooftop Film Festival, New York, US 2015
Official Selection Anibar Animation Festival, Kosovo 2015
Official Selection Encounters Short Film Festival, UK 2015
Official Selection Aesthetica Short Film Festival, UK 2015
Official Selection Oregon International Film Festival, US 2015
Official Selection Red Rock Film Festival, US 2015
Official Selection Greenhorn Film Festival, UK 2015
Official Selection Manchester Animation Festival, UK 2015
Official Selection World Festival of Animated Film, Varna, Bulgaria 2015
Official Selection Wiz-Art Multexplosion, Ukraine 2015
Official Selection Mecal Chile Film Festival, Chile 2015
Official Selection Thessaloniki Animation Festival, Greece 2015

Score – Adam Cullen
Sound Design – Dan Larkin
Mix – Mike Wyeld
Lettering – Aoife Mooney
With the voices of:
Sara Houghton
Dan Armour
Phil Deguara
Animation assistance:
Leona Kadijević
Alan Dunne
Supported by BlinkInk

A video I directed for Braids is out!

"We take a contemplative journey through London in this ethereal and enigmatic video for ‘Bunny Rose’ by Canadian band Braids.
Over the course of a long and lonely night in the city, and in her fragile state, a spirit pulls herself together - from dust and cobwebs, tears and dew - to finally become whole as dawn breaks."

With some lovely delicate 2D animation by Diana Gradinaru

A quick trailer for my Royal College of Art Animation MA first year film, Forgot.

A quick style frame from the animated short I'm working on at the moment at the RCA. Seems to be heading in roughly the direction I want it to.

Faces blending Flash test from Stephen McNally on Vimeo.
A quick test of a technique for my first year film at the RCA. Luiz suggested it might work well as a loop, so I threw in some extra frames on the end.

Disembodying Voice from Stephen McNally on Vimeo. The results of a quick workshop at the Royal College of Art. It's a bit all over the place, trying to blend CG and 2D techniques, with smears and dry brush effects for motion blur, etc.

Here's a piece from this year's Brainbelt exhibition running in Filmbase as part of Design Week this week.

Various fragments and bits of tests for an animation I'm working on. Nothing's finished and it's all a bit rough around the edges. I took a break for February, but I'm intending to start back in to it for March.

A test of Thor's facial rig, it's a bit simpler than Loki's, but then so's Thor.

An early facial rig test for Loki from a while back.

I'm a good bit happier with this one, although it's still work in progress.

Freyja's tears was a skaldic kenning for gold

Brighter?

A slightly different colour treatment

The pen and ink sketch

Not entirely happy with this one yet. Might have another stab at it later.

Freyr riding Gullinbursti, his somewhat absurd flying golden boar. It's one of the odder contraptions from the Norse myths. Only pen and ink so far, haven't had a chance to colour up.

The All-father holding Gungnir, with Huginn and Muninn perched;
Yggdrasil in the distance.

Detail

Work in Progress

These guys were going to be part of a larger composition that didn't happen.