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 trailer for my Royal College of Art graduation film Meanwhile

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

More bits from the animation I'm working on at the moment at the RCA.

Finally, something moving.

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.

I'm taking part in a Brainbelt exhibition in Dublin again, running at the moment in Filmbase on Curved Street. My poster is for Blancanieves, a Spanish silence black and white take on Snow White.

Brainbelt Illustration Collective have teamed up with this year’s Jameson Dublin International Film Festival to bring you a diverse range of exciting illustrations of movie posters, classic lines and movie icons.

All inspired from a hand picked selection of films from this year's festival line-up. Keep your eyes peeled, as they will be dotted around a variety of participating cinema lobbies, box offices and bars.

Pieces are limited edition prints from contributing illustrators:
Emma Rowe
Stephen McNally
Alan Dunne
Ultan Courtney
Michelle Cunningham
Gareth Teggin
Jamie Murphy
John Corrigan
Peter Dawson

See the entire collection at JDIFF HQ, Filmbase, Curved Street, Temple Bar!
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Now - 24th February
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JDIFF HQ in Filmbase, participating cinema lobbies, box offices and bars.

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.

Happy Saturnalia!

Continuing last year's pagan themed Christmas (Odin), this year I'm looking at Saturn / Cronos, the Titan from whom we have received this holiday. Based on the Goya painting: 

And I was testing out some photoshop animation / animated GIF stuff.

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

The return of Miami Vice.

Hmm.

The Urban Bohemian

More playing about with the same colour palette.

Pink fringe? Why not? 

Keeping to a similar palette as yesterday's.

Still trying to ease back into this drawing malarkey.

It's been ages since I last drew and I'm thoroughly rusty.

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.