23 degrees 5 minutes - Making of, Part 10

26/10/10 by Darragh O'Connell

Posted in Animators

Stephen Robinson, Art Director on 23 Degrees 5 Minutes, worked on the colour script for the film. This basically gives a breakdown of how colour will work in the film and helps us to plan how to tell the story emotionally. It’s a huge help to the lighters & texture artists.

I can’t show it all here as it will give away too much of the story, but I think Stephen has done a great job. Hope...

23 Degrees 5 Minutes - Making of, Part 9

12/10/10 by Darragh O'Connell

Posted in Animators

We finally have our first model ready for texturing. These are the 2D designs that we signed off on:

Then Siobhan finished up the greyscale model based on these designs:

Then we thought about the textures for the characters. I liked the idea that the character should have distinctly ‘Irish’ skin so Colm volunteered to be model for the day. Here’s a few shots that we used as reference:

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Concern - visit to Kenya

01/10/10 by Cathal Gaffney

Posted in News

Earlier this year I was asked by the Irish charity Concern to join their newly established development board. Contributing ideas to an NGO like Concern seemed light years away from my day-to-day job in Brown Bag Films, but on understanding the remit of this new development board, I was genuinely honoured to accept.

Concern has worked in over 50 countries and employ 3,200 full time staff....