I was asked to do a 30 second animation for some PR students and I whipped this up fairly quickly. It was my first time doing anything in After Effects and the audio and low resolution images were what was given to me.
I learned some pretty cool things about After Effects from doing this though and hopefully I can just keep improving on them.

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Cool FlashSite and pretty cool song.
Quality Irish song tbh.
Nice collection of Fonts perfect for logo designs.
4onDemand on Youtube. How have I not seen this before?!
Possibly the best WebDesign ever.
My new Workspace

Just hilarious. Brilliant stuff ![]()
I was at a lecture from Mark Swaine the Creative Director of Squire today which proved to be an excellent and informative class.
One thing I came away with though was a feeling that I should really delve into AfterEffects a lot more. I’ve messed around with it but Mark says that he loves using Flash and AfterEffects and, although it might sound a bit stupid, that was a combination I can’t say I’ve ever thought of using before.
He showed us how they can be combined to make some truly dazzling websites and videos. Granted, these companies have big budgets and years of experience under their belts but this stuff is just awesome.
And the absolutely hilarious Viral Site for the Pomegranate Phone.

There is no reason not to give it more of a go seeing as there is more than enough tutorial sites to help get started such as;
If anyone has any relevant sites to share be sure to comment.
My birthday was last week. Had an epic party to celebrate. T’was good. Thanks friends!
Google give Wikipedia $1,000,000. Why?
JK Rowling caught for plagiarising?
A showreel demonstrating just how much GreenScreening takes place in TV shows.
A freakin’ sweet ad from Google for their Chrome Browser. (via BarryHand)
Cool Vintage Advert Collection (via Barry Hand)
Pretty awesome Parkour Stop Motion Video thingie.
Sometimes, just sometimes, people are stupid.
Frozen Britiain. We thought we were bad!

A tutorial to create a little cool kid in photohop.

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Body Blading is freakin’ awesome!
Welcoming 2010 Worldwide: Some really cool photography in the collection.

55 incredible examples of photo manipulation. Really amazing stuff!

Really cool Paper Roll Forest Cutout Art.

A 103 meter drop Waterfall that you literally stand on the very edge of.

Grab yourself some Boob Cupcakes from a really friendly and talented Designer/Artist I’ve spoken to online.
What condoms can do for us. (Thinking outside the box.)
One of the funniest LameBook posts I’ve read yet.
Amazing WordPress tutorials for Designers and people beginning to delve into WordPress, at Themeforest.net’s Blog.
A Christmas Story told the Dubberland way.
Free Fight Like Apes Live album. Free is always good
Nice little photography project over at Boards.ie.
Amazingly unique Clock Design.


I’ve really been listening to a lot of The Beatles lately, largely because I got The Beatles: Rockband, and I particularly love “Here comes the Sun”.
Jason Mraz takes on Winter Wonderland. Well, might I add.
Alma is a fantastic 3D short film. Really fantastic.
Oxygen from Christopher Hendryx is another really groovy short 3D film.
That’s all for this week folks. Enjoy!
Just saw The Sun’s (Newspaper) advert on T.V. just there. It’s a blatant parody of Apple’s iPhone adverts that are currently running every where (see below) but its very, very cleverly executed and very effective. I loved it.