Andrew Gallagher Animation!

High speed photography.

2011-10-17T11:21:00.000-07:00

I am taking a digital photography class at Harvard. Here is a high speed shot I took with an open shutter and flash. It's pretty cool to see the cymbal warp like that! Oh and yeah, there is a crack in the cymbal.

Dine and Sign Intro

2011-10-09T18:38:00.000-07:00

Hello everybody,

So my friend Alex Laferriere just launched his new web show called "Dine and Sign". The show is all about Alex reconnecting with his deaf father in sign language over a delicious meal. I liked the idea, so I decided to make an intro for the show. Here it is below!

Dine and Sign Intro from Andrew Gallagher on Vimeo.

And while you're at it, check out the first episode of Alex's show.

One more thing, check out this new character sketch I put together. Tell me what you think!

-Andy G.

Yet another festival! Whoa!

2011-09-22T13:50:00.000-07:00

My film "Bookkeeper of the Universe" continues to live on in the festival world. It will be screening this Saturday at the Pawtucket Film Festival in where else... Pawtucket Rhode Island! Fellow animator Monica Garrison will be screening Saturday and my former teacher Mass Art professor Flip Johnson will be having a retrospective on Friday. Check out the Festivals site below!

www.thepff.com

Boston Underground Film Festival

2011-03-15T18:41:00.000-07:00

Hey guys,

Chalk up one more festival for "Bookkeeper of the Universe"! It will be screening at the 2011 Boston Underground Film Festival. My film will be screening on March26th at 12:30PM and March 31st at 5:45PM at the Kendall Square Cinema in Cambridge.

It will be screening in the Illustrated Oddities program alongside Gina Kamentsky's "House Bunny" and also with Adrian Garcia's "Don't Text and Drive". So Mass Art will be quite "oddly" represented at this show. Don Hertzfeldts "Wisdom Teeth" will also be playing in the same program. Check out the link below to see more info about the program. (My film still is at the top of the page!)

http://bostonunderground.org/schedule-2011/illustrated-oddities/

Hope to see some of you guys there!

Merry Xmass!

2010-12-25T17:47:00.001-08:00

Merry Xmass everybody! Wondering why you didn't get any gifts this xmass? Well here is a quick little doodle with my theory.

So don't eat too much like this guy and get stuck in a chimney. And if so so, new year resolutions are just around the bend. Or maybe your grandmother got you a bowflex.

Ottawesome!

2010-10-25T21:29:00.000-07:00

I just got back from Ottawa last night and it was another great time! I met a lot of cool people and I have seen a ridiculous amount of animation. It is one pilgrimage that I am happy to make every year.

For those of you I met at the festival, check out my film that was in last year "Bookkeeper of the Universe". I am still looking for other festivals to screen at! If you know of any, please let me know!

Bookkeeper of the Universe from Andrew Gallagher on Vimeo.

More stuff coming soon!

Super Cupa Cupa!

2010-10-18T20:51:00.000-07:00

I was going through my hard drive the other day and I came upon this little gem. Super Cupa Cupa!

In class we had to make a commercial for a useless product. This product is a cup holder you strap to your body. Basically this is a commercial is just an excuse to have my friend Kyle dance around my neighborhood. The video quality may be SD, but this still makes me laugh everytime I watch it. Enjoy!

Festival Galore

2010-08-26T14:46:00.000-07:00

Hello again everybody. Bookkeeper of the Universe will be screening on Tuesday August 31st at the London International Animation Festival. Check out the festival if you are across the pond.

Check out the program I am screening in here.

I also just discovered that I am screening in the Banja Luka International Animation Festival. It takes place

Check out the program here.

I am very excited to be screening there and I would like to thank everybody over that past year that has screened Bookkeeper of the Universe. If anybody else is interested in screening it, let me know send me an email.

New sketch.

2010-07-09T19:30:00.000-07:00

Here is a sketch that I am pretty excited about. I have been drawing these weird eye brow office worker dudes recently and here are two of them I decided to color.

I think these guys would translate to animation pretty well. Tell me whatcha think.

Melbourne International Animation Festival

2010-06-30T15:51:00.000-07:00

Bookkeeper of the Universe just screened at the Melbourne International Animation Festival! Here are a couple of tidbits I found about it on the web.

From artshub.com...

"Bookkeeper of the Universe. ANDREW GALLAGHER USA, 2009, 4’30 – Ink blot with an attitude!"

http://www.artshub.com.au/au/newsPrint.asp?sId=181543

Here is a quote from the catalogue.

"There’s some of the more quirky moments in competition embedded in this
program too. From the peculiar hybrid stylings of Hickory Dickory through to the
lethal world of transcendental accountancy depicted in Bookkeeper Of The
Universe.."

http://www.miaf.net/2010/catalogue.html

Transcendental accounting! Hah! I would like to thank everybody at the MIAF for screening Bookkeeper at the Festival. Was any body there? How was is received?

Below I have a recently finished sketch of mine, check it out.

More to come soon!

Nerds!

2010-06-15T10:28:00.000-07:00

Hello! I just got back from California last week and it was a great time! I originally set out there to climb Mount Whitney with some friends, but we had to turn back because of bad weather. Boo! I also spent a week in LA with my friends Patrick and Connor. I will be posting more about my adventures later.

As of now! I have another colored drawing from my sketchbook. It involves a nerd.

Another festival! WHAT?!

2010-04-14T16:02:00.000-07:00

Hello again everybody. Bookkeeper of the Universe was just invited to screen in the London International Animation Festival! How cool is that?! I am pretty pumped and I am considering making the trip across the pond. Thank you to everybody at the LIAF and if anybody has any great festivals to submit to, send me an email and let me know!

(Another old graphic)

I will be posting some drawings very soon!

More Festivals!

2010-03-10T17:59:00.000-08:00

Bookkeeper of the Universe just got into the Melbourne International Animation Festival! Anybody want to go to Australia?

(old graphic)

Happy New Year!

2010-01-25T09:50:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year!

I recently uploaded a little experimental film of mine called "Square Lights". It was created to see how sound can transform a simple abstract grid of color. If your brain sees an image moving and there is a sound synced up with it correctly, you usually don't question it. I ran with this idea, mashed some interesting sounds together, and came up with this.

I stumbled across the video below today, and it really inspired me to start doing some stop motion work again. After working in drawn animation for a while, it is fun to just pick up a camera and make animation on the fly. It can be a lot less calculated and more intuitive. This video below is by two street artists Limow and Sam3.

I love how much you can get away with, by just doing simple replacement animation. This is one of the cooler stop motion pieces I have seen in a while.

I am looking for more festivals to submit "Bookkeeper of the Universe" to. Any suggestions?

I have been spending a lot of time recently climbing mountains. I am 7 Mountains into my conquest of the NH 48 4,000 ft mountains in a seasonal winter. My buddy Sean and I have been spending most of our weekends up there trying to accomplish this feat. It looks like it may be actually possible to do. Recently we have been only going on trips where we can only bag one peak. We are going to have days soon where if lucky, we can bag 3 or 4 summits. Yeah! It is a lot of fun climbing mountains in the winter. It truly feels like you are on another planet (hoth). It is a good way to test your limits. Here is a couple pictures from our adventures.

Here I am on the summit of Mount Liberty. I received the 10 commandments shortly after.

Summating the summit sign of Moosilauke.

Sean and I trying to navigate our way to the top of Cannon. Frosty.

That is it for now. More to come later.

Merry Xmass!

2009-12-25T16:33:00.000-08:00

Merry Xmass everybody! I like to call "christmas" XMASS. Just because it sounds so "non secular". I mean Christmas has changed so much over the years, we might as well call it XMASS. It sounds much cooler anyways.

Here is a quick little card type thing I doodled up. I like doodles.

I started climbing some mountains this week! My buddy Sean and I are trying to climb as many of the 48 4,000 ft Mountains in NH mountains as we can this winter. Here is a picture on our first peak!

Two down! 46 to go!

That is it now! I am going to enjoy the rest of my holiday!

Animator for hire!

2009-11-29T17:25:00.000-08:00

Hello once again! It has been a while since I have updated. Again I blame it on working, video games, and burritos.

So in October I went to the Ottawa International Animation Festival (IN CANADA). It was an absolutely amazing time. I saw tons of amazing films, met tons of new people, and got inspired. Both of my screenings went really well. It was an honor to have my film screen in the festival and it looked amazing on the big screen. Ottawa to is me is like on giant refresh button for creativity. At the end of every festival I just cannot wait to get home and start working again.

I have been doing a fair amount of drawing lately and even more brain storming. I have an idea for a short film that has been kicking around, but I do not know if I am ready just yet to invest that amount of time. I am also working on an idea for a series of web shorts (maybe 5-30 seconds each) based off of the
"brother and sis" characters I created. I am kind of split between these two. Regardless, here is one of my colored sketches.

This is a random bird character from my sketch book, colored in photoshop. I really like this guy.

My film "Bookkeeper of the Universe" is in contention for a bunch of festivals. I am excited to see if it can get into some more screenings! If you know any great festivals to apply for, please tell me.

Right now I am looking for some freelance animation work. You could say I am an "animator for hire". If you like my work and need animation for commercials, music videos, movies, or anything else, please get in contact with me!

That is it for now!

-Andy

Update to the max!

2009-09-29T13:39:00.001-07:00

Hello Everybody!

It has been a long time since I updated. I can blame it on finding a new place to live, moving, working, and eating hamburgers.

So first off I need to post... that my film "Bookkeeper of the Universe" was accepted into the Ottawa International Animation festival!

Yeah! It will screen in the Student Showcase on Saturday October 17th and Sunday the 18th. Check out the line up at the screening!

http://www.animationfestival.ca/index.php?option=com_oiaf&task=showevent&i=464

And check out my Ottawa film page at the link below!

http://www.animationfestival.ca/index.php?option=com_oiaf&task=showfilm&i=8832

I will be attending the whole festival and both screenings. So please hunt me down after the screenings and say HI!

I have also entered Bookkeeper into a bunch of other festivals and I am waiting to hear the results! I have been doing a lot of drawing lately and I decided to post another colored character. WHAM!

He is a bowler! I am thinking about giving him a sweet bowling alley background. Heck I may even design more bowlers.

Well that's if for this post! Catch you guys soon!

More films up online!

2009-07-27T18:34:00.001-07:00

Hello everybody! I have posted more of my films on vimeo!

Here is my degree project, "Bookkeeper of the Universe"....

And here is a stop motion music video called "Tacky". Animated with... well tacks.

I went to Animation Block Party this weekend with Steve Madden. I caught two shows and they were pretty great! Though New York City is still overwhelming and a puzzle to navigate. Now I can't wait for Ottawa!

I will have some more characters posted by the end of the week. Later!

UPDATES!

2009-07-11T09:39:00.000-07:00

Hello!

Here are some recently colored sketches!

Some weird looking monster dude!

And a janitor!

I have recently starting to do some development work for my next short film. I have been writing and drawing, trying to figure out the story! Cool!

Brother and Sis

2009-06-13T21:03:00.000-07:00

I decided to have some fun today and color some drawings from my sketch book. Check out brother and sis...

I drew these on a round trip commuter rail day. I always come up with a lot of good drawings on public transportation. Probably because I am terrible at sudoku.

Bottled Water PSA!

2009-06-13T09:44:00.000-07:00

The PSA I did about bottled water is now up on vimeo! Check it out!

Bottled Water PSA from Andrew Gallagher on Vimeo.

My 2d portfolio is also up on the right of my blog. Check it out!

Done with school

2009-06-01T18:46:00.000-07:00

I graduated! Yeah!

Right after I graduated from school I ran off to the White Mountains for three days. A couple friends and myself did a full presidential traverse. What does that mean? We went across the presidential mountain range. We hit 9 peaks, 30ish miles, over three days. It was a lot of fun. Here is a picture of me looking bad ass crossing a snow field....

Yeah that was fun!

So I just joined VIMEO and uploaded my animation demo reel. Check it out.

Awesome! I will be putting up more work soon!

Woohoo!!

2009-05-18T21:06:00.000-07:00

I am almost done with school!

Portfolio night went great on Tuesday! It was nice meeting new people in the industry.

Well I am writing my final paper for school right now and it feels great to be almost done!

Down below is a little colored doodle of myself. This is me dancing around my apartment after I learned about my grade in my art history class!

It was nice meeting everybody at portfolio night! I was really surprised by the turn out. My website should be up within a week or two. Feel free to email me at andgallagher@gmail.com

Portfolio!

2009-05-11T23:29:00.001-07:00

Communication design portfolio night is tomorrow! I am very excited for it. I have just recently finished up some of my portfolio work. Here is some of it...

DVD cover.

Some characters from my portfolio.

Full page character from my portfolio. It reminds me of a picture day in grade school.

More to come!

DONE!

2009-04-28T22:42:00.000-07:00

I have finished my degree project....

WOHOOO! Here are some shots from of studio...

Inky desk. I had to replace that paper once too.

I made every frame with this pen.

That stack is my degree project. Oh and grape soda does not taste like I remembered it. Hence the one sip missing from the bottle.

Here is my poster for my film! This is one of my favorite frames from it!

I will post more soon!

More degree project!

2009-04-13T19:16:00.001-07:00

It is the final two week stretch for degree project. I am feeling the heat! I now have over two minutes of animation done, and I still have some more to go.

I am really starting to fall into the animation "pocket". I can bust out straight ahead animation pretty quickly now, with minimum revisions. I decided to keep a pile of discarded frames on my desk to see how they compare to my completed frames. I find my self throwing less frames in their now, than when I started. I plan on taking some pictures of my studio space. I spend enough time there.

Here are some stills. WHAM!

Oh and here is a character I colored.

Degree Project!

2009-03-30T01:24:00.000-07:00

So it may be late, but I am excited.

I just finished assembling the first 1:30 of my Degree project and I am happy how it has turned out! Tomorrow (today rather) we have a big critique with the entire senior animation class. I have my voice tracks down, I just don't have final sound. So I use the voice over tool in final cut, and did a one shot performance. WHAMO! I feel with sound, it is a lot easier to understand.

More stills!

The last still is pretty nutty. This is from a lip synced section. I am now getting pretty comfortable with lip syncing. I really want to push these drawings even further. I want to see how much I can get away with, and how much fun I can have. Tracing characters gets boring. So I am going to warp them and go nuts.

BLAM.

More to come!

-Andy Gallagher!

Devil!

2009-03-21T10:48:00.000-07:00

Here is a colored devil sketch. WHAMO!

The grindstone

2009-03-08T21:23:00.000-07:00

Work work work work! That is what I have been up to. So much so, that I have tired out almost all of my music in my 30gb ipod. It is time to get some new music, seriously.

Spring break is upon us, and I will be spending it all getting work done! YES! I am hoping to get a whole extra minute of my Degree project finished over break. I think I can do it! Woohoo!

So here is an idea of what my business card may look like...

Here is another little character I did.

I am going to give them some cool background once when I get to a scanner. YES!

Forward march!

2009-02-16T09:22:00.000-08:00

The road to total domination of my degree project is well underway. I have about 30 seconds of locked down footage, and maybe 10 more seconds I am not sure about yet. I have my voice track roughly laid down, and I am going to start some lip syncing this week. I am pretty pumped up for that! YES!

Here is another frame of animation! Woohoo!

Progression

2009-02-10T22:44:00.000-08:00

So I am making progress on the degree project! Slowly but surely I am getting more and more frames completed. We have monday off, so that is one extra day I have to get even more finished. Yes!

I finally found a voice for my main character! I had a couple friends come by to give a shot at the voice, but they just didn't have what I was looking for. When in when I played the clips back in class, Geoff starting to do a voice (another senior). The voice he made, was the same voice that I had in mind for the character! So we went into the sound studio on Saturday and we had some fun recording the dialogue. The voice was great! His voice over is going to bring this to a whole other level! I am pretty excited for it.

Here is one frame...

The plan of action this week is to get these new voice overs in a timeline and see how they sound sequentially. Then it is all about creating a lot of frames!

Oh and I am swamped with reading for critical study classes this semester. It is nuts. I don't mind the reading though, it is a nice change of pace.

Post complete!

Sickness!

2009-02-05T07:29:00.001-08:00

So the past couple nights I have felt really tired. Like exhausted. So I just figured I was working really hard on all of my projects and that was the reason. NOPE. I was getting sick. With in one hour in degree project class on Monday it progressed from a scratch in the back of my throat, to a sneeze every 20 seconds. By late that night, my head was pounding, I had a fever, and I was in full cold mode.

So I took some personal health days, and I feel much better now. My remedy for any cold is to just sit on the couch and drink as much orange juice, tea, and water as possible. Usually I can get over a cold in a day. So YEAH!

Last night I did some experiments with ink for my degree project. There were some challenges shooting it, but I think I can work out a solution. I really like working on these little experiments within my project. I keep making new discoveries, and it is getting me really excited to put them to use. I will post some frames of it later today, along with some stills of the animation I am working on.

Stay healthy everybody, and don't freeze outside. (Literally, it is 9 degrees out today)

First post!

2009-01-30T18:35:00.001-08:00

Hello everybody! This is the quintessential first blog post. Here I explain that this is my first blog entry, and that I am excited to be starting this blog. YES!

So I think I should write a little about myself now. SWEET! Ok so my name is Andrew Gallagher. I am a senior animation major at Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MCAD?) in Boston Mass. I am currently working on my degree project, a project in which must be completed to graduate. I am working on a hand drawn ink animation tentatively titled "Book Keeper". More to come on that LATER though.

Besides animation I like hiking, trekking, video, biking, drawing, traveling, paintball, photography, drumming, street art, and video games. I will also be posting different things from my travels in here. So check back!