Ava – tastic!

Our lovely Sophie Merry and GV2 Trinity College, have collaborated to create a unique dance experience for the upcoming BIORHYTHM exhibition in the Science Gallery.

Sophie has been working as a director and  dancer with GV2 (the Graphics Vision and Visualisation Lab in Trinity College) to create a digital avatar of herself, which will form part of an exhibit entitled “Biodancer”.

GV2, is an internationally renowned group dedicated to carrying out leading edge research in computer graphics, computer vision and all aspects of visual computing. The “Biodancer” team is led by Martin Prazak (a PhD student in GV2, performing research into human motion capture and synthesis) and Carol O’Sullivan (the Professor of Visual Computing in TCD and a leading researcher in the inter-disciplinary field of perception based graphics, real-time rendering, animation, human and crowd simulation). Read the full article »

Fruice Cup Stacking

We shot this lovely little commercial, Fruice – “Cup Stacker“,  for Rothco a few weeks ago.  When the storyboard first came in, unlike Luke, I had no idea what Sport Stacking was, I’m fairly positive I’m not the only one in the dark, so I thought I’d fill you in.

Sport Stacking is a growing sport across the world and involves up and down stacking 12 specially-designed competition cups called Speed Stacks against the clock.   The sport is huge in the UK, US, China and mainland Europe.  It arrived in Ireland just under two years ago.

The boy in the commercial, 11 year old James Carrigan,  is on the Irish Sport Stacking team.  Shortly before the shoot, the team competed at the World Sport Stacking Chamionships in Denver, coming in a Read the full article »

Vote for Luke!

So last weekend Luke shot and edited a commercial for the Cannes  Young Lions 48 Hour Ad Contest.  To view his entry and vote for him go to http://www.youtube.com/canneslions search for Slap and select green thumbs up.

Also take a look at the stings which Luke directed for SuperValu GAA sponsorship of the Senior Football Championships.  They  just went on air last Sunday.