Digital Animation

Aran Bradley

“Enter The Dragon (Are You Up?) MV”

In a parallel world, a pink drug is so potent, it captivates anyone who tries it- it calls for them. Once they enter the world of the Dragon, it’s hard to exit.

The protagonist of the music video is a Hare, who finds himself unable to stop chasing the Dragon. He represents an addict fighting the urge to take another hit.

The Pink Dragon is tall, beautiful and mesmerizing. She the symbol of temptation, craving and addiction- she is the personification of drugs.

This music video is a mixture of rotoscoping and 2D hand-drawn frame-by-frame animation. The aim of this project was to make a visually appealing, heavily textured and grimy piece of experimental art, which focused on themes of drug use and the struggle to resist temptation.

I had a fun challenge creating the animated backgrounds for this project and stepped outside my comfort zone with the art style we aimed for, along with gaining great experience with the editing and compositing of my first music video I hope to work on more music video projects in the future.

I created this music video in collaboration with Oliwia Deyna.

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Welcome

We formally welcome you to ‘be.cause_’, the Limerick School of Art & Design Graduate Show of 2017 featuring the work of final year LSAD Graduates from Painting, Printmaking & Contemporary Practice, Sculpture & Combined Media, Ceramic Design, Creative Multimedia, Fashion Design, Fashion, Knitwear & Textiles, and Visual Communications.

This show is the culmination of the last four years of discipline introduction, skill-building, research and experimentation which has finally led the graduates here; synthesising all they’ve learned and absorbed during their time in LSAD. 2017 has been a historic year, peppered with student shows, both on and off-campus. This year is the first graduating year of the Fashion Knit & Textiles cohort, culminating in a memorable show that featured a wonderful collaboration between students on the programme and students on the Creative Multimedia programme in LSAD Clonmel.

This type of collaboration is one of the most important things graduates will take with them. It’s not only important within the context of an art college, but remains a crucial part of the wider world context of art and design. Increasingly, the creative professions need graduates as flexible, adaptable individuals, capable of working across a variety of media and disciplines. For the last four years they’ve all been working together, and we hope that they continue to stay in touch, and continue to build interdisciplinary links as they advance into their careers.