Digital Animation

Jason Collins

Johnny Softspot

We made this project in Toon Boom Harmony to display rigging, animation, and composition skills. Jason Collins and Jack Moroney have worked together before and developed enough of the Johnny Softspot before the final year that it was a good project to develop as there would be less confusion over direction.

We chose Toon Boom Harmony as it’s the best for the rigged animation style we’re going for and we are equally as aware of the fundamental tools of the software. In addition, this production allows us to extend our knowledge in Harmony furthering our employability by Irish animation studios that use it.

In terms of the story of the Johnny Softspot, Jason and Jack created Johnny to be a marketable television show that they intended to pitch. Creating a teaser, which is Act 1 of the show’s pilot, will help display that they can create it to potential studios could fund the idea.

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Welcome

We formally welcome you to IMPACT the Limerick School of Art & Design Graduate Show of 2020 featuring the work of final year LSAD Graduates from Animation & Motion Design, Creative Broadcast & Film Production, Ceramic Design, Creative Media and Design, Digital Animation Production, Fashion Design, Fashion & Textiles for Product & Costume, Game Art & Design, Graphic Design Communication, Music Technology & Production, Painting, Photography Film Video, Print Contemporary Practice, Sculpture & Combined Media and Professional Masters of Education in Art and Design with Digital Media.

In light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s Limerick School of Art and Design Graduate Show takes the form of this online showcase to celebrate the resilience, creativity and talent of our final year students. This is the 6^th edition of the LSAD Graduate Showcase and it is never more important. We wish to play a special tribute to Joe Lane, Programme Leader of Graphic Design Communication, who played a key role in the development of this platform back in 2015. This year, due to the COVID-19 crisis it has come into its own as the sole means of presentation of our graduates work and as an important archive of LSAD graduates over the last six years.

This years showcase features the work of LSAD Graduates across fifteen programmes, from our Limerick City Centre Campuses, Moylish Campus and Clonmel Campus. We are delighted to welcome our first graduates from Music Technology & Production and Creative Broadcast & Film Production on this platform.

The arrival of the pandemic has been a tremendous shock to our lives and the ways we interact with the world. We have all had to figure out new ways of being and doing in this ‘new normal’. It has been a tremendous challenge to our students and staff to adapt to these new circumstances. However we have been overwhelmed by the creativity and tenacity of our LSAD family of students and staff who adapted so quickly and dynamically to find ways to facilitate learning and to present work in digital forms.

We hope, that even through this situation was not in any ideal, it has forged the graduates of 2020 into a cohort of people that have adapted to adversity and succeeded.

If you are on this site as a graduate or a viewer we would like to thank all those who helped make it happen this year in challenging circumstances, our academics, technicians, administrators, students union, support staff and most importantly the 2020 graduates. Finally a huge congratulations to LSAD Student Union President, Sinead Nix and her team on their management of the Impact 2020 campaign, to Arlene Ellis and Olivia Barrett from Graphic Design Communication who proposed the Impact 2020 concept and to Pat Shortt and Simon Maguire, a big thank you for coming on board to launch our site with a cast of many.

May your creative IMPACT in our society represent our best future. #LSADFutureCreatives