All we need is permission from the Polish government, the necessary financial backing (and the technology to make the rainbows) and we could achieve our dream of establishing a rainbow factory in the beautiful Tatry mountains!

Concept art – ‘The Polish Rainbow Factory’ O’Keeffe 2019

 

Sketchbook page of character studies. Using the pause button to stop video of a woman in conversation, a method of studying uncontrived/natural facial expressions. February 2019

Concept work for :Un militarised non-combatant transport devices for the new world. Feb 2019Hybrid vehicles and supply carriers for the modern pioneers based on albatross, ape, dragonfly, ostrich and horse skeletons.

Spec sheet for dual/triple sport carbon/steel/perspex hybrid suit–

In the future sport will be more exciting- Tiger wresting, lion tailing or polar bear holding custom protective wear for the modern sports enthusiast. 2019

Character sheet design-

Modern headware options series/4 Tony O’Keeffe February 6th 2019

First three pages from the original storyboard of Elephantstopper video of ‘The Shin Bone Tree’ 2012. Looks like we cut the ‘falling over on the zebra crossing’ scene!
Link to the finished film:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fer9vjEmPHk

I don’t only teach on the fine art degree at Leeds city college but also on the concept art (for games) course. Here is another example of the typical concept art exercise.Brief: To produce x2 sheets of variations on a theme- ‘1970’s International football players hair styles”.

Made with Adobe Fuse cc, Photoshop, Premier Pro, Procreate and After Effects for the band Elephantstopper. Initial characterisations taken into Mixamo then onto Photoshop for tweaking after being composited in Premier Pro.