Simon Love's Art

Hey there! Welcome to my portfolio/art site. My name is Simon and I am a recent graduate from the Animation course at IADT Dun Laoghaire and I am currently looking for work. Below is my showreel and some images, and above are links to pages full of my work. I created my final year film in 3D using Blender so that's where I feel most at home but I'm happy to try other software and styles. I'm mostly interested in modelling, character animation and visual development. So have a click around, I hope you see something you like!

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I had a dream a few months ago where I was suddenly woken and asked to leave a hotel by someone who works there. I tried to protest this and he wouldn't listen at first, until a huge group of people streamed into the room, coming from a hallway that was connected to the back of it. He introduced them as being two dance groups, "The Bones" and "The Beans", and said that if I could beat both of them in a dance battle I'd be allowed to stay. I ran away then and awoke for real.

Something about "the Bones and the Beans" sounded so funny to me as names for groups of people and I was inspired to make something based on it. I really wanted to try and make something that's designed for TikTok and YouTube Shorts and the likes to see what kind of attention I'd get there, and I also really wanted to make something sort of sports based after watching the Olympics loads during the summer. I didn't actually watch any of the breakdancing (aside from a few clips of the Australian dancer) and I was more interested in the gymnastics but I didn't have a dream about gymnastics so something based on that will have to wait.

This is a short sequence I made over the past month or so, with a character I modelled and rigged. I wanted to build experience in all of those areas (especially rigging! it's hard!). I learned a lot making it. read more