“Joe Pera Talks You To Sleep” is an Adult Swim special featuring comedian Joe Pera as he navigates the seemingly impossible: making you laugh as you fall asleep. I directed the animation and worked as lead animator on the special.
"Tight Ferrari" is an animated music video/film for an electro-house stream-of-consciousness banger about cowboys, karate, and Ferraris from Sean Yeaton (Parquet Courts) and producer Joel Ford (Driftless Records).
Directed/Animated by: Kieran O'Hare Music: Sean Yeaton and Joel Ford Produced by: Joel Ford
The Lava Log is a series of digital animation loops and works on canvas and paper.
Initially, I created each Lava Log digitally, assembling hundreds of images of stock photography, Google Image Search deep cuts, and 00’s internet memes into collages. I then recreated them in Photoshop and animated them in 30 second to 2 minute loops.
The music and sound accompanying the complete works you find on thelavalog.com were created in a similar fashion. Sean Yeaton (Parquet Courts) experimented with failing tech and analog machines to develop music tracks and Ryan Dann (Holland Patent Public Library) created sound design based with found sound effects.
Together, the works in the Lava Log recontextualize this discarded found imagery and sound to composite unsettling portraits of modern life. The digital animations depict people engaged in tiny, Sisyphean gestures, while the physical works distill animations down into their decisive moments, allowing the viewer to more carefully consider the cluttered landscapes.
The lavalog website, developed by Rob Grazioli, is the perfect setting to experience the full works— a pre-platform internet experience.
Tensions run high between Cro-Magnon married couple Brenda and Kevin. When Brenda comes home after a long day of hunting gazelle to find that Kevin has neglected to gather firewood and instead invented the lightbulb, Brenda sneaks off to smoke a cigarette and consider the future of her marriage. An encounter with their less-evolved cave-neighbors, Todd (who sports a top knot) and Michelle (donning a lower back tattoo), will either force Kevin to finally get his shit together or tear the two apart for good.
Produced in PS and AE, with additional animation by JinJu Han, Javier Casaverde, and Ari Sneider. Voicework by Chris Laker, Jacqueline Novak, Jason Burke, Annie Dooley, and Sean Yeaton. Produced by Tom Hunt. Played at LA Film Fest 2021.
Set in 1950’s New York, “80 Billion Guys” is a meditation on sexual jealousy and the fragile male ego… and drunk guys relieving themselves on the city streets. The film was created using elements of stop-motion and frame-by-frame animation. I drew each frame in pencil, photographed it, then erased and redrew the scene in its next iteration. Rinse and repeat for a thousand frames or so. The technique seeks to reflect the mid-century setting. Featured at the Rooftop Film Festival.
