With a lot of ads going down the animation route these days our screens are being bombarded with many different styles, some good and some not so good (we won’t mention names!). Like everything else done well they can be very effective. Here’s a short, animated film about Thin Lizzy front man Phil Lynott made by a very talented friend of mine Conor Ryan. It was done for the Music Matters campaign. It’s simple yet beautiful.

Conor is a freelance Character Animator from Dublin based in London. I was very impressed when I first saw his animation for Oasis – The Masterplan . In my eyes he nailed the swagger of that ‘beady-eyed’ Liam Gallagher. You should check out his character animation reel too, it’s well worth the look.