Dermot O'Connor

Dermot O’ Connor has practiced hand-drawn animation at Don Bluth, and Disney Interactive. Dermot entered the animation industry in 1988, working for Don Bluth’s studio in Ireland for five years. During that time he was trained in traditional hand-drawn animation. In the mid-90s he directed CD-ROM interactive titles for Creative Capers Entertainment and Disney Interactive, working on such projects as 101 Dalmatians and Timon and Pumbaa’s Gamebreak. He was introduced to Flash in 2000 and began creating animation for Disney in Los Angeles. He made the animation for Alan Parsons’ music video As Lights Fall. Since 2012 Dermot has been working on Continuum, a comic book in which Albert Einstein takes a teenage George W. Bush on an adventure through space-time and philosophy.

Brussels International Film Festival