Artist and Animator David O'Reilly - Lady Gaga, U2, and more

David O'Reilly is an Berlin-based (but Irish born) artist who produces some intriguing 3D works. Now he's turned his eye to one of the most recognizable faces in media today: Lady Gaga. Using 3D software to selectively explode the image (similar to this post by Inka) he turns her face into a modern artwork. Prior to this outing O'Reilly has done his most notable work in animation. He produced the animated short Please Say Something which won the Golden Bear award at the Berlin Film Festival last year. This film tells the tale of a very strained relationship between a cat and a mouse.

He has also done animation work for U2, namely the video for their song "I'll Go Crazy If I don't Go Crazy Tonight" which you can see below.

He also did this haunting piece called Black Lake. I love how the video deconstructs itself partway through. It reminds me that everything we see is constructed from unseen parts and controlled by basic rules of behavior, just like software.

I first learned of his work from this article on Nowness. You can see a few more of his Lady Gaga portraits there. David's website and blog is here. I think David O'Reilly is someone we'll be seeing a lot more of in the future.

Tags: animation, art

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Comment by Inka Leoni on March 10, 2010 at 9:56pm: Thanks for this post Mark. I love David O'Reilly. The U2 is my fave.

@Eugene & Mark. I've heard from a lot of my friends that Vimeo's often don't work the first try. Even when it's fully loaded. It's the strangest thing. They usually have to refresh the screen and try again.

Comment by Amy Wong on March 10, 2010 at 4:37pm: Fantastic post! I love animations, and all of them are eye openers. :D Great find!

Comment by alice on March 10, 2010 at 11:12am: Thanks for this post, Mark! I love that U2 video..one of my all-time favs. Nice to know more about the artist. That Lady Gaga piece is amazing, too!

Comment by Eugene on March 10, 2010 at 11:08am: @Mark - nm it loaded fine this time around...weird... =)

Comment by Mark Huckabee on March 10, 2010 at 11:07am: The vid works fine for me. It looks really weird (on purpose) until you get further into it. Go in about 20 seconds and you'll see it is fine.

Comment by Eugene on March 10, 2010 at 10:10am: first pic is very eye-catching. btw...think there's something wrong with the first vid...