
Directing
David O'Reilly
Born
1985-06-21 (41)
Place of birth
Kilkenny - County Kilkenny - Ireland
Known for
Directing
Credits
36 titles
David O'Reilly is an Irish animation director and 3D artist from Kilkenny.
Known for
7.0The making of Spike Jonze's "Her."
Her: The Untitled Rick Howard Project
2014
1.0It's a simulation of reality where you can see the world from everything's point of view - it's kind of a philosophy project in the form of a game. There is no narrative or story - just the world as it is. Everything: Gameplay Film is an overview of David O'Reilly video game of the same name, crafted as a short film with a narration by Alan Watts
Everything
2017
Horse ponders his loneliness.
The Horse Raised by Spheres
2014
A boy finds adventure in the big city.
RGB XYZ
2007
A David O'Reilly short film.
WOFL 2106
2009
On March 13, 2008, a YouTube user named RANDYPETERS1, a 9-year-old boy from Chicago, submitted a handdrawn animated video about Octocat, a red cat head with eight long legs looking for his parents. The videos featured crude MS Paint animation and a loud, highpitched, childlike voice narrating. On September 7, the fifth, final episode was released, but featured an unexpected twist - about 20 seconds into it, the crude sketchy animation switched to intricately crafted 3D with an orchestral soundtrack; the whole Octocat story (and as such, the Randy Peters persona) was revealed to be by David O'Reilly.[8] In an interview he said "I wanted to try experimenting with the Youtube audience and Microsoft Paint. The story for Octocat came to me by reading the bible word-for-word backwards"
Octocat Adventures
2008
Film credits
Behind the camera
1.0It's a simulation of reality where you can see the world from everything's point of view - it's kind of a philosophy project in the form of a game. There is no narrative or story - just the world as it is. Everything: Gameplay Film is an overview of David O'Reilly video game of the same name, crafted as a short film with a narration by Alan Watts
Everything
2017
1.0It's a simulation of reality where you can see the world from everything's point of view - it's kind of a philosophy project in the form of a game. There is no narrative or story - just the world as it is. Everything: Gameplay Film is an overview of David O'Reilly video game of the same name, crafted as a short film with a narration by Alan Watts
Everything
2017
Horse ponders his loneliness.
The Horse Raised by Spheres
2014
Horse ponders his loneliness.
The Horse Raised by Spheres
2014
A boy finds adventure in the big city.
RGB XYZ
2007
A boy finds adventure in the big city.
RGB XYZ
2007
A David O'Reilly short film.
WOFL 2106
2009
On March 13, 2008, a YouTube user named RANDYPETERS1, a 9-year-old boy from Chicago, submitted a handdrawn animated video about Octocat, a red cat head with eight long legs looking for his parents. The videos featured crude MS Paint animation and a loud, highpitched, childlike voice narrating. On September 7, the fifth, final episode was released, but featured an unexpected twist - about 20 seconds into it, the crude sketchy animation switched to intricately crafted 3D with an orchestral soundtrack; the whole Octocat story (and as such, the Randy Peters persona) was revealed to be by David O'Reilly.[8] In an interview he said "I wanted to try experimenting with the Youtube audience and Microsoft Paint. The story for Octocat came to me by reading the bible word-for-word backwards"
Octocat Adventures
2008
NRIt’s official: one of the most twisted new animated works we’ve seen in a very long time is also a new record holder. The film very, very loosely follows several office-bound characters as they plot their upwardly-climbing corporate destinies, continuously insult each other with non-stop vicious flair, and morph their reality with that of a duo of cute panda bear-looking creatures for whom the office dimension is just a dream…? This baffling slice of cough syrup-like comedy dementia was created entirely with “Xtranormal”, an online service that lets users make their own CGI mini-movies through a limited library of characters, sets and music, and with awkward text-to-speech synthesis – serving to produce a sublimely blobby experience that’ll sautée your cerebellum with love!
The Agency
2011
NRIt’s official: one of the most twisted new animated works we’ve seen in a very long time is also a new record holder. The film very, very loosely follows several office-bound characters as they plot their upwardly-climbing corporate destinies, continuously insult each other with non-stop vicious flair, and morph their reality with that of a duo of cute panda bear-looking creatures for whom the office dimension is just a dream…? This baffling slice of cough syrup-like comedy dementia was created entirely with “Xtranormal”, an online service that lets users make their own CGI mini-movies through a limited library of characters, sets and music, and with awkward text-to-speech synthesis – serving to produce a sublimely blobby experience that’ll sautée your cerebellum with love!
The Agency
2011
NRA man and a woman sign a document.
NDA
2015
A David O'Reilly short film.
HELL/?????
2009
NREACHOTHER 互, is a live simulation of one million autonomous beings
EACHOTHER 互
2026
NRThe End of Stories is an animated documentary dome film about our inability to understand the present or imagine the future. The 4th installment in the “Corona Voicemails” series, the film showcases a collage of 37 perspectives from around the world of people coping with the turbulence of pandemic life.
The End of Stories
2021
6.0A boy learns to play the piano.
The External World
2010
6.0A boy learns to play the piano.
The External World
2010
NRA collection of extraordinary animated short films from around the world, curated by Don Hertzfeldt. Released exclusively to movie theaters to support independent animators, the program includes “Martyr’s Guidebook”, “Zoon”, “The Hill Farm”, “I Am Alone and My Head is On Fire”, “Wednesday with Goddard”, “Jesus 2”, “The Big Snit”, “Untitled Line Drawings” (never-before-seen work by Bruce Bickford), and more.
Animation Mixtape
2025
4.0A young woman receives a phone call.
Wrong Number
2015
6.5A David O'Reilly short film.
I Am Alone and My Head Is On Fire
2013
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Heaven’s Countryland: Part 1 of Childhood Story of Kim Jong Un
2014
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Heaven’s Countryland - US Americans Part 4 - Children
2014
NRGenki is a cat scientist hybrid. Maybe from Korea? In 2041.
The Story of Genki
2012
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Heaven’s Countryland - US Americans Part 7 - Pharmaceuticals
2014
NRThis work depicts the creation of the Universe - beginning moments before the Big Bang, it shows the development of life and progresses into our modern world. A ballet choreographed by math, generating beautifully complex and organic structures, with each show different from the last.
Eye of the Dream
2018
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Heaven’s Countryland - Part 2 of the Death Of Kim Jung Ill
2014
The animation from which David O'Reilly's logo originates.
Ident
2005
A David O'Reilly short film that opened for the 2009 Pictoplasma Conference.
When You're Smiling...
2009
NRA man tries to befriend a unicorn.
Unlucky Little Man
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NRA man tries to befriend a unicorn.
Unlucky Little Man
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6.5A troubled relationship between a Cat & Mouse set in the distant future.
Please Say Something
2008
6.5A troubled relationship between a Cat & Mouse set in the distant future.
Please Say Something
2008
2.0Children sing a song in the schoolyard
Children's Song
2015
NRAn extended compilation of the Alien Child sequences from Her (2013)
Alien Child Sequences
2014

