Skidadle!

Just two fast sillhouttes exercise before going out with family for breakfast! Their actually rushing me. gtg!!

Character Sketches

Just felt like doing some character sketches based on a certain type of environment and try to evoke a different type of persona to each character. The one on the left is basically the executioner of things and handles all the brutal executions with his chainsaw (which was not rendered out) whilst the middle character is sort of like the person who you would see guarding the door to the secret hideout hence he would be the door guard..
yes.. and the right is basically the deceiver (quote Jason Chan) the type of character who is the one holding the suprise at the end of the story. Shes dangerous and attractively attractive.. These were meant to be very rough but just cant help it!.. Well in a way its still rough for me~

Ponyo

Ponyo was interesting. Always nice and engaging to watch a Studio Ghibli Production led by the well known Hayao Miyazaki. Loved Ponyo's design and her expressions throughout the story, never fail to put a smile on my face lol! Some study sketches done in my sketchbook with blue color pencil and rendered with Photoshop. Cheers!

Red Myst WIP

WIP for Red Myst. Been tweaking the mass and proportions for quite some time just to get the anatomy and feel right for the creature. Currently working in Z Brush and doing studies for the creature.

To know more about the progress of my team's Project check the link Last Jump

More Life Drawing

Decided to do some life drawings today. Kept yesterday's newspaper and did some drawings from the sports section. Well given that Malaysian newspaper write articles on soccer most of the time hence why there are a lot of soccer figures. Its fun to study the action lines of the figure in motion nevertheless and am planning to make this habit of drawing from newspapers more frequent. Nothing is better than drawing from life and newspapers have interesting images sometimes.

The last two pages which is filled with sexy female figures is based on a life drawing of another artist but am starting to get the hang of it and be more of an analytical artist instead of just copying what i see. Quite satisfied that im improving and slowly achieving that independance factor as an artist. Can't say that im satisfied at this point of course still a long way. Oh well better start sketching some more!

Study

Studies that i did from this month's Imagine FX Issue on Bobby Chiu and a greyscale study referenced from a 3D artwork by Jeff Miller. Overall i would say that i definitely learned a few things from these two studies. Learned the importance of steps in our painting process in order to make ourselves more consistent and faster, the percentage of greyscale tones in a picture although this requires more practise. Apart from that started to learn a thing or two about brush flow settings in photoshop which by the way i rarely use in my artwork and how to apply that knowledge in my sketches, paintings etc digitally of course.

Progress progress on Leet Games

Here are some updates on a current project that im working on for a 2D online battle card game under Leet Games. Looking forward to start rendering some of these bad boys!

Life Drawing

Here is a bunch of Life drawings that i did recently, went through my old college notes and some from George Bridgman's book on drawing from life. Trying to get a grasp of what im drawing and taking from each drawing that i do.. The what, why and how~ hmm..

While waiting for the World Cup Final Match

Everywhere and anywhere that was showing the live telecast of the World Cup Final match was FULL of people last night!! Boy had a bit of trouble finding a place to watch and in the end me and my girlfriend ended up at Mcdonalds, The Curve lol. We came kinda early though so while waiting we both drew this on the first page of my spanking brand new sketchbook! Twas fun :D

Owh and yea SPAIN WON!!! YEZZAA!! Viva Espana !

Malaysia under International Spotlight! - 3D World

I am proud to say that Malaysia is featured in the latest issue of 3D World magazine! Finally our talents here are recognized on the global stage and hopefully this is the beginning of many wonderful things to come for Malaysian Animation.

The magazine features a 32 page special on Notable Malaysian Studios such as Igloo-Digital Arts , Animonsta Studios , Les Copaque , Netcarbon , International power house Rhythm and Hues , Shock 3D , Silver Ant and Young Jump Animation.

3D World conducted a meeting for the heads of each studio to sit down and discuss the key challenges facing the industry. It was a good read on that part where they covered issues of talents in Malaysia, Education, Malaysian mindsets, Asian competitors, Future of Malaysian Animation, etc. Apart from the discussion, they also interviewed each studio mentioned and featured some of their current and future projects. Its such a great issue so i would suggest any other Malaysian or anyone at all to get it and have a read on the magazine!

The future of animation in Malaysia has never been brighter! :D

A study from Dice Tsutsumi's tutorial on his website. Still lacks simplicity. Need to practise more~ Not so satisfied on the colors as well.

Been doing concept art for Leet Games. Just one of the many dragon concepts that i did for their game. Still in the designing process :)

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Toy Story 3 was great as expected. Sad and depressing at the end though but overall an entertaining movie. Did this piece of one of the aliens for my girlfriend who is madly in love with the Pizza Planet Aliens. oOOooooo..

Studio Ghibli Makes Games

Studio Ghibli, The famous Japanese Animation Studio that brought us favorite classics such as My Neighbour Totoro and Spirited Away is making games!! Yezzaa! This may be old news but i just found out today and the game looks nice! I for one am a sucker for nice looking games and 'Ni no kuni' is no exception. All i know for now is that its an RPG game and it looks nice haha. Here are some visuals~

Not so sure how the battle system and gameplay would be like but from what i saw in the gameplay video, link it looks like something that i would give a try and enjoy. Thats just my opinion. Here are some more articles on it lines and colors , New York Times

A Sketchy Past - Peter De Seve

Here is the latest Artbook that i got my hands on recently. The artbook of Peter De Seve. I was going through the art section in Borders and once i saw this book i knew it would be a great buy! The cover itself was filled with genuine character, humor and there is a sort of charm to it that attracted me. Upon browsing the contents of the book briefly it was very engaging and inspiring. The book is filled with wonderful sketches and finished watercolor pieces that ranges from magazines and book cover illustrations to animation pre production work that Peter did for big names such as PIXAR, Disney, Ice Age, Robots and many more. Still have yet to finish going through the entire book~

He looks young no? Well guess what he's 51 now!! Take a look at his website Peterdeseve.com and his blog Sketchy Past. :) Here are some shots of the book that i managed to get from the net.