Friday, November 13, 2009

Sick = update time...

It is a good chance to finish up paintings that were started with a scattered mind. I'm trying to improve my approach, ...so needed to get these done and not look back. Lots to change and think about... learning them the hard way.

Would have been nice to add a city at the bottom, but... too exhausted...

Did this costume design for the painting above. But... I changed the scale a lot, so you barely see him. Kind of stupid... haha.
As much as I love sci-fi work, I'm not great at it. The design is kind of bleh... but it's started like 6 months ago... Hope my next try would be better.
Also... I realize I enjoy knowing who created the paintings and feel frustrated when not, so even though I never did before, I'm going to sign all my stuff now :)

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

End of daylight saving update!!

Wow! Can't believe I didn't update until the next time the time changes!! 8 months... sigh. I'm prepared that nobody would see this post for a while. Unfortunately personal stuff is still in the works. I'll post as soon as they are finished. The reason why I have materials to post is because this featurette video is recently available on youtube!

The following are screenshots of matte paintings I worked on for A Christmas Carol!

Did most of the closeup store fronts, as well as embellishing the streets. Scene setup by Glenn Cotter, and art directed by Brian Flora + Doug Chiang.


Supported Chris Stoski for these paintings (the entire forest fly through sequence!!) I was able to contribute paintings for the sky (some pieces of clouds, hehe), forest junk (leaves and the likes on the snow floor), a few backgrounds + all the lakes!!! Watch out for them :) I'm the most proud of them. This was an extremely challenging sequence.

Then this part is where I'm most proud of since I received the most minimal amount of help. Lighting setup + art directed by Chris Stoski and Doug Chiang. (Can't see much here... but there's more stuff if you watch the animation!)
These compressed images really do the art no justice. See it in its full glory in 3D at the theater (shameless plug!) It's a good film~~~~~~ (plug ends)... It was heart-warming to see all the late nights and team effort pay off. Go matte department! If you guys get a chance, go see the film :D

Finally, congrats to Siren! I was fortunate enough to be one of the owners of the "first edition". Awesome stuff... wish the stories could be longer so there's more room for you to expand your creativity. Anyway...

I'm not dead. Good to know, right?

Update when there's more stuff to show :) Happy November!

Sunday, March 8, 2009

Daylight savings update!

Today I decided to put together the stuff that I did incohesively over the past month. I've been learning a lot at work, esp. on matte painting, though that's not being represented very well in my personal work. I hope I still have time to go through some 3D Max tutorials tonight... after having forgotten about the lost hour time and again. Urgh.

-Forgot to include this one. Refined illustration from before...

Doodled today.

Need more practice on env.

These are life drawings done at life drawing workshop at work. Lots of fun being psyched out by amazing artists.




I thought I got plenty to show until I ended up deleting a lot of stuff I realized look unacceptable. Will post more soon...

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Needs more practice...

I think I have an annoying tendency to paint brown in shadows. Granted, I wasn't using reference, which, is NOT an excuse.Sigh. Oh Well. Move on and do better next time ;)

Monday, December 8, 2008

Demo Reel!!

Ready for view here.

I think I'm really doomed with homework.

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Something decorative


AND I got Enya's new CD!!! LOVE LOVE LOVE. Here's a drawing for her. Not that great, but with love :D Inspired by Zhang Lu.

Monday, November 3, 2008

Midterm Checkpoint...!

Matte painting and some character work...

City closeup...

Cheesy Chinese people... These are in progress :) I want to give them more props to carry.



Next up would be sets, color scripts and sketches that need a lot more work...