Alex's

Who would have guessed the first post from Singapore was not my drawing? Very talented guy at work, Alexandre Espigares had sketch of me. I liked how he exaggerated some of facial parts. This is pretty much how I look like in side profile.

The work is tough, but I love going to the office.

Another Plug.

So, my friend Veerapatra Jinanavin (a.k.a. Tun or keko) just finished his summer internship at Pixar Animation Studios, and updated his website with new reel. woohoo! I think his luxo's idea turned out to be really cool. It's very exciting to see my friends are animating those Pixar characters. though he has done internship and out of Pixar, but now he's heading toward to NYC. that's pretty cool, too. so go check his stuff.

Vote for Pedro! No! Kevin and Marcus!

http://www.attblueroom.com/hollywood/comic-book-challenge/mediaplayer.php?pid=87685

Okay, I'm still having hard time believing my eyes. My friend Marcus Thelie, who I believe one of the greatest talent, made a comic book with his friend Kevin Buckley. Now they are in a comic book contest. I spend some time with them in a dorm about 3 years ago. They both are really talented. "Really". Kevin uses ColErase like a magic wand. Marcus' monkey drawings are just like he got a zoo in his sketchbook (but the zoo only has monkeys :D Damn, Kevin was a huge guy. I still cannot believe that he lost his weight so drastically! Kevin, you remember that we talked bout Painter 5 at the basement? Man, how can I forget your song that you played for me, Marcus. I'm really happy for them. They both worked so hard. Vote for them!

She's hot.

Here's another plug.


Hyunjung Rhee
So I was checking my friend's website and found that she finally finished her short film project that she was mentioning. That's basically story about me being pervert, because I was saying "oh, she's hot" whenever I found a cute girl. Alright Hyunjung, I know you're shooting to be nice to me but, what have you done!? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?


Sungjin Ahn
Another plug is Sungjin Ahn, who finally compiled his demoreel lately. His Pixar 3 class stuff, called Virgin Voyage, came out really good. Since this was his second time taking Pixar 3 and he's one of the keenest animation student I've ever met, his effort should be paid off.

It's always good to see a work from my friends. I guess it's time for me to show my stuff then.

Behold.

Doodle of the day. nothing much. trying to get better lines.

Some of my friends graduated from school recently and they updated their website, if you wanna see some cool stuff, go now. If you are working at the production call them.

Veerapatra Jinanavin (a.k.a. Tun or Keko)
Keiichiro Emura

Booya.

It's already 2007! so I spent some time to compile my doodles that I've done in last year. Then I realized that it's been a 4 years since I'd started drawing. I'm happy to see how much I've improved, but at the same time there's so much way to go ahead of me. I wish I could have been drawing since I was a kid. Anyways, you can reach my doodle archive from sidebar.

Sweet Talkin' Woman.

I went to outside, get some lunch, then I heard the song. I knew the line and lyrics because I thought that's the song of my fav band, Five Iron Frenzy. But I got to know that was cover song of ELO. Shame on me. What a beautiful song! I can listen to this whole day!

I'm done with my rigging now. Compiling into a reel right now. I think I can sleep well tonight.

Flaming Tsunamis are so cool.

Doodle of the day.

Flaming Tsunamis

Tennessee Waltz

Doodle of the day.

This song is beautiful.

A.S.O.B.

Some doodles I did. I think my drawing lacks solidity all the time, so I have been drawing bunch of cubes and bubbles from different angles in my sketchbook. Well, that's not the only thing I did. I sent my reels to company. Obviously I got no call back so far, only thing I can do is improve my animation so that I can pass my new reel at Siggraph. Anyone going Siggraph this year so that we can meet up?

If we have met in person, you probably know I'm big fan of Ska/Punk music. I know that not much people would have interest even if I recommended some of musics. But I'm telling you again :P These guys are really good, you should have some time to listen thier music. Go and listen "1-800-ALARM-ME" or "People Pops And Fudgesicles For T" is good song, too. I was late to find them, but I haven't got such a big impact after Streetlight Manifesto.

If you like ska, another my favorite band also has online jukebox here. Listen Argentina ska :D

Ah, I realized this is not music blog, but drawing blog! I just feel happy whenever I hear my favorite music. Have a good day!

Blooooo!

There's Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends production blog, didn't know it exists! I thought anyone reading this blog might find it invaluable. Bloo is my fav character after a Buttercup from PPG.

Sorry no update here. I'm in the world of LOST right now. I know I'm late but I just cannot get away from it.

Suffer

Found this online. I laughed so loudly. Even tho you wouldn't find anything funny if you don't listen the music I do.

Sorry for no update for this blog. I had been so busy and only did some crappy sketches, thought it's not worth to update. I was thinking to suspend this blog since I don't have much of
thing to share these days. But a lot of my friends encourage me to keep it up, so I probably would do sometime soon. So don't check daily, but montly.

Finally my web site is up.

I finally got my domain, so I spend some time to update my latest animations/drawings I've been working on recently.

Besides drawing as my hobby, main thing I'm learning at school is Character Animation. We do have a special class called "Pixar class" here in AAU, which is taught by animators from Emeryville. Luckily I passed demo reel review for last semester, then I have been taught by Spline Doctors last 4 months. With two of great talents, Angus MacLane and Scott Clark, I cannot tell enough how much I've learned from them.

Even tho I upload some of my recent animations, I'm not pretty much satisfied with the stuff I've done so far. Well, I've never been satisfied with my drawing either, I guess that's how it is. I just upload what I could do by now, then I will see the way I will go to next.

I will be working on animation exercises for rest of the holiday.

Useful tools

Alright. It's been a while, I must admit. I was like movie crazy. I watched a lot of movies lately. I mean A LOT. Mainly classics that I missed. Since I'm such a shameful animator who just realized how important to learn a movie is lately, I have tons of movies to catch up. I really like "One flew over the cuckoo's nest".
Alright then, there is my new web site coming up soon with new animations, before then, I have some infomations about useful tools to introduce. Hope this helps some of you.

"Paint tool Sai" http://www.systemax.jp/


After I did this drawing with this Japanese software, a lot of my friends asked me how I got that line quality with my small Wacom. Sai is Japanese painting software, which means you, almost every visitors in this blog, cannot use it without some struggles. But trust me on this, it's worth to try. This software was designed for Japanese comic artists who wants to draw as easy as possible in PC. This software interpolates your strokes so that your storkes won't vibrate anymore. This software even have vector mode for line editing, so that we can edit CP later to reshape the curve. We can change line weight, too. Thicker, thinner or whatever you want. Most importantly this software is still in development, what we can get right now is beta version of software which will be selling for future. I'm not sure if developper thinks of making English version of it. I guess he does.


"Google Reader" http://www.google.com/reader/lens/

I found this lately, since I'm checkig over 15 blogs and news, I always wanted to have smart way to check them all really quick and easy. But I don't like to have another software just for checking RSS. I was feeding some RSS in to my personalized Google homepage, but this new Google Reader seems really cool. Well, like anyone else, I'm kind of Google freak. There is a beauty in simplicity.

For a better tomorrow

Well, I don't quite remember where I found this, but it has been a great source of my inspiration, I watched this many times but I'm still laughing in some of shots. Happy new year!