Quickies.

Doodle of the day.

I know these are *really* doodles. I'm just trying different style that I usually don't draw. I'm getting busy for some of reasons now, so there might be not many posts coming after this.

Shibuya

Doodle of the day.

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.

Katie.

I'm slowly working on my project. I'm still not really sure how it goes.

So, I've just finished the animation that I was working on at the office. That was quick 3 weeks project, then while our Rigging dept. has not many things to do, I've got assigned to do another episodes of animation as well, which I definitely consider as a great opportunity for me.

Experiencing TV Production.

Sorry for not having any doodles lately, but I rather have my thought right now.

So I started animating at work. It's quite simple character for kids (nealy primitive if I could say), each episodes run about 1 min, my buddy made a model and rig, I'm taking care of animation but I also have to do rendering as well. So given time for me, which is 3 weeks by now, is not quite enough to get my satisfaction. I was used to spend 3 weeks to finish 300 frames for class. Guess how many time I got here for my first 350 frames. It was 2 days. That sounds more like insane actually, but that's exactly what is happening to me right now.

There's one thing that school never taught us, Efficiency. When I was taking Pixar class at the Academy, the whole environment was so ideal, just so ideal. We got 3 weeks for 300 frames, getting great critiques from teachers, spend some time critique each other and discuss about animation all day long with my friends. I guess not every production has such an ideal environment while they are having multiple projects going at the same time.

Plus, a quality that client expects us to achive is quite low I say. It may not be for all TV production but maybe because I'm working at Japanese production. Sadly but it's true that Japanese 3d animation is poorly executed over the years. I was surprised at the fact that some of supervisor laughing at the importance of Illusion of Life. man.... Japanese should honor the fact that we *do* have great talented animators in 2d production tho.

I would consider myself as lucky just because I still can have fun animating character for kids (well, I like cutie fluffy thingie more than dragons and warriors and stuff). In fact that's really great thing that I can make money by doing what I really want to do, u know.

If some of you found my experience interesting, cool that means I didn't waste my time writing some thoughts on my blog. I would write more of my experiences if my time allows.

I saw some of movies btw, Rushmore, Royal Tenenbaums, Nacho Libre. Man, Rushmore is such an incredible piece of work. I saw Royal Tenens first, and kinda hooked, not strongly tho. Then Rushmore, it's already been added to my list of the movies that I think I'm happy to see before I die.

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.

Animate.

Ok, I'm a bit high right now. But yeah, I will be an Animator for next upcoming project. Wooohoooo! It's not a big feature project, but I'm pretty much excited while this is my first real production experience as an Animator. Whatever shot I got, I will do my best for the shot. Then I will see something I've never been able to see once it's done.

btw, Did I say I'm excited?


Did I?

Got some pen.

Doodle of the day.

E.

Doodle of the day.

So I went to see the anime movie Tekkon Kinkurito. Animation was superb. Story was little vague for me since I haven't read the original comic. I am impressed none the less. I love small talk with my friend after the movie.

Ari

Alright, I'm back. Here's a doodle of my friend. Happy new year.

Every New Day.

Doodle of the day.

What I wrote here is a lyrics of a song called Every New Day from my favorite band Five Iron Frenzy. Although I'm not a Christian personally, I think the song is such a beautiful song. I've never had a specific religion in my life, but I've met great friends and one great guy taught me oneday how to pray. By meeting such a friend and listening the music like FIF, it's actually affecting the way of my life. in a good way.

So, it's almost end of the year. I wish you all the great holiday and happy new year!

Cats will dance, anyhow.

This small dude is from personal project I'm working on. My friend wanted to do facial rig. She, Amy, is my working buddy sitting next to me in the office. Since her speciality is in facial rigging, I will ask her to do so, and I will rig up his body and animate. I got some story for him but not sure how much I can go with it. So I might end up with only animation test. But yea I think it's great chance to work with friend and exchange our knowledge.

The company I'm working on, they made a rig for the feature Valiant, so we do have great resource on feathers. I'm in the middle of researching it. Although I won't do crazy feather setup on him.

I also wrote some scripts and am rewriting my Arc script now. so there will be an update in a short amount of time. But don't expect me high, I'm working hard every day and doing some freelance job as well. Plus, I'm also being crazy about knowing about Matrix now. Matrix is good. and fun.

So yea it seems like I'm busy. I guess I am.

yeah... a post!

yope. It's been a while. is still someone up there? I finally got my PC and scanner working at home. I still don't get my internet connection tho.

I didn't get much of time to doodle around now, so only picture I got here is mainly from the Quick drawing workshop that I found and decided to join here in Tokyo. The class is okay, just a bit longer poses than I was used to draw.

In the company I have been studying so much mainly for Rigging and Pipeline stuff. have been studied Matrix technique to speed up my rig at home. Wrote some scripts. Trying to improve a rig by talking with Animator. It's been a lot of fun. We just got new person came from Pixar, he has been working at there for about 6 years I heard. So there will be much of exicitement for sure.

It's just matter of time. I'm getting more and more free time as I'm get used to work in the office. So I will start my own project and Animation practice in a short amount of time. hope I can post some of it here and getting some feedback.

mew.

sorry being lazy. having fun at new place. pretty busy at the same time.