Wednesday morning.

Doodle of the day.

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.

wip.

Those are still WIP.

It's been a while since I've made this post, here's what I've got so far. Obviously I'm working slower than ever before because of my job. But it's been a lot of fun to think about all of obstacles that I'm having on those characters. I've plotted out some of rough sketches for about 15 seconds sequence for them. then I pre-rigged duck character and made him a move, just to see how he could be moving. Then, some issues on his legs has popped up. Because of design issue, he got such a short leg and it's been aligned in the center of the body, which is not right from anatomical standpoint. Maybe it looks okay on the picture, but those placement of the legs can give the audience some weirdness when he's on the move. So I have to either change his design or animate him like snappy way so that audience won't notice. I'm still thinking about this issue.

Katie, the girl character. I think she got some cuteness but it's not quite there yet. So I've gotta work on that, too.

Rigging part is not that hard for me since that's exactly what I'm doing everyday at work. I've got a lot of techniques like matrix calculations since I'm out of school. so my speed for working on rigging had been improved. But still, making something able to work for telling a story is not easy. It's not easy. I tend to complain on bad management of bad director. they say go to left at first, and all of sudden they start saying go to right. but yea, it's not easy.

P.S. I hope I could have more time to doodle around. I've bought some nice artbooks recently and getting inspired everyday.

Day of Days

Some doodles that I've done recently. First one is referenced from girl's fashion magazine, I was trying to get extreme expression of smile without getting ugly, obviously it failed. oh well, at least now I know what makes girl's face ugly. then second and third are from life drawing class. then I found cute chick in the class, so I draw her, forth one.

As someone probably know I'm working on my Katie and Ducky project. hope I can show you some progress here sometime soon.

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!

Music week.

Doodle of the day.

So I've been taking full advantage of YouTube by using it as my time machine. I happened to looked up the band that I was listening in my high school days, named Cloudberry Jam. Their video and music flashed me back in time. I was there with my friends, family and my old CDs. The choice of my music was a bit British oriented, but probably some people get the same nostalgic feel if we live in same era. Here's some of the bands that I'm missing. Blur, Bluetones, Supergrass, Menswear, Silver Sun, Summercamp, yea sure Oasis, Ben Folds Five and good old Green Day.

sup?

been super busy.

By request.

So, I've been pretty busy for bunch of reasons. But actually my life is getting slower. I pretty much got used to my working place by now, having some good time with friends, nice food, movies and drink and stuff. Yeah having some fun. There's a tendency that we could forget the real reason why we are making some art when we are in a stressful situation. So I'm hoping this fun that I'm enjoying brings me some good inspiration for my next step.

One of my friends asked me why I didn't upload some of the characters in my sketchbook, so here it goes.

Girls.

Doodle of the day.

Small dude.

It's been a while. I'm still alive in case someone is wondering :D

Grape Head.

Predictable.

Banana Head.

Cliche.

Apple Head.

Anime.

Hair Dryer Addicts.

Doodle of the day.

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.