Life D-ing

Heres this week's life drawings.
These all from the very last page (the cardboard part) of my newsprint pad.

mmm.....abstraction...

Oops

TWO posts!

I completely forgot about my gorilla chef character i did couple of months ago. Well, here he is--

Apologies

It's been awhile, I know.
But don't worry, stuff are coming on the way!

I've been sick and heres the only good drawing i got from life drawing session. With an extra touch....

I'm Alive, Just Letting You Know

So, this is from Japan Fest 08', where they do every year at the Gwinett Convention Center (recently changed). They'll show things like Kendo, Shinkendo, Aikidou, Kyudo, many different types of dances, and ofcourse Japanese foods.

And one of the booth, Sake Story happend to be there, where I freelanced in the past.
I was surprised and happy to see my work being used :)
And I found this ORANGE-SHAPED ERASER at the fest, where I had to buy it. Got an egg-sushi eraser for someone :)

And these are glimpse from the art show where Chris and Chi attended.
Great show guys! I'll be attending the next one..... Who's here?
Can you read this?
Get the powerball, Pacman
Grafitti Pacman
Ittsssaaa hiiimm!

Adding Clothes

These are life drawings from couple of weeks ago.
I added clothes and occupation for sum of these people.

Animation Projects

Hey, two posts in a row!
And a new banner!

Pitch animation:


Lip Sync animation:


Hamburger animation:

Fridge Chef in 3ds Max

Fridge chef concept for 3ds Max class.
We had to come up with a character in 3 weeks: modeled, textured, biped and walking.
Yay.

Concept:
3D image:

SIGGRAPH Creation Project

Since I took the SIGGRAPH trip as a class, I have to write some papers and do a little creation project: where I can do absolutely anything (as long as it's turned it by end of quarter).

So, I decided to give a little tribute to my peeps and create them using the avatar template I already had for this blog. Again, this whole style is inspired by the "Katamari" game series.

And just so you know, it has spacing around it for printing purposes.

3ds Max Boat

I couldn't manage to do it in splines, so I executed all in Nurbs.
It kinda sucked how I had 2 days to work on it due to missing a week from SIGGRAPH.

Zoo of Atl

Zoo drawings for the 4th time :)

Lotsa Life

After flipping through the book, "Force: Character Design from Life Drawing" by Michael D. Mattesi, I tried some different things for my life drawings this week.
I still need to look deeply into this awesome book.

But hey, I got about 50+ pages of life drawings and I was totally burned out within the 3 hours.

15 secs
15 secs
5 min
Brush-pen approach
Can't remember if the bottom two images were 5 or 10 mins.

SIGGRAPH 08'

Here I am, back from SIGGRAPH 08'.
It was a fun and tiring trip as I learned a lot of the "real world".
I'm really glad I went to the trip, and I may go for next year as well :)


Sketches from the trip

Softimage booth
ILM booth
I wish i was playing a racing game like that
Hand controlled 3D - literally
Sculptures from Digimax booth
Showing features from the new Mudbox
Stairway to heaven.
I've never seen stairs in bathrooms.
Highlight of Venice Beach

Here's Vincent, me, Chi, Andrew, and Heather in the limo (hell yea, the limo).
You guys made the trip 50 times more fun for me.
Thanks guys!
And for everybody else, check out their blogs on my link :)

Business Card

My final version of the card (for now).
I received the hard copies today, and loving how it came out.

New Avatar

Heres my new avatar for the blog!
Inspired by one of my favorite games, Katamari series.
Try not to say it's cute.
I think it's pretty awesome :)

Maya --> 3ds Max = Headache

The hassle of going from Maya to Max was quite a headache for me.
But heres my little soviet vehicle with no textures (except the stand).