Crystal jungle

An environment shot of my BFA vizdev group project. 
Overall design is done by myself.  Plants and flowers were collaboration of me, Christina Chan, and Alvyn.

Moment scene (updated)

Updated 1/20/13

Revise version of an old painting.  Got critic from Lucas Art artists Jeff Zingally and Patric Jansen.  I still not satisfy with the result.

The Wishing Well

BFA has started and we're still on our first project.  This week we had to come up with the well ideation.  I really try to push myself so I do this two rough paintings.  Super hard especially the interior one.  I will try to finish up this two painting whenever I have time.

Kick off!

My BFA class has started our first visdev assignment "The wishing well"  This is my character thumbnails for the project. 

The Chair

Second individual assignment in my BFA class..."The Chair".  The film must be under 30 sec. long.

"Hi, My Name Is...."

My final year at SJSU.  I'm taking BFA and this is my introduction video for the class.
The idea and execution credit to an artist Andrea Dorfman.  Filming and poem by me.  Enjoy... (^ ^)

LOTR Cave Troll

Found this turnarounds Cave Troll I did from Maya class last year.  Result of hard work from the class so I think it's cool to post it here. Again, thanks Riz Azad for help me to do this turnarounds.

Solid Snake!!!

This is me trying to be Yoji Shinkawa! LOL  \(^ o ^)/

Grey Fox!!!

Taking a break from work and experiment with a new brush.

Last week

Otohime

Character design for fun... Otohime...The dragon sea princess.

Heat and dust

A quick paint. Take a break from my assignment...

Wind and mist

Speed paint 1.5 hrs.
We all just have to keep moving on.

Visdev updates

A little progress from a project I've been working on.  I've been experiment and explore for painting style and try to find out the best way to make these painting better.  I'll post the final version of this project soon!

The Farthest Shore

Grrr...I've been lazy! Story beat thumbnails for the Farthest Shore. I'll do couple more!

One small step.

The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin.  Let see how far I can go with this project.

Arrrr....

A character I did from last year.  Arrr...character design is my greatest weakness...

Environment

The composition studies I did earlier. I worked on these three paintings all at the same time.  Good practice but I still dont like the result.

Mantis!

Composition Studies

Doodles

I don't have time to paint it...

Valentine

Happy Valentine's day!

Cant Sleep 6

Kinda into samurai rite now...( > _ < )

Today's Figure Drawing

It's been awhile...

"Bloom" and "No Robots" Check it out!!!

SJSU's student film
"Bloom" (winter2010 - summer 2011)
 http://bloomanimation.blogspot.com/

"No Robots" (summer 2010)
http://io9.com/5878285/no-robots-a-beautiful-five+minute-film-about-anti+machine-prejudice?tag=short-films

A minor update here.  Above is the link to two great short animated films done by our friends at San Jose State University.  No Robots has won several awards on students film categories.  Bloom is following the same path!  No Robots was written and directed by Kim Knoll and Yanghan Chang.  Bloom was written and directed by Brian Kitsler and Emily Johnstone. 

I wanted to say thanks to my friends / directors who gives me an opportunity to work on these films. (even on "Bloom" I was just a little part of the team, Brian and Emily still kind enough to put my name in the end credit) I considered this is the "first step" and once in my life time experience in my art-related life to work with such talent and great artists in our Animation/illustration program here at SJSU! 

In addition for No Robots, I want to mention and give more credit to Tim Tang and Corwin.  I think they both deserves more credit here, especially Tim.  Those beautiful backgrounds you see in No Robots was art directed by Tim and Corwin.  Tim helped me out a lot when I struggled on my parts.  Thanks man!

Myself and everyone in our team worked so hard on these films, hope everyone enjoy it!
(Notes* you can see background paintings I've done for No Robots in "Older posts". )

Ellie...

The Journey

Values and composition study.

Alice...

Practice paiting in prep for another visdev characters.

Solitude

One hour

Warm up.

About 1 hr.

Old old old stuffs...

Some character designs and paintings from an age ago I found in my hard drive.  Some of them are from the very first time I took visdev class, so they aren't look very good.  I was too shy to post them..but well...

Rough

A rough- redesign of a character I've been working on for Ruben's visdev assignment from last semester. More will come.