Frame Animation Practice

I've decided to dust off my animation skills and try for a short animation loop. after some big errors and careless mistakes, i've finally come up with the final sketch.

I still have alot more work to be done, so I'll be updating on my process along with my other works :D

Pomp & Beard Inking

I wanted to improve my inking skills in photoshop, so i chose to use a fashion headshot of a man.

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=pomp+and+beard&FORM=HDRSC2#view=detail&id=20D086958E5A159E0EF4AD269785C1BD9B85ED56&selectedIndex=31

So what started off as (A) ended up being expanded into a whole set of heads in different characters.

Full Color Set

Giant Robot Order

I started this piece about 3 weeks ago, but the work finally was started last week. Anyway, I've hidden a few stuff that are pretty familiar in singapore. see if you could spot them all!

 

Done in Photoshop. with some photo references. I loved Pacific Rim!

Digital Painting Practice.

Done in photoshop. I'm thinking of reusing the giant robots idea again soon, i'm not too happy with it. Inspired by Shadows of the Colossus.

FUSION 2009

About five days ago I got a call from my friend, mentor Andrew Lai, asking me to meet up with him to discuss about a poster illustration for FUSION 2009, a church outreach even that takes places annually. The theme was  THEN,NOW,THERE, and we came up with the concept of having the past, present and future image of a person. 

photo resource for the unsure future representation. of someone answering god's calling through faith. I nearly lost sleep over the drawing of fingers. I hate/love drawing hand gestures; it's something I try to look forward to learning.

  

illustrations drawn using chinese ink and pen nibs. I would like to learn to use nibs more delicately to create more fluid lines.

final photoshop-painted work. I chose a very warm colour theme and reused the flower motiffs from the 2nd final year project. I then sent it to andrew lai, who liked it and thought he could help with the type which i suck at) and to give the poster a bit more life.

He resent it to me with a touch of magical post production. I really liked this version. Andrew wasn't convinced though, so i tweeked the work abit and resent it to him for the final colour output.

final post production by andrew lai. Both of us agreed that it looked pretty cool. I commented about how the red reminds me of the AKIRA comic series.

TCHOUK!Ball

I got a message from a friend in church one day asking me to design a logo crest for the YouthMinistry's Tchoukball team, and he very kindly email-ed me the sketch and the requirements for what he wanted. Being a procrastinator I forgot about it for about half a week before finally rushing it up in one full day. It was fun taking inspiration from old woodcut pictures and illustrations and using simple shapes to represent things in the individual sections of the crest.

 above are is the original sketch by Song Yang and the photoshopped version by me respectively. the images are (from top left clockwise) the bell tower from our main church building (Wesley Methodist), the Vanda Miss Joaquim, a Tchoukball player, and the Fort Canning Entrance. (Right-click to view larger images)
Layout for the tee-shirt print. The final layout and font was chosen by Song Yang. Everything was done in Photoshop CS4. (Right-click to view larger image.)

Friends Makeover

       

it was great fun and we all had a great laugh together. much thanks to nicola ng and juffrie with the photography, and kenneth, jermaine, pek chai and nicola for being such sporty models :D. Cheers mates!

FYP2- the 5 stages of grief

  

  

The Exhibition was a success by the way, thank you very much. but after that the workload continued with the designing for the dvd cover. A Big thanks to my friend Stace Tan for helping us as our module.

DVD cover for our fyp submission using 

photoshop.