Lim Studio

halloween poster

2011-10-10T20:28:00.003-04:00

It was a volunteer freelance poster...

jump

2011-09-15T16:25:00.000-04:00

after nearly 4 months of no art, this is what i get... clearly, i didn't give a shit at the end haha look at that shitty settle down

Now I don't know how to name the title...

2011-05-09T02:00:00.004-04:00

The usual historical doodles. I suddenly wanted to draw the three kingdom guys. The youngest guy from the three...I thinks the name is Zhang-Fei? He is perfect for me to draw :) I imagine him to be short and chubby :D

Oh yeah, and I watched Thor few days ago. The visuals were really nice. Their armor and the background images of Asgard were pretty cool. It was a cool adaptation of Norse mythology with Sci-Fi aspects. But the story was crap :)

It was weird because my view of Thor was so different from the movie's presentation. Look at the middle part of this drawing tapestry. That was my interpretation of Thor. Kinda cute, eh. According to the mythology, he rides on a chariot pulled by goats ;)

Why do I always imagine hairy men to be short and chubby? I don't get it... because I find them fun to draw?

[4th Year] Finished film!

2011-04-28T01:09:00.001-04:00

VIDEO OFFLINE DUE TO FESTIVAL SUBMISSIONS

Please contact me for private viewing.

Film is done. Industry day is tomorrow. My printer ran out of ink. And I still need to print out 50 DVD covers D: Need to bike with fullest speed to Walmart first thing in the morning DDDDD:

I'll be taking the film down from youtube if I get serious with competitions and festivals. But until then, enjoy :) I'm off to sleeping and gaming!!!

[4th Year] Major Background

2011-03-28T15:34:00.000-04:00

This took uselessly long.

I still got one more pan sequence to paint. Kinda pushed some leftover painting till last minute (since it's more fun and easier than animation).

Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

[4th Year] Poster

2011-03-28T15:24:00.001-04:00

I want this shit to be finished RIGHT NOW.

[4th Year] Animatic (at least for now)

2010-12-14T03:49:00.000-05:00

[4th Year] Life Drawing Update

2010-11-27T21:47:00.002-05:00

Gestures, most of them are less than 5 minutes

'Hippie' Theme

Shorter poses

Longer poses

'Mozart' Theme

[4th Year] Update

2010-11-02T22:09:00.019-04:00

Wow. Million years without updating.

4th year started.

It's busy, it's crazy, it's overwhelming. But I'm surviving... somehow.

I'm still fixing my story leica (and hoping that this is the last time) but this final leica that I'm working on will turn out to be more of an animatic.

Big story points are all there, I just need to tweak it more and more.

At the same time, I did some rough color tests for my film.

As you can see, I have a lot of stylized patterns to design and the patterns will be overlaid on top of the characters. Same thing will happen for my background as well.

Only concern is that I haven't fully tested the style yet so I don't know if it will turn out to be good.

If it doesn't... well then, I'm fucked.

Digital life drawings for mid-term portfolio.

B&W conte life drawings

5 minutes

Warming up

In between 5 to 10 minutes

I like these ones

And this one as well

Not so much for these three

10 minutes

I like these ones alot :)

15 minutes

I could have done a better job for this one but I still like it

I'm so lucky to have Geordie for life drawing. He's the teacher that I always dreamed of. He's just perfect.

I never had so much fun in life drawing. I'm enjoying it so much.

I want to do life drawing forever and not do my 4th year film.

November 2010

(no subject)

2010-08-03T22:07:00.001-04:00

Kondo Isami

Okita Souji

Yoshimura Kanichiro

"Can you stop doing that, Saito-san?"

"..."

July 2010

Statement

2010-06-29T01:01:00.000-04:00

Animation is not everything for me.

[3rd Year] Shinsengumi

2010-04-12T15:42:00.001-04:00

*History: Shinsengumi is a group of swordmen in 18th century Japan. They were the special police force for the city of Kyoto during the late Tokugawa Shogunate Period. They went against the idea of Japan opening up to accept Western culture (also known as Meiji Restoration). Shinsengumi is a very popular theme for novel, art, drama as well as animation in Japan mainly because each member has very unique characteristics. I really like them too :)

These are just really rough chicken scratches to wrap up the main ideas for each character. I'm gonna go further with these guys when summer break starts and come up with revised characters and a story that explains their personalities, relationships and history.

March 2010

[3rd Year] 4th Year Idea?

2010-03-23T03:50:00.006-04:00

Right now, it's about one mischievous Dokebi saving the village from a disease devil.

I don't like it.

So I'll probably rip this idea into pieces and come up with completely new idea over the summer.

*gasp*

I was having fun drawing faces based on "tal", which is traditional korean masks. They look like this.

It seems like I'm going backwards while everyone else is moving forward. Conclusion: I need to drive myself more crazy.

March 2010

[3rd Year] Music Leica

2010-03-21T15:23:00.007-04:00

Quick 1-minute storyboard leica matched with music. Done for Music and Culture class.

I was trying to get used to digital storyboarding.

March 2010

[3rd Year] Action Analysis - Clean

2010-01-25T22:30:00.004-05:00

Almost done... I need to fix the end poses and inbetween the tiger... and then scan/color/composite... so slow...

This one is just the character. As you can see, the ending is a bit iffy =_= I need to have that 'bomp bomp bomp' with the body and the club.

January 2010

Updated Online Portfolio

2010-01-19T16:56:00.002-05:00

January 2010

[3rd Year] 3D Thinking Character

2009-12-22T17:42:00.001-05:00

Bones from Star Trek! <3

December 2009

[3rd Year] Action Analysis - Current Color Problem

2009-12-22T17:16:00.004-05:00

Flipbook decided not to accept my colored frames in the last minute. This is how it looked like. I was about to commit suicide.

I like my colored frames! I need my colored frames back!!! ;_______;

December 2009

[3rd Year] Action Analysis - Clean Keys with little In-betweens / Clean FX

2009-12-22T17:03:00.003-05:00

I just got an email from the school saying that I can't use the lab until the school starts. I'm like @!^$(#*^$)(*&*$##^$$#((#@&^&*#*&@()^#!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How are the 3rd years suppose to work on their coop portfolio and demo reel if the lab is down?!!?

I sent an angry email to the tech guys and hopefully they will listen but until then I'm like 'ha...ha...ha... I'm doomed... I was planning to finish my Action Analysis during winter... OTL

Anyhow, here is where I am right now. Keys cleaned with little inbetweens. A little jitter here and there.

And clean FX

December 2009

[3rd Year] Action Analysis - Final Character

2009-12-15T22:09:00.001-05:00

Final Character Design. Shadow will be added on the animation.

I think I like my characters :)

December 2009

[3rd Year] Action Analysis - Final Layout Painting

2009-12-15T22:03:00.003-05:00

The original plan was to do the final painting in Watercolor but I ran out of time. So here is the plan B version done with my poor CG skill...

1. Color Thumbnail

2. Color Key

3. Final

4. Final with Characters

December 2009

[3rd Year] Action Analysis - Animation Rough 2

2009-12-15T21:54:00.002-05:00

Final rough animation! God, it was so difficult.

Just need to be cleaned up, inbetweened, scanned, colored, composited within 3 days and I'm DONE!

This is the 'poof' test for FX and secondary character

December 2009

[3rd Year] Life Drawing #5

2009-12-10T22:16:00.003-05:00

Last life drawings for 2009

December 2009

[3rd Year] Group Film Project - Designs and Storyboards

2009-12-04T00:47:00.007-05:00

DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUMP of stuffs from Group Film Project!

Color concepts. Have to say, I'm not really good with colors. And I avoid CG because it takes a long time since I suck at it.

I don't know why but traditional watercolor soothes me... it's like a warm cup of hot chocolate.

Color study for our character

Character's costume breakdown. I like to do little petty useless things.

Character designs

My portion of rough storyboards. These are from take #2.

These are from take #1.

We're still working on the story... uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh why is simplicity soooooooooooooooo hard to achieve -_-

October - December 2009

[3rd Year] 24... hours...

2009-12-04T00:30:00.007-05:00

Let me explain myself here. *Ehem*

The Amazing Ashlyn (I love you, Ashyleen) organized 24 hours film event in the beginning of reading week. I signed up for it and I'm telling you, I was EAGER back then. But you know what's gonna happen right before reading week. Assignments, assignments, assignments... And you lack sleep, nutrition, brain cells, sanity and just about everything. I was seriously lacking the 2nd attribute: nutrition. I tend to not eat when I'm busy because I get really really sleepy after I eat so I say to myself that I would sleep for just 15 minutes but that 15 minutes would become 30 minutes and that 30 minutes would become an hour and so on. It's like the never ending nightmare. On the day of the event, I was good up till the storyboarding. I actually planned everything and I even finished the layout. Only thing left was animation. But my lack of nutrition and lack of animation experience drained all of my soul out from my body and I suffered, suffered, suffered. So I went home. It was just past the 6 hours from the starting point. So there you go.

In other words, I FAILED MISERABLY.

...actually, I'm planning to continue this after the semester is done. Until then, this is all that I can show right now.

October 2009

[3rd Year] Action Analysis - Animation Rough

2009-12-04T00:21:00.003-05:00

1st round of rough animation. I don't like the hit action. And I also thought my dokebi didn't have a strong character

2nd round. I've done only half due to my stupid perfectionism... and I haven't been animating for a very long time so my hands are very VERY rusty =_=

I added some action in the beginning and I think it's a bit better than the 1st round.

November 2009

[3rd Year] Action Analysis - Animation Pose Test

2009-12-04T00:19:00.002-05:00

Rough pose test

Pose test

Pose test fixed by DQ

November 2009

[3rd Year] Action Analysis - Layout

2009-12-04T00:09:00.003-05:00

References for my background

Rough

Clean Final

November 2009

[3rd Year] Action Analysis - Leica (OLD)

2009-12-04T00:00:00.002-05:00

The previous version of the Action Analysis. I changed the beginning in the newer version to make the characters more active :)

My drawings changed alot from old version to the new one. It's strange.... this change was made in just what, less than a month? Weeeeeeeird...

October 2009

[3rd Year] Action Analysis - Leica (FINAL)

2009-11-29T13:23:00.003-05:00

This is the 2nd version (and probably the final version) of the Action Analysis Leica.

November 2009

[3rd Year] :S

2009-11-19T04:34:00.002-05:00

Coming Soon?

(in 3 weeks -_-;)

[3rd Year] Royal Winter Fair

2009-11-19T04:04:00.005-05:00

Mmmmmmmmmm... Goat cheese is reeeeeeally goooooooood :P

November 2009

[3rd Year] Group Film Project - Concept Arts

2009-10-17T01:13:00.004-04:00

So I am finally participating in the infamous 3rd year group project, where everyone is expected to hate their own idea and hate other people or the entire human race. (Yes, humans are disgusting D:)

I heard of all the pain and frustration that the previous 3rd years went through and I said to myself that I would be better, I would be more professional. I was so confident in the beginning of the year that my group will make an amazing film and we will never ever hate each other.

As several weeks passed by, I found out that I was seriously WRONG. Not only I faced clashing problem with other people but I never thought I would become the person who doesn't appreciate the idea that the group voted for and doesn't get inspired to do the work. I struggled to get my mind working before but now its easier to deal with.

Our group went through lots of problems with the story. Everyone was confused, frustrated and tired. Now, we have settled down with a general flow of the story. But we still need to tighten it up. We are still not 100% sure what's happening in the story. It will be well after Reading Week that we will be fully convinced.

Until then, I will just let you enjoy the drawings without any explanation.

Our old story consisted of a monster. For these designs, I referenced 'Where the Wild Things Are'.

October 2009

[3rd Year] Zoo Drawings

2009-10-17T01:01:00.004-04:00

Zoo drawings. Self-explanatory :)

October 2009

[3rd Year] Action Analysis - Concept Arts

2009-10-17T00:46:00.003-04:00

This is the general colour and tone that I want to go with for my Action Analysis. It takes place inside a forest with old, jagged pine trees and bamboos. Generally green-blue-ish. But I still want to explore different colours...

Colour test for my tiger :S

Colour test for my dokebi character :S I don't want him to have the general skin colour.

Generally speaking, Dokebis are human-like creatures that have red flesh, lots of hair on their body and two horns on their messy hair. They are tall and strong but they also love to eat, drink and be lazy. They are known to be nasty tricksters that love to pull jokes out from everyone, even from the king. They also love to wrestle.

I'm still working on character colors...

October 2009

[3rd Year] Life Drawing #4

2009-10-17T00:35:00.003-04:00

It's surprising how life drawing became therapatic instead of being stressful for me. I'm really enjoying simplifying the shapes, adding characteristics and exploring different colours XD

First costume model of the year :)

These are from today. I wanted to play around with the shapes abit.

October 2009

[3rd Year] Life Drawing #3

2009-10-17T00:30:00.004-04:00

I'm feeling more confident and bold with watercolour now :D

Long poses, 10-15 min

Short poses, 1-3 min

October 2009

[3rd Year] Life Drawing #2

2009-10-17T00:20:00.004-04:00

Watercolour is definitely getting better...

Short poses, 30 sec to 2-3 min

Long poses, 5 - 10 min

October 2009

[3rd Year] Life Drawing #1

2009-10-16T21:27:00.004-04:00

For 3rd year life drawing, I decided to explore with watercolour :) These works are done during the earlier weeks of school.

You can see that I didn't have a good control of the medium back then.

People sketches

September 2009

[3rd Year] Action Analysis - Rough Character

2009-10-03T00:12:00.005-04:00

My action analysis is a 30 second story with 5 second rendered animation in the middle.

My story kind of got drifted from the original one that I thought of since I needed to satisfy the assignment requirements. It's now a bit... cruel in some sense. The story is about two dokebis playing around with their magic clubs, hitting and transforming things. They're going to hit a rabbit in one point and is going to turn into a tiger. The tiger shoots the dokebi away with its roar.

I'll probably go through colour test on these guys soon :)

September 2009

Sketches #24

2009-09-30T01:17:00.006-04:00

3rd year started... I'm stressed... My group is stressed... Everybody is stressed. I never knew group work would be this hard ;_; It's mentally and psychologically demanding

Anyhow, for my animation class I need to do a 30 second action analysis with 5 second fully rendered animation. And I thought I could give my 4th year idea a trial run through this assignment. It's going to be based on a korean folktale and it will definitely have a big, stupid tiger since tiger played a significant role in old koreans' lives.

Playing around with tiger...

The action analysis will be about a baby 'dokebi' (korean goblin/trickster) who tries to uses his magic club to summon delicious food just like other 'doklebis', but keeps on failing and summons weird things. Eventually he gets frustrated and in the end, he summons a big tiger.

Some dokebi concepts...

The dokebi used to be a lumberjack in my earlier story but the story was too confusing so I changed it...

And things that I drew during boring lectures :)

Earlier dropped concept about lumberjack and tiger.

September 2009

Sketch #23

2009-09-09T17:31:00.007-04:00

concept junks that I always draw whenever I'm bored, for my so-called future project haha;

I don't think people will understand these drawings and they don't really need to know... at least not for now since nothing's ready for public viewing yet ^^;

Well, I drew most of these in the bus, subway and before I go to sleep. Drawing is like a sleeping pill to me. I mean, I used to draw every night on the bed, right before I go to sleep when I was in middle school and highschool :)

Interesting man found in the subway

SHINEE! One in the left is Tae-min and the right is Min-ho!

I grew a habit of drawing on lined notebooks during the summer... I found my doodles not worthy of living on a clean, blank paper *sigh*

oh man, I really want to draw children's picture books...

July-August 2009

Summer 2009 Zoo #3

2009-09-09T17:26:00.005-04:00

The last trip to the zoo was... not that great. The sun was just too horrible. It was fatal. I ended up drawing half animal half people :(

yeah kid, you look so cool with those glasses on, yo

Well, this concludes the summer zoo trip drawings!

Summer 2009 Zoo #2

2009-09-09T17:14:00.007-04:00

Third trip!

omg these guys looked so edible... sizzling under the hot sun....

To be continued again

Summer 2009 Zoo #1

2009-09-09T16:54:00.009-04:00

Well, I went to zoo to the point that I got sick of the animals (I get sick of things quite easily so you get my point) I still went more than 5 times! (Half of the time I couldn't draw because of the heat torture) This was the second trip, I think...

Anyhow, here are some camels...

... and some dholes

... and some snow leopards and monkeys (I still like that leopard's face in the middle and I still don't know why)

... and some owls

... and some more dholes

... and some gaurs

...and some rarely-seen cheetahs and emus

... and some more gaurs (yaiiiiii big mass!)

... and some tapirs

... plus some weird bird

... and some red pandas

... and some more cheetahs

... and some antelope, I think

... and some tree kangaroos and prairie dogs (too cute to draw ugh)

... and some more owls

... and some hippos

... and some wallabies

... and emus watercoloured!

To be continued

Summer 2009 Part 3

2009-09-08T20:48:00.007-04:00

Well, summer is already gone and the deadly 3rd year began...

But now I have a better scanner so here are some of the things that I did over the summer...

Last dump of watercolours!

And these two are my so-called 'Final Works'... First one is huge, like 18 X 24 inches and the second one is smaller than letter size paper. Overall, I did improve, at least more confident and comfortable with the medium. I can have fun with watercolour now! :D

Sketch dumps!

My own depiction of my own look after permed hair =w=

I was one of the few tall female students in the dojo, and being tall in Aikido isn't fun... Not very fun at all...

Caf sketch with watercolour! Is... improving... slowly

Zoo drawings are next!

While my mom gets a hairdo...

2009-07-24T22:55:00.002-04:00

July 2009

Summer 2009 Part 2

2009-07-14T02:02:00.011-04:00

Another post! Now I'm slowly getting back to drawing 'regularly'... wait, I think I have to draw 'everyday' haha OTL
Right now, I'm in love with this J-pop singer called JAY'ED. He has a very nice, soft voice~

I watched Star Trek few days ago. Despite my fear of Sci-Fi, I managed and it was actually really good! I mean, it's rare for me to actually understand what's going on in the movie -_- The plot was simple but most of all, the actors were the best! I like all the characters in that movie!!!

Even the bad guy Nero is cool >_<

Bones chasing Kirk with a needle

Celebrating Kirk's capture of captain's seat

Kirk and Spock

Some simple arm studies...

And more watercolor studies! The one below is actually older than the upper one. All are about 2 hours long.

Went to the zoo recently, didn't really have a good day =_=

Summer 2009 Part 1

2009-07-06T02:35:00.008-04:00

It's July already... and what have I done for 2 months? NOTHING!!

!
Some pictures from my aikido class... aikido is fun~ it's not stressful like kendo since aikido doesn't have competition. the only competition is with yourself. (front roll grrrrr)

I'm taking a bit of watercolour class with my old korean art teacher...

first time learning watercolour! they all look noobish but i had fun with it...

Some outside sketches...

Don't laugh, but i didn't know that when i use salt, oil, aluminum foil etc, it creates cool effects on watercolour! (what am i, an elementary student?!? OTL)

flower~ i don't like flowers =_=

So there you go, that was the summary of my May and June... *sigh*

[2nd Year] Demo Reel of 2008-2009

2009-06-10T23:40:00.004-04:00

It will be updated as I animate some more during summer... hopefully (can't believe it's already half way through June!)

Demo Reel Breakdown

Animation

1. Walk and Run (November 2008) - 2nd Year Animaton Project / Softwares Used: Animation paper, Pencil, Flipbook 5.0 / Tasks: Animation and Character Design
2. Human Lipsynch (Febuary 2009) - 2nd Year Animaton Project / Softwares Used: Animation paper, Pencil, Flipbook 5.0 / Tasks: Animation and Character Design
3. Beak Lipsynch (April 2009) - 2nd Year School Project / Softwares Used: Animation paper, Pencil, Flipbook 5.0 / Tasks: Animation and Character Design
4. Part of Expression Change (December 2008) - 2nd Year Animaton Project / Softwares Used: Animation paper, Pencil, Flipbook 5.0 / Tasks: Animation and Character Design
5. Floursack (April 2008) - 1st Year Animaton Project/ Softwares Used: Animation paper, Pencil, Flipbook 5.0 / Tasks: Animation and Character Design
6. Animal Walk (March 2008) - 1stYear Animaton Project / Softwares Used: Animation paper, Pencil, Flipbook 5.0 / Tasks: Animation and Character Design

Character Design

1. Character in Sequence (April 2009) - 2nd Year Character Design Project / Softwares Used: Animation paper, pencil, Photoshop CS3 / Tasks: Character Design
2. Four Character Archetypes: Hero, Love Interest, Comic Relief, Villain (March 2009) - 2nd Year Character Design Project / Softwares Used: Animation paper, pencil, Photoshop CS3 / Tasks: Character Design
3. TV Storyboard Character Line-up: Villain, Hero, Comic Relief, Love interest (March 2009) - 2nd Year Storyboard Project / Softwares Used: Animation paper, pencil, Photoshop CS3 / Tasks: Character Design
4, Storyboard Colour Key (October 2008) - 2nd Year Storyboard Project / Softwares Used: Animation paper, pencil, Photoshop CS / Tasks: Character Design and Colour Setup
5. Walk and Run Character Design (November 2008) - 2nd Year Character Design Project / Softwares Used: Animation paper, pencil, Photoshop CS3 / Tasks: Character Design
6. Takkyeon Boy (October 2008) - Personal Development / Softwares Used: Pencil / Tasks: Character Design

[2nd Year] Painting #4 - Final Layout Painting

2009-05-03T22:35:00.005-04:00

Bright, happy day in a normal Medieval town that's going to be completely destroyed by the dragons

^ With characters

April 2009

Sketch #22

2009-04-27T02:33:00.002-04:00

2nd year is officially done! After about 2 weeks of sleep-deprivation and mal-nutrition, I guess I would look just like this right now. (Hyein's depiction of me)

Anyhow, some random sketches that I've done for the last week.

^ Slow down! I'm scared!

^ I want to enjoy the warm sunlight on the rooftop too... (not bare-chested though)

^ Poor guy. I guess you're the victim this time.

I take an eye out from one of my own characters occasionally. I would like them to go through lots of pains... am I quite sadistic? =_=

April 2009

[2nd Year] Painting #3 - Colour Keys

2009-04-27T02:17:00.006-04:00

Quick colour keys for TV boards. Characters are there to make sure that the background colour match the style of the character.

^ with Character

^ with Character

April 2009

[2nd Year] Layout #2 - Total Layout Package

2009-04-27T01:52:00.011-04:00

1) Concept arts and Research sketches

2) Prop Designs

3) Location Designs

4) Thumbnail and Workbook sketches

5) Final Layouts

^Diagonal Pan

^ Horizontal Pan

^ Truck Out

Obviously, as you can see, I'm not interested in layouts nor background painting. Not at all...

I'm more of a... concept crew

April 2009

[2nd Year] Storyboard Assignment #6 - TV Boards Beat Boards

2009-04-27T01:24:00.007-04:00

This assignment's purpose was to create clean TV-style boards with one particular sequence in the story.

The story is about 2 dragons fighting each other to see who's the better dragon: who destroyed more towns, who can breath fire further, who ate more knights and who has prettier princess etc...

The hero is the fat dragon who always gets provoked by the sly villain dragon. The comic relief is the stupid knight who tries to kill the dragon and save the day but always gets kicked around by the dragons. The loved one is just random princess

I was actually thinking of my story being shown in TV as one of those afterschool cartoon episodes. It was fun... imagining...

^ Conflict: I'm better than you
Two dragons are arguing in the middle of the town square.

^ Resolution #1: Yes, you are.
Villain captures more knight than the hero.

^ Resolution #2: Third person wins.

The dragons destroy each other and the comic relief knight accidently becomes the hero who saves the town from total destruction, as well as the princess.

April 2009

[2nd Year] Animation Project #8 - Beak Lip-Synch

2009-04-22T16:48:00.006-04:00

Last animation of 2nd year! Animated in 2 days =_=

Audio is from Russell Peter's comedy show. I'm sure everyone's familiar with it.

(The synch seems a bit off on the blog. The picture moves faster than the audio. I don't know why. The original .avi is perfectly synched though...)

April 2009

2009 Summer Plan

2009-04-17T19:54:00.004-04:00

Well, it's that time of the year where I plan all sorts of things for the summer and then figure out a month later that I can't manage to do most of the resolutions.

One thing for sure is that I'm not doing intern this summer! Hurray! I'm just gonna do things that I want to do this summer! It's all for me!!!

1. Aikido, Kyudo, Kendo, and Fitness Club to lose some extra pounds

2. Part time job

3. Zoo/Caf sketches

4. Life drawing (Thursday-Costume, Sunday-Variety)

5. Animation studies

6. CG Practices (Art blog with friends!)

7. Web comic?

Sketches #21

2009-04-15T04:32:00.018-04:00

Well, I now have less than a week and a half left till the end of the school. Until then, I have shitloads of things to do! And this is how I feel!

Anyhow, these days, me and my fellows were 'enjoying' drawing and trading a LOT of BL pictures with each other...

(if you have anything against BL a.k.a. Boy's Love, please just NOT LOOK at these, OK? I warned ya!)

^ He's just sick, please. Nothing dirty is going on...

But then after few weeks, I went 'what the heck! I want normal relationship pictures too!'

(now, you may look)

And some random fighter. Random.. really just random...

April 2009

[2nd Year] Life Drawing Final Portfolio

2009-04-15T04:09:00.005-04:00

Final Portfolio for 2nd year!

Here's the story:

Until the beginning of the 2nd semester, I was extremely stressed with life drawing. I couldn't analyze the figure nor simplify it until at one point, I decided that I should care less about life drawing. From then, I began to see life drawing as an exercise and tried to link it more with character design. As a result, I'm quite satisfied with what I got this time. Although my tonal and drapery needs more careful work and attention, I think I'm beginning to see the figure in simplified shapes.

Hey, I have the whole summer for improvement!

^ Nudes and Costumes

^ Anthromorphs

* I just noticed that my life drawing pads are colourful~

April 2009

[2nd Year] Animation Project #7 - Muzzle Lip-Synch

2009-04-07T21:50:00.005-04:00

Lip-Synch with muzzle character

I wonder how many people can feel the pain that's engraved in this animation. I've been dragging this animation for too long.

I'm not very proud of this one. Nothing's special about this one. I only like how the bear says 'I could crush you' but nothing else. I should have more force when they're crushing together and especially when the bear pushes. It should have waaaay more force and better timing but I burned myself out.

I'll probably re-do this assignment. I'm gonna practice more lip-synch this summer anyways.

That's why I don't want to do inteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeern... *sobs*

April 2009

[2nd Year] Character Design #6 - Sequence

2009-04-06T02:21:00.005-04:00

6 sequential drawings when the character (previously designed) sneaks and does something that he/she is not supposed to do, shows glee but gets caught by an onlooker and feels guilty at the end.

Read from Left to Right: upper left -> lower middle -> upper right (in case of confusion).

Wow... I just wandered around few of sheridan people's blogs and man... I feel so... BAD! *goes to the corner and cries*

I guess I'm the only one who feels very unmotivated right now... Really, I don't feel like animating! I feel like going outside and playing with soccer ball! Or sleeping.

Maybe I'm not born to animate everyday like some people *sighs*

Hopefully, the summer can help me renew my passion. I'm looking forward to this summer but I'm also extremely unsecure at the same time. It feels like everyone is getting an intern, everyone is creating great demo reel and here am I, writing useless shits in my blog. (Actually, I don't want to write my essay right now) It feels like I'm being chased.

I'm trying to calm my self down, saying to myself that I'm just a second year right now (going to third year, yeah that helps alot) and I will get better as I live on but damn this competitive mind. Someday I'll die because of this perfectionism.

April 2009

Old #4

2009-04-03T23:24:00.008-04:00

Just for fun!

I was browsing through my old stuffs from Highschool and look what I found! Grade 11 English project! I think it was targeted for junior grade kids and it's supposed to teach them the origin of English language or something...

Anyways, I think I did it in photoshop with mouse. This is really amusing. Haha...

[2nd Year] Painting #1 - Exterior

2009-03-31T21:55:00.004-04:00

This was done in the beginning of the 2nd year. I just didn't get a chance to scan these until now (but it's not like I have so much time right now ...)

Anyhow, an exterior project. Starting with 3 grayscale studies.

Since I find myself lacking in colour, I did mini colour studies with colour pencils before I actually do colour keys with gouache so I can test with various colours without worrying about making mistakes.

2 Colour keys.

Final

October 2008

[2nd Year] Storyboard Assignment #4 - Sequential Leica with Pre-recorded Song

2009-03-31T21:29:00.008-04:00

The class was divided into two groups and each of us had to do one section of the song. All had to flow well from one section to another without any timing problem or any major change in the design.

I did the first sequence. You'll notice the style change when the sequence changes.

Febuary 2009

[2nd Year] Storyboard Assignment #5 - TV Boards Character Design

2009-03-26T11:27:00.004-04:00

Story about two dragons during Medieval Times, competing each other.
Boards soon to be posted.

March 2009

Sketches #20

2009-03-19T02:34:00.007-04:00

I'm just drawing what I want to draw. I'm just drawing... drawing... drawing...

(...and watching Romeo's Blue Skies)

^ This one is from last summer. A Korean Warrior

^ Natsume Yuujinchou fanart!

^ Topless guys are back in the menu!

^ Can't wait till Kyudo workshop this summer!

^ I want to do Longbow archery too, but it's too expensive...

^ Other option for previous character design theme was Victorian. I was doing light sketches based on what I saw when I peeked over my friend's drawing.

^ Storyboard characters! This time, I'm going to upload the uncut version of the entire sequence boards up on the blog since I'm actually having fun with this idea. I need to cut the length of the sequence because the assignment requires maximum of 40 boards and I'm pretty sure that I'm going to go way over.

March 2009

[2nd Year] Character Design #4- Muzzle and Beak

2009-03-12T03:18:00.005-04:00

These... are my infamous (well, at least for me) animal characters with muzzle and beak. Not only did I get a bad mark (a.k.a the asian fail) for this assignment, somehow I couldn't come out with good enough ideas. Still don't know why. It will remain as one of my life's mysteries forever.

Just to not confuse you, this assignment was done before the 4 character designs.

Well, at least now I know where I want to go. I really want to concentrate on character design. And I guess animation and storyboard. Those three things are the subjects that I really enjoy and I wouldn't mind doing them for my life.

Febuary 2009

[2nd Year] Character Design #9 - 4 Different Character Archetypes (Sketches II)

2009-03-12T03:02:00.007-04:00

I found some more character design sketches so I decided to post them up.

^ The usual thought process in my head

^ One of the early sketches of Matt: lean, built, well-fed, full of justice and amazingly stereotypical.

^ The early line-up

^ The later line-up. Now when I look at it, nothing big changed in my designs. I can see that I played around with some of the body shapes but still. I guess I was pretty confident with my instinct this time haha.

March 2009

[2nd Year] Character Design #5- 4 Different Character Archetypes (Sketches)

2009-03-07T03:25:00.012-05:00

These are some of the studies and sketches I've done before finalizing the designs.

Well, to tell the truth I really didn't need that much research for this assignment. I mean, when I saw 'Medieval Times', I was like "FINALLY! MY WORLD HAS COME!"...

I was seriously obsessed with Medieval times for about 3 years. And you know what that means. I still have the references with me. They are about a phonebook thick haha.

Expression sketches. I used some of them in the final pages.

^ This guy is an extra that I just came out for fun. King Richard the Lionheart! Brave, passionate, wild and justful but a bit dirty?

Now, costume studies done from books and photos.

Other early sketches

^ Almost finalized Guilden

^ Finalizing Matt

^ The earliest Matt. Looks too weird!

^ Early Matt and Guilden

^ Early Matt and Guilden 2

^ Early Ahmud. A bit older than final one.

^ Just coming up with various situations. You can actually see one of my character's death here.

^ Early Guilden

^ Early evil merchant

^ Early Guilden 2. He uses a wooden stick instead of a longbow in the final design.

^ Quite finalized merchant

^ Almost finalized merchant. Just needed to make him more 'square'.

^ Merchant's knight bodyguards. I like that design with eyes only showing underneath a dark helmet.

^ Finalized Guilden

March 2009

[2nd Year] Character Design #5- 4 Different Character Archetypes

2009-03-07T03:06:00.018-05:00

My chosen theme is Medieval Times, specifically about Children's Crusades. And the characters we had to create were the hero, the one that hero loves (it doesn't always have to be the 'love' interest, it can be a pet, a family member, a friend etc), the villain and the comic relief.

My background story is very gloomy, unlike my happy-looking designs. Most of the characters die... I'm telling you. It's because of all the stress and extremely low self-esteem that I was going through when I was coming up with the story. If anybody wants to know the entire story, maybe I'll post it up with some idea sketches later on. Now when I think about it, I might use this story for a web comic this summer.

Anyhow, end of the gloominess. I like how the colour came out to be. I think my colour sense improved a bit... a little, tiny bit...

^ Size relationship with short descriptions

^ The Hero: Matthew

^ The loved One: Ahmud

^ The Villain: William the Pig

^ The Comic Relief: Guilden

March 2009

[2nd Year] Animation Project #6 - Human Lip-Synch

2009-02-27T05:50:00.006-05:00

This one is actually my 2nd one. The one I had was completely different and it was longer, but I didn't like it. And that was 4 days before the due date. So this newer one is done in what, 3 days? Well, it came out pretty good, better than the last one so I'm happy. Omg I really hate my last one, I don't want to show it to anyone. It's too shameful to watch.

Febuary 2008

Sketches #19

2009-02-04T00:15:00.007-05:00

Wow. More than a month of no sketch uploads! Forgive me, I'm really low in ideas theses days and I get caught up with the heavy school work load.

Anyhow, I begin with my favourite hobby: drawing bare-chest guys. *gasps*
But I can't help it! Especially after the muscle test!

And the one below is the clean-up version? Haha, I really got nothing to do... *sigh*

And now, something entirely different. Character idea for the next animation assignment: Human lip-synch! This character is a charicaturized character of a person that I know from last year, although this image is from my memory. Would anybody guess who it is?

Tip: You can find his name in my Sheridanians links (although he took his own photo down so you won't see his real face...).

This picture is the most accurate one... Me thinks

Febuary 2009

[2nd Year] Animation Project #5- Mouth-Synch

2009-01-31T12:02:00.005-05:00

Mouth-only Lipsynch. The soundtrack is from the movie Juno (which I have never watched)

January 2009

Personal #10 - 2009 New Year's Resolutions

2008-12-31T23:19:00.011-05:00

Oops, it's now 2009. And I really don't feel anything different, except for the fact that I'm 'eating' another year and have officially entered my 20's. *screams*

Anyhow, I looked back at my 2008 New Year's Resolutions and came up with one sentece to wrap up the year 2008: "I was young and my blood was boiling -_-" I mean, how can I even dare to go to the zoo every month? And me losing 10 pounds? It was hard enough for me even to maintain the current weight for a year! When I look at the resolutions right now, I didn't even achieve half of my resolutions. FAIL.
But then again, I guess it means I became more realistic as the year went by.

Here are my so-called "realistic" New Year's Resolutions for 2009. I don't know how realistic these are going to be. har har har.

School:
1. Focus on Animation and Character Design
2. Improve on CG and Painting
3. Life Drawing 3-5 times a week
4. Caf Sketches everyday
5. Read for 20 minutes everyday (Except for art books and my toilet-reading time)

Health:
1. Exercise at least twice a week, an hour each
2. Lose 10 pounds/4 inches (Long-term)

Other:
1. Europe trip in Summer (Or Quebec for tight-budget)
2. Intern and Part-time during Summer
3. Work in an authentic bakery (I know it's odd but it's one of my to-do-at-least-once-in-my-life)
4. Learn Aikido and continue Kendo during Summer in JCCC
5. Start web-toon!

I was thinking, since my school life was strictly limited from studio-class-home I was lacking certain depth to my life. It's not like I need to get philosophical or psychological about my life. I don't need more complication in my life. I just thought there are other things to improve on than just animation such as relationships with other people, leadership skills and so on. It's like I'm missing one vital piece that will make my life more active. Maybe I'll need to make a hobby that can be done while doing all that school work.

Well, here's the thing. I wish there was a Kendo Dojo or any kind of martial arts Dojo nearby in Oakville with cheap fee so I can shed(?) some sweat once a while but then again there are no 'cheap' things for college student with OSAP loans and Oakville just had to be a big, crappy country-side that forces you to be stuck in one place forever unless you have a car and enough money to pay for the parking and fuel. (Try saying this single sentence in one breath)

Why not go to the school fitness facility that is 'free' for me? I hate running, especially when you're looking at your reflected fats jiggling everytime you run in the mirror. And the people who work out there somehow scares me. Don't ask me why. I don't even know for myself either. I don't know why and how the whole topic changed from being 20 years old to 2009 resolutions to fats jiggling in school fitness center.

Anyhow, to anyone (hopefully someone who checks out this blog somehow) who has successfully read this entire post, I congratulate you and thank you for reading my crap-ticious jibberish and have a happy new year!

P.S. To those who are waiting for my drawings (like who would) I reveal the truth for you. I went to Quebec trip with my family, wasted the whole day walking around getting lost, tried to draw the next day but it snowed and the paper got wet and my hands froze so I spent the rest of the days shopping for $9.99 clothes, and I got pissed off at my family members too many times during the trip so I just couldn't draw.

Alright, I admit. I just didn't feel like drawing and I still don't. But I'm pretty sure it will come back. It will... soon...

^ Here is the proof that I went to Quebec

Omg. I just figured out that posting this long thing when there are so few people actually 'reading' my post, it feels like I'm talking to myself. *sobs*

Personal #9 - For 2009...

2008-12-16T19:09:00.003-05:00

(From 'Lovely Complex' manga series)

[2nd Year] Animation Project #4- Expression Change

2008-12-13T16:41:00.004-05:00

Yeah, I liked doing this animation...

But not as much as the Walk and Run...

December 2008

[2nd Year] Storyboard Assignment #3 - "Too Poor 4 Noodles" Leica Reel

2008-11-27T22:52:00.005-05:00

These are my final boards, incorporated with background music and sound effects to the animation beats.

There are two versions: first one is the one that I did first and the second one is the revised version with different music for the 2nd part.

It's so cool when music matches your animation!

December 2008

Sketches #18

2008-11-26T02:33:00.004-05:00

Some of the better drawings from my cafe sketchbook.

From oldest to most recent.

To 2nd years: Some familiar faces, eh?

November 2008

[2nd Year] Character Design #3- Caricature Expression

2008-11-26T02:25:00.005-05:00

This assignment was to use a female and a male from one of the cafe drawings and draw them in 4 different caricatured expressions.

^ This person is in our year and his name was 'Sean', I guess? I liked his beard and his hair so I decided to do a caricature of him (I didn't show this to him yet...)

^ Sadly, the female character is just a random woman that I drew in the school cafeteria
^ Original caf drawing to the caricature

November 2008

[2nd Year] Painting #2 - Interior

2008-11-21T08:31:00.005-05:00

Interior of a dungeon

The original colour is not like this. The scanner at Sheridan killed the vibrant color. The color looks DEAD after the scanning.

^ Final

^ Color keys

November 2008

[2nd Year] Digital #4 - Storyboard Color Key

2008-11-21T08:30:00.002-05:00

From the final boards... soon to be scanned and posted... soon...

November 2008

[2nd Year] Animation Project #3 - Walk and Run

2008-11-21T08:20:00.005-05:00

Walk and Run cycles of two different characters and their interaction. The first walk (more like a sneak) is really long so you might have to wait a while (15 seconds!!!) until some change in staging.

I was mainly experimenting with smear drawings in this assignment and it was fun! I am quite proud of this animation... devoted almost 3 full weeks (but I skipped so many extra life drawings... how shameful)

I'm going to add one more scene at the last and maybe animate more actions for the girls for my final demo reel... I'll post the newer version as soon as it is finished.

This one is with background music. (I didn't do this because I had so much time in my hand. It was a sound project)

By the way, am I still the only one who regularly updates their own blog?

November 2008

The Chestnut Tree by Hyun-Min Lee

2008-10-28T02:45:00.002-04:00

OMG I have a new god to worship now...

[2nd Year] Life Drawing - So far...

2008-10-27T23:10:00.006-04:00

These photos are taken with my cellphone so overall quality is not the best...

^1 min

^2 min

^3 min

^5 min

^ 5 min

...

Omg I suck
I'm so discouraged by my own drawings OTL

I don't want to go to life drawing...

Where did my 'groove' go? *sniffs* Last time I experienced the 'groove' was in 1st year 1st semester! *gasps*

But I'm beginning to like costumes!

I guess I don't want to draw naked human beings anymore.

October 2008

Storyboard Assignment #7 - "Too Poor 4 Noodles" Beat Boards

2008-10-27T22:42:00.004-04:00

Started with a theme: "I WANT THAT"

Can you guess what's going on?

^ Character design

October 2008

[2nd Year] Character Design #2- Contrasting Characters

2008-10-27T22:38:00.007-04:00

To design two characters that contrast each other physically and mentally(?) for Walk and Run Animation Assignment

October 2008

[2nd Year] Animation Project #2 - Weight Lift and Toss

2008-10-17T02:51:00.003-04:00

More like a throw, not toss...

October 2008

[2nd Year] Layout #1 - Interior

2008-10-15T06:26:00.004-04:00

Interior of a Dungeon, soon to be painted

People say that my layout is so gloomy and scary... I don't know why I came up with it...

October 2008

[2nd Year] Life Drawing - ROM animal drawing

2008-10-15T06:16:00.005-04:00

It's an armadillo... with broken legs ;;

^ 5 minutes

^ 50 minutes

^ Outline

^ Some muscles...

October 2008

Sketches #17

2008-10-15T06:10:00.004-04:00

Animation due this Friday = Non-sleep Death

^ Recycled paper sketchbook?!

^ Yes, I didn't draw 'anime' for a long LONG time...

^ Some new storyboard concept doodles

^ Our heroine: a poor, drugged (no) mouse

^ draw, draw, draw until you get it right...

October 2008

[2nd Year] Sound #1 - Floursack

2008-10-15T06:06:00.004-04:00

Floursack animation with sound!

October 2008

[2nd Year] Storyboard Assignment #2 - Final Boards

2008-10-06T21:45:00.008-04:00

Final boards for nursery rhyme... but I don't see any bits of original nursery rhyme anymore =_= it's a whole new story now

there is no dialogue... can you guess what's going on?

September 2008

[2nd Year] Character Design #1- Weight Lift and Toss

2008-10-06T21:43:00.003-04:00

Design a character for Weight lift and Toss animation project, do a rotation page and action page

September 2008

[2nd Year] Digital #3 - Storyboard Color Keys

2008-10-04T03:10:00.002-04:00

The final boards are coming... soon...

October 2008

Me!

2008-10-02T00:09:00.004-04:00

Done by Pete Emslie, my character design teacher!

September 2008

[2nd Year] Storyboard Assignment #1 - Beat Boards

2008-09-29T22:14:00.004-04:00

The assignment started with 2 nursery rhymes. We were supposed to come up with 4 boards that illustrates the main arc, and then expand them into beat boards. These are the beat boards.

For once, we have a good, no the best storyboard teacher! Nancy might be the only teacher that I really can learn to respect (somehow the sentence doesn't sound right, but you know what I mean). Talk about some imagination! I never thought I was imaginitive but compared to her, I really got a long long way to go... *sigh*

September 2008

Sketches #16

2008-09-29T00:01:00.004-04:00

When I'm falling asleep, I draw samurais *laughs*

September 2008

[2nd Year] Animation Project #1 - Wave, Boat, Floursack

2008-09-28T23:42:00.005-04:00

Just finished! First animation of 2nd year!

September 2008