18/02/2010 - Teru teru bozu

it's finals now, 4 or 5 more months to go

our group is now working on teru bozu for final, yes I'm one of the few responsible for concept art and the IP development, most of all I got a strong feeling I'm going to be helping with the modeling , texturing as well as rigging stage like alot.

this time is abit less pressure until we reach end of the pre production period, aih, pre production period is my favourite. anyway since we're a 4 person group might as well be able to produce something worthy. and now it's 4 30 am in the morning, jsut came back from gaming and yumcha with my high school buddy foo and younger brother veng soon, yea it's been awhile since some of the people from SS17 will sit down and yumha together, brings back alot of memories XD

I would be sleeping now but I decided to stay up till some concept art is done for teru world or I won't allow myself to rest, lol I leave the website and pitch for the rest of the day la. speaking of my website I had redesigned it twice because I didn't like the look, my web design skills always tells me it's the main menu that has the most impact and message other than my work(which is also crap).

the final now is still in early stage so, I have time to play aroudn with things and ideas, hopefulyl I can generate something tonight.

08/02/2010

hello, so it' already the new week, bloody hell! and cny is just this coming saturday, sigh anyway, what do I have to type about this week? it's simple, I was invited to rachel's church and karen's b'day, pretty awesome actually, been awhile or amybe sometime or maybe none at all toa ESPECially dg students have any outing like dis.

we meet with darren's sister and other former IL graduates, celebrated Karen's b'day and haha Karen's has darren's sense of humour XD. So we were at Pa Pa John's celebrating it and I decided to take out my phone and snap this photos to be put up in my blog, since I never relly update it at all, and showing how empty my life is haha.

from left, Rachel, er forgot her name and Karen

rachel, forgot her name O.O and Karen(the slighty cut of frame is Johnny Tai)

so what else is new? other than another new week, work to finish and datelines sigh, will need to plan well for my trip.

27/01/2010

I haven't wrote anythings for awhile so I tot I would bring up the new topics, this year's work is abit lighter but I later fell it will get hectic.

1.3d charate animation : walk cycle, with the norman rig, Iearned basic rigging on my own, going to work on personality walk pretty soon.
2.final project : still working on the story with my buddies and doing concept art for Food Feud an Teru Teru Bozu, dun ask me what that means.
3. Advanced compositing class with combustion, I just hate learning to use new software

been doing sps alot lately with randy, jonathan, yong taik and a few others, randy appoint me to sometimes start the sps sessions lol. other than that nothing new to write, oh yea hopfull can get to new zealand again to stay together with my family

27/12/09

it about 4 days before new years countdown and 2009 is passing by in the blink on an eye. I have not written anything for but I guess I can keep something down for record.

I celebrated christmas eve with my family on 25th december like I always do, ugh turning 26 next year, the sad thing about age is I get slower reflexes all the time.

manage to meet up with all ICLS friends before we parted again, some lecturers and tutors that taught me before, and then back to work lol.

this year I'm self studying the japanese language on my own because of lack of time, until I can sort that out I will remain self study, as for work well, I recently learned about Animation mentor where my lecturers have been getting their online lessons from some industry people overseas, mostly from U.S because yes, animation there is as popular, guess what they actually doing while the students wait for their lecturers to come out? haha

at home I keep artbooks like massive black(my favourite T____T) Terminator 4 Salvation, Star Wars revenge of the sith, vampire hunter D, expose and concep design books to learn more on what makes this art students before me so good at their jobs. I'm going to find more books that will teach me more, the one's I'm looking are 1)Starcraft 2(MUST SEE) 2)Diablo 3 3)Warcraft art book if the film is coming out.

revising my lessons in concept art 01 and take the lessons learn more in depth, I actually can handle traditional artwork better than technical suprisingly.

and the future plans for 2010 are in end of march are going to new zealand again to visit che for 3 weeks and enjoy myself again XD, work on finals and strenghthen my basics so I can push to advance level.

now the smallest part is, I have a few targets that will be my gf someday XD, yes that's for anyone who's still in touch with me reading this to find out XDXDXD

06/09/09

it's sunday evening and I'm alone at home again, mom's gone out for mahjong, I would not be so worried because I know she's happy and enjoying herself, and i would normallt go out with high school buddies and friends.

but for the 1st time after reading an email send to me about mother's, yes I know all the common things about loving our mothers, there's this one mail I read which hit me hard and it already made me feel lonely enough that someday I would focus on my life that I completely forget about one of the most important people in my life that is stil here to watch over me even if I'm an adult now who is still studying and still needs a parents support. I cannot help stop thinking about it after I read that mail.

I remember since I returned to my studies, I focussed and put much energy to studies I hardly spoke with mom at all, I would go back to her office after class, bring along my canvas paper and laptop and do work at her office, she would look over my shoulder and see what I was doing and avoided disturbing me, and I only get to talk to my mother once in awhile after long weeks of work.

she spends hours in the office playing those simulation games because she won't want to go home watching dvd's, and these days I often work on the home computer instead of going to her office to work and talk to her.

I would sometimes sit in front of her desk and talk away and she would listen and laugh at my conversations. the time when she says "wanna go away to cyberlodgeview this weekend?" when I still working in the industry, spend the few nights and day taking time off from work and more time with mom.

I would write this because being a good son or bad son from young till now, I am starting to understand that I will face the time that someday, mom won't be able to stay to watch over me, that I will have to stand on my own someday, that I live with regrets and I understand now that ever since dad passed away, she took her role to watch over me and che, and that sometimes I wished she would still be there and I can hug her.

I also wana say my mother has always been there for me, never even got angry with me and wanted me to stay strong. I wana appreciate every moment I spend with both her and che while she's still with us both and I hope that all my other friends and relatives, no matter where you are or how old you are or what you are, you have to understand that losing one parent is sad memory but someday loose the other is also sad.

I know this is common, but as children, we need to appreciate our parents much more

九月五日二千九年

　Class is starting next week on wednesday, I think I have time to warm up my animation skill again and prepare stuff for compositing class. At the moment, I am re doing my concept art, I feel that all the creations need alot of work, maybe too much work le.


also recentlygo into contact with one of Poly assests people from Tokyo, I was on the verge of excitement, had a conversation with him, his name is Atsushi Taniguchi, nice fellow. quite alot fo famous names work at Poly assests. makes me feel so small.


anyway, there's something I decided to do, for a change I think of posting up any artwork I created and work on in my blog also, I have no reason, but for 1 reason, all the more i want to teach myself something and go furtherm I want to be unique. other than that I have nothing to update XDXDXD


for now I will rework my current concept and post it up soon.

　

02/09/09

stayed up the night to watch jason chan's tuto about character design and to do some silhouttes, guess jason chan is the next person I am learning from. also recently discovered some amazing new things while digital painting, I wanna make progress.

I dun relly upload any artwork I created unless I think it's has value in it, mostly I upload are paitn practise and any personal exercise.