Crazy Flower Lady

Look what I found on one of the school computers today! It's the keys I did for Miyuki for my friends Emily Johnstone and Brian Kistler's film Bloom. It was animated in the winter and then finished over the summer of last year! It's been getting a lot of attention lately and receiving positive reviews and recognition.

So now this is the only footage I have from this project. I don't have anything from No Robots, a film a group of us did two summers ago.


If you haven't seen it already, please check it out!

Kids, Cats & Fats???

The Animal Shelter is like a free zoo that is closer and easier to get to.

2nd and a Half BFAnimation

Been working hard lately between projects: BFA, Tule Lake, Applied Materials, and so on and so forth... My BFA Animations have both taken very interesting turns, from the quirks of thinking characters to the difficult mechanics of a walk cycle.

This was for my 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea test in which I was assigned to do a shot with Van Gogh, age 17. I did the research, learned a lot of interesting facts about an artist I never really knew too well, and yes he was pretty crazy!

This is a walk cycle based on a book titled "Jennie" or "The Abandoned." I chose a character in the book to animate in a walk cycle. We well do further test with this character so stayed tuned!

Lizard Supreme

I decided to paint this little character yesterday after I was getting sleepy from reading... I sketched this guy during one of my lectures because I saw this weird shape from the shadows of the window/curtain and thought, hey that looks like a chameleon!

I have an idea for a weird animation based on this character! Man, it was really fun to do this, I haven't painted in photoshop for a while! The best part was getting all those gnarly scale textures in there!

First of BFAnimation

So our first test was an 80 frame reaction test involving two characters in a conversation. The ultimate goal of this test was to show two unique characters, each with an appealing personality. we were recommended to choose one as our primary character while the other is more of a support character. The real challenge here was to SIMPLIFY; in a 3 second test, one really have to make your character's personality apparent and clear.

I thought it would be fun to round-up all my playblast that I saved during the assignment... ooooooo you can see the evolution!

First of BFAssignments

BFA group vid I organized with tremendous help from Paul with editing and Eunsoo the cameralady. Dream come true honestly, always wanted this to happen!

Update on Life

Wow, it's been a while since I lasted posted, mainly because I spent the whole summer on my stop-motion project with Eunsoo. So let's start off with some sketchbook pages. These are some of my favorites!

I've been meaning to go out and sketch whenever I grant myself some time. I managed to check out Music In the Park during the summer, SJ Jazz Festival, and went hiking in Lake Tahoe. I've also been making time to swim, I will probably stop once it gets colder. As of now I am occupied with BFA, Tule Lake, and Stop-Mo. I really miss going out and drawing with everybody like the old days. Sometimes it happens, thank goodness our first BFA assignment was to go out and draw people. I realized all my assignments this semester will involve animation! Makes sense, after all this is the senior year and I will be working towards my demo reel. But then it hits me... I have to make my demo reel!!! Yah, this time around, the pressure is on! Wish me luck!