omg, mario pARTy!!!

My piece for the Nintendo Gallery for charity.  My character was Koopa Kid.

Last year, a couple of my friends decided to organize a gallery of the original 151 Pokemon and auction off the art for charity.  Raising over $8000 last year, the fine folks of the ShrunkenHeadMan Club at SJSU have decided to continue the tradition, this time broadening the theme to Nintendo characters.  The auction will be announced soon and will probably run this Spring.  The money will go towards a non-profit organization that works with autistic children.  More details about the charity soon!.

Cow Palace

Last week marked C28's 4th annual gift exchange, organized by my buddy Kristina, and continued by those fine folks from my Animation/Illustration classes!  Like last year, three words were chosen in lottery fashion as well as the exchangees.

This year's theme: SPACE, STOLEN TIME, COW.  This year's exchangee: TIM

I didn't get a successful scan this time, so this is the only picture I have of the piece.

I took the theme a bit literally and chose to incorporate my fascination with space-time and relativity, along with the famous nursery rhyme.

Einstein cow!

Merry Mimes

From the Lams

9 Car Train

With what all there is to do, the majority of my time sketching is spent on the train to work, like that's really any different from before.  It's really time to take more opportunities to be solitary, haha!

It's My Brother's Birthday Today

No one will get this except for him

Seattle Sentiments

Sorry for not updating for a while, I've had many-a-things to attend to and take care of...  Above are a few gifts I made for some friends before leaving Seattle.  Oh right, update to life... I have since moved from Seattle and have returned back to California, Bay Area to join the ranks of the infamous and reputable Double Fine Productions!  I will be animating on one of their upcoming titles which has so far (having finished my first week) been both exciting and overwhelming!  There's a lot to catch up on, but I could have not asked for more with such a delightful position and group of people to work with!  Apart from the BART strikes and looking for a place to live, it's nice to see that California sun again.  Of course, Seattle, you shall be missed as well as all the folks that remain there.  Living in the Emerald City has been such an adventurous experience, especially having started not knowing anything about the city or anybody for that matter.  I will surely visit in the near future!

Tick Tock Emerald City

Like Breaking Bad everything comes to an end eventually.  It looks like I will be leaving the beautiful city of Seattle in another two weeks and will return to Cali, back in the bay area.  A lot has been going on, I'll do a proper update about that later.  I still have plenty to do before officially leaving, but I will definitely miss it all!

But I can't wait to see every one back home again! :D