This is an ending credit I made yesterday for somebody I've never even met. It's someone's thesis project according to my friend who requested me to make this, and I thought I'd post it here since I don't have any drawings to post for now. I haven't been drawing because I was busy lately with a new freelance job I got with AT&T. It's a 4 week long project, and I have a week left to finish whatever I'm doing. I've been drinking red bull almost everyday and wrestling with Aftereffects every night. I hope they like whatever I'm doing right now, and hope it leads to some more projects too.
I was asked to do some illustrations for a book my cousin wrote, and here's one possibility of the main character's look. What I don't like about my drawing is that I have no distinct, unique style. This is a start, but I need to develop it more and make it more stylized and attractive. This is one time I can take risks since it's a children's book. I will upload more designs later.
These are some quck storyboards I drew in painter the other day. We have an upcoming MV project and I had to prepare some visuals to show the client. This is going to be a challenging project because there are lots of things we're attempting for the first time. But I gotta say I'm excited!
I've been busy trying to learn these 3d programs called maya and boujou. I'm going to have to know how to use them for the upcoming MV project we are about to start. This clip was filmed in front of my apartment, then 3d tracked in boujou, then exported to maya. In maya I modeled the 3d texts, placed lights, then exported the whole thing back to AE for final compositing and color correction. This little clip took me so long because I had to watch tutorials after tutorials to learn the softwares. I'm satisfied with the outcome, but I hope to get faster next time!
I was told by one of my friend about this artist she knows, that currently works at the Blue Sky studio. I checked out his blog and was blown away by his work. The sad part was that he was only a couple of years older than me. When I came back to my blog and looked at my drawings, it was depressing. I felt the urge to draw more and get better. Usually this kind of motivations don't last long, but I think this time it really hit me hard. I favorited his blog so I can go visit it once in a while and use it as my driving force.
Instead of making it fancy like last time, I quickly edited my reel in Final cut pro.
no text effects or transition effects... and it took me half a day.
Guess this is the right way to do it. since I have to update my reel often..
I cant spend too much time on it.
My reel now consists more of motion graphic samples.
I've always wanted to be an animator (animating cartoon characters)
I was so determined since I was little, and until college, I never doubted
I would give up this dream of mine.
Not that I decided to give up becoming an animator, but before I could even realize, I was heading towards becoming a motion graphic artist...
Working with people in productions, and trying to survive in this industry with scarce job opportunity... and many more reasons probably drove me this way.
I don't really mind becoming a motion graphic artist, but somehow it makes me feel sad that I am no longer so determined to be an animator.
I feel like a failure that gave up his dream. even though that's not the case.
I still want to be an animator and will pursue it sooner or later.
Some drawings I posted below were characters from my new film.
but I decided to scratch that idea for now.
I just need to make something that has contents...
that makes people think...
rather than something that's just marginally funny..
hmmm...
Happy New year everyone. I started off this year really bad but hope everybody else had a good start. I was sick for more than a week, and I couldn't eat anything in the beginning. I've never been sick for such a long time. I just hope this means there's one less bad thing I have to go through this year. I finally feel like I'm fully recovered, and to celebrate that, I cleaned up my room and tried to draw. My cintiq has been functioning as a simple monitor most of the time, and I'm trying to change that. the painting above is some random character I drew, and I tried using the oil brushes in corel painter for the first time. I'm very new to this software, and up until now, I thought no other softwares could top photoshop when it comes to painting, but that's about to change. I love how it makes me feel like I'm actually using the traditional medium and I don't have to worry about getting my hands dirty. even though there's a lot for me to explore with this software, I think I'm going to be using this very often from now on. It just makes painting so much easier and faster. and I hope this means that I'll be updating my blog more often. There's so many softwares I want to master. 2010 will be a very important year for me and I better well spend it.
