Paintings

Some paintings I've been doing while it's quiet. Just practising some painting technicques such as fur/hair and just honing Photoshop skills shortcuts etc. Reference images were used (christmas card & image from bbc website) but not traced, or colour picked.

Back to basics

Not posted for a looooong time. This is one of my first renders using Blender 3D, something I'm trying out at the moment. I just wanted to test lighting, shaders etc, so wanted a simple scene and I remembered this from my college days. Based on an old airbrushing exercise devised for when airbrushing was taught at college.

Anyway, I have yet to play with it some more and add some reflection and or hdr maps. Oh and i hope to reinstate the blog with more snippets.

Anz Logo

I'm in early today, working on our exhibition. Just got my logo sorted. It says Anz, but also says "Mui" or "Mei", which is what I'm called at home...what can't see it? It's in Chinese XD

Chekk ma Photoshop SkiLLz

Trawling through some old stuff and found this image. Twas an exercise we did at the Liverpool Arts Centre....what a load of rubbish. I can honestly say that I learnt very little from those classes. Look...lens flare!!!!!! Argh!

RAWR!

A doodle of my classmate and very good friend...

Deadline's today?

A doodle of me

The Fight For Pink Lady WIP

A doodle of my classmates....

Testube

Watched a really old TVB series and wondered how we ever suffered such poor acting. There are some funny things about TVB though, like how they call youtube "test tube" (in Tung Si 3 Fun Chun).

Anyway, that's where I've been the past hour or so, on testube and there are stuff that is just plain silly and stuff that's pretty inspiring too. I think as far as my occupation goes, I won't escape engineering easily, but animation still has a few glowing embers of passion inside.



I have always proper enjoyed this Ben Folds song cos it has such a strong narrative. It's even better that it's inspired Ed Skudder to make a fantastic animated video for it. Effing A. This next video by Aiden Gibbons, although could be even more polished, still has good character to it. Plus these days I have more appreciation for how difficult 3D is for organic movements.

Final Hurdles

It's coming to the end of the Easter hols already, not that I took much time off, have been working through the vacation. Final few hurdles to go before we are released (back) into the big wide real world. Last time this happened, it wasn't a very positive time for me. But this time, hopefully, will be much more focussed, positive and successful.

Wish me luck....Thanks :)