Sunday, December 13, 2009

Yeah! My graduation campaign website is up!



Please feel free to have a look at the public projects that we have done so far.

BTW the project that I participated in (I designed it btw lol...)is called Whitewash and is located in the alley between The One Academy and Face-to-Face noodle restaurant.It's a graffiti/mural project, so have a look at the shop walls.

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Question.


Why do they call them "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers"?Shouldn't it be "Morphing"? Even if it was in the Japanesey way of pronunciation it would turn out to be "Morufingu"or something like that.

Someone at the translations department must have been high at the time...
And I heard Malaysia's censorship board wanted to cut out the Morphin part because it might make kids curious to try out the drug. Just in case it gives them super powers, you never know.

Friday, December 4, 2009

Yay! My namecards are here!!
I currently have 4 boxes of these. They are kind of like a boxtoy namecard, cos i wanted to represent 3D in 2D form. Hopefully the 'toy' part can con people into taking my cards. Only thing is that there are no perforated lines, so, yes, you have to cut the pieces out by yourself.(I don't think the printing company does perforated lines...unless you ask them to die-cut a row of tiny holes?)

And also...I learned hoe to knit! Learned from online. Didn't think that the knitting materials would be so expensive though, I think it's cheaper to buy knitted clothes from the stores.

This will hopefully turn out to be a scarf someday, though I think I overestimated the width to knit...so it's like 2 times too broad now. Nvm...I feel like making a Godzilla sized scarf. Hopefully it will look feminine, not frumpy in the end.

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Next, song review



Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera.
The original cast.
Sarah Brightman as Christine as MICHAEL CRAWFORD as the phantom. Yes, Michael Crawford, not Gerard Butler (who spoiled the movie version for me besides the fact that he has many girl fans. He doesn't believe in his character, I can tell.)

The whole thing's good,but prolly my favourite track is Masquerade. I dunno if it's just me, but I can visualise the whole choreography of this scene just from the music. Most probably it's due to Andrew Lloyd Webber's good composition skills and not my powers of visualisation (ahak)

Parts missing from the clip:
(Andre and Firmin, the Opera Directors)

Andre:M'sieur Firmin?(awed whisper)
Firmin:M'sieur Andre?
F:Dear Andre, what a splendid party!(congratulatory tone)
A:The prologue to a bright new year!
F:Quite a night, I'm impessed!
A:Well, one does one's best...
A/F:Here's to us!
F:I must say all the same that it's a shame that 'Phantom' fellow isn't here!

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OK, now play the Youtube clip and follow me...does this visualisation sound correct?

0:02: The Phantom is ironically already lurking in the crowd as the 'Red Dice'.
0:05 onwards: a crowd of celebrators, opera troupe conversation and Christine and Raoul's secret conversation about their marriage
2:45 :camera wanders thru the labyrinth of the opera house, the path that the Phantom took. Camera break out through a crowd of dancing revelers. Tilts up to bird's eye view of the celebration, and fireworks. Cuts to a crowd of paraders.
4:45 it is revealed that the Phantom is secretly overlooking the scene

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I also like the lyrics. The masquerade is like a metaphor for their human sins.
'Take your turn, take a ride on a merry-go-round in an inhuman race'

OK, book review.

Life if Pi, by Canadian author Yann Martel.
I read this book a couple of months ago actually, somehow I only got to reviewing it now.
Anyways, besides the fact that the book had won a couple of awards, someone I was watching on dA said that she liked the book too, so I was curious to read it.

The story is actually quite simple. An Indian boy called Piscine Molitor Patel (it starts with a long story about his family and his weird name, but anyways)is stranded on a lifeboat with a hyena, a zebra, an orang utan, and a Bengal tiger whom he calls Richard Parker. One by one the occupants of the boat are attacked by the tiger until only the tiger and the boy survive. From there, Pi struggles to keep himself alive at sea.

Sure, if I was stuck at sea and I wrote a book about it, it would go something like this:"Sea everywhere. No food. And more sea everywhere. I hope the tiger dies. The End". But it's pretty interesting to read this book like in a Robinson Crusoe kind of way. But the best part is the open question at the end of the story. Who was Richard Parker actually?

But I won't write anymore in case I give the story away. You have to read it yourself to fully enjoy the story.

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Incidentally, another book recommended by a dA artist is also good. 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' by Khaled Hosseini, same guy who wrote The Kite Runner. I think the beauty of his writing partly is because no character is portrayed as totally evil or totally good, all of them have their reasons, and all of them feel human.

I haven't read The Kite Runner btw, so anyone who has the book, you know what should be done*hinthint*


Sunday, November 29, 2009

I was itching to do something crafty and at the same time wanted to go window shopping and also wanted to bake, so I did something in the middle.

I made flour beads!
OK...more like pendants.

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If you want to make them, it's easy.Here's the recipe which I found online, and made a few adjustments.

1) Mix 4 cups of flour with 1 cup of salt and 1 1/2 cup of water.
2) Knead together and then put in the fridge so that they are easier to form.
3) Form the dough into your preferred patterns. Poke a hole in them if you want to use as pendants or beads (I tried twisting a screw through one of them after baking, but that broke the pendant)
Also, I recommend only taking out a little dough at the time from the fridge, because the dough softens quickly in room temperature. If you want to make more complicated designs, coating the dough with flour makes it less sticky and coating it with water makes it more adhesive.
4) Put the finished designs on a baking tray. Preheat oven to 175 degrees Celsius and bake for around 20 mins, or until they are hard.

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Here's how they look like after being baked. They look and smell like cookies. I was so tempted to eat them.

And here they are after being painted.
Closeup on a pair that I want to make into earrings, if I can find those sterling silver hooks. Unfortunately my ears are sensitive to the standard hooks (or else I would currently be owning a few dozen of those made-in-Korea dangly stuff).

I wrote the starting few lines of Little Red Riding Hood on this pair. Bad handwriting, I know.
Some that look nice, eventhough by accident. The grapes got that gradual shading because of uneven heat during baking. The heart is crackled because the wet paint warped the dough, so it cracked when it dried.
Mini doughnuts! These were fun to make. Made using gesso primer and gold dust.

Friday, November 27, 2009

This is news to me...
On a weathervane, North, south, east and west spells 'news' at an angle.
I'm so proud of myself !!

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OK, fine, that was pretty jakun.

BTW that texture's not finished yet.

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Now these are what I call box toys!!

Incidentally you can download and build this Bumblebee model from here
This one is from Howl's Moving castle. Damn cool...the people who worked out how to build this stuff must be die-hard fans.

Monday, November 16, 2009

Looks like I won't be going to watch Gidon Kremer's performance tonight. Nevertheless I'm subconsciously counting down the time until his performance, damn MPO website for putting the countdown timer on their main page...makes me feel regretful for not going for the performance.


I kind of decided the show wouldn't be worth it with Igudesman and Joo distracting from the performance, I think it's more of their show...but Kremer and the Kremerata Baltica orchestra should have a solo show...they're here anyways. It's not that easy to find musicians of their standard performing in Malaysia you know. Perhaps the Kremer team realised that as well. Most Malaysians have a culture of 'junkfood music' so they might as well perform in the US or Europe where they certainly can get more audience and people are more willing to pay for the tickets.

Oh well...until we meet someday, goodbye, Mr. Kremer.

Nevermind...I'll keep track of the goings on at the orchestra halls in San Francisco when I go there. I'm hopeful that I can at least catch a performance by Itzhak Perlman sometime in the future.

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On a side note, my parents are surprised that I like classical music. I'm sure they think I just simply love junkfood music which is all we get on Malaysian radio.

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Ah, at last i found a site where i can watch The Cell.


Now time for some sick twisted entertainment. I know a lot of people don't like this movie(people who have watched it will typically either give it a 10 or a 0, nothing in between), think it doesn't have a plot(what small brained idiot said this?) and is all about sadism, but I think differently. After all a movie that makes us sympathise with a serial killer is a rather refreshing take on the theme and not glorifying violence like what others would say. And as usual Tarsem elevates the show to an artistic level, which is the main reason why I like his works. Yes, Tarsem does get inspired by Marilyn Manson videoclips, but you gotta admit, disturbing as they are, they are actually kind of beautiful. Also, I kind of forgot that Jennifer Lopez is a surprisingly good actress.

BTW I found out that there's a sequel to this movie, but not directed by Tarsem Singh. Wonder whether it will be as good...

Thursday, November 12, 2009



AAAAAAAAVuibhklnjmk;klokijhhcgvbjk;lvbhjnkl!!!!!!!
Gidon Kremer is coming to KL for a performance!! Siapa nak pergi with me?? Mari kita pergi!! The show's on Monday.

Only thing is it's too bad that he's not having another performance with only himself and the Kremerata Baltica. I know Igudesman and Joo are like famous as well, but all that humour distracts from Kremer's full potential, I would think. So should I go or not?? Dilemma...

Damn...so close but yet so far.

Anyways, here are 2 pieces performed by Kremer.





And one more from Being Gidon Kremer:

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

OK, here's another advertisement for my graduation batch. We are currently selling a collection of cute stack-able box toys designed by our graduating students of various majors.

Those are the designs that we are selling.(Lion dance heads, monsters, owls, Japanese warriors, Japanese girls, chibi expressions and a black and white sumo) Each toy is 8.5cm tall. We are selling them flat and you can enjoy assembling them yourselves ( but if you don't like assembling, I'll gladly do that for you, I like that kind of stuff in a weird way) Each pack consists of 3 toys of the same series, as above. Btw the black sumo next to the caption is for sale too, also in a pack of 3. Each pack is RM5. So please tell me if you want to buy any of them. As usual, proceeds from the sale will be going towards funding our graduation exhibitions (which we have to raise ourselves, all RM15,000 of it)

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Also, because our lecturer, Mr Caringman told us that the 2 most powerful words is sales are sex and free, I will be doing a bit of promotion of two delightful designers of the box toys. Pictures stolen/taken for promotional purposes from Facebook of course.

First up, Warner Wan, who is also our vice-president of the graduation committee. He designed the first batch of toys as seen in the above picture (the lion dance heads).In this picture, Warner seems to be promoting the Batch 71 logo against his shirt. Hidup semangat 71 ! Of friendly and outgoing nature, Warner is also currently single(i think).
"Lion dance head" box toy. RM5 per pack of 3.
Warner Wan is intended for illustration purposes only and is not included in pack.

Next, Tan Zi Hao, who is also our Art Director for the graduation committee. He came up with our concept of "Link" which is about keeping the arts relevant to the public. He designed the second set of box toys as seen in the first picture, which is a set of monsters. In this picture, Zi Hao is...er...eating something. Nvm. Hidup semangat 71 ! Of great intellectual and creative spirit, Zi Hao is also currently single (i think).

"Monsters" box toy. RM5 per pack of 3.
Tan Zi Hao is intended for illustration purposes only and is not included in pack.

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Well, goodnight. And let me know if you want to place an order. The students of Batch 71 greatly value your kind consideration.

Monday, November 9, 2009

Right...so now I'm a bit hooked on award winning animations that can be found on YouTube. It's all Yunzi's fault.

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This one is "My Love", which was nominated for an Academy Award last year. It's directed by Aleksandr Petrov, who previously won an Academy award for another of his works; "The old man and the sea". Check it out. His animations utilize a rare style of animation, which is acrylic paintings on glass, so his work looks very realistic and painterly. Seriously I think each frame of his animation can be considered a pretty kick-ass artwork by itself, but here he has to rub off and modify each painting to make things move. Look out for the dream-like transitions and the good acting (expression and body language). I like.

Here's like the shortest summary you've ever seen, courtesy of Wikipedia:
In nineteenth-century Russia, a teenage boy in search of love is drawn to two very different women



Btw the Japanese poster not withstanding, it's actually an animation made by a Russian crew.

It's around 1/2 hour long. And here's part 1.

Saturday, November 7, 2009

Oh look...this is my 401st post

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OK, that's besides the point.

I thought of sharing this animation that I found out about in college. It's called La maison en petits cubes(The house of small cubes), which besides having a French title, is actually made by a Japanese team.I think it's pretty touching. It won the grand prize for short films at Annecy and an Academy Award for best short animation this year.

Here's the summary from Wikipedia:
As his town is flooded by water, an aged widower is forced to add additional levels onto his home with bricks (cubes) in order to stay dry. But when he accidentally drops his favorite smoking pipe into the lower submerged levels of his home, his search for the pipe eventually makes him relive scenes from his eventful life.

And here's part one.I think the entire animation is around 15 mins.

Listen to this

Oh yeah, skip the first 30 seconds tho, nothing much happens. And the clip is a bit old school, but the song is wonderful.



It's Cancao do mar by Dulce Pontes. I learnt about this song because actually Sarah Brightman covered it as Harem. Then I heard this version on a dance show. Must be something about that sharp strong vocals, but I like it.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Which naturally leads to a list of banned books in Malaysia, which is even more funny. Seriously. I don't think the censorship board even reads what's in the books, they just go by title. Taken from here.


9812320822 Beauty of Yixing Teapots(they thought YiXing is a Chinadoll's name and teapots is a codename for something else that is round)
0785368760 Read-Aloud Children's Classics
0716757230 Practice of Business Statistics(yes, I'm sure there's Propaganda in there)
1412735467 Sea Sale: SpongeBob
1412733820 Counting Adventures Sound Activity Book, by Disney
1412731755 Dora's Fiesta Adventure ActivePoint Book Set! (read wrongly as Dora's Feisty Adventure. And wth is an 'active point'?)
1412735297 MUSIC FOR SLEEPY BABIES(They didn't know the all important difference between 'babies' and 'babes'. And 'sleepy' versus 'sleeping with')
1412731747 Count On Me (Spongebob Square Pants(what's in his pants?)
1412735610 The Wiggles Shop Wiggly Jukebox(they imagined a few things that might be wiggly)
0572028806 Anatomy for the Artist: They Dynamics of Human Form (so our college is technically illegal)
009189753X Feel: Robbie Williams(but what as he feeling?)
1582380570 How to Talk to Your Child About Sex: It's Best to Start Early, But It's Never Too Late : a Step-by-Step Guide for Every Age(just never...NEVER. talk to your child about sex. Babies come from your elbows!Lalalalalala ican'thearyou! Lalalalalala)
0375701958 Breastfeeding Your Baby: Revised Edition(hum sup lou might buy it for some studies. There's no knowledge not worth knowing. Meanwhile expectant mothers can just poke around and hope for the best)
9812040978 Bali Style(they forgot prostitution happens in Indochina whereas Bali is in Indonesia)

Something to laugh...of cry...about. A list of banned movies in Malaysia. Taken from Wikipedia

Here are a few of the noteable ones:
Permanently banned:
1)Queen of the Damned. It's based on a novel by Anne Rice. Oh well...the movie sucked, so I don't really care.Oh yeah, I think I saw this one on Astro. Why ar? But then why is Twilight not banned then?


2)The Piano.It's even one of the Cannes Film Festival kakis. Remember this one? About the pianist who wouldn't speak. Christopher showed us part of it during class once, I don't think it would be offensive in any way. Btw that probably means that the dvd is being sold somewhere. Why ar?

3)South Park. That's alright, we've all watched it anyway. Ohohohohoho...

4)Pet Semetary. Based on a book by Stephen King. I read the book and it was really good. They prolly thought the part about bringing dead people back to life was demonic.But the story portrays that ritual as being not worth it's price. But then again I don't think Malaysian audience would be childish enough to actually believe it to be true. Except maybe the fake datukdatins who visit bomohs.

Now released on dvd(like wtf right, cannot see in cinema but later can buy n see at home? Or better still, buy /download illegal dvd. Oh thank you censorship board for encouraging piracy):

1) The Exorcist. OK, pretty obvious why they would want to ban it(but still a very petty reason), but it's one of the classic horror movies, so how can you ban it?

2) Schindler's List. Another classic. Seems it was banned for being too sympathetic towards Jews. Huh? So we are for the Nazis now?

3)Babe. Kerana ada babi dalamnya.

4)Babe, Pig in the city.

5) The Prince of Egypt. Because they think the Muslims in this country need to be protected from the outside world. Hello, they can think for themselves lah.

6)Saving Private Ryan

7)Austin Powers, the spy who shagged me. You can buy it and watch it at home and have all the obscene fun you want. Just not in the cinema.

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And don't forget that they are now pushing for a blanket ban on horror films.Because Malaysians might tend to believe that the scary boogieman on screen is real and we should worship him just in case he comes to haunt us. Or something like that. Well, at least that might put a stop to all the low budget lame locally made horror movies that are so abundent of late.

I want to watch this movie. Pretty please? Only question is, will it be shown in Malaysia?(our selection of movies sucks) The release date is Christmas Day, according to Apple.com. Hearsay this was the movie that Heath Ledger was acting in when he died halfway. I think Johnny Depp took over issit?

The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus

Sunday, November 1, 2009

I just watched Hugh's Chicken Run yesterday, which is a show about a guy who's trying to turn British people away from eating battery farmed chickens to eating free range ones for humanitarian reasons. Which makes me start thinking about all the other horrors that go on in farms and slaughter houses before we get some meat to eat.


OK, first let's talk about chicken.According to my estimation, for every chicken you eat, 2 to 3 chickens have to die. Notice that all chickens that we eat are female?(Why, actually?) So they only keep a few roosters as studs and the rest they cull. According to YiLyn (who I think watched a documentary on it as well) they way they do that is to put newly hatched male chicks onto a machine that crushes them to death. Besides that, female chickens which to not meet the target weight are culled as well because it is not financially beneficial to keep feeding a chicken that will not be worth selling.(which, according to Hugh, is by twisting their neck by hand, although I'm sure there are much faster and more gruesome ways of culling in other chicken farms) So, back to our 1 out of 3 theory, 1 chicken died because...well...you ate it. The second chicken died because it was male, and the 3rd one died because it was either underweight or died of disease or natural causes at the farm.

So, let's say you swore off eating chicken and ate fish. Let's say it was caught from the sea (battery farming philosophy is to jam the animals' living space to the point of suffocation, so by definition is already inhumane) Fish die by suffocation, i presume, when they are pulled out of the water. Which is comparatively humane. Unless of course it was one of those that was kept in (jam packed) water to keep it fresh, then slaughtered at the fish market. This way it might or might not be killed humanely. That depends if it was bashed on the head hard enough. If if wasn't it would probably be still flopping around after it's body was cut cleanly in 2, I'm sure you've seen some like that in the fish market.

OK, so screw fish, let's eat crustaceans or shellfish instead. But then if they were fresh, most likely you'd be doing the killing yourself by boiling them alive to perfect tenderness. And with smaller seafood like anchovies or prawns, it's pretty sad that you need to cook a couple dozen of them at one go to even notice they are there, even sadder if they are just boiled for stock and later thrown away. At least if you ate them they could be used to build a sliver or two of muscles in your body that might come in handy.

Let's skip shark fin and whale meat, that's too obvious.

And try not to eat too much cuttlefish, the preservatives are not good for you.

Maybe they more humane types of meat would be pigs, sheep, goats and cows (though I dunno about battery farmed ones) But at least one dead animal would feed you for weeks. Although I still don't see the point of suckling piglets. It's kind of depressing when you go to Chinese weddings and there's there's this little baby pig, or at least the skin, cut up and displayed like a sad piece of pelt and you're supposed to eat it. There isn't even any meat there. And it's not like it tastes spectacular. Plus it's artery blocking food.

Oh well...time to grow some taugeh in the garden and learn how to make char siu out of soya bean then. Oh yeah, and eggs, I dunno if they are humane either. Hearsay that big eggs are inhumane because it causes pain to the hen like giving birth to an extra large baby (means they are genetically modified* I guess). So...err...having a pet hen or two wouldn't hurt either. Chickens are nice to cuddle if that's any consolation. I vouch for that one.

*=Chihuahuas are custom bred until it is actually impossible for them to give birth naturally, their pups would get stuck in their birth canal;they all have caesareans.

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Free advertising for my graduation batch.
Here's our logo; B71. My version of it anyways.
We'll be doing some public art later in the year. Animation students will be making an interactive sketchbook which the public can draw in, that will be placed around college (mainly for other students to get to know about our campaign).

For outside college artworks, there are 2 groups. Group 1 will be doing a public interaction animation which people can participate in. They can pose some keyframes which we will guide them to do, and we will shoot their picture, in the end making a sort of stop motion animation composed of several different people.

The second group (mine) will be doing public graffitti with the topic of 'how to solve public problems', for instance, double parking or snatch thieves.

Of course, the last 2 are subject to approval which we are trying to get now. The public artworks are planned to be placed around Sunway area. So look out for us.

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Also, if you happen to be around Pyramid area tomorrow, feel free to stop by One Academy, because we will be having our final day of Food Fundraising, and also we will be having a garage sale.

Wednesday, October 21, 2009


Yay! I finally tried henna on my own hand. Here is the result.

Closeup
My whole arm

And the back. The character says "Om"

Took me 1 hour to draw the pattern and then i wrapped up my arm(using medical tape and a long sock) and let it soak into my skin overnight. The colour is supposed to darken over the next 2 days, but I dunno if that's true.

Saturday, October 17, 2009

OK, so this Friday it will be me and a few of my classmates' turn to run the fundraising booth for Graduation Campaign. The goal is to raise money to promote our art and portfolio to the public. And apparently others have been doing quite well, with the most so far standing at RM1000 raised.

Everyone has been selling food so far, so my group is going to do something a little special this time. Besides food, we'll be having a sort of funfare concept with a few games included. Here's our list of offerings:

Food:
- barbequed hot dogs
- carrot cake (by me)
- taufu fah
- noodles and some other mamak food (i think, provided by Najib)
- longan punch

Games:
-Wacky wire (the game where you try to run the ring around some loops without touching the wire)

And we will also be having henna drawing, done by me and another classmate.
So please feel free to meet us at the entrance of The One Academy on the 23rd of Oct, 9am onwards, it'll be fun!

Also, on that evening,the college will be hosting a Halloween party, so stick around for that as well, dress up as your favourite ghost or ghoul, and if you aren't one of the college students, doesn't matter, we can smuggle you into the party anyways-free entry-and we can lmao at the people taking part in the costume competition or pumpkin carving competition.(they only use papercraft blades, so it'll be fun to sit and laugh at them while they sweat over their pumpkins)

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Meanwhile, while shopping for cake ingredients, i saw some henna on sale, so i bought 2 boxes for the event.


And to help psych you up, here are some nice henna designs I found online. I'm so going to make one for myself as well.









So, see you there!

Thursday, October 15, 2009





Sohs as you guys know, Deepavali is this Saturday. So if any of you have some Hindu friends but haven't gotten round to greeting card shopping, I made a card for the festival. You can download it and print if you like. And photoshop off my website address if it's distracting. The folding line for the card is where the background pattern stops. And the Happy Deepavali part is the inside of the card, so print it on the opposite side of the paper.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Yay, finished modeling and texturing the lamproom.

1 down, 2 more texturing to go.

Quiz of the day:


Why is it easier to read (or at least recommended to use)san-serif when you are using a computer, but easier to read serif when it's on a book?It's true, check any book and any website.

Don't ask me for the answer, i also dunno. Maybe it's all a hoax O_O

Saturday, October 3, 2009

Random moment:

OMG it's Rum Tum Tugger!


BTW for those who don't know, he's a character from Cats.Ironically eventhough the character is supposed to be a playboy, the real life dancer is supposed to be gay. Oh noes...

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Time for a free promo for an artist that I do not know.
Here are some papier mache sculptures by Larisa Churkina, who apparently studied...jengjengjeng...Biology in college, but now makes dolls.

Some of her more stylised sculptures. I think my eldest sis would like these.

My personal favourite. This guy somehow reminds me of Anthony Green from Diana Wynne Jones' book Black Maria...

And a more realistic style.

You can actually comission her to make a sculpture of yourself for $2000. But I like her stylised work more than her portraiture though.

Monday, September 21, 2009

Here's a cute thing to make your day.

It's Firefox! He really exists!

OK, fine, actually it's someone's Pomeranian, given a mohawk. But it's so cute...
I got the pic from oddee.com which btw is an interesting site to go to when you are bored, and look for weird or funny stuff.Or if you want to increase your knowledge of the obscure and totally useless facts. Quite a lot of artsy fart kind of things as well.

Anyways, this is not an advertisement. Can I have a puppy dog please?

Friday, September 18, 2009

Here's a little of what i've been doing lately. It's sort of not really done yet, i just remembered i wanted to put feathers and some more patterns on the eye mask. And also the hat looks a bit plain for my liking...but i'll take my time, just a pet project.

as a side note...i took so long to try to figure out how to compile alpha layers in photoshop...and in the end i used combustion instead. That's pretty sad...

The reason i rendered in layers was because the edge of the hat is a metallic shader, which can only be rendered in mental ray, whereas mental ray doesn't support layered shader which i used for the face. There you go, some technicality notes.

Monday, September 7, 2009

Time for a little showing off...

I finished modeling 2 rooms for my final project!!!

OK,fine, I haven't textured them, and that will be time consuming...but it's satisfying to finish the building part.

Some stairs railings. I jazzed them up since the last modeling entry.
The lamproom, with walls. I'm wondering if I should scale it up a bit. On a side note, it has successfully looked wronger than my sketches. Those 2 obscene ball things are glass windows that are supposed to look like fish eyes.

Hid the wireframe for more clarity.
And a version while hiding the walls. The pink thing is a reference for one of the character's height.