Awhile

Lately, I've been so occupied by school projects and weekly rehearsal until one particular point when I felt so worn out. I didn't feel like fixing rough animation or practicing another piece of music for upcoming course. I was searching any other activities that would keep me away from finishing all my homework, and suddenly, my mind suggested myself. "How about drawing?"

Then, I realized I haven't drawn anything on my sketchbook for a long time. A REALLY LONG TIME.  Like, how on earth did I abandon myself from drawing? It has been something that I've always done throughout my childhood times, my teenage years, all without being asked or forced. Something that encouraged me to pursue animation as a long life career.

I grabbed my pencil and start drowning myself with gesture drawings. Believe it or not, it felt terribly great to be back 'home'. Drawing on papers, it's very humane. It's not something you can achieve through clicks of buttons. It's personal.

Later, it also got me thinking of how great God is. He designs how body moves and functions. All those super complicated mechanism are hard enough just to be drawn on papers.

It's so supra-logical  to think how Almighty God creates every single one of us with distinctive features. Moreover, how He made us to be able to pour our mind through art, be it music or paintings. Even with the modern technology, people can't even generate a single thing that exactly works and feels the way we, humans, did.

Overall, it has been a truly relieving moment for me. Praise the Lord!

animmARGH

Animation blocking done in 3DS Max. 3D model of Achilles (yellow-haired) courtesy of  M. Raswan Orizka

These are screenshots from my team's short film "Achilles". As you see, it's still a (very) rough look of the film and I'm responsible for half of the animation done in this film (gosh). Since the submission deadline for the rough animation has now passed, I really need to focus and bring out all of my energy to fix some weak silhouettes here and there, and at the same time, learn how to (properly) animate. Please kindly pray for me, peeps!

How I'm feeling right now?

GRAAAAAH!!!

I'm really looking forward to the mid-term test since our group has to finish rough animation for our final term short movie (have to force myself to do a lot of animation) but at the same time, I'm feeling so worn out with all the jumbled schedule and deadlines! Gonna watch The Croods tomorrow w/ friends, hope that it'll fix my scribbled mind. 

Stop and Stare

Owl - pencil on paper

An old work from first/s second year drawing class.

That Lerman Guy

This was taken from 4th semester's assignment of Digital Painting studies. Oh, how I really missed those days when all assignments were emphasizing more on hand-drawn stuff rather than computer thing. 

Flash

These guys are characters from my flash game project titled "Finding Ferdinand". In this mini game, you got to find Ferdinand (the right patient) to give him the right treatment. The game still suffered from script errors, though.

Here's some screenshots:

Sydney, December 9

One of the most memorable project I've done so far.is working for my special client, my lovely cousin,  Laurinda! Both my cousin and her husband are a fan of outdoor activities, especially water sports. So, they requested for an illustration with that theme which will be printed in their wedding invitation.

The concept story was originally my cousin's while I suggested some rough sketches to her:

The initial sketch. Lol.

Here's the final look:

The experience of working for someone to generate their ideas into illustration was priceless. I feel really blessed to have them as 'clients' (and the fact that I could be with them on the D-day, on their special moment, it's all His blessings).

P.s. : I still had another illustration made for her wedding, will post it anytime soon!