My KINGDOM My RULES

Yasi cyclone information Tue 1st Feb

2011-02-01T06:54:00.003+07:00

Vietnamese Translation:

Cơn lốc Yasi đang di chuyển theo chiều hướng như đã dự báo. Bão sẽ tăng cường độ khi tiến vào đất liền ở những vùng từ Cairns tới MacKay vào khoản tối thứ tư này. Trung Tâm Dự Báo Khí Tượng Thủy Văn đã bố trí các trạm thu nhận thong tin về cơn lốc, nhưng vùng chịu ảnh hưởng nghiêm trọng nhất sẽ là từ vùng Cairns đến MacKay. Cho nên chúng tôi khuyên quý vị những người đang ở vùng bờ biển thấp hãy tính đến chuyện di dời đến nhà bạn hoặc người thân ở những vùng đất cao hơn trong hôm nay. Cũng như những người hiện đang sốg ở những vu2g đất cao xin hãy để dành phòng trống để giúp đỡ những người cần phải di dời. Trung Tâm Dự Báo cho biết cơn lốc sẽ mang theo bão cấp 4 với sức gió hủy diệt kèm theo mưa lớn kéo dài nhiều ngày. Đáng kể là sóng cồn có thể dâng cao đến vài mét. Cho nên chúng tôi thông báo rõ cho những người hiện đang sống ở vùng có ảnh hưởng đặc biệt là từ Cairns cho tới MacKay hãy cân nhắc việc di dời đến nhà bạn bè hay người thân ở vùng đất cao hơn nếu có thể trong vòng hôm nay.

Người từ Emergency Services Queensland:

Nhiều người từ chiều tối hôm qua đã nhận được tin nhắn hoặc lời thoại từ hệ thống báo động khẩn cấp. Tin nhắn này là để cảnh báo cho mọi người biết về mức độ nguy hiểm của song cồn. Điều quý vị cân phải làm là giữ liên lạc bằng điện thoại hoặc qua trang web với Hội Đồng địa phương (local Council) bởi vì họ là người có thong tin chính xác nhất về mức độ tàn phá của cơn bão và sóng cồn. Sóng cồn có sức tàn phá nặng nhất trong tình hình này. Quý vị nào đang ở vùng trũng thấp nên có kế hoạch từ bây giờ để di tản đi nơi khác, và trong vòng hôm nay sẽ có cuộc di tản lớn. Nên chúng tôi khuyên quý vị ở những vùng thấp hãy lên kế hoạch ngay bây giờ để di dời đến nhà người thân hay bạn bè ở vùng cao hơn.

Lời thông báo rất rõ từ Cơ quan Khẩn cấp (Emergency Services) rằng di tản là biện pháp tốt nhất để đối phó với tình hình này. Bên cạnh những người đang chịu ảnh hưởng của cơn bão thủy triều, thong tin về cơn bão có thể được tìm thấy ở trang web của Hội Đồng địa phương (Local Council website) cũng như số điện thoại liên lạc để quý vị có thể gọi và cập nhận thông tin. Vì vậy tôi khuyên qu1y vị hãy kiểm tra lại với Hội Đồng nếu quý vị không rõ về tình trạng hiện thời của mình. Hiện giờ, hôm nay có lẽ là cơ hội cuối cùng quý vị phải lên quyết định để di dời bản thân và gia đình đến nơi an toàn. Sẽ vẫn tốt hơn khi sống tạm với bạn bè hay người thân ở nơi an toàn vài ngày trong thời gian này. Hoặc có thể đi xa hơn ra khỏi vùng đang chịu ảnh hưởng bão, tức là từ Cairns cho tới MacKay. Tất nhiên chúng tôi yêu cầu quý vị hãy quyết định những gì mình phải làm ngay bây giờ. Quyết định bây giờ sẽ giúp quý vị giảm thiểu rủi ro sau này khi cơn lốc xoáy ở mức độ trầm trọng hơn.

Vùng chịu ảnh hưởng bão hiện nay là từ Cairns cho tới MacKay và có thể có biến đổi nên điều quan trọng chúng tôi khuyên quý vị hãy tiếp tục nghe đài và theo dõi tin tức trên truyền hình, nhất là những người đang sống trong vùng chịu ảnh hưởng, để biết chắc quý vị nhận được thông tin chính xác nhất và từ đó quyết định tầm ảnh hưởng của khu vực mình đang sống. Xin vui lòng xem xét giúp đỡ hàng xóm của bạn, đặc biệt là những người già hay người tàn tật gặp khó khăn. Đối với những doanh nghiệp du lịch xin hãy chắc chắn rằng những người khách du lịch của bạn biết rõ tình hình cơn bão lốc hiện nay.
Xin cảm ơn.

Minions in the backyard

2010-09-27T12:07:00.000+07:00

Looking pretty together =D


Summer flowers


Awww...


Dreaming on the leaves

... on somebody's car

...on the stones

At the front door

Greeeeennn grass

The security guards

This is just random...mahahahaha...

Filling Water

2010-07-21T21:20:00.002+07:00

Just forgot to put this up on my blog (It was on my youtube channel since 6th March). Done in RealFlow, render using Mental Ray in Maya.

Free Porfolio

2010-07-06T22:00:00.003+07:00

I just 'sort of' create a porfolio on wix.com. It looks kinda not very interesting now and there is a problem with the youtube clip that I put up, it just automatically play itself and i dont want that.
Anyway I will spend some time to make it pretty and use it to 'hopefully' get a job.

Here is the link: http://www.wix.com/seijiaso/Kimmy+Nguyen+Porfolio

The Call Of Nature

2010-06-23T21:43:00.004+07:00

These photos are taken by ME so please acknowledge the copyright if you want to post them on your page.

I took the photos last Tuesday on Mount Ngungun on the Sunshine Coast, Queesland, Australia on a trip with my boyfriend Lall. I used my Sony Alpha camera with a bit of Photoshop retouching because the colors didn't look very nice. I'm not sure how to name each of them yet so atm they gonna be just like that :)

Luxury Nautiloid

2009-11-20T21:44:00.006+07:00

My first 3D to 2D intergration

Concept Art by Keith Thompson:

Modeling by ME ^__^
And the outcome:

Winter Sonata

2009-07-19T12:34:00.001+07:00

I got homesick last month. Autumn is the best time for all kind of sickness.

I’ve dream about going home several times… wake up and realize that I’m still in my room… in Brisbane… alone…

So I went to Sydney staying with my aunt and uncle, trying to make myself feel better… but after all this is not my family…

Here are some photos I took… just for fun… not much…

Link to this album for better resolution: Winter Sonata

Waking up

The forgotten

War ‘n Peace

Stuck

Breakfast

The last leaf

The dark influence

All The Drawings Storyboard

2009-05-18T13:10:00.004+07:00

This is the storyboard of the project that I've been working on this semester. I just change the name from "A looking back" to "All the drawings". I think it sounds nicer!!!

The Dreamland Storyboard

2009-05-03T12:52:00.003+07:00

The Storyboard for my Game Design unit. I'm writing the proposal for that game now (actually I'm trying to write something. I hate writing so much!!! T__T)

About the Production Journal

2009-05-03T12:48:00.002+07:00

About the Journal that I've posted, the number of the days doesnt mean anything coz to be honest, I've been thinking about it every second for more than a month and I even dream about it T__T

This is stressful!!!

Journal 002 of the Pre-Production of "A looking Back"

2009-05-03T11:57:00.020+07:00

KIB212 ANIMATION STUDIO 1: PRE-PRODUCTION

ASSESSMENT 1: Journal

Day 6: 16^th Mar 09

Having trouble in finding a style which needs to be simple
but attractive
Thinking of using Aboriginal Arts as a style guide

Queensland Museum. Agus Namponan 1976. Untitled.

Reproduced in H. Morphy, 1998. Aboriginal Art, 179. London : Phaidon Press

Sketches:

Aboriginal character

Day 7: 17^th Mar 09

Still having trouble with the style guide – Might go for the French comics style such as in Tintin or Asterix and Obelix.

Tintin

http://petragarden.homestead.com/files/tin_tin.JPG

Asterix and Obelix

http://smontagu.org/images/asterix-2a.png

Ideas about the story:

At first, I think it would be about 2 men chasing each other, one is a British settler, one is a Aborigine. But after watching a Gnomon tutorial where Iain McCaig transforms the Little Mermaid into a science fiction story with an alien mermaid

and a death astronaut, I come up with a new story about a British soldier falling in love with an Aboriginal girl during the convict settlement. It sounds similar to

Pocahontas but in another context – Brisbane, Australia. At the end, the girl got shot by accident and the man lived the rest of his live in sorrow.

All of that will happen in around 1 minute so the short animation will look like this:

Foreground: A happy couple go out in the forest. The British soldier runs after a Turrbal girl (local Aboriginal ppl living in Brisbane at that time). The man laid a flower on the girl’s hair. Suddenly, a gun shot. The girl falls down. The man holds her body and cry.

Background: changing from Forest – British ships – Priso

n – Battle field – People live on the street – Growing building.

Sketches:

Running in the forest

The development

Day 8: 20^th Mar 09

A premise could be:

- Have you ever regret about what you have done in th

e past?

- Love story between a British army man and an Aboriginal girl.

- What if you can change the history?

Ideas for the storyboa

rd:

Similar to the technique used in the movie Sliding Doors, there will

be two alternate circu

mstances: in one, the girl will be shot and killed – a sad ending, and in the other one the army man will give her a flower – a happy ending.

Problem: The story is not convincible because the

characters need an objective for their activities - why the army man has to be sad after finishing his mission which is killing the girl, or in the other case why h

e give her the flower. There should be a scene where showing the man considering between kill the girl or do not kill the girl, and why.

Andrew’s suggestion: Showing the human side of the man by giving a scene where the man is looking at his wife portrait. Similarly, showing a scene where the girl is painting a family picture on the rock.

Day 9: 27^th Mar 09

Ideas for the story:

A gate keeper of a British convict settlement opens his note book. A picture falls out. It’s a drawing of his 10 years old daughter with a line “Daddy and me”. The man picks it up, looks at it and smiles.

A little Aboriginal girl is drawing a picture on the wall. It’s a picture of a man, a wom

en and a child.

The gate keeper starts to go around checkin

g the wall en

closed the settlement. The little girl hears the footstep appr

oaching. She’s scared and starts to run away. The man sees a sus

picious human shadow so he runs after the girl.

Case 1: The man runs past the picture on the wall but he doesn’t pay

attention.

Case 2: The man runs past the picture on the wall. He looks back, stands in front of the picture for a while then continues to chase the girl.

They are chasing each other to the forest. The girl, h

urried an

d panic, stumbles and falls down the ground.

Case 1: The man catches up with the little girl. He raises his gun

and points it to her face.

Case 2: The man catches up with the little girl. He

raises his hand to help the girl stand up.

End of story.

Sketches:

The British gate keeper

The little Aboriginal girl

Day 10: 3^rd Apr 09

Sketches:

Draft Storyboard:

Journal 001 of the Pre-Production of "A looking Back"

2009-05-03T11:30:00.011+07:00

Hi everyone,

I should have done this a month ago but I'm too lazy...
Anyway this is the journal that i write for my animation production assignment. (Of course i have to hand it in so I got it written down on Word)

It's not in the right day anyway, but I'll try to keep it in order.

So here is the first part (be prepare it's really long and boring!!!):

KIB212 ANIMATION STUDIO 1: PRE-PRODUCTION

ASSESSMENT 1: Journal

Day 01: 27^th Feb 09

Introduction to the Animation Pre-production
Inspecting the places: Parer Place and The Block (KG)

Day 02: 1^st Mar 09

Meet the client Lubi Thomas

Things to be considered:

- Effective/Reasonable speed and time

- Active/Passive view

- Resolution

- Display time (Night/day)

- Scenario, psychology

- G rating ( young viewer/ children)

Ideas:

Parer Place: 2 screens --> same clip run on both screen but one is a bit later than the other, then they can combine to make a whole big image sometimes.

The block – Glass wall screen: can see from both sides (inside/outside) so it could be a clip of someone painting something (e.g. Speed painting)

Need:

- Concept art (drawings, sketching): Idea about characters and environment

- Support materials: Photos of the environment

Day 03: 11^th Mar 09

Inspecting the places – Taking photos

Parer Place

The Block

Day 4: 12^th Mar 09

Read Sharing stories: a social history of Kelvin Grove Urban Village by Helen Klaebe

Ideas:

Parer Place: A historical short film of the Kelvin Grove Urban Village

Day 5: 13^th Mar 09

Introduction to the Production Management
Talking to Andrew about the historical short film idea

Thing that need to be confirmed:

- Can the 2 screens work separately?

Ideas:

- 1 min 2D short film (a loop maybe), but the environment could be 3D so it would be easier to shoot different interesting view angles

- Work on the Parer Place Screens

- The changing of the environment throughout time: white settlers dominated the land and killed local Aboriginal ppl – forming army – growing buildings – QUT involve …(think about the revolution walking cycle of human being)

- Cartoon style with simple images and shading / Folding book style

- Characters can run from one screen to another

Need:

- A style guide

- A storyboard

The Assignment Monster

2009-03-23T14:35:00.003+07:00

Being chased by the Assignment Monster T_________T

The Reborn

2008-10-26T15:00:00.002+07:00

My first porno animation =D
ENJOY!!!

Kool Stuff from my mobil

2008-10-24T16:30:00.006+07:00

Just some kool stuff from my mobil for showing up Muah hahahaha...

You dont really need a very cool camera to still frame your life, you know

Ferry Wheel in Southbank

Light Star (made from the photo on the right)

(Just took it this morning when I was in the studio doing my assignment)

A Kool Lobster Phone

(I got it from a shop in city)

And... That's it ^__________^

Gotta get back to work now T____T...

The 60’s Mood Board / Tracking Motion

2008-10-12T18:47:00.005+07:00

The 1960’s Mood Board:

This is called “Remember what your mom and dad used to wear when they were young?” …

Source:

Thanks for Cretivecommon.net –> Flickr –> (key words) 1960’s

Tracking motion:

This is what I’ve done… So far so good…

Augmentation from the video Duck and Cover:

BiRain in SIN City / Graffiti Clip

2008-10-12T18:47:00.001+07:00

Week 9 exercise

Let me introduce you to BiRain, my favorite cute-handsome Korean singer

In this piece, I make him look like Romeo in Shakspear’s famous novel (everybody know what it is). And the dialogue is actually from that novel as well ^__^

Sources:

The guy: http://homepages.nyu.edu/~vk447/rain1.jpg

The gun: http://www2.itexas.net/dwharris/cb.jpg

The dialogue: http://www.julietandherromeo.com/dialogue.htm

AND THE FINAL ‘MEZZY’ COMPOSION

Okie…First of all, I’m not really in to Graffiti… Athough a lot of people think that’s an Street Art or something like that, I just can’t stop myself to perceive it as “How jobless people destroy community properties”.

Howerver, I still have to finish the task.

I made a clip with graffiti style as what the task is… It’s actually a combination of some random images that I found in my hard drive such as:

HERE IS THE GRAFFITI CLIP!! TA RA ^^:

Assignment 1: Temporal Identity

2008-10-12T18:46:00.001+07:00

Assignment 1, Reflection

1. Tagline:

The tagline for my Temporal Identity piece is “

Saigon - After rain comes sunshine”.

In my opinion, this idiom is best to remind the audience about

Saigon which is famous by its two seasons, rain and dry. Another reason is that I am an nostalgic person, so using the old name of Ho Chi Minh city, Saigon, following by an old phrase “after rain comes sunshine” would be totally appropriate. As a result, the nostalgia is chosen as the main feeling throughout the clip.

2. Contribution of the motion:

Motion plays an important role in forming the visual aesthetic of the piece. It is supposed to be smooth and calm as the nostalgia theme is chosen. The speed of motion is slow overall, it is increased slightly as well as the number of materials used. It represents how the identity of a person change day after day as well as the experiences achieved. From 1:07 to 1:14, many photos are flashed in to create the feeling of how fast life has changed as time elapsed. The speed is slow down at the end of the clip to give the feeling of the thing that does not change, like the sun rises and sets everyday.

3. Contribution of the composition

The composition was adjusted strictly in order to create the nostalgic theme. Most of the photos are old. Gentle voice recorded is play on the background of soft music. Text is used to help the audience follow the narrative voice and make the “slide show” less monotonous. The sound effect is exploited effectively from the raining footage and the war extracted movies. It give a stronger feeling, in compare with a rain photo or a war photo, of how heavy the rain is in

Saigon as well as the destructive “fire and sword” situation during the war. As the tagline is “after rain comes sunshine”, there is one raining scene appear at the beginning of the Identity piece and repeat at the end, and a sunrise scene was placed just before the clip finish.

4. Target audience

The target audience would be people who want to know about where I am from and by which culture I am influenced. My family and friends are also included because on different level, they contribute in forming my identity. To be honest, the clip could have an appeal to people who is interested in the history of Saigon-Ho Chi Minh city. However, that is not what I aim to do as my work is not a traveling advertisement. I did not really talk about Saigon in the real world but actually

Saigon in my mind.

After Effect Techniques

There is no complex technique employed in After Effect to create this piece of work. I mainly use the opacity adjustment to make the layers fade in and out. Blending mode is used for the documentary movie. Mask is applied to create the boundary of the war movie, and the way my name appear at the ending scene. However, it seems to be boring with all these flat images and 2D animation so I add a lighting layer to make it looks more interesting. I did not use any camera movement as it is unnecessary.

Reference list for Assignment 1:

1. Photos:

Many thanks to:

Henry Bechtold for the photos and postcards of

Saigon, old and now. http://www.henrybechtold.com/Postcards/Postcards.html

(accessed September 2nd, 2008)

Documentary Library.

http://baigiang.bachkim.vn/

(accessed September 9th, 2008)

and Nguyen, Thanh Hai (my father) for all the family photos.

2. Footage:

Thank you Youtube.

(accessed September 9th, 2008)

Apocalypse Now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHjWDCX1Bdw

Napalm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev2dEqrN4i0

Saigon rain: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fehW3z4sqw

3. Soundtracks:

Hello Vietnam by Pham Quynh Anh: http://music.yeucahat.com/song/English/36612-Hello-Vietnam~Pham-Quynh-Anh.html

(accessed September 2nd, 2008)

Dreams by The Cranberries: http://www.paradise-engineering.com/quotation/dreams.html

(accessed September 3rd, 2008)

AND HERE IS THE FINAL WORK!!! Ta ra…. ENJOY

Mid-Autumn Festival

2008-10-12T18:41:00.002+07:00

I know it's quite late to talk about dis topic so i'm not gonna say much...
Dat is one of the photos that i took last weekend from the Mid-Autumn Festival organised by The Vietnamese Community here in Brisbane. I'll finish the whole stock n publish it later on!!!
Hop u guys HAD a great Autumn!!!
Btw, it's Spring now in my place T___T (but i didnt have any "spring-feeling"...damn it!)

CRAB

2008-10-12T18:35:00.001+07:00

.: BABE :.
..:: YOU ROCK MY WORLD ::..

L'anonymous

2008-10-12T18:33:00.000+07:00

Week 5 tutorial exercise:

Oh…wait… this is actually not what is the task about… I’m supposed to look for references for the Temporal Identity Assignment… Sorry

But… yeah… I think it’s a good practice to get used to After Effect. I recorded the footages and put them together with an interesting bloloblala sound background (that I completely have no idea what they are talking about coz it’s Japanese).

Perception

2008-08-15T16:26:00.001+07:00

Week 2 tutorial: A spacial montage using Photoshop

Source images (or given images that have been used):

(<—- the most WEIRD photo ever!!! )

Violet

2008-08-06T12:43:00.004+07:00

Sitting on the chair. Have nothing to do. Grab some old photos and manipulate them.
I suddenly like violet.
Quite romantic, though!

Legs

2008-07-24T07:31:00.002+07:00

This is my legs ^________^

The Art of ... FOOD

2008-05-15T21:37:00.003+07:00

When FOOD becomes an inspirational source of creativity!
Last part of the lazy night 'cause I'm tired :)

REDNECK ART made with BBQ RIBS

VEGEMITE on TOAST SPEED PAINTING

Speed Painting with Ketchup and French Fries

Ketchup Masterpiece Heinz TopThis Commercial

NewNuma.com 11608 Chocolate Speed Painting with Spoon