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My Android Nation city design turn into animation

2011-12-07T01:38:00.003+08:00

Visited Ivan recently, he shown me a TVC of SingTel Android Nation, the background was design by me for the Android Nation website, the animation result turn out very nice.

Like it.

for the illustration see here.

SingTel Android site

2011-08-25T14:14:00.003+08:00

This site has been up for sometime, the background were done by me. Suddenly the illustration came alive after Ivan added the animated objects.

Check out the website at:

http://info.singtel.com/android/

Abang Jimat win an Effie award

2011-07-26T16:06:00.003+08:00

I've been working on this project since last year, and getting closer to AJ family although I'm not seeing them very often. I'm quite happy to know this campaign win an Effie awards.

Congratulates to everyone who is involved in this campaign!

Bronze:

CATEGORY: TELECOM SERVICES

Campaign Title: Abang Jimat & Family

Brand: SingTel

Advertiser: SingTel Mobile Singapore

Agencies: BBDO Proximity/MEC

Our Paper Monsters

2011-07-26T15:53:00.003+08:00

Last year Roomism was work in a project of create 2 paper monster for a book.

Like the cover said that you can make your very own amazing papertoys, I can said all of the paper toy in the book are really simple to make, just follow the numbering and stick them together.

I'm not sure whether it sold in any local book shop, you can try to search around.

Or you can order Papertoy Monsters: Make Your Very Own Amazing Papertoys! from amazon.com.

Monster in the circle are our creations. I know you can't see it.

Click the image to order from amazon.com:

Blogger Dynamic Views

2011-04-21T12:55:00.005+08:00

Blogger introduce a new feature call Dynamic Views, personally I quite like it.

It's been a while since I did my last post, not sure when is this cool function was introduced. It let the reader who is more visual lead can enjoy your blog (if your blog got many images) by putting all your images into a Polaroid photo frame, let the image speak for themselves.

Check out the new view of my blog:

http://soloistblog.blogspot.com/view/snapshot

For the setting please see the article below:

http://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1227173

Singtel Abang Jimat site

2011-04-21T12:05:00.005+08:00

Singtel Abang Jimat site is up, the illustrations were done by me.

I've been working on this project since last year, most of the drawing are black and white in local Malay newspaper, now they are online and in colour.

No all illustrations in this project were done by me, some other illustrators also involve in this, so you might feel that the character seems not consistent in different media, even so all of us are working very hard in a rush timeline giving our best to make it happen. It's my honor to work with so many great people in this project.

I'm looking forward to get myself busier on this project this year.

You can check out the site at the link below:

http://info.singtel.com/personal/communication/AJ

Some screen shots from the site

OIC Portrait Day April 2011

2011-03-29T23:44:00.001+08:00

See you all at OIC Portrait Day April 2011.

OIC Portrait Day March 2011

2011-03-05T23:09:00.002+08:00

Some drawing I did at the OIC Portrait Day March 2011. Try a non-waterproof pen to draw, I'm satisfy with the ink smudge after applying the water colour, it just blend the ink with the colour.

Portrait of Nana

2011-03-02T20:35:00.005+08:00

Just realized that I haven't post anything to this blog for so long. Recently to busy at work, and you know, most of the work can't be posted too soon after it was done.

So this is something that I did for fun, a portrait of Nana. Hope you'll like it.

Test post from my iPhone

2010-11-27T03:07:00.003+08:00

Just found out an app to post from my iPhone. Testing it now. I can even post a photo with it. Nice!
The only thing i don't like is the image I post will be in centerised format, I have to manually edit it with my MBP, not sure whether there is anyway to change it.

- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Visual

2010-11-14T23:19:00.001+08:00

Some visual done in June.

JJ Visual

2010-11-14T14:04:00.003+08:00

A JJ Acuvue visual I did at June 2010, the girl is sweet~

Black and white illustration

2010-10-23T17:53:00.005+08:00

Rencent work, black and white illustration. They are for a calendar 2010. The result turn out quite nice when putting them on an old paper texture.

Some 3D test rendering

2010-10-23T17:33:00.005+08:00

This is some simple 3D rendering I did few months ago before I bought my MBP. They supposed to be the background of a story that in my mind, a fantasy kind of story. Hope that I'll have time to continue working on them.

OIC 4th anniversary portrait drawing

2010-10-15T00:42:00.004+08:00

Some drawings done during OIC 4th anniversary at The National Art Gallery. I personally quite enjoy, the crowd is very different from the usual Maad OIC Portrait day. Change another drawing pad, texture of the paper is smoother, paper is thinner and more absorbent to water.

Was planning to draw everybody who are posing for us, due to some reason I didn't manage to draw some of the poser. So sorry~

There is a little girl sitting beside him to calm this little boy but i didn't manage to draw her

OIC Portrait Day 02 Oct 2010

2010-10-03T21:54:00.003+08:00

Was late at this portrait drawing section, these are the only 2 drawings I managed to shoot.

Comic Project for BBDO - Abang Jimat

2010-08-31T23:59:00.005+08:00

These are some of the comic I did for BBDO it's about the story of this character call Abang Jimat and his family. Every project is a new to me as I could try different drawing style, so do this one, it's interesting.

Basically the they're main for Malay market so all the dialog are all in Malay. You may see it around Paya Lebar area. Some illustration in some media are not done by me so you might realised there's a bit difference between each media.

Hari Raya period will have more ads in Malay newspaper. Below are just some ads from the art director. Some of them I don't post here as i don't get the layout files from them.

Add in another 2 ads.

OIC Portrait Day at August 2010

2010-08-15T03:01:00.004+08:00

Some sketches that i did at the OIC Portrait Day this August.

This time I tried doing sepia colour on the over all sketch only giving a little saturated colour on some part of the drawing such as one of their t-shirt, only at the later part of the day I did in more colourful way. And also this time I given a thicker outline on the people that actually made them more out standing and more focused.

Some frames from different board

2010-08-03T00:24:00.003+08:00

A very interesting project. Like the craziness.

Old visual

2010-08-03T00:17:00.002+08:00

Some visual I did sometimes ago.

2010 FIFA First Scorer Tshabalala

2010-06-12T02:52:00.004+08:00

The 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa first scorer Tshabalala.
I drawn the first scorer of last World Cup Lahm Philipp (see here), so same for this time.

Reference from http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/photo/photolist.html

OIC Portrait Day at June 2010

2010-06-10T01:38:00.005+08:00

This is the 2nd times I using my water colour this year. The first time was at the Portrait Day at March. After the March portrait day I went to buy a brown ink pen until June I finally got a chance to use it. haha~

Now a days I usually do digital drawing as clients often require a digital files and many changes as many of you knew it. When too use to the Undo function, I'm scared of drawing on a paper with ink but I used to draw with ballpoint pen many years ago.

So that's the reason of joining the portrait day is to force myself drawing on paper and draw in a limited time. This remind me when I was still in high school, we used to do sketching on the street, rushing home work like water colour painting or oil painting etc. It require very sharp observation and also good skill.

Too much rubbish~ here are the only 2 sketches that I managed to shoot on that day.

The little man above was hard to draw~ I've tried 2 times but failed end up I change my position and do a quite sketch of him, a bit rough but I quite like it.

This one was the very last drawing on that day, probably because of I've done so many sketches, my hands are warmed up, lines are fine, water colour also in control.

Pixar Exhibition

2010-05-27T22:59:00.021+08:00

今天参加了 Omy.sg 举办的活动和一班 blogger 到 Singapore Science Center 参观了 Pixar 的展览。
Pixar 的动画到目前为止每部都会支持的我当然也非常期待这次的展览啦~

在入口迎接到访者的 monster~

只有我们这班 blogger 被允许在展览里拍照，这可是一般参观者所没有的特权~ 作为回报，当然要写篇参观文来宣传宣传

整个展览展示了 Pixar 各部动画的 concept art、sketches 、storyboard、visual、访问等制作过程，对于一般人而言神秘又富吸引力的幕后制作，在这个展览一一被公诸于世。

对于从事动画的人或是正在就读有关课程的同学们，这真是一个一窥动画届顶尖动画幕后制作的机会。相信大家一定能从展出的大量作品中吸取到中间的精华~

这个 storyboard 很熟悉吧？

在这里并没有把所有照片放上，如 up 和一些短篇动画的资料。。。

跟着箭号走就是 Toy Story Zoetrope 的入口

在这个展览里有两个亮点，第一个是 Toy Story Zoetrope，这是什么呢？ Zoetrope 在中文就是走马灯，这是由一组放置在一个圆形转盘上不同动作的 Toy Story 模型，在一定速度的转动过程中，配合不停闪动的灯光制造出视觉上的错觉，看起来就像是立体的走马灯，也就是动画的原理。

这就是 Toy Story Zoetrope 啦~

这让我不禁想起以前在日本 Studio Ghibli 的“三鹰之森美术馆”看到的立体走马灯，Wiki了一下才发现 Pixar 也是受到 Studio Ghibli 的启发才制作了这个 Toy Story 的立体走马灯。无法理解？请看 VCR 吧~

这是我用 30fps 所拍的比 10fps 拍的好多了，别埋怨拍不好，因为相机还是无法呈现和眼睛所看到一模一样的景象啊~ 在网上搜搜你就会发现到大家拍得都一样~~

第二个就是介绍 Pixar 各部动画的电影 Artscape，电影里可看到类似 animatic （ad agency 的朋友应该知道是什么）的电影配合音效灯光等将 concept art、sketches 等结合起来，给观众不一样的感官效果，不再让人觉得参观幕后制作，看看草稿是乏味的一件事。

另一个我个人和娜娜都很喜欢的是那些 character models，因为最近娜娜正在学做模型，希望有朝一日我们设计的 Big Foot 系列也能有模型。

言归正传，那些模型真的作得很好， texture 和细节都很仔细，有些还看得见铅笔画的网格，猜想这些都是在扫描 3D 模型时做的记号。

由于 copyrights issue 同时也是因为自己办过展，当然也不希望自己的作品被拍特写然后被非法贴在 blog 上的行为发生，因此没办法在这里放特写的照片，想看超大照片和细节就不好意思了。请到现场参观吧,~这些都是珍贵的原作原稿哦~

原谅我拙劣的摄影技术，这些纯粹只用于资料搜集，把精神都花在参观上了。
因为我觉得眼看才能把握当下的感受，照片拍得再美错过享受当下，一切也只是纸上的美。

相关网站：
http://www.pixar.com.sg/

"Come dressed as your favourite PIXAR character on 29th May"

The Unleashed Colours

2010-04-27T21:53:00.002+08:00

Kind of like my last painting style, so wanted to try on this direction again and see how far of the unleashed colours can go.

Not for any jobs or commissioned by anybody, just a painting for my own interest.

Central commercial

2010-03-27T01:54:00.005+08:00

In fact this board included a few variation of TVC that can be used in different season, posted video is only one of them, if you want to see other version you can try to search in youtube.

Client: Euro RSCG