mclelun

Crazy World 2012

mclelun — Sun, 27 May 2012 16:06:42 +0000

I had a weird dream few weeks ago, it was a piece of artwork. You see, I didn’t always dream about artwork, so this must be some kind of prophecy. I think it is a must to recreate this artwork base on my dream. So, I started this vector illustration project, and I finally complete it this weekend.

The Artwork

Below is the complete artwork. There are quite some easter egg/reference in there. I think I am crazy.

Steps

Below are some progress images that I save up while I was doing this artwork. For a more details steps and workflow, read this blog entry that I wrote earlier.

Sunsastera Environment Design

mclelun — Fri, 18 May 2012 16:52:07 +0000

My group was one of the winners for IPCC 2011 animation competition and I had been working on this project for a while now. The final milestone presentation was held a few days ago at Sri Pentas, and we shown our work in progress trailer during that day. I guess it is be a good time to share a bit more info about this project with all my friends now.

Screenshots

My task in this project is to handle all the environment (background plates), VFX and compositing. Below are a few screenshots of works I have done.

Video

The following video is a compilation of background plates that I did for “Sunsastera”. Youtube and Vimeo links are available.

Mangafy McDonalds Characters

mclelun — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:44:54 +0000

I started a small illustration practice project sometimes ago. The objective for this project is to redraw some of the famous restaurant mascots in a completely different art style that they are usually being portrayed. In this case, they will be mangafy.

Birdie the early bird

The first character I did is “Birdie the early bird”. There are two direction I could do for her, a young cute kid or a cute and sexy anime/manga girl. I go for the 2nd option. I know the goggles look a bit like weird looking bra in my drawings.

Hamburglar

Hamburglar is easier to do as he got a lot of costume detail with him that can be modify. I change the hat into a more fashionable, trendy style and wow. I must admit he look a bit like a super hero now.

Ronald Mcdonald

Ronald is slightly harder as he is a clown. I don’t want him to be a psychopathic clown either (Joker). So, I google some images and found out that Ronald is perfect for this vintage disco look, with big afro and cool shades.

Grimace

To be honest, nothing much can be done with Grimace. He is just one big purple character with no detail at all. I can change the design so he look like a purple henshin hero (totally japan), but it lose the “big” and “fat” characteristic of grimace. So I end up doing something simple, a fat guy in a purple suit. I know he look like “Digi yellow man”.

Mcdonaldland Family

And here is the family shot for Mcdonaldland. Aren’t they look so damn awesome and cool? Larger image can be found at my deviantart page “Mcdonalds Family“.

Pipe Dream Flash Game

mclelun — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:26:53 +0000

“Pipe Dream/Pipe Mania” is one of my favourite puzzle game that I played during the DOS era. In this game, player have to construct a path from the starting pipe for the ongoing water, which will begins to flush after a short delay time. I am always interest with its game logic and mechanic. So, I spend some time to redevelop part of this game in Flash.

Play The Game

In the original game, player will need to achieve a certain “distance” target to win a round. In my version, you just need to connect the starting pipe to ending pipe to win. You can play “Pipe Dream Flash Game” in my labs page.

AfterEffects Rain

mclelun — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 04:54:13 +0000

It rain quite often near where I live this few weeks, probably due to the monsoon season. So, I pick a few photos that I took, touch up them in Photoshop and make them rain in AfterEffects. Below are a few screen capture from the final video.

I also model some objects use in this video with Blender3D. For example, the electric pylon and construction crane are 3D models. For me, it is much more easier to model and render in PNG alpha rather than masking a real photo.

I guess I have blend in the 3D models nicely into a 2D background. The last step would be putting in human characters, which is a bit harder for me to do right now.