I can't touch my toes.

Illustration Friday: Gravity

2007-02-18T10:38:00.000-08:00

A banana peel!!

Illustration Friday: Crash

2007-02-11T19:02:00.000-08:00

A crash test dummy.

Illustration Friday: Red

2007-01-26T20:55:00.000-08:00

A girl in a red hoody. I made this while ago inspired by the movie "Hard Candy".

Illustration Friday: 80's

2007-01-14T20:12:00.000-08:00

80's for me was me being obsessed by "Super Mario Brothers" on Super Nintendo. 100 Ups, Going through the entire stages with B-button dash in 5 minutes...

And the silk result is...

2006-09-14T20:11:00.000-07:00

... like this. I couldn't resist making one t-shirt.

The workshop I took only allowed us to use one color this time, so I had to use the main layer only. Wish I could do more. Next time!

Preparing for silk screen printing workshop

2006-09-12T21:28:00.000-07:00

If things go well I will be attending to a silk screen printing workshop tomorrow night. Here is the image I created for it. It will be divided into 3 screens.

I'm still alive.

2006-09-05T23:04:00.000-07:00

Yep, it's been a while since the last post. It’s very weak of me that I totally stopped working on my personal projects just because I got a job. Anyways, I’m back to the evil video game world…

Finally started settling down, so I’ll try to start updating this again. This is the latest project I’m working on at this moment. This is supposed to be that character from Super Mario. It’s still a test version but it’ll be displayed at our company's Art Show.

It's still work in progress.

Illustration Friday: Sorry

2006-05-24T17:34:00.000-07:00

Thanks to my lovely b/f who is always a big fan of my stuff, I still can't believe it but I decided to post these. Collection of "Sorry" moment...

This is what happens when I can't finish a painting that is supposed to be posted for this one.

1. "I stepped on a cat!"
2. "He was my brother to me!"
3. "Failure"
4. "Sorry I'm beautiful"

Illustration Friday: Angels and Devils - An angel...?

2006-05-12T16:57:00.000-07:00

Seriously, where is my creativity? This week is a quickie… might post another one… or not… (*excuse: I’m kinda busy working on my “frogs”.)

Poisonous darts come from a beautiful frog

2006-05-11T16:32:00.000-07:00

Poison Dart Frog, such a pretty creature.

Illustration Friday: Fat #2 - Hard-boiled Frog

2006-05-10T21:40:00.000-07:00

Well, I wasn't really painting this for IF but realized that it can fit this week’s theme so I’m submitting it again.

I use to have a pet frog named "Onihei". (Named after a Japanese hard-boiled samurai detective in a popular TV-show over there.) He was a horned frog that could grow pretty big and fatty, but after 5 years he started shrinking down due to my poor frog caring skill, and then passed away(sob).

I’m sorry Onihei, I hope you’re in a better place!

Illustration Friday: Fat

2006-05-05T22:55:00.000-07:00

Angelina Jolie's FAT lips.

W.I.P. no title... just a face, yet.

2006-05-05T18:15:00.000-07:00

Just a head I was working on the past 2 days. My focus this time was to create photo realistic eyes. They're not perfect yet but getting there.

I'm going to add nicer normal map and such later.

Canada Post is back!

2006-05-02T17:52:00.000-07:00

Since I was very sad about my Canada Post model last night, I re-created it today. I know, I know, I should be doing something else but still.

The building behind it is where I live.

OK, that's it for playing around.

R.I.P, my pretty Canada post...

2006-05-01T22:59:00.000-07:00

After finishing a test render, Maya crashed. And the file’s gone forever… to the evil Maya world. It only took 5 minutes to create this and I was just messing around but still… pisses me off. R.I.P, my pretty Canada post…

Illustration Friday: Under the Sea

2006-04-28T18:32:00.000-07:00

Simple and straight forward. Nothing too crazy...

Illustration Friday: Robot

2006-04-22T22:24:00.000-07:00

Rowena showed me a website called Illustration Friday (http://www.illustrationfriday.com/), so I registered myself right away. This week’s topic is "Robot". The first image popped up in my mind was this...

In the dry cough hell.

2006-04-20T15:24:00.000-07:00

There is no progress on my model because I gave myself a week off just to hang out with a friend who was just visiting from Tokyo. She left yesterday with my killer cold virus, and I am still remaining sick. Soooooo sick. Buhh.

Anyways, it’s a while ago but my mom sent me some of my old paintings with the usual care package. My original plan was to add these to my portfolio site, but I’ve just realized how sucky they are. It’s quite shocking. I was 17 or so back then. That’s even more shocking.

#1 - pencil, #2 - pencil, #3 - oil

3 point lighting and rendering

2006-04-09T22:26:00.000-07:00

Now here is a quick post. I started understanding the concept of 3 point lighting. Cool.

Personal Project: Alexus (the Bimbo)

2006-04-09T21:44:00.000-07:00

Ah, hello, to whoever reading this. Since this is my first post I’m going to write a little bit about myself.

I’ve recently got laid off by a giant video game company I worked for over 4 years as a 3D character modeler. Long story short, I decided to use this space to keep track of my personal project while I'm finding a new job. (Most likely I’d continue posting even after getting something somewhat.) So, here you go.

OK, this is what I'm working on at this moment (img #1). It’s still not perfect but I finally finished modeling and texturing of this character that’s based on my very simple drawing (img #2). Yes, tell me I’m lazy. I know it's not the best character design! Anyways, my focus on this current project is more to get familiar with lighting and rendering. Next, rigging, binding and such… I've been too specialized at my previous work so I'd like to try out something different. I’ll keep posting the progress little by little so stay tuned.

PS. What's the stuff on her head? (img #1) That's a "Geisha"-wig. It's low priority but I'm going to make her a full Geisha costume in the end. It's such a Babie doll to me(fun)!