Children's Book Illustration: The Wolf and the Lamb

I was looking through some of my old stuff the other day and decided I'll upload this. It was a project to reinterpret and illustrate a story for children. Mine was one of Aesop's Fables called "The Wolf and the Lamb". Enjoy. =)

Random Drawings

Hey, people. How's life? Good? Good. Here's an update with some random drawings. Enjoy. xP

Some Updates (Text Animation, Textured zTrex, and Buki)

Let me sneak in a little update here and see if anyone notices. xP
First, my first text animation in After Effects:

As you can see, it's literally a "text" animation. =P It plays the second time with motion blur applied to the frantic zoomed-in shots of "text". I've been exposed to After Effects for the first time this year, but it is such an awesome software. It's amazing what you can do with it. There is another piece I really want to post here that I worked on in After Effects, but that is for another time. Next up, it's zTrex, finally textured...?

The zTrex you see here is actually an updated model of the one I posted over a year ago. As for the texture, apparently, some people are angry with me that he is purple. What? you've never seen a purple dinosaur before..? =P Err, not that zTrex is a dinosaur...

And, finally, introducing Buki! First, the 2D turnaround:


And the 3D turnaround:

Who's Buki, you ask? Well, he's the character of a short animation I'm co-directing with Howard Cheng. Among other things, I designed, modeled, and textured the character. I think it came out fairly okay, haha. I would say we are over 60% done with the animation. Meanwhile, you can follow its progress on the Prickly Pachyderm Productions blog, or the "Bukido" ("Buki" was already taken. xP) blog... whichever is more frequently updated. That's it for now. Thanks for sticking around! What I meant to be a little update turned out a bit longer than I expected. Eh, well, expect more frequent updates from now on. =P

"Zippy"

This is it. This is the video you've been waiting for... or couldn't care less about. =P A special thanks goes out to Howard whom I tortured for his time/energy/resources to try to finish this in time for the finals. The character in the animation is "Zippy", who looked quite different when I first created him back in 6th grade. There is no special meaning underlying the story, which is also not much of a story at all. This was purely created for experimenting/fun/grade/maybe portfolio. Some of you might remember a little portion of this animation was the first thing I posted on this blog... Hope the end result doesn't disappoint you. Maybe I'll revisit this one day and fix all that I don't like about it (e.g. sound effects). Anyways, without further ado, I present to you... "Zippy". =)

Are you a fan of Zippy yet? Hmm... maybe subliminally making people familiar with him might increase Zippy's popularity... Presenting Zickey! Mwahahahaha. >=D


Okay, well, maybe not too subtle. Heh... I guess something about Zickey sounds icky. Cheer up, Zippy. I won't do that to you again.

Mickey Mouse

Whew, update. xP Sorry it took so long. I wanted to sort of clean this drawing up a bit before posting it online because my inking was horrible, so I casually started cleaning it up on Photoshop here and there... and ended up taking far too long. -.-;; Anyways, here's a Mickey Mouse comic strip that I made that plays a joke on... well, take a look and see. =P

I had always wondered about Mickey's ears since I was a child. I didn't realize until this semester that it was intentional. I also found out that most people never give Mickey's ears a second thought. Still have no idea what's wrong with Mickey's ears? Take a look at Mickey's ears when he's facing forward and when his face is turned sideways... it doesn't rotate like it should in a 3D world. I guess that's the magic of Disney. xP

And I know there are those of you who expected this update would be something else. Well, that's coming next week. I just wanted to get this out of the way first. =P

Animal Drawings

It seems everyone is putting up their animal drawings on their blog at some point, so I decided to put mine up as well. It took a while to adjust the composition and color to get a somewhat uniform feel throughout the image, but I've finally done it. =D These drawings were done on field trips to the Museum of Natural History, Centennial Farm, Equestrian Center, and Los Angeles Zoo (3 times!). Most of these were done in charcoal and graphite pencils, but a couple were done using a brush pen. Anyways, have fun tiring your eyes out scanning over my depiction of living creatures... Talk about quantity over quality, eh? =) Oh, and these are life drawings, so... a warning to minors: Beware, this contains nudity... animal nudity. No, I'm serious. =P

Some Life Drawings

As the title says... some life drawings. =) Beware, though, if you're under 18... it contains nudity. =P No, I'm serious.