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Claude & Chunkie Dutch debut in P@per

2009-11-10T02:27:00.002+08:00

This really made my day. My Holland based contact from P@per just sent me an updated pdf of their upcoming mag edition this end of the month. I'm so proud I could burst!!! And its surreal to see the dialogue translated into Dutch as well. Thank you so much,Wallie!!!

New Kre8tif Conference happening in KL Dec 09

2009-11-06T16:00:00.000+08:00

Heyas Everyone,

If you aren't aware yet, there will be a creative conference happening here in KL during the first week of December relating to digital media,animation,videogames and perhaps,even comics. So if you're interested, here are the details below :-

Date : 7th -9th December 2009
Venue : The Royal Chulan KL
a) Keynote addresses by Thought-Leaders & Industry Experts.
b) Networking Sessions
c) Business & Technical Tracks
d) Recruitment Drive for Graduating Students
e) Company Portfolio Showcases & Exhibitions
f) Screening of Professional Works
g) MSC Malaysia Creative Industry Awards Night

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Among the guest speakers/talents making their way to the event are :-
1) Alexander L. Fernandez - Streamline Studios’ Chief Executive Officer and is one of the founding members of the company. Serving as the company’s first sales director, Alexander transferred his knowledge of the IT industry to the gaming industry and watched his ideas flourish into a creative environment that employs over fifty people. His role quickly evolved into transforming Streamline Studios into one of the world’s foremost leading co-production and production management studios for interactive entertainment. Alexander has been a key component in Streamline’s success and has several franchises and titles under his belt, including Gears of War, Saints Row, Ghost Recon 2, and James Bond 007: Nightfire. He has an unrivaled enthusiasm when it comes to knowledge sharing about the benefits of external content creation and developing original content.

2) Guillaume de Fondaumière - Co-CEO of Quantic Dream which produced FAHRENHEIT, which was one of 2005’s most critically acclaimed games on multiple platforms is now also the executive producer of HEAVY RAIN, an exclusive PLAYSTATION 3 title developed with Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios which aims at breaking new grounds in the fields of interactive narration and emotion in games.
Guillaume has been president of France’s video game trade body SNJV between 2005 and 2009, and has been recently appointed Chairman of the EGDF (European Games Developer Federation).
He was recently knighted in France’s National Order of Merit in recognition for his contribution to his country’s digital economy.

3)David Abramovitz - Veteran producer and writer of television and movies, including "21 Jump Street", "V", "Macgyver" "Cagney and Lacey" "Murder She Wrote". He was the creative force behind the Highlander TV series where he served as its Showrunner and is now consulting on the coming Highlander videogame and Summit Features remake of the original Highlander movie.
David's feature film "The No Game" will be in production in New York City and Jerusalem during the fall of 2009. He is the writer/producer of “War of the Worlds: Goliath”, and will continue to be a strategic partner for Tripod Entertainment.
David has previously lectured on the craft writing and storytelling for the screen at the Sorbonne in Paris and has decades of experience shaping IP and creating compelling characters and plots.
4) Anand Gurnani - Co Founder, CEO & Managing Editor, AnimationXpress.com
5) Antti Haikala - Co-Founder at Anima Vitae Studios (Helsinki)
6) John Stevenson - “Kung Fu Panda” Director
7) Eric Rollman - President of Marvel Animation
8) Fred Hasson - CEO Redbedlam Ltd & Chairman of the Online Games Special Interest Group, European Games Developer Federation
9) Henry LaBounta - Chief Visual Officer, EA Sports
10) Dream Tube Entertainment
11) Larry Bafia - VP, Faculty & Business Development,
Vancouver Institute of Media Art
12) Ramin Zahed - Editor-In-Chief,
Animation Magazine
13) Si-Bum Kim - Founder and CEO at Characterline Korea (Seoul)
14) Sue Erokan - Supervisor, Character Animation, Dreamworks (San Francisco)
15) Suresh Seetharaman - Founder and President, Virgin Comics and Virgin Animation (Bangalore, New York)
16) Tony Sealy - Managing Director,Intense Animation

Among many others.....

Site : www.mscmalaysia.my/kre8tif
Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/kre8tif
Twitter : twitter.com/i_am_kre8tif

Please do check out the link below for more details with regards to the event.
Media Coverage about the event : http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2009/11/2/technology/20091102101305&sec=technology
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* For those who wish to attend the conference, please note that there will be an entrance fee of RM300 each or RM100 each for students.*
Note from the article :
"The conference organiser, the Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC), hopes that by encouraging these acclaimed international experts to mingle with their local counterparts who have raw talent, the country’s digital content industry will go up a notch."

Cheers and have a great day,folks!

80s stuff

2009-11-04T22:58:00.004+08:00

Me and Bob (writer) have been chatting about 80s cartoons, Rankin & Bass in particular...and we both agree that the best tv series that still holds grounds today is def hands down, Thundercats. They did a lot of fantastic design and animation for the project and many others back then, many of which has influenced me to draw where I am now.

We also agree (along with many other pals) that their opening sequence is the strongest by far throughout the 80s onslaught of tv cartoons. My twin mentioned something about looking forward to the Thundercats trailer,if the project ever comes through, which prompted me to surf up its progress. I then came upon the Thundercats Lair site for fan and this article....
http://www.thundercatslair.org/forums/showthread.php?p=24809#post24809
From what I can make out of it, Stephen Perry, a contributing writer for many of the Thundercats episodes is in dire need and is askig for help. The help appears genuine enough so if anyone would like to help or look into this further, do check out the article link there. A lot of artist do feel the brunt of the uncertainties these days takes us and many are rallying together to help many see through the lean times. Hope this works out too for Mr. Perry.

Also came across this unique and fun blog on He-Man. Didn't peruse it thoroughly but the chap seems to know his stuff plus its fun to read. http://bustatoons.blogspot.com/

Cheers to 80s cartoons!

Long Overdue

2009-11-03T00:45:00.001+08:00

I promised this for a friend of mine a long,long time ago....in a galaxy far,far away. :(

Cheers,folks!

Animation teachers WANTED

2009-11-02T14:40:00.002+08:00

Heyas all,

Have a friend looking to fill up 3 openings for animation teaching positions in Kota Kinabalu,Sabah for a 2 year tenure. Accommodations are provided so if you're interested,please call Jeffrey @ 012-3983691. Mmmm, you'll have to make the effort to call him with regards to the monthly payment fee. Though I know it, I won't say it here. But from what he has told me,it sounds very good indeed. So, think fast ppl! Cheers and have a great week!

Stop Mos

2009-09-04T00:33:00.000+08:00

Thanks for the links,Ben!

The ever fabulous Herge!

2009-08-21T14:57:00.000+08:00

Google's Concept

2009-08-21T12:35:00.002+08:00

They got the right idea. That's how I'd like to run my Animation House if it ever comes to pass.

Gabriel's Oboe by Ennio Morricone

2009-08-04T03:18:00.002+08:00

Something I like listening to whilst working or feel better when I'm down.

YAY! Another Simon Tofield clip! Thanks for the scoop,Brew!

2009-07-29T03:38:00.001+08:00

29 today

2009-07-19T22:15:00.002+08:00

...but I don't feel a year wiser. Wise-ass maybe...:P

Just got back from a lovely dinner with palsies and am gonna digest with some more inking jobs,maybe a game on the side with Snoopy on this time. Nostalgia time. Grew up with the brilliant works of Bill Melendez and Lee Mendelson who did such a good job translating Charles Schultz's works into animation paired beautifully with the music by the Sherman Bros.
Among the many I grew up with...
1) Snoopy Come Home

2) Race for Your Life Charlie Brown

3) Bon Voyage Charlie Brown

Cheers,folks!

Quick girl sketch

2009-07-17T03:48:00.004+08:00

All of these clips are food for my study refs. Thank God for Youtube as there are literally tons of such references available there. All very beautiful,articulate, demands attention to detail and keen observation.
Cheers folks!

Old Sketches

2009-07-16T01:57:00.000+08:00

Slowly killing myself

2009-07-13T06:56:00.002+08:00

Hi Everyone,

I'm typing this on auto-pilot right now. I'm not dead yet but I am slowly working my way to it at the rate I've been going this year. My lack of updates both here and in my other sites and blog attests to the very tight schedules I've been keeping lately.
Have been taking on more additional side jobs than I anticipated (several animation and comic projs) along with my new commitment to the new Animation Society here in Malaysia and between keeping in touch with my ex-students,continuing to help nurture their future into the industry and between screenings and sporadic lecture series...I've been putting my health on the line.
But thankfully I am enjoying the ride as I go along and taking things as they come and it also helps that it keeps me focus and acts as a platform for me to better myself as an artist and try to work at it as professionally as I can. Even though many a times it is taxing on me both mentally and physically, and definitely on an emotional level at some point. But I am learning and it's all good.
And also am very very thankful all of my clients have been a brick and more than understanding and supportive to me and my work. They've been very very patient and generous with me even though majority of the time my submissions fall short of the deadline requirements and I owe them a ton for not yelling and threatening me as I'd expected under any other circumstance as you'd expected bosses to react. Some even taking the initiative to wait or adjusting their schedules to work around mine. How many times can you say that about any client? For that I owe them. It's been remarkable and short of miraculous that none of them have plugged me yet.
My only regret is am not giving enough time and 200% of myself as I'd like to in fine tuning all of the works to the level as I'd like for it to be. And due to this, I suspect and know that perhaps I've let some of my clients down who did expect much more from me and my deliveries. My personal studies have been lax but the extra allowances did help to pay for new softwares and equipment in upgrading me home studio so am happy about that.Hope to be able to start on my own personal animation soon if and when I have completed my freelance projects. Zeke,if you're reading this, I haven't forgotten about our game colab. You too,Ian. Grant,I have the sketch I owe you ready. Just need one free day to clean up and color it.

Shoot! A bit of typing and it's morning already and almost time to get ready for work. I've a ton of material to update still.
Thanks for all the wonderful comments and support,folks.Think best bet is to check up on my status updates in Facebook as it's quicker for me to just add in a very quick status update rather than a droning journal entry anywhere else in my sites.
(FYI : this is a cut out entry from my DA journal. Sad pup indeed).

Cheers and hope everyone's been doing good and take cares,folks!
Thanks for dropping by and checking in on me from time to time. Appreciate all of your time and energy in even dropping me a line along the way.

Luv yas!

FIN!

2009-04-03T16:01:00.003+08:00

YAY! Babies are on the plane and they're on their way!!! I am so excited!

Final Drive

2009-03-27T03:28:00.003+08:00

I've quite forgotten about this project I've worked on due to the fact that it was only a very brief stint requiring me to brush up on each of the main characters already pre-design by its creator, Hamadi Hamdan,who approached my twin to help to get me on board this project. I remember it being called Sarjan Hassan (Was it?) during its earlier satges of production. Well, do check out Hamadi's site here for the scoop on this project....http://blog.max-ady.com/detail/6-month-in-the-making.htm

Cheers,folks!

Awesome Belgium & Japanese animation clips.

2009-03-25T00:18:00.006+08:00

Hands down,the most favorite animation clip I've seen thus far this year. Every time I watch it, it brings a big smile to my face. And among the few that actually got me giggling with laughter which is kinda a rarity for me. Hope you folks like it.
And I just can't stop saying it in my head..."Cowboy...Indian....". Lovable characters with lovable voice overs fantastically melded together to make the entire show work! in spite of the fact that they're just toy miniatures with limited animation treatment. I don't care the limitations. Awesome story with awesome plots & characters & voice cast. You're in for a treat!
Le Grand Sommeil

Dir. Pic Pic André / Belgium / 2003
Curious events befall Cowboy, Indian, and Horse as they repeatedly fall into deep sleep.
http://www.paniqueauvillage...
http://www.atowncalledpanic.tv

Cat Shit One Movie Trailer - The Animated Series
And something insanely good introduced by my scriptwriter friend,Chi Ren. The Japs have taken furry kawaii violence to a whole new different level altogether. WOW! I've a feeling we'll be seeing more innovative maneuvers coming from the far east in the near future. Gambatte!

Production: Studio Anima

Director: Kazuya Sasahara
Original Manga (released in the USA as Apocalypse Meow): Motofumi Kobayashi
Format: 23 min. 12 episodes
Target Viewers: Survival game fans and military fans

Anticipated Customers: Clients who are looking to invest in imaging contents that are on a par with those by PIXAR

Chummy & Champ Project

2009-03-19T02:28:00.018+08:00

It's finally becoming a reality.

Something I've been working on last year. WIP images of a Kid's tv series aimed at nurturing kids and adults alike towards environmental awareness and to do their bit for nature utilizing local wildlife in Malaysia as character hosts for the program.

Right now, voice auditions are under way. Anyone interested in participating and submitting their voice for any of these babies?

Note from our director/producer Azlan Pa'Wan :
Voice Casting:
Start 17th Mar till 6th April.
"Submit MP3 or WAV to chummyandchamp@gmail.com. Deadline 6 April. So, what are you waiting folks, bring out the kid in you and start practising! :D"
Folks, we have a script that can guide you. If you are interested, please send your details to chummyandchamp@gmail.com. You can send your own voice sample or opt for the script to read.
Have fun playing with the recorder! And don't forget to spread this message around. The more the merrier eh!
Till then, hug a tree and reduce carbon emission.
Everyday is Earth Day. Do Your Bit for Our Future Generations."
warmest regards
azlan

-Shortlisted candidates will be called for physical voice audition at a place to be determined later.
Chummy & Champ is the first truppet (true puppet) aimed at propagating awareness on the environment and instill love and care for the floras and faunas. It combines elements of CGI and interactivity to provide maximum learning and edutainment experience. Please send your voice sample to chummyandchamp@gmail.com.

22nd World Wide Sketch Crawl - KL 11th April 2009

2009-03-19T01:42:00.004+08:00

Hi Folks! I'll be organizing this year's KL group in participation for the 22nd World Wide Sketch Crawl headed by Enrico Casarosa who'll kick start the event with his group in LA.
For this up-coming event, the venue will be held at the KLCC Aquaria whereby all interested participants will meet at the Aquarium entrance at 11am sharp. No fee is required to join in the event though all participants are required to bring along their travel and food allowances, including their entrance fee,sketchbook/journals, stationaries and digicam should they feel they'd like to do some photography as well. Oh and do feel free to bring along your friends as well if they're interested in joining in the fun. The event will begin at 11 a.m. and end at 7 p.m. Probablility of the group venturing out to other locations will base upon the situation as we go along through the day.

The admission fees to the Aquaria is :
1) Adult (13 years and above) (MyKad holder) - RM 28
2) Child (3-12 years) (MyKid holder) - RM 22
3) Adult (13 years and above) (Normal) - RM 38
4) Child (3-12 years) (Normal) - RM 26
5) Senior citizens (60 years and above) - RM 18
6) Infants (under the age of 3) - FREE

Group Package of 20 pax and above :
1) Adult Package @ RM 24 each
2) Children Package @ RM 18 each

KLCC Aquaria info : http://www.klaquaria.com/klaquaria/index_test.asp

To learn more about the event, do feel free to drop by the event's head honcho's Sketch Crawl blog @ http://www.sketchcrawl.com/blog/
or visit the Sketch Crawl forum for info with regards to the event...http://www.sketchcrawl.com/forum/

All those interested can note me either here, or in my DA account or even email me at sksk270@yahoo.com.
Cheers for now and hope to see you all there!

:)
Cheers for now

Don Bluth

2009-03-18T16:54:00.004+08:00

I remembering growing up loving this. Also helps that I like some of the songs in this movie starring Gene Kelly and Olivia Newton John. Just wish the sound could've been better in the clip though.

Anyone with any information with regards to Don Bluth's version of Repunzel?

And who can forget Dirk from Dragon's Lair?

Here's to remembering the 80s,folks! :)

Tripod's New Ink & Paint Dept is now Hiring!

2009-03-01T21:20:00.004+08:00

Heyas Folks! A special word from our pals at Tripod Studio :

TRIPOD ENTERTAINMENT is looking for local fresh graduates (Malaysian citizenship) to join its new Ink & Paint team for 2D (digital) traditional animation.

We are kicking off in mid-April, and this Ink & Paint team will be participate in the production of our DVD movie “War of the Worlds: Goliath”.

The team will be trained & supervised by Sun Min Image Pictures, the Korean studio responsible for animating the “Ben 10” series.

Please find attached the notice, as well as a sample of Ink & Paint “before/after” results from Sun Min, to get a better idea of the work at hand.

The Ink & Paint team will be stationed at Studio Climb, a pre-production/design studio involved in “War of the Worlds: Goliath”. Studio Climb is located at Phileo Damansara II, next to Eastin Hotel in Petaling Jaya.

Those interested can send in an email cc’d to all the people below:

Leon Tan (Tripod producer): leon@tripod-ent.com
Mike Bloemendal (Tripod producer): mike@tripod-ent.com
Spencer Ooi (head of Studio Climb): spencer@studioclimb.com

A sample of the Ink & Paint process.

"If all goes well we will schedule an interview. Good luck!"

Gambatte, Tripod!

Rex Steele - Nazi Smasher

2009-02-26T23:57:00.003+08:00

Story by Bill Presing
Film by Alex Woo

Bill P's blog : http://billpresing.blogspot.com/
Alex W's blog : http://woohoopictures.blogspot.com/

The Making :

Gary

2009-02-23T04:22:00.002+08:00

Gary from Gary on Vimeo.
Directed by Clément Soulmagnon, Yann Benedi, Sébastien Eballard & Quentin Chaillet - Copyright Supinfocom 2008 - Gary-lefilm.com/

A big thanks to Lucas Griego (http://pencilwhipped.blogspot.com/ and http://www.alivenotdead.com/lucasgriego) for sharing giving me a heads up on this beautifully rendered masterpiece. I love it!

Tony White's Hokusai Animated Sketchbook & Tod Polson's Heads Up

2009-02-13T00:02:00.005+08:00

Tony White :
"This was my first ever... and still my favorite... short animated film! I created it in my spare time while I was still a director/animator at the Richard Williams Studio in London during the late 1970's. I actually started the film after we had completed 'A Christmas Carol', when I was Richard Williams' own personal assistant at the time. 'Carol' went on to win the first of Dick's three Oscars. When my own 'Hokusai' film won a British Academy Award I moved on to set-up the 'Animus Productions' animation studio... a creative entity I led for a further 20 award-winning years. The film itself was inspired by the wonderful sketchbooks of Hokusai. When I saw them I realized that this artist was indeed a true animator at heart... he just didn't have the knowledge or the technology to be one in his lifetime. I therefore sought to bring his drawings to life for him, as homage to his genius"

Genius by a genius.

Also received a heads up on what been going on in Tod's life lately when he kindly gave some of his spare time between his busy schedule about a week ago to chat with me.

Tod's busy between film lectures in Denmark and working on his animation projects in Thailand. I totally admire him for his ability to adapt, explore and broaden his horizons wherever the adventure takes him.

Here's some links thanks to Tod :

Brendan and the Secret of the Kells trailers : http://hefenfelth.wordpress.com/2009/01/25/brendan-and-the-secret-of-kells-trailers/

Tod's Blog : http://www.rungingerrun.blogspot.com/

The Book of Kells blog : http://theblogofkells.blogspot.com/

I for one have been anticipating The Book of Kells release for quite some time now and can hardly compose myself. A beautiful and masterful work of art! Congratulations to Tod and the Kells team for all their hard work and perseverance for this top quality animation. Am also looking forward to the Gingerbread man once it's completed.

Cheers folks!

December and January Updates

2009-01-27T01:11:00.011+08:00

Whew! Been a while since my last update. Let's get started!
Between deadlines, I was able to take off to attend my cousin Justin's wedding dinner in Penang early last month. Had a grand time chilling with old friends and relatives and gorging myself to slow obesity. The only downside to all of it was my loss of my latest sketchjournal which only had a few more pages to complete before I add it to my collection of completed journals. Thankfully I did backup the info and scanned some of my favorite pages inside before that happened so the pain wasn't as bad. It still stinks though not having the original copies with me now. Am still hopeful that some day,someone will return it, that is,if they haven't thrown it in the rubbish bin already. It did look like a crudgy bounded old book anyways.

Am just thankful to have good friends who were there for me during that ordeal. One being Hoos who even took the time and trouble to go out searching for my missing sketch journal a couple of times. I owe you one,Hoos!

Our New Year countdown proved successful , celebrating with the MnU team and some friends from Brighton at Ayon and Ed's new hood in Subang Jaya. Yes, we played Pictionary after the count down was over.

On another more positive note, some friends have contributed some lovely new sketches to my new journals last month and beginning of this year.
Min Park's awesome sketch of a guy falling...and more from him,sensei Junning and the fabulous Mel. Thanks guys!
Also attended last month's Comic Fiesta held at a much nicer venue at Sunway Puramid's Convention Hall. Hope they'll be able to hook up that place for future following conventions. Didn't stay long,but enough to get the feel for the atmosphere, contribute a few sketches to the table and meet some familiar faces.
What our convention is sorely lacking are these guys...

In other news....

Jayne Carverhill from a PR agency that is currently representing the RSPCA contacted me last year regarding Simon Tofield's (creator of the Simon's Cat clips I've been updating in here) other project. Here's what she wrote :

"I noticed that you have blogged about Simon’s Cat in the past, so I thought you would be really interested to hear that Simon Tofield, the maker of Simon’s cat, has finally released a new animation. The video, featuring Simon’s sister’s dog has been made especially for the RSPCA, and can be watched at www.giveanimalsavoice.org.uk. There is an embeddable link if you wish to place it on your site.

The video was launched yesterday and it has been viewed over 40000 times already, which is amazing! But we really want to make sure that the underlying message is not lost. Pet obesity is a massive problem; one in three pets are overweight. It is all too easy to give your pet many treats, especially at Christmas time, but how much is too much?

If this is an issue that is close to your heart, I can provide more information and images. I hope you enjoy the video!!

All the best,

and images. I hope you enjoy the video!!

All the best,

Jayne Carverhill

immediate future Ltd

T: 0845 408 2031

M: 0770 279 5073

jayne.carverhill@immediatefuture.co.uk

http://www.immediatefuture.co.uk/

Social Media Marketers, Online and Offline PR Consultants.

Thank you so very much for the heads up,Jayne! I really appreciate all the updates I can get!

I received an invite to try out this new application called Moodbox by Roman Vorushin,CEO of the project.( http://moodbox.com/ )

Here's what he has to say about it :

"Moodbox is made especially for people who love drawing! MoodBox is a tool for collective drawing based communication and fun by which you can draw and share your
message with everybody in a contact list or publish it on the web.
Here http://moodbox.com/moodstrip/130 is an example of the drawing
based conversation."

I love it and find it another useful and very fun communication tool to play around with. I appreciate that when I click to use their pencil tool, the rendered result does actually turn out like a kiddie's pencil sketch line. Kawaii! The application is fast and not complicated to use. Another plus for Moodbox. I sincerely hope to see more artists using this in the near future. How about making 2009 the start of this new trend of communication? Sure yahoo has that option,but I kinda the results here better.Plus a whole lot of other neat gadgets like their air brush tool and art brush tool...even cute clip arts to add into your chat art. Yahoo chat only allows for the paint tool rendered format.
Always nice to have another option to chat with,methinks. Especially if my msn and yahoo chat box starts acting up in me.

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And I'd like to end with some Garfield Thanksgiving clips. We don't celebrate Thanksgiving here in Malaysia though. But what I like about this is that it's one of the better animated Garfield series I've seen so far. More fluid in movement in my opinion. Enjoy! Brings back childhood memories