BACK FROM TOKYO!!!

WOO! Am back folks! Am pumped and ready to get back to work. The trip has truly been very inpiring and humbling at the same time. If I can sum up one thing about Japan...is that the people are truly beautiful in every way. Absolutely took my breath away. The people,the places,...everything!

I will go through my trip here in series with photos included as well as posting in my sketch journal of the entire trip I've done throughout my stay there. Also, to all you local Malaysians out there, do pick up a copy of the Utusan Malaysia from your newstand. Front page,baby!!! WOOHOO!

Be right back,folks! Wait for it! ;)

Pic of yesterday's farewell party for Jenn Yu (standing 3rd from left) who's been our background and concept artist on the Saladin project. We will miss you very much,Jenn Yu!

Sir David Attenborough,doodles and Tokyo

To Sir David Attenborough and the BBC crew...thank you so much for being such a big part of my life and for teaching me the important values and facts of life on Earth.

Bit of my contribution to last year's MnU book and a quick girl sketch doodle in photoshop CS2.Will also be away for a week in Tokyo for the Tokyo International Anime Festival 2007. Will definitely be back with more stuff to show here. Take cares everyone and have a great week ahead! ;)

A combination of Art and Music for one Night.

Fantastic! The vibrant works of Mr. Latiff Mohidin's paintings conbines with well-known Austrian pianist, Mr.Ratko Delorko, made for one unforgettable evening at the KLCC Petronas Art Gallery Exhibition. Below - my take of the evening. Mr. Delorko's music was so inspiring that night, that it got my mind filled with various beautiful images and scenes resonating from each piece as he played.


A Monsieur Didier Carriere requested for a drawing of himself by me in my sketchbook.

Mr.Delorko amusingly educates the audience with various musical notes from the piano as well as indirectly requesting all guest to have their handphones switched off.

My nephew,Adam,the budding artist.

Happy BIRTHDAY Michael Caine!

A link to all Michael Caine goodness :- http://www.michaelcaine.com/Biography.htm

Indian Superman and Spiderwoman

O.O My entire vision of Superman and Spiderwoman will never be the same again. Watch if you dare. But I caution you...while watching this you'll either experience uncontrollable laughing spasms till your internal guts cave in and explode all over...or you'll just choke to death with whatever you're eating.

Enjoy folks! And thanx to Iman and Zeke for giving me these links.

More on Michael and 'The Job'

Another reason why I love Michael Caine. Anyone who appreciates David Attenborough and his works is tops in my books. "Well said,Mr. Caine. Well said".

Morning brekkie before the design crunch for the rest of the day. Have a nice time at work everyone. Cause if you're not enjoying what you're doing now, then what on earth are you doing there in the first place. Yea, it's a job and it brings in the income, but working on a job with passion is a whole different dimension in itself. The work you produce will reflect on you as an individual,including the company or studio that hired you. Eventually, it's all about you being happy in what you do and with no regrets about it by the end of the day.

Cheers everyone!

Tootsie Roll "Mr.Owl" Commercial

Back from the hols and back to work

Well, it has been a very pleasant week last week. Given a few days to work on my own personal projects as well as finally having the time to clean up my study area at home. It looks wonderful now without all the clutter and rubbish about the palce. But I know deep within me that the cleanliness won't last for very much longer.

Anyways, I took a few days off from work as well to head up north to Penang to visit the my relatives there. My aunt and cousin from the UK are also having their holiday there so it's a very ideallic moment to have a big reunion there n then. What I enjoyed most about these road trips is that you get to see some spectecualr scenery along the way once you hit the mountain range. These shots were taken while I was still in the car,windows down and me sticking my hand out to shoot those images. So happy that some turned out well.

A gem find. The Chowrasta Bazaar near Komtar still retains some of their old book stalls there. Check out the variety of books there. Tho' honestly I still prefer the old bookstores in KL, but for this place, if you look hard enough, you might find a few really good books cluttered around here and there,and if you haggle enough, you can actually get the book for dirt cheap. I bought about 6 books there and almost all of them came up to about RM2 each.
My rendition of my grandunc,Chek Kong,during one morning at the breakfast table. That's him there getting aquainted with his great grandson,Adam, on our first day there.

Well, the following week and back to work. But it wasn't at all dull. On the contrary,it feels so good to be back on the routine and getting more work done. One fine suprise came from Lee-Ling, my director's daughter, again when she made her father run the usual art trade errand and gave me 2 lovely artworks with a gift attached to it. That's it on my desk.

That's supposedly inspired from the same panel cartoon I did for her previously.

First panel : She's having a squabble with her younger sister when her dad,Steve,appeared.

Second panel : Steve (she can't draw guys so he appears as a lady on the left hand side) hands her the drawing I did for her.

Third panel : She loves it.

I love this piece she did below. I had to count the four leaf clovers in the artwork before I'm allowed to open the gift attached at the back of it in a sealed brown envelope.

This is it. A colorful notepad I can hang. Here's where it ended up.

Thank you so much,Lee-Ling! :)

Muid's Birthday Bash Last Saturday at Galleriizu at Wisma UOA,Near KLCC

Love the funkiness of the entire setting and it was so cool to be able to view all of those wonderful artworks and get inspired while enjoying the party and mingling.
This is my favourite piece among the others. Would love to be able to have my own exhibition one fine day.

That's the birthday boy,Muid, entertaining his guest with a dance number midway during the party. Missed it? Here's a vid clip of it in YouTube :P http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRqp0Ooj8jQ

And more images of the party here in his site - http://moedlatif.com/misc/bday/

Cheers everyone!

Animal study

Wish there was mor efree time in the day for me to do more animal studies. Here's what I've been up to lately.

I didn't want to rub off the lil horse scribble on the upper right hand side. I love simple doodles like that. :)
I didn't bother to finish this stag. Me being the lazy bum as usual.

Oops! A couple of human drawings in here. I thought I'd leave them as it is. Te lil girl drawing was inspired from watching a cartoon while the little boy is suppose to be sketches of my nephew,Adam.

Sorry I was too lazy to add colors to some of the drawings. Was even suppose to do some color study for the crocs but it's getting late here and I'll leave it like that for now. Hope y'all enjoy!

Cheers!

Loney,Dear - I am John

I found this interesting music video in YouTube.

Wedding Photographer

I had the privilege of being one of the wedding photographers for my friends,Brian and Kat's,wedding last Saturday. Thank goodness I was well enough to perform my duties that day. This was one of the final shots taken during that day when all the guests have gone home and all thats left were family members,a few close friends and the caterers. Congratulations,Brian and Kat! All the best to your years ahead and thank you for being such near and dear friends to me.

At the Clinic

I got sick beginning of last Tuesday night but tough it out till Thursday. But when Friday came, I knew I had to give in and go see the doc or else kill myself at the office. The clinic my bro introduced me to seemed like any ordinary clinic. But it was the patients there that made all the difference, whether it was to be a boring visit or a very interesting one. This visit,I'm happy to say,turned out to be a very interesting one. There were these 2 kids amusing themselves with everything imaginable to while away the time. Especially when it got to playing with their own caps. After playing 'blind men' for a good few minutes, they then took turns to toss their caps back n forth between their grandfather,who being such a cool grandfather, smiled along. But with happy patients also comes grumpy patients. There was this lady who complained,"How come she gets to go in first when we were here before her?". Adults. The sarcastic tone of her voice varies by great degrees from the chirpy voices of the 2 lil boys. Ah,children. Really the salt of the earth. Apart from observing the patients, the doc turned out to be a rather interesting fellow as well. Besides giggling along(he's a giggly but nice sort of chap) with chats about cartoons after finding out about my job status, he gave me a good dose of medication for my ailment which he claims will solve all of the problems I've been having. And it did. I'm happy to report that I was the happiest human being on planet earth at the precise moment I popped those pills into me and felt extreme calm wrapping all over my body within and without. And it made me high too. If you can imagine what laughing is without moving an inch of your body while you're in bed feels like, that would be the closest description as I can come to for that experiece. Aaahhhh....Where are my pills? Time for another dose. Oh,and if you're wondering what the doc's favourite cartoons are...It's the Pink Panther, The Brain and oh! I forgot the other one. Where are my pills?!?

Cheers,folks! #)

Owl

The Man and the Eagle

This drawing was inspired from photographs I saw in the National Geographics.

Michael Caine on Acting

Part 2 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McNdeKm5c_k

Part 3 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iEsYH8pYrI

Part 4 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0IlqAd6dcY

Part 5 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgCl2OEOljI

Part 6 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceXMFUPitXA

Ok, I'm a big fan of Michael Caine. But not many people know this. :)
I wanted to share these clips found recently on YouTube which I find very poignant in order to get across the significance of acting,be it for a live action or animation production. Acting plays a very crucial role in enabling the right idea and story to get across to the audience. You get a script,and if it's not delivered accurately and affectively across,then it's well on it's way to ending up being just a mediocre production. I'm not saying that to get an idea across, you have to have perfect acting skills about it,no, but rather...as long as the message is conveyed ideally and hits the right mark...then you have your audience where you want them to be. The subtleties on acting varies depending on the sort of production you're aiming for. Animation is a moving graphic narration and you have all the luxuries of getting the idea across through good acting and should not be squandered and taken for granted. I don't want to give the ol' excuse of budget or time constraint which is always the case(even here), but if an animator is trained properly in the fields of acting as well, I believe it can make all the difference in the world for any of their projects. Bringing it to higher grounds so to speak.
Now if only the animation schools here would also include 'acting' into their syllables. And while they're at it, include the studies of poetry,culture and music.

"Thank you so much,Zeke! For helping me solve the earlier technical difficulties". :)

Thaipusam Day

It's a holiday today,folks! And though I intend to utilise it to the fullest to get a lot of work done, I fully intend to enjoy this rare break at home as well. First off, a good morning to my cat,BimBim. "Say hello,BimBim!".
A lot of updates to come,folks! Wait for it! ;)
Cheers!