Coffee fix in HK

This is a quicky gift for my pals Barb and Luc as they head out now as we speak to brave the typhoon for their coffee fixes and dinner chow in Hong Kong. Hope they won't have much trouble getting around there.

Digittal girl sketch

Just wanted to try out my Corel Draw after a very very long spell. Haven't been practicing at all but I think training should re-commence once again. Cheers folks!

Have been meaning to share some of my girl sketch studies for a long time now. Well, here are some of them now. Hope you all like' em, folks. Have blown up Marilyn,Liza and Bridget cos they got the best results and I'm quite please with them.

Cheers! :D

Out with the Old,On with the New

Hi all,

Finally! Some time to myself to get some personal sketching done. This one started in Feb but only managed to finish it tonight. Hope y'all dig. Certainly grand to have fun with drawing again.

Reason being is cos am finally working from home which I will update in here hopefully some time soon. In the mean time,hope to be able to update all of my sites more often.

Cheers Folks! :)

Social War Art

Some battle card designs done for the game. The 2 below never got to completion and it really bothered me a lot. These were the rough designs I was brewing over for inspiration.

The original animal art proved too complex for the game so a re-design and look was called for as shown on the design roughs above.

Chunk!

Who doesn't like Chunk? Certainly not me. Real good to see him then and now.

War of the Worlds : Goliath

Finally! After many years of waiting on one of the projects I had the opportunity to contribute to is finally nearing completion. Thank you so much to my clients as Tripod Entertainment for giving me the chance to work on it eventho' it didn't work out to the final vision that they wanted. I totally agree to their decision as it all does work out and come together really nicely for the overall package and it was such a treat to learn that I had the grand opportunity to work alongside so many notable talents. Among them one of my favorite artists out there, the very talented,Jose Lopez (http://www.desoluz.blogspot.com/)

Do check out the movie currently in production at Heavy Metal's website :
1)http://www.heavymetal.com/wotw/
2)http://www.heavymetal.com/wotw/productionblog_w19.html
3)http://www.wotw-goliath.com/

All art is owned and copyrighted by Tripod Entertainment Sdn. Bhd.

On the side : "dang! the drawings could def be better and the anatomy leaves much to be desired. Thank God they're just rough concept sketches."


Cheers folks!

Hi everyone! It's been a great start to the year. Work has never been more productive and am pleased to announce the launch of the first few games online which I've been involved in for the designs. You can check them out here at 2D Play (http://www.2dplay.com/). Among the latest games I've worked on is Social War, Nightmare on Pink Street and The Three Thieves. And seeing as work has been ever more than we can cope with at the studio, I'm very pleased to say that my boss is looking to hire a few potential and talented artists and 2D/flash animators on board to fill in our soon to be launched Creative Division at the studio. Although we're looking to hire full-time to fill up the studio capacity, we do hire out a lot of freelance gigs to talented individuals who might be available for the work but won't be able to commute to the office or is living overseas. So do drop us a line at Big Wig Media (http://bigwigmedia.com/) or contact me directly if any one of you are interested in a lucrative career in the 2D gaming industry.
Here's one of my recent rough pencils for all interested applicants to try their hand at inking it as a quick test.
Hope to hear from you all real soon and hopefully I'll get to work with any one of you out there in the near future producing games of our very own.

Cheers folks!


Oh yea, if you folks have some spare time,do catch up on our latest news of Saladin with the recent interview of our talented Director and Writer,Mr. Choong Chi-Ren here @ http://www.axapac.com/news/malaysia/interview-saladin-writer-and-co-director-chi-ren-choong

Stay cool,folks!

Social War - Wolf

Thanks to my friend,Gregg, for sharing this link :
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/12/12/magazine/14actors.html#2

Social War Game Art

Finally after many many years of working in the industry, I get permission from my current boss to start sharing all the art I've worked on for the games that have already been launched.

Ah yes, I am now currently employed at BigWig Media in KL working on 2D flash online games. WOO! It's definitely a breath of fresh air after working many years in the animation industry. And yes,I do intend to get back into animation in this particular industry seeing as I've been sidelined many times and got stuck in pre-production majority of the time in the animation industry.

I will definitely be committing more traffic and more updates here now that the greenlight has been given.

Apologies folks for the lack of new stuff in the past. My hands have been tied with projects,working for clients so I don't have the right to update anything without their go ahead. Even for my own personal art,I couldn't share much till any of it has been launched officially.

So for this particular series of art, it's all done for a game called Social War which you can now play at 2D Play.com.

http://www.2dplay.com/index.htm

Link to game : http://www.2dplay.com/social-war/social-war-play.htm

It's officially my first game ever I've completed art for so hope you folks will like it enough to have fun with it. Confession : some of the art in there could still do with more work but my hands have been tied with tight deadlines per gaming project.

More art to come,and an official update in my journal for more news on the job to come.

THE STEP BY STEP PROCESS :

1) When I was assigned to work on the set of avatars, I've suggested to my producer about working on a set of animal art for the players to choose from to do battle with.

So this is what came out.

2) I did a color test to it before cropping it down to the specific avatar/icon size required.

3) I've talked to my producer about the art test and we both agree it doesn't come out clear enough with all the details going on in there.

4) So back to the drawing board and I came up with a new look and design for the entire set of animals that will definitely match better with the Social War characters.

5) Plunk in some color with cropping and resizing and we have the final art!

Cheers and hope you folks dig it. *hugs*

Panique Au Village - Le Gateau

My all-time favorite trio is back! And just found out with a movie to boot! I must get my hands on all of their titles!
You can catch it in Youtube before its taken down for good!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dgm7aQ3B7c&feature=related

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2011

Merry Christmax Everyone!

Was watching one of my fave movies recently,'A Perfect World' while drawing and noticed a lil flaw on one of the scenes. When mama was serving breakfast on the table,she had already had the scar on her right side forehead which she got from struggling with the escaped convict later on in the story. Next scene,her scar is absent all the way up till she got hurt bad. But good call for wanting to film the additional scene to edit into the story of her serving breakfast at the table. Better flow and timing to me anyhow.

Babies all grown up!

Thanks to Aida Khalid for wanting to snap a photo of me with my babies,all grown up and making their way out there.
More shameless pluggin' and info about the project :
http://www.lowyat.net/v2/malaysian-produced-saladin-animated-series-hits-international-audience-2.html
copyright of MDEC & JCC.

The many promotional posters prior to it's official launch in the Middle East.
copyright of MDEC & JCC.
I didn't take these pics. I grabbed it from the 'Meet Saladin' site in FB.
Just too awesome to finally see your characters come to life and also in the form of cos-players.

Love the pic of Darwish duking it with Duncan,only a vague view of his blonde fringe in the photo.

My sleeping arrangements

....with my fatty kitty,Kameko. Mmeeoowwrr! She tore up the head rest to my work chair too but I don't mind so much cos that's where she perches herself to rest while keeping an eye on me and my work.

Saladin Launched with a brand new life & career

Yes! The animated tv series I've been working on for the past couple o' years,well I've been attached to since college and investing a good deal of my career into it...is finally here and will see its first launch locally on our local tv broadcast station RTM tonight at 7.30pm. Heard it will be screened twice a week for both Saturday night (7:30pm) and Sunday morning (re-run 9:30am) respectively.

Officially,it's already been launched earlier during Sept throughout the Middle East via Al-Jazeera Children's Channel and heard it's made a grand impact on the audiences there.

Am so relieved and happy that it's finally making its way to our local audiences here starting with the local tv station broadcast and hopefully will branch out more internationally, but I won't jinx things by counting the chickens before they're hatched. Hopefully,Saladin will make its way to your tv screens or even via online come next year.

For now while that's in the works, everyone can finally enjoy all the special previews and tit-bits here at our official website :

http://www.saladin.tv/

While my babies are finally making their way into the world on their own thanks to the huge support from everyone involved...I am now settling into a new career as Games Designer for 2D Flash casual games online and I'm loving every moment of it so far. Love the new challenges and learning experiences it brings each day. A huge change from being an Animation Character Designer but I'm all for learning new things and looking forward to it. Its been a breath of fresh air and a nice beginning step into to world of gaming.

I won't be forsaking my own baby pet projects for comics and animation like Claude & Chunkie,Flight Captain Hurricane and so forth, just that with these new challenges and more hard work required each day, I will have less and less time to work on them. Ugh,can also easily feel my age catching up to me cos am not able to work through nights and spring back ready for the day's work anymore. Now I feel I need my proper sleep hours in order to be able to perform work the next day. Gonna need to schedule and pace myself properly again with discipline. :P

Something I've been sorely lacking.

Finally, a BIG shout out to anyone who is interested,the company I now work for at BigWig Media (http://bigwigmedia.com/) is seriously on the lookout to hire more 2D Flash animators. So if anyone out there would like a crack at it,pls do forward your resume' and portfolio to my producer, Mr. Faraz Ansari at faraz@bigwigmedia.com.

And thanks to Luka Kuncevic,our composer and sound designer on the project for uploading this for everyone in YouTube :)

Snapshots thanks to my good friend,Chan Ghee, who came along with me to attend the Saladin Appreciation Screening on the 12th this month. With Cholpon Abilova (JCC line producer), our talented scriptwriter,voice actor AND director, Choong Chi-Ren and my twinnie,Debs, who thankfully,managed to make it on time for the mingling session after the screening in spite of the last minute updates.
Thanks to our generous hosts from MDeC and JCC for arranging the momentous ocassion where all the talents involved in the project,get to savor the first screening of our hard work on screen at the theater. We very nearly packed the entire cinema had everyone managed to attend that day. And it was so great to finally see all of the voice talents up on stage introducing themselves and pairing up with the mo-cap actors, all whom we very rarely get to meet as production is all done at various different locations at the same time.

Imma ghost in the background and am toying with the idea of tinkering with this image. We'll see if I have the time to do so. :P

Thank you all so much for your kindness and great friendship and support all this time here and sorry I've hardly been posting anymore new artworks seeing as I'm earning a living working for studios and clients which am not at liberty to share the artworks as freely as I'd like due to P&C till their release.

Cheers folks and all the best in everything you do!

Happy Belated Birthday Cal!!!

This one is for my comic writer's son,Calvin. Took a while to get this piece done because the lil critic did not like the original take of Link at all. Prob because he did not appreciate me doing a caricature of him dressed as Link for the earlier version. So I had to re-do it as it was his gift and I wanted him to really like it. Here's the Before and After attempt.

SHOCK3D is now Hiring

Hi All,

We at SHOCK3D! Sdn. Bhd. are currently working on an animated feature film!!
And we'd like you to be on-board.


Where are we?
KUALA LUMPUR, in tropical sunny MALAYSIA! 
(DOWNLOAD S3D MAP.jpg to find out where we are exactly)


What are we doing?
ALAMAYA.  An AMAZING EPIC animated feature film!!!
FOR WORLD WIDE RELEASE DUDES!!!!

Who are we looking for?

1) Animators

2)Modeling & Texture Artists

3)Simulation Specialists

4)Compositors

5)Illustrators (Storyboard & Matte Painting)

6)Lighting and Render Artists

7)HR & Admin Executive

8)In-House Graphic Designer

ALSO, we are constantly looking for STUDENT INTERNS who are seeking for an
amazing job experience to be a junior production member or work as a studio
assistant. We need all the good help we can get.


*Do forward to as many people you think might be interested in being part of
a team working on an extremely exciting, and needless to say, FUN project!!!

Hope to hear from you guys soon.
THANK YOU!

SHOCK3D! SDN BHD

A2-2-5 SOLARIS DUTAMAS
NO. 1 JALAN DUTAMAS 1
50480 KUALA LUMPUR

recruitment@shock3d.com.my
TEL: 03-6207 9235
FAX: 03-6207 9237

Young Jump Studio is now Hiring!

YOUNG JUMP ANIMATION IS LOOKING FOR YOU!

Young Jump Animation is a Malaysian animation studio specialising in motion capture and CGI for television, games and multimedia.

We are perhaps best known as the studio that is currently producing “Saladin: The Animated Series” (www.saladin.tv) -- an international co-production between Malaysia and Qatar. We have done work for both local and international clients, including a number of high profile international games developers.

Besides Saladin, we have a host of other exciting projects coming up, and we are looking for talented & motivated individuals to join our team!

We have openings available for:

- Modelers & Riggers

- Digital Artists

- Animators

- Lighting & Effects Specialists

- Compositors.

Candidates should have a diploma in Digital Animation or the equivalent, with a background in one of the 3D animation softwares.

A solid foundation in traditional art skills (sketching, illustration, painting), acting ability and an understanding of timing and humour are all great advantages. Fresh graduates are encouraged to apply. No experience necessary... Just a passion for great animation!

Interested candidates should send their CVs and a link to their showreels to steven@young-jump.com

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The posting is aimed primarily at Malaysian animators. We're open to applications from non-residents, but they should have an idea of what the living standards and pay scales in KL are like, so that they apply with realistic expectations.

Best regards,

Steven Lim
Project Manager
Young Jump Animation Sdn Bhd

12A, Jalan 5/91A,
Taman Shamelin Perkasa,
Cheras, 56100 Kuala Lumpur,
MALAYSIA

Tel: +603 9283 3562
Fax: +603 9283 1562
H/P: +6012 6988 642

Visit us at www.young-jump.com

http://www.young-jump.com/index.html