At the One

Went to the One Graduation Batch of 35 last Saturday.

Animation in Malaysia

These are 3 pages from a 4 page article on the local animation scene here in Malaysia by the NST(News Strait Times). The article ran not too long ago on Sunday,3rd Sept.

Lunch at Jusco...

was interesting enough when you happen to have colleagues like these guys to dine with you.


Muid and Junning having some fun outside the restaurant towards the end of our meal.

Dawg

His coloring's a bit off, but I just wanna add a new drawing into the site. Cheers folks!

Go Team!

A special article done by the News Strait Times for our Independence Day celebration. We were one of many interviewed for the special edition dedicated to the new generation of up n coming youngsters in the work field.
Curious about us? Just hop on to our site at http://mars-and-uranus.deviantart.com/

My wonderful colleagues

There's really some sadistic sense of humor going around in the office. And they're picking on my toys! I dunno who did that to my Spongebob,but,ooooooo...my poor Spongie. For the second image,I was wondering what had happened to my putty rubber that morning. It seemed less. Like half less. Then I found out where the rest of the putty went. Thanx,Mel!

Hill Billy girl

Having some fun with my tablet and with Painter. Look closely and you can see how sleepy I must've been when I drew this at night...I got the month and year mixed up.

Animation Pitch 2006

Our company at MDeC had hosted an event called the MSC Animation Pitch 2006 Awards for a tv series recently on the 24th of July at the Cyberview Lodge in Cyberjaya. Sure it's nothing and no where near as good compared to the recent San Diego Comic Con,but it got quite a lot of participants and guests from the local animation industry to come and cramp into one lovely conference hall and that in itself was a very fun day.
This is some of us at MDeC working on the Saladin project. That's from left to right...Choong Chi-Ren our scriptwriter, me (Hiya!),Melissa/Mel,artist extraordinaire and storyboard artist...and finally Ezatul,our project's researcher.

This is Inspidea Studio delivering their winning pitch. Their project's entitled 'Drop Dead!'. Smooothhh!
Another winning pitch given by local comic artist,Reggie Lee, entitled 'The Stalk'.3 guys having a blast...from left to right,my ex-animation lecturer and good friend Syed Hassan,currently working with RK Studios...Johari and William B. DuBay(what an honor!) from Vision Animation. Both coming out as winners during the event.

I see people....

The judges....from left you can see two of my colleagues Kamal and Vernon...the grandfather of our local animation industry,Mr. Hassan Muthalib and Steve Bristow, our project's director for Saladin. Another one of my colleagues with his hand cupped to his mouth standing there is Aik Wee.A group pic of all the 5 top winners during the event...RK Studios, Vision Animation, Inspidea, Reggie Lee and Animasia. Each of the winners received an RM50K grant to help start up their original IPs for a tv series done locally.

Jane's Mural

This was completed last month and it took about 2 months to finish. Like a few hours out of a couple of Saturdays actually. It all started when my one and only student,Jane, wanted to suprise her parents with something big while they were gone for holiday. So she told me of her plan to do a big mural in her bedroom to suprise them...and so here it is,folks! All finished and signed. The idea was entirely hers and we did some preliminary drawings and a painting before venturing for the big product. I'd helped to supervise and paint but I'm really really proud she took the innitiative to come out with something creative and big like that. I've only given her private drawing lessons on Saturdays for about half a year now but she made the effort to go over the top here,and I'm proud about that. Jane,if you're reading this,don't ever let that spark die down but keep on feeding it till it's a great big giant flame. ;)

The Last Kiss

Sorry for the lack of updates,folks! A lot of things been going on in my life for the past 2 weeks and there's a lot of things to get done. I'd better get crackin'!
Hope y'all like my take on Mr.J and Harley. ;)

Happy Birthday to ME!

My niece, Dinah Aria Lyndon....isn't she cute? ^___^
A quick doodle I did for myself at the office to commemorate the day. :P
My pal Hoos was thoughtful enough to draw this and send it to me. ^^ Thanx Hoos!

Fox trying to count

Something I drew last night with the tablet. Dang! My fox looks like he's picking at his....well,you know.

SketchCrawl #10

July 1st wasn't a good time for me coz it coincides with my Project Manager's wedding...and it was basically a fasting day for me so I couldn't organize a proper group to go out Sketch Crawling with me. So I did what I could at the wedding. I didn't want to sound out that Malaysia is participating earlier for fear of eventually turning up zilch that day. So here's my contribution to Sketch Crawl #10.

Doll in Summer

What I saw this morning....

on my way to work. A fat cat staring contently at 2 'kampung' chickens on a grassy slope at an industrial area. The 2 chickens didn't seem to mind the least that the cat was in such a close proximity while they were pecking away.
Roughs sketches on those fancy writing papers the hotel provides you. I took a bunch home along with a handful of pencils during one conference hosted by the company I work for. XP

I Heart YouTube

Wowiiee! I had no idea YouTube was so well stocked! Imagine the goodies I found wheh I typed either Silly Symphonies and Merry Melodies in? Silly Symphonies was quite limited but I aim to find more burried treasure. Hehehe,the Brewmeisters found a lot already from the looks of things. Check out their site if u miss any goodies out there...http://www.cartoonbrew.com/ They found The Monk and the Fish and Dixieland Droopy,2 shows I was dying to watch but couldn't get my hands on. Thank you,Cartoon Brew! I grew up with Dixieland Droopy but regretfully almost all my old vids didn't survive the passage of time. So good to be trotting back thru' memory lane.
Among some of the goodies in Silly Symphonies is Egyptian Melodies 1931,to my mind,must be the first attempt at virtual reality or something(Lemme know if I'm wrong),and below,The Skeleton Dance and The Ugly Duckling which I didn't check out coz I must've seen like hundreds of time already when I was growing up.


I had more finds in the Merry Melodies section with,Ooooo,first things first,my favorite,Fedd the Kitty,Fresh Hare 1942,Injun Trouble starring Cool Cat 1969(last real WB animation?),Jungle Jitter (sensored for being politically incorrect), All this and Rabbit Stew,Hare-um-Scare-um 1939, Daffy Doc 1938,Falling Hare,Cheese Chasers,Hyde and go Tweet and lots more. Check out the 2 images from Feed the Kitty....good ol YouTube is a jackpot for animation references,inspirations,memories etc. all jammed up in their site. I highly recommend a whole days,weeks,months perusing their gold tuckshop. No regrets! ;)

MnU animatics

For those of you not in the know...me and a group of friends have formed MnU aka Mars and Uranus to share our creativity from art,books/comics and even animation with the mass. This year marks our first venture into animation with the the introduction of our characters in an animation short for this year's up n coming Comic Fiesta in December. We've just completed the animatics and hope you guys will enjoy viewing what we have so far.
You can either view it in our site at
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/34896304/
or just hop on to YouTube...http://youtube.com/watch?v=U1a1CmIpUBA

Every little support we get is highly appreciated and helps to boost us to better ourselves n the works we churn out. Thanx!

Yes, I'm very very shameless...

YEEEE!I feel like a proud Mamma...Saladin made an unexpected appearance (for my case anyways) in front of our paper's InTech section last last Tuesday. I thought I was busted for coming in late to office that day when all my colleagues heads turned to my direction when I entered the door...thankfully it proved to be a diff case. Whew! Gotta catch the morning papers in the future. WOO! Saladin is looking up what with our new website up n running (http://www.saladin.tv/main.php) and with it's recent win for Best Tech at SICAF for the SPP category last month. Hope the good streaks will continue till the end of production and distribution of the products. *_*

Also, my group MnU's lil animation is finally going again with last night's meeting to finally nail the score in preparations for the coming animation slog soon. We've completed the storyboards,with model sheets,mood boards/color keys,animatics etc. still to finish. *.*Gaaaaa....
View our group's progress here if you're too lazy to go thru my links on the right side of the screen. XD http://mars-and-uranus.deviantart.com/

AND YOU"VE GOTTA SEE WHAT THOSE PYRATS PPL HAVE BEEN UP TO!!! WAAAA! I WANNA BE IN ANNECY THIS YEAR!!!
http://pyrats.blogspot.com/

That's all for now,folks!

Now for some art...

Here's a watercolored piece I did not too long ago...pity I used a flimsy paper to color on,oh well...And below is me playing around with my new Intous 3 I won last year during the Comic Fiesta. Some doodles.....

More FEIs

Great! My blogger got to working again,so here's some of the pics I meant to upload earlier. ^__^