Saladin Launch

Sorry folks fore being tardy on my blog update on this...Blogger just wasn't cooperating with me last night. HEhehehe,sorry about that Acom! XD Well,here is the link to the teaser that's been launched officially last Friday by our Prime Minister himself, Pak Lah. http://www.saladin.tv/
The scene that you are about to see was taken from the old script meant for a feature production, but has since been changed to be made into a 13 episode tv series. You can clearly see how much the designs from the teaser to the buntings below differ from each other. Much has been altered to the look and mood of the cartoon since last year as this new version is aimed gnerally at the younger generation and more family orientated audience.
The new designs for the main cast for the animated tv series above. From left to right: Tarik (Saladin's best friend and closest comrade in all of his adventures), our hero Saladin, Anisa (Sal's love interest) and Duncan (ex-Frankish knight disillusioned by the realities of the Crusades,now joins Saladin in many of his adventures).
This first 13 episode series takes place during Sal's teenage years, as we follow Sal thru' his many adventures around the time of the Crusades before he became the legend that he is known today.
Gotcha! Hahaha, gotta love a politician with a sense of humor. Our PM actually reacted as tho' he has been shot when I took this pic of him when I was ahead of the press photographers in the red carpet aisle leading towards the main auditorium. "PAM!" he exclaimed.The Saladin launch coincides with our company's 10th anniversary with the unveiling of our company's new logo there. U can see this pic above of our PM being given a limited edition copy of the Saladin artbook made specially for that occassion. Below, after all the formalities are done,it's time for the screening of the 'Saladin' teaser.
Hope y'all enjoy viewing the teaser. Mind you, all this is still at the experimental stages, and we've still a lot of grounding to cover...from the character animation,voice recording,editing etc. However, this is the first time our govt is supporting our creative industry by funding this project as we all work together to see this project thru'...and from the looks of it, things are finally taking shape and moving along.
And the whole look of the cartoon had to be done in 3D as we're sorely lacking in 2D animation skills here in Malaysia. Plus the fact of the time and budget constaints and quality control/consistency issues, this project for now,couldn't be achieved any other way.
'Nuff said, and we've still a long way to go....but this is a start. The pilot episode is slated for completion by the end of this year,so hopefully....we'll see how things go.

Cheers everyone!

How COOL is that!

Our work finally wraps up for the official launch of the 'Saladin' animated project today,now back to more serious work. I got a lot of model sheets and designs to finish for it(IN ONE WEEKS TIME?!?!?!?!*.*),and if there's seconds to spare, get the color references done for each of the characters involved per episode. And got interviewed by Media Corp's Channel News Asia on my role in the project. Pity I didn't get to catch it live on tv, tho' my cousin from Singapore did and she called me about it soon after. Apparently my interview appeared right after our PM's speech with clips of the animated teaser in between during the news. Cooollllness! Some photo goodie to come as soon as I get the roles washed...yep,I still use the normal SLR cameras. XP Call me ancient,call me fossil...I still luv 'em. Images of the cartoon coming up soon,wait for it! ;)
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/southeastasia/view/202099/1/.html

More Sketches...

Old girl drawing,I didn't know what to do with it. Have fun viewing the rest,folks! ;)
Man, I love drawing this monkey. :D
Hehehehe,had fun coming up with this baby sketch. ^^
Was a bit more hardworking and gave it a bit of color.

Meaty Inspirations

Hehehe,the Meaty Prince himself,Dr.Biggles,inspired me to draw a version of a cat clutching tightly to his fatty chow. The other would be my version of the Meat Fairy. ^^
Check out his cool site at http://www.cyberbilly.com/meathenge/
And ya might as well hop on to my favorite bunnies while you're at it! ;) Luv a bunch of bunnies who know how to enjoy their food. http://www.bunrab.com/yummychow/yummytitle.html

The Art of Puyuh

Heyas everyone,something outta da blue,but well worth checking out...Comic artist extraordinaire, Leong Wan Kok just has his website up n running. His original approach to style alone is well worth giving his site some traffic. http://www.1000tentacles.com/index.htm
On the side note, I have more drawings coming up and am currently in the process of organizing all my links properly into one big online directory(right now,with help from gal pal,Al). It's far from finish yet, but once it's running smoothly,I hope it can be of some use to everyone to speed thru' all the creative links out there instead of having to surf or trace from one blog to the next to find out new source of inspirations and ideas.
Here's a sample....http://creativeblogdirect.blogspot.com/

Cheers folks!

Cats

Me and my colleagues got locked out of our office for nearly the whole day yesterday, so had the chance to get this piece colored at the other office upstairs from ours. XD Boy, do I love to goof off. Had fun givin' the cats some color tests. ^^

Go Chinese

Just bought for meself some chinese brushed and chinese ink last weekend....and I'm LOVIN' IT! XD WOO! Sorry for not updating regularly,folks...anyways,here's a quick roundup :
1) Working on finishing all the character model sheets by this month before the big 'D' (director) comes in.
2) Could almost feel the digicam in my hand...working on some side jobs to help finance my lil baby. ^^Wish I could've had it earlier tho'...>.< There was a talk and presentation given today by a visiting studio which I wish I could've taken shots of. *doh*
3) Am gonna go cruisin' to some Hobb's store in town this weekend to use up a discount coupon I won last year before it expires this month.
4) Just finished shifting our office to a new premise a few doors down the hall. Dang,it's colder in here than the ol' place where you can control the room temperature. Got some gloves to keep it from freezin' in the morning now. ^^
5) Some neighbourhood stray dogs have adopted our house as their home base now so yea,I see them a lot everyday. I calls 'em Maverick and Lupo. Will go into further details on 'em when I finally get my digicam and will definitely posts some sketches of them when I get the chance. ;)
6) I can't believe I haven't even plugged in my new tablet yet. >.< Will be doing so soon,...I hope.
That's all for now I think...more to come and thanx very much for all your kind comments,folks! Take cares and cheers!

There goes my holiday

What better way to spend my week long holiday...falling sick right smack in the middle of it!!!>.<

My take on Hans. Hope he likes it tho...*.*

I'm dreaming of a digicammmm....

Very sorry for the image size problem,folks! I still haven't figured out why I can't click onnit and the larger image will appear,any thoughts anyone? Anyways, here's a link to the first image in a larger version at...http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/28782326/
Thanx for the feedback,folks!

Disney/Pixar

All I can say is I hope they're bringing in back their 2D animation department and hopefully good things will come out of this. Now, onto lil more updates on my drawings below...


Pencil works on pieces I did for our Comic Fiesta book compilation last year.

Meant to give her some colors but just got too lazy in the process.

Monkey Business

Works that never made it to the publishers last year, works for personal projects and for the Comic Fiesta.



Brainstorming on 'Living on the Wild Side/Monkey Business'... an idea about a Chimp(Jim Panzee) and his hench-ape,Bub trying to monopolize the Grassland's dung business against an arch-rival, a Baboon named J.T. Boon (James Thadeus).

Helpful sketches from my pal,Hoos. He's one for the monkeys. ^^

Waking up the Tiger

Late post - Christmax Eve Morning... I couldn't resist disturbing BimBim cat.

For Aimee

A sketch done by a friend of mine,Aimee, whom I met in Deviant Art. She's a sweet gal who's currently residing in Melbourne and made the effort to come all the way down here just to come and meet up with us at the Comic Fiesta. You RAWK,Aimee!
Grrrr.... Was suppose to have more stuff in this post but Blogger was misbehaving again...>.< Will just have to try again.

Merry C and Happy New Year Everyone!

Me and me whacko group, MnU, having a blast at this year's Comic Fiesta. That's me at the bottom left. Check out the lil beauty Intous 3 I won at the comic competition held there. *doh* Held it upside down. >.< *Ahem* Some shameless plugging...anyone interested in purchasing our illustration book and comic please lemme know. I did the pencil work for the comic cover.

Drawing one's self

Somehow I like poking fun at myself. I did this at the office today when I wanted to draw something different from my regular work. This really cheered me up and reminded me why I got into this gig in the first place. For fun! I laughed hard after seeing how I portrayed myself in the drawing. "My goodness! Is that what Ithought of myself?" XD It's very humbling too, if my ego bug starts kicking. ^^ I think everyone should try this lil anecdote, you might be suprised by the results. ^^ Go crazy!

New Sketch recently

G' Mornin' Everyone!

My motor was really slow in startin' up this morning, so I doodled some stuff to warm up. Something I felt while I was listening to my regular playlist. This came out on the paper while I was listening to Cirque du Soleil's 'Alegria'. I don't know if there was any official mention about it, but I feel that it's very important to draw what one feels like,and not what one is compelled to draw. The artist has all their own emotions wrapped up and needs to be let out onto the paper.So this is what came out onto my paper. Yea, I'm a real emotional person, ain't every artist? Listening to Sarah Brightman and Jose Cura singing 'Just show me how to love you' after that,helped me to clean up my lines. :P I'm sure there's an unwritten rule somewhere out there about artists personalities and traits. Well,I'm blabbering...my nose is dripping like a faucet...and I just need to update my stuff. So here's some more,everyone! ^^

I was thinking of the upcoming 'Narnia' one day,so this lion (upper right) appeared. I drew a little mouse nearby to make it look like that ol' fable about the Lion and the Mouse.
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I drew up a bunch of kids last Sunday while I was at my sister's house to spend time with her and my lil nephew,Adam. He's a real fan of stop-motion animation rather than the regular 2D/3d stuff. His favorites being Pingu and Thomas the Toy Engine. O.O Whooaaa,mama! He can watch them over and over again all day long till the discs are ruined. Only 2 and he knows how to operate the dvd player already. I'm a proud aunty. ^^

Sorry folks!

So very sorry for the downtime in uploads,y'all!Hopefully things will lighten up next week and I'll have some new goodies to put up. ^^ Yea, this is what I was really 'feeling' like one day at the office...I was really really reaalllyyy sleepy and had to go online to ask a friend for some wake-up help. *.*

A quick sketch I did for GhostBot's Gnome Dogs collection. ^^