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Drawing a caricature for Marty Sklar

admin — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:10:42 +0000

Marty Sklar

Remember Marty Sklar?
For his retirement from Disney Imagineer as a Disney Ambassador, I drew him a caricature of himself just for keep sake as a personal gift from myself. I presented him the gift right after Imaginations luncheon and prize presentation for the 2009 winners of the annual competition. Fortunately at that time, there wasn’t a big crowd around him. I was pretty nervous so I stuttered as I presented him the portrait. He liked it immediately. He said it would go up on the wall of his new office at home. After a few days I received a hand written note thanking me for this special gift. I know it is a personal note but I would like to share this here because I am really proud of it. I am a big fan of Imagineering and I am proud to be part of it as an Imagination Graduate and alumni. It has indeed been a great year working in Disney Parks & Resorts Online as a visual designer. Though it was an internship, I have produced work that was of professional level and has shown utmost professionalism in my work. Too bad they are not hiring me further because I know I can do a lot more than what was expected of me. It is a bummer that Disney has allowed some little and simple administrative work to stop them from hiring a talent. Anyway I am glad I did achieve something within a short year. What’s next for me? I will be preparing myself for more. Comic Con is coming up next shortly and I do hope I could get some contacts from the convention. Crossing my fingers. Now here’s the personal note from Marty Sklar. Applause!!

Marty's thank you note

More sketches… last of the December series

admin — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 04:05:46 +0000

The wet and cold season is almost over… now it is back to the usual sunny and blue sky – my all time favorite. I fell ill during the Christmas period, counting down with a bad and sore throat… however thank God, I recovered almost with 3 days with just that tiny runny nose. Kat fell ill after visiting me in the office. Anyway we are looking forward to counting down to a brand new year of 2009 soon, at Univeral Studios City with spectaular fireworks to usher in the new year!! Hurray!!

Comics Inking with Corel Painter

admin — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:31:57 +0000

I have been looking for settings that artists use in Corel Painter so that I can have a good reference to what kinds of brushes and brush settings they use to achieve a desirable inking result. Here’s one that do not use the scratchboard tool but modified the Oil Round to get a good inking brush. Comparing it with the setting used in Scratchboard Pen Tool, the Dab type was changed to Circular rather than Rendered. However I find that the Rendered Dab Type gets better anti-alias on an inked line. Anyway this is not very critical as most artwork are created larger than the print size. As long as it is created at least 1.5 times larger than the print size, the line would appear well on print.

Corel Painter: Inking Tool

Here’s a sample of an inking practice I performed in Corel Painter.

Liquid City

admin — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:03:44 +0000

Liquid City is a Comics Anthology featuring Robots, Monkey Kings and Giant Whales, bringing together artists and writers from South-east Asian countries like Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines, as well as collaborators from beyond the region.

From Leong Wan Kok’s distinct post apocalyptic landscapes and alien creatures to Lat’s charming look back at Malaysian life in the 1960s, from Mike Carey’s meditation on colonialism to Ken Foo’s dark visions of regurgitations and bodily transformations, Liquid City presents an edgy vision of lives in cities past, present and future.

Also featured are works by Charlene Chua, Lefty, Jon Foster, Sonny Liew, Gerry Alanguilan, FSC, Koh Hong Teng, Drewscape, Kuanth,Thanh Phong, Troy Chin, Shari Chankhamma and many more.

Sprite Animation

admin — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:54:30 +0000

Sprite Animation. Sprite Animation Studios creates and produces CGI animation for film, television, video games and commercials. The term sprite refers to small fairies and various spirits or spiritual/mythical beings, including the Japanese yohkai. In computer graphics however, sprite refers to a partially transparent two dimensional animation that is mapped onto a special plane in a three dimensional scene, creating an effective illusion. In many cases, sprite is used to depict phenomena such as fire, smoke, small objects, small plants or special symbols.