Are We There Yet?

I finally submitted my Animation Reel and I'm still dying from Rigging... Havent even worked on Stop mo for the longest time eek!

DarRen must be so sad.

Oh well. Had to destress so I whipped out a pencil and pen (at ken's expense) and drew 2 pics.

This is just a random drawing of a Generic head using generic proportions....


This is suppose to be a quick 10 min rendering of animation's very own Durga. (I shall give her a prettier name next time just for being nice haha)

Everyone says the drawings suck and after shooting it with iPhoto (which inverts the drawings) you'll see even more mistakes!!! haha.... 'Mada Mada Dane'

Guess I've really started to lose my drawing edge haha. Hols is the time to train and watch movies! Counting down.... 5 days.

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JeRmS

This song has been stuck in my brain for the longest time....

3 Things that make it EXTREMELY weird (and some say hilarious).

1. I've never actually heard this song for the longest time but it's been repeating in my head for the last month or so.

2. I never actually listened to the lyrics (AS for all songs cuz I normally just like the tunes) so..... I remembered only bits.... and forgot the title...

3. Every word I've been trying to sing has been wrong...(and never knew it's actually an emo song) HAHA >.<
Never made it as a wise man
I couldn't cut it as A poor man stealing
Tired of living like a blind man
I'm sick of sight without A sense of feeling
And this is how you remind me
This is how you remind me Of what I really am
This is how you remind me Of what I really am

It's not like you to say sorry
I was waiting on a different story
This time I'm mistaken
For handing you A heart worth breaking
I've been wrong
I've been down
Into the bottom of every bottle
These five words in my head
Scream Are we having fun yet?
Yeah, yeah, yeah No, no
Yeah, yeah, yeah No, no

It's not like you didn't know that
I said I love you and I swear I still do
And it must have been so bad
'Cause living with him must have Damn near killed you
And this is how you remind me
Of what I really am
This is how you remind me Of what I really am

It's not like you to say sorry
I was waiting on a different story
This time I'm mistaken
For handing you A heart worth breaking
And I've been wrong
I've been down
Into the bottom of every bottle
These five words in my head
Scream Are we having fun yet?
Yeah, yeah, yeah No, no
Yeah, yeah, yeah No, no
Yeah, yeah, yeah No, no
Yeah, yeah, yeah No, no

Never made it as a wise man
I couldn't cut it as A poor man stealing
And this is how you remind me
This is how you remind me
This is how you remind me
Of what I really am
This is how you remind me
Of what I really am
It's not like you to say sorry
I was waiting on a different story
This time I'm mistaken
For handing you A heart worth breaking
And I've been wrong
I've been down
Into the bottom of every bottle
These five words in my head
Scream Are we having fun yet? Yeah, yeah
Are we having fun yet? Yeah, yeah
Are we having fun yet? Yeah, yeah
Are we having fun yet?Yeah, yeah
No, no, no

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JeRmS

some work

Hur hur....BUsy Busy... Maya died on me last night....

And as Ken says.. "Teh Si SIEW DIE"

Hur Hur.... oh well.... work lost should just be recreated BETTER!.

Here's some of my preferred drawings in advanced Drawing class.

Modeling courtesy of Charlene.

Well the drawing style isnt what I normally do... Which is probably why i like it. Lol. Minimalistic!
=)

Back to work!

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JeRmS

Endless motion

Hmm the wall we so painstakingly painted is going to be gone eh.
Guess we'll just have to paint a new one with smiles =)

The long awaited final for my advanced drawing turned out to be sort of a flop due to time constraints. Plus I spent the whole day re-editing my motion piece but apparently Joan was already happy with mmy thought progress and hence has a grade in mind even with my further additions. =.=




Well it's nothing fancy but I really wish I could expand on it.

#Rule 9 A man must smile even in the face of destruction.

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hmmm rantings

After reading several blogs (includes my own cuz it reminds me of my thoughts back then) and listening to the lyrics of songs (cuz I normally only listen to tunes rather than words) Plus looking back at some other non related issues, I've come to that point in time again. A realization of slight jealousy. (Yes this breaks the rules of being a MAN!) But it is mild.

It's not so much an outright jealous issue. It's more like a I'm glad they can all change and be happy now. Just wondered why they were so unwilling to change back then and so happy to do so now.

I guess its just my way of handling things. Undeserving of reciprocation. Overly judgmental and
conclusive. I suck... (haha another judgment and conclusion!)

Still i wonder why it is,
I don't argue like this,
With anyone but you,
We do it all the time,
Blowing out my mind,

Many reflections I must make.

#Rule8 a man may fall anytime, as long as he learns how to become a better one later.

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JeRmS

FIg painting

And this concludes one of my favourite classes of this semester.

The paintings are about 70-80% complete but submission is in order and they are more or less ready for the show.

Below are my final 4 paintings in chronological order. (supposed to be my best 4 as well)

Jar, A4, Primary colours (And black and white) only.
Ultra marine Blue, Titanium White, Burnt Sienna, Cadmium red, yellow

'Porkhearh dancing with Aluminium', A4, Still life, 3 coats glaze (unfinished)

'So where's the rest?', A3 Still life, narrative. 1st cloat glaze (unfinished)

'Clara', Portrait, A3 Direct painting.

final glazing and refinement for several pieces are also needed but Bah.. hahaha We're painting ONE... haha... this is considered pretty good already.


The Class!

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JeRmS

Yay!

Advanced drawing 2 finished! and Props 90% finished!!!

Here they are!





Last but not least my advanced drawing / stop mo! It's like record time that I took to complete la!



More to be done=)
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JeRmS

Ad Drawing pt 2

Well I decided to work on my second project for advanced drawing and clear it asap hence I spent about half an hour clearing out an idea with photoshop and ran upstairs to work it out.

This is more or less my fav of the lot

I planned it to be roughly 4 seconds doing a head turn. However, my original plan of four drawings dropped to 3 cuz of 2 reasons.

I wanted the final product to look like this but gave up...

I got too engrossed drawing and working out the look of the 3rd that I think I'll wreck the entire piece if I layer a 4th on top.

So this is how it ended.

In anycase, it did not turn out how I wanted it to BUT... It's good enough as a 2nd piece for the final so i'll stop here. Time spent clocked from 12 midnight till 330 am now.

And yes it's going to be a stop mo again haha.
Stop mo, Chalk and charcoal, about 1.2m x 0.9 m
P.S. note to self, haha the KETCHUP song played when I put on the final TOUCHUP. hee...
After I touchup and composite I'll upload the vid of both.
#Rule 7 a man must know what he wants and stop when necessary!

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JeRmS

Good? Or?

I bumped into Bridget (my foundation drawing and current mentor on figurative painting) a couple of minutes ago and these were the words she said.
"I think you should continue painting more. Cuz I think you're good. I have no idea why your other conceptual piece did not get chosen (for Best of ADM cuz it was reccomended by both Bridget and Joan (my advanced drawing mentor)) but I think you are one of the better ones and should not give up on that." "I mean I'm glad the others got chosen as well but not that they weren't good, but it's nice to hear a compliment every once in awhile =)"

The irony of the whole situation came from the words and situation of another person. Aunty Liyao.
"Martin (aka jackyoungblood, digi painting jedi!) asked me to send my piece for Best of ADM leh and I completely ignored him. Siao waste my time go and find it. I don't even know where I throw it liao." "Huh? Dean chose my portrait painting for Best of ADM? then this week what I use? Must redo ah? Huh... I'd rather he don't choose lo then no need to do more work."

Haha the best part of the whole scenario is that she left her portrait in my area where I stash my work so the dean thought it was mine and asked me about it.

Competition amongst fellow artists would always be there. However mutual respect and learning is even more important. Fair enough non of my works got chosen by the man himself, but hey, every artist has his or her time =)

JeRmS "Hmm I don't think I'll be keeping any of them. Probably throw away or something. Dunno where to put" Zheng "Wah I think it's damn cool la. Haha you go hang on your wall or paste on your ceiling also shiok."

Now that you've mentioned it, I cannot agree more haha

More Improvements to the set... We're finally inching ahead in our progress now =)
And Some secret help on some items on the set! From future Viz Com extraordinare ShiHui

#Rule 6 A man must have personal pride but respect all those around him

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JeRmS

Dolls and Props

I REALLY need to be spending more time on my other work. However, as usual I end up spending the most time on stuff that I like the most.

In any case... Here's what we've been doing



I was extraodinarily happy about the cactus cuz I had it in my design set sketches and wahla! Daiso sells it for 2 bucks....! Whew... Almost wasted time making my own clay models.!












And there's the star of the show! DaRen~! better known as "Da(4) Ren(2)" and his cat yiz.

Quote
Yiz "do you like the leg? I purposely made it un even wan!"
JeRmS "Why? Then isn't it harder to animate?"
Yiz "hmm but cute right?"

(err well it isn't gonna be moving much but ya.... haha I guess it's cuter =))

Yiz "like the blue handle?"
JeRmS "Whats that for?"
Yiz "to animate the butt!"
JeRmS "I think you've been psycho'ed by rigging class haha" ( to non animators... stop motion does not really require physical handles to animate)

Cute as always Yiz is... sometimes I'm not sure what she's thinking, but cute and brilliant non the less.

Last but not least here's a pic of the sky that Bernard Kader and ken have put up recently haha. It's... Cool....
Ladders got used well though. ahha

#rule5 a man must not show favouritism! (not too much at least)

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JeRmS