I've applied to volunteer for Draw with Valor; animating and helping them with animated projects. There were a few hic ups during the application due to my inexperience but all should be well and dandy. Cant wait to get started!

It's been too long since my last post. Have been quite busy with family visits again. Starcraft Lan party vr 2 was awesome!

Haven't been able to blog as much as some of my cousins came back to London from Bournemouth for verson 2 of Lan plays. Also was able to introduce them to Dungeon and Dragons board game.

Work in progress

Background concept of terran Base

Probe test animation

Experimenting with my new marker pens. Plan to animate the probe using spine again. 
#starcraft #probe

Quick animated test using Spine.

Last week a few of my cousins came up from Bournemouth to visit. We spent the entire week reliving Starcraft Broodwars lan parties haha.

Protoss all the way!

Loving the new Winsor & Newton pigment marker I got today!

Splodge hits again. =='

Life drawing session

Ink splodge ruined the faces ;(

Needed a break from making logos. Started a little sketch of Mercy from Overwatch.

Started and finished reading the manga 'I am hero' by Kengo Hanazawa. Best zombie manga I've read so far!

Hideo Suzuki from I am hero.

Been out of my comfort zone creating icons and themes for an app for a friend.
Some of the ideas were rejected in the end as the color scheme was quite dull.

Soshi from Shudan!

Been loving the new Manga Shudan!

Experimenting with spine all over again. 

Looking back at some of my work, I'm embarrassed to admit.. The proportions on my characters are awful. Back to life drawings I go to fix them back up!
I used references I found online for now. It won't beat a real life model but it'll have to do for now.

5 min sketches

20 min sketch

Completed the test. Most probably have to come up with a better soul design but was happy with the after effect experiment!

Quick test of scene 01 shot 01

First scene of project 'Traces'. Will be experimenting with after effects and some other techniques I can muster up.
Here's a short animatic of the first few shots.  Sound I recorded was terrible but will have to do for this early stage.

Uploaded a new showreel today. I really want to make more animations to further improve it!

Re work: Back in college I created a short animation based on the theme 'Traces'. There were many flaws with it but had an interesting concept;

character searches through an abstract world looking for memory pieces to bring him back home.

For an up coming project, I decided to rework this character and develop the story with a greater purpose.

Sketches.

Over a long period of time, I have random sketches in my sketchbook. Some stands up more than others. Here are a compilation of the ones I thought was worth posting up for an upcoming project I plan to do.

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 (Ref from the manga one punch man)

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Back practicing with quil and ink

Finally uploaded my little animated project up. There's so much that needed to be fixed but it has been such a great learning curve.
Might create another and aim to make it much more neater in terms of line work. Also attempt to aim for better quality animations.
This project was rushed but I can't believe I managed to complete it in 2 weeks!

Was contemplating whether or not if I should create a Forest Byrnnes animation after this short project. Decided to add a little introduction for him at the end of the clip for now.

I found this useful animation tutorial of a skip. Currently I don't need it but the animation itself is so beautifully done!

https://vimeo.com/199661688

All 3 scenes completed (Exception of last background which is incomplete)! There's alot I'm not happy with. Decided to go back to fix them rather than go for another scene.