Thesis: Designs and Stuff

Uh.

So I was inactive in blog right after I said I'll post more stuff. Uhh. Well, the good news is I'm gonna start posting stuff again. Yeah.

Heading Home

So I came to this conclusion that in order to improve in drawing skill, color, composition, or anything, the best way is to just keep doing it. A lot. So I'm gonna try to do any illustration, painting, character design or even quick sketches and post them everyday.

On the side note, I've been trying to come up with my thesis story. I have few ideas and concepts in mind, but it feels like walking in the dark.

Serpent Storyboard ver.

This is the storyboard version of serpent animatic from previous post. I noticed that in thumbnail, it's harder to read if there's too much details or having subtle value difference. Always think of values and simplicity.

Serpent's Story Animatic

Took me about 3 weeks to do it. It's based on a little section of the story of "The Circus of Dr. Lao", where the big serpent tells a guy story about him eating a little boy. It was really fun thinking about cool compositions. Not really happy about the voice actor (cough, me) but I learned a lot from this assignment. I'm really glad that I took Advance Compositions and Design class with Don.

Pinocchio Character design

Pinocchio in ancient china theme. I wanna explore more with different shapes and new styles.

More Storyboards from Serpent Story!

Been super busy working on this and other projects, but I really love how it's turning out. 

Wizard of Oz- in Korea!

Character Design! Mashing up this famous story with different culture. I twisted the characters' look into oriental style. Han Bok, Hae-Tae, Yee Soon Shin, and Dol Ha-Ru-Bang, and many other stuff inspired.

Moebius The Long Tomorrow Animatic

Sequence Animatic of Moebius "The Long Tomorrow" We had to cinematically recreate this short story
only using original comics and some inbetween drawings. Enjoy!

Serpent's Story

Storyboard/ animatic of Dr. Lao's serpent story. Serpent is reallly fun to draw, and I've been thinking about all kinds of cool compositions. Yay!

Bear thumbnails and Moar

Remember that bear animation that I posted long time ago? 

So this is how I planned it out.

It only took me about an hour and half to animate the bear on Sunday afternoon at the school studio, thanks to the few days of bear research and thumbnailing.

It's surprising how thumbnail can help so much. I really love doing these

small sketches and figuring out what action I'm trying to achieve.

I also did thumbnails for my spring film right before I jump on animating.

Whoaa

So much work this semester! I've been working on this film,

It's the first film that I completely colored and composited. Never knew coloring and compositing

would take this much efforts and time.