First Demo Reel Up/Available for Job
My first demo reel is up on youtube. I’m sorry, I should really do something better than that. But like I promised everyone who had seen or picked up my demo reel at industry night I will have my website soon! I thank all my instructors and friends at BCIT for helping me down the road. Sure I’m kind of mad that the majority of the stuff I did where all self taught but that’s how things are in the end in this field of work anyways.
I’m now also working on my second demo reel. I’m going to push higher with it. I’m not going to lie to anyone… I don’t know what I’m doing this time. My last demo reel is off of my own preference and now i would like to base it upon industry people’s standard but the problem is i don’t know what they want.
I’ve seen quite a bit of BS in school to know that I don’t deserve a job anyways. I feel like 70% of it is networking. I like… suck at that. I have one guy in the industry I’m crossing my fingers to and my classmate of course. The rest i just threw my demo reel everywhere and littered it all away.
The industry is doing awful right now at this moment anyways so I’m not too worried. Still though, I still have hope. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkPkp-T67Bs
…be sure to watch it in high quality
Ideas developing
Well, my ideas are locked and loaded pretty much. The only thing that I’m having troubles with is weather I should keep the Indian chief idea or scrap it for my icy castle Idea. I created a model sheet for one of my characters and 5 different types of concept just for that one. I’m just focusing on the process of making an animatic for it. I’ve semi blocked my character already and trying to study a clean geometry to apply it to. I’m focusing on the whole icy castle concept and prioritizing it in case I don’t make it out of here alive.
Animating it might be another thresh hold i need to deal with. Because i’m not the greatest animator at all. Actually, I’m pulling an all nighter just for my animation. we have this assignment thing for animation where we have to do 5 scenes of a marine guy and a terrorist guy interacting in an abandoned church. It’s up to us how we want it to end up looking like. Since my run cycle looks like the dude needs to take a serious dump, I’m then making the whole story a funny one where the marine needs to use the toilet badly, but the terrorist is occupying the crapper. My talented friend Roman loves every second of it. He’d already be giggling at my video when i haven’t even pressed play yet. Hopefully Adam Sale, (awesome animator) my teacher loves it!
Updates on art real soon
Monor Calling…… and Difficulties
I feel like crap the whole week. No matter how hard I tried to put on my game face as I work, I couldn’t play it right. I couldn’t figure out what was wrong with me. I’m even a blog behind update, the most simplest task on earth.
Well, tonight I sort of figured out what it was. Actually, it’s a blend of two things:
1. I’ve been overwhelmed with my negative thoughts. I keep thinking to myself I wont make it in the industry. Just that itself was stress enough. It was damaging my work flow and the whole mentally was just slowing me down over all. The deeper we dip in to the course, the more I’m doubting myself. I’m certain this is why I feel this way. I usually never get stress out with work, NEVER! Well at least for now… But it’s really fear thats getting into me. Maybe I need to calm down a little more. I’m reading my future way to early when I should go with the flow.
2. Pop culture and mainstream has began invading through my system again. I thought I got rid of this poison for good, and my remedy for that is to be alone. In an unrelated matter, being alone is great! Not many people know the great amount of possibilities there is when you begin to create your own world. You’re free to daydream, imagine, and create all you like! Sure there’s school that’s got me on a leash, but at least I’m free from being a cliche! It’s the same method I do for writting music. I wouldn’t listen to a single piece of music for two months (I can manage! haha) then I would write music because music would start to warp around my head by itself to feed my starving musicless mind, thus a melody is born.
But getting back to the point. One thing I should no longer do is roam around day light. I did it because I had to go home early. The countless of teenagers I saw living a cliche life was phenomenal. I then felt the need to mingle with some of my old pals. I began to do less work and browsed facebook for four hours straight accomplishing nothing looking for some social life I ended up not finding. I then looked up myself in the mirror and said ‘goddamnit i’ve let myself go!’ My hair was long and I was getting older. Just when I was about to decide on fixing myself… I woke up last minute thinking, what the hell do I need to fix myself for? I’m still in this war. Unless I guarantee myself a promise land of my own (aka. a job in the industry) I have to keep fighting these asshole test that life seems to keep throwing at my face and focus on my work!
There’s another one of my minor calling! To be honest the solutions to these problem are simple! It does not take much effort! However, my mentality is what’s preventing me to commence!
Yes, please consider this a lame excuse for not updating my webcomic as well haha! =] But I’m starting to ‘piece’ the puzzles together, creating more plots and twist for the inter connection of all my books and stories and what not!
For now please enjoy these!
A little about the things I like
Before I move on and speak away, I would like to inform you all about some of my web comic posted up on the Web comic column. So please enjoy that before reading this! haha i’m kidding.
Anyways, before I’ve become a desk nerd at home doing digital stuff, I was a big video game fanatic.
It was back at 2000 when I’ve got my hands on my second video game ever yet so far. That being Metal Gear Solid.
It’s weird to get hooked up with games like that at the age of nine. I mean the violence and all. Not to say that I’m a violent guy (I’m very brittle =]) But i guess it was the brilliance of the story line that penetrated through my young naive brain.
On a side note, ever since then, I like making my own stories up.
But back to the point. I love it. It’s been my most favorite video game ever since. It’s a good tittle to follow
Video games, somewhere in the middle of the course, had died on me. My 2D Instructor (also the program head) a brilliant man Russell Heyman called it right. I remember him telling us that the blissfull savory aura of games will fade inside of us somewhere in the middle of the program the moment the illusion is broken. Now thats not to say that that is true. The spirit remained inside some people in my class (I can tell), but not me however. The feeling had fadded away, and believe me, it has nothing to do with illusion, more like moving on, really.
I’ve always hated anime as a kid. As far back as I can remember, I seem to live in another universe compare to the other kids on the block. For one, I was new in Canada. I was nine years old when I first moved here, so I isolated myself from the others. To make a long story short, I never was into the mainstream anime like Dragon Ball Z or Pokemon not like the other kids did at least. Believe me when I say this as well, I love cartoons!
But when I took this program, I happened to run across Akira, an old 2D animation film. The piece really woke me up. It made me realize how ignorant I was with the whole anime universe. I should have given the world another shot. So I did but the problem is that I didn’t have any leads. So I sat back on my couch watching TV when I ran across a cell shaded film called Appleseed.
It blew me away. This 3D anime film really opened up my eyes. Although I almost feel guilty everytime I mention my love for it because this very talented man named Max Lundburg has so much beef with it haha. So I did a little research on it.
A man named Masamune Shirow was behind the mastermind. The film was an adaptation from his early manga nammed Appleseed as well. I couldn’t help but check out the old Appleseed film back in 1988 but it did nothing but make me laugh.
So I dug in a little deeper in his previous work. Aside of countless of erotic art and adult content artwork, I saw Ghost in the shell.
Wow. That’s all I had to say. I saw the first Stand Alone Complex and was left speechless from it’s brilliance. Next to that was the first film, then the second called Innocence, then next to that, the second Stand Alone Complex. They were all great.
To conclude this introductory article about what I like, I love Metal Gear Solid, Ghost In The Shell, and Appleseed. So If I do some Fan artwork from those series (Or some other) Don’t be super surprised! haha
Here’s an armed suit (straight from Ghost In The Shell and Appleseed) that I modelled and rigged
It’s not the best render picture but I will animate it fighting each other in a junkyard settings that I’m modelling and texturing in my texturing class
Here are some pictures of the rigs. We haven’t learned much rigging at this stage of the game and we are only at the beginning of the send term I promise you better stuff next time. Also I didn’t texture it. I didn’t feel the need of texturing it because the when I came upon the reference picture, just blinn shaders did justice.
Broken Promises
I’ve got a friend of mine to check out my webcomics before i post them. Now he’s editing them first. But for now I owe you guys six pages and six pages you shall get the moment the editing process finishes!
More bad news, I can’t log into my BCIT account if that even matters. I’m sure nobody cares but that sure made my day.
There’s homework stuff I had to do so I made sure to store it in my storage device thats ready to fall apart. It’s sad, but it’s insurance enough. I guess I’m ok for this week.
This had happend to me before actually. It didn’t take drastic measures to remedy the situation, which what annoys me the most. It’s something I could fix in the spot, but yet I can’t because it’s the weekend and help service are not available.
Now I have to sit here waiting and worrying until Monday comes. It’s amazing what life throws at you.
I seriously doubt I have people viewing my blogs constantly yet, so I’ve got nothing for now.
But to give an update, for those who’ve watched either appleseed and ghost in the shell, well I’m modeling the armored suit from the film. I’m done, so pictures to be shown tomorrow.
I also want to animate it as well! so it can kick Curtis’ Jedi’s ass! hehe sorry curt =] Awesome jedi though for the record!
Web Comic
Wow, It’s really eating up my time. I promised myself a page a day, that will later turn to five pages a week and now it’s down to three! I wouldn’t mind updating everyday, but I have school to worry about. I miss my 3D stuff. I miss Maya. The last time I have used a 3D software was when we had to model a junk yard for my texturing class. Heck, I’m pretty behind with writing my sequel for my book ‘The Three Boat Hoppers’.
At any rate I have the first three batch prepared for you guys, believe me! But I’m not going to post it unless I finished the book title, which sucks by the way.
For now… um here’s another artwork. I can’t tell you who it is yet. Not until I finish the trilogy I’ll keep you guys filled in. Although I can tell you that he is a big factor to the web comic!
If things go according to plan, I might update the first batch tonight!
This piece was done in Maya, all the textures are done in photo shop
He needs to be brushed up here and there. I only gave him four days worth of work
and regret it! I will need to brush him up since I have to and it’s very important that I do!
Very special thanks to my friend Malcolm Wanless on editing the dialouges. I will keep updating as much as we could. hopefully school doesn’t get to busy. Thankfully it’s a breeze… for now.
Day two
Here is one of my 2D stuff I guess. I swear I will become more prepared next time to show you more!
I’ll be posting other neat things in!
For now I guess I’ll write about my day, just like usual, tiring and busy. Weather I’m on or off school I’m always finding something to do that’s related to this stuff. It’s 1:30 in the morning and I’m super super tired but I’m trying to fight it! I have to a modeling task and need to get it done by Saturday-ish with full rigs. My school mates are doing the same as well. We were suppose to make our own character and animate them battling just for fun. God knows how long that’s going to take. but yeah, keep your eyes pealed for more stuff to come.
First Blog
I am required to do this blog for school. I use to think blogging was a silly thing to do for people who have a lot of time in their hands. But my teacher has opened my mind on the whole concept a little more and i must admit that I have been ignorant and apologies for those who love it.
Well since I’m going to start doing this more, I might as well do something versatile with it.
I will post my work in here and will be accepting strict critiques on them. You may bash all you want as along as your words or suggestions are reasonable.
Anyways, better save some of it later!
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