Production Assistant..? (Oh, Happy New Year)

Well, looks like I will be involved in a school project for rest of the year! (yes, 29 to 31st) Got a chance to help out school's film board as a member of the production team, and another event in January. In that case... Happy New year everyone! And... A belated Merry Christmas! Hope everybody got what they've wished for!

Unicorn Head Update

So here is a quick update on the head, most of the putty work is done, what it needs now is a proper base, or stand.

Time To Get Back To Work

Finally finished all my exams, now I can fully enjoy my two weeks of x-mas holidays!

That means, is time to get back to work!

My skills are getting rusty, so the first thing I need is little warm up before I get back to sculpting later.


Start off by some hobby work:

Dengeki Hobby January Edition's special pack, managed to get two for a good price:




and some light work to the V-horn and over all design:



Should be done quick. Stay turned for more updates!

What's Going On Lately

School's been tiring me out lately, hardly have any time for me to do things I love doing and keep it up to date here. However, better late than never. Here are the list of things that's been going on lately:

Got myself a first ever DSLR, still needs to get use to it, but gotta love the result and difference the DSLR makes!



Brought up the set design project that I was working on a while back, changed few things and submitted for a school project... I know, what a waste eh? At least it give me some motivation and some break from all the stress of school homework, and finding time doing stuff that I love doing. So here are the finished pictures:






The thingy in the center is a treadmill... don't ask me why is there.

... and some dude is peaking at it...



Out of boredom, just realized that now you can get something printed so easily... like this:




Also, got my hands on this little creature...:





Didn't have much time to play around with it, with all the homework still piled up there...

That's all for now, time to get back to endless assignments...

"Project R"

Its been long time since my last blog entry. School's been eating most of my time and couldn't get around to do some cool stuff. Anyhow...

Recently I decided to collaborate with my buddy to try something new. Been planing for a while, right now we are still at the stage of getting ideas down on paper, is going to take a while to actually take off. However, got our first idea down for now.



Designed by my close friend Kai.

Is our first draft, although I can tell is little bit creepy at some point... The finalized version might going to take a while, so stay Tuned~!

Not sure if this is what we are going to call it, but we call it "Project R" for now.

Time Flies...

Time sure flies. Is been almost a year since I opened my blog, although there isn't that many viewers, but it sure does keep me on track about what I do want where I want to be. Hopefully more interesting things can take place in the up coming year or so...!

Anyway, school starts in two days, been chilling for the past few days to get myself relaxed. You sure won't realize how tired you are until you take a break from it~!

Spent around two hours the other day roughly sculpted a T-28's head using sculpey.

Munny!

Due to the fact that I've been keep seeing alot of munnies lately, finally decided to get one myself to know what's all the buzz about. Got myself a 4" munny, boy, I'm impressed! I really gotta give credit to Kidrobot for coming up this brilliant design that is so simple, yet its so standing out in a way. Anyway, here are the pics:






Now they just made me realize how far I have to go...



Edit:



............ THE BEST AD I've seen for a while now.

Random Update

Been spending most of the time these days on a project that "we" decided to kick off lately. Therefore haven't been active with the blog post until I had no reason why I woke up at 6am today just to realize that my photobucket account reached to its limit. It's fixed now, but thinking of going to switch to flickr now.

Anyway, got these two books in the mail the other day, great reference books for collectors!

Its called I Am Plastic: the designer toy explosion and Full Vinyl. Both books are published in 2006 but still makes a good reference material!



And here is a sneak peak inside of I Am Plastic:







For sneak peak on Full Vinyl, you can find it here: http://www.notcot.com/archives/2006/12/full_vinyl.html

Also went back to Rage Tube the other day, decided to go over the concept once again because for some reason it looks out of proportion now.

Oh, ignore the dude on the right......

Unicorn Ver.S

So finally got chance to post this thingy. Got it most of the work done back in end of May but never really got chance to finish it off. The main focus on this build is on the color scheme and the V-fin. Want to give it some kind of angle. Enough talk, here are the pics:
















Not a lot of pose, because is wayyyyyyyyy too fragile -_-........

Some WIP pics:





----- Edit ----
weapon pic:

Took this a while back.

Mold Done

So finally got the mold done. (the rubber mold was done on Friday actually, but need to finish the plaster hard cover on the outside.) Instead of block mold, this mold is done in a more traditional way. It costs less and more common for traditional artists. So here is a look inside of the mold:



The green part is the rubber mold, and the white part is the plaster cover to protect the rubber mold.

And here is the casting result:





Not bad IMO, except the fact that there are few air bubbles on the mold.

Studio Study Progress

Here is another update of what I've been doing in the studio lately:

- Been practicing sculpting the human head in small style, did around 5 total, each one took me about an hour to complete, then realized that I'm having a horrible time sculpting the eye and nose part because I'm not familiar with the structure. Here is a picture of my second try on the head:





(yes.... I know is a very ugly looking old young man...)

Then went back and did few studies on facial features... First the eye (Did the mouth before, see previous post):



Then the nose:





And made a mold for the eye today, this mold is done in a different way:


Think the mold will be done by Friday. Now what's left is the ear, then I think I will be doing a bust in august to see how far I've come to.

My Work Station

So after five days of waiting, finally got myself a new PC. Spent most of the weekend setting up the new PC, as well as rearrange my work room now so that I can move in my new PC. So this is how it turned out:





Like the fact that PC is one side and work station is on the other. Very convenient for me now because I don't have to run between my work room and PC. While was cleaning up my work stable, realized that Rage Tube isn't too happy about the fact that I haven't finish him for almost two months now...



Now, I think my table will be messy again by end of the week.

This is what I was sculpting right before my old PC crashed on me:

Miniature Tokyo

While waiting for my new desktop to arrive, decided to take over my parent's computer for a while when they are not using it...

So came across to this video on youtube today, thought would like to share:



Miniature Tokyo, is just totally blow me a way... The entire film is done by taking photos and edit it through photoshop... simply amazing.
Few more:

Sigh There Goes Everything

Well, finally my desktop is giving up on me. Hard drive crashed because it is too old... Now I really need a new computer, and just lost all the pictures I took before for my work... Sigh


Two hard drive crash in 3 months, lost everything you had twice.... not cool

More Skull Studies

Been spending most of the time on skull studies in the last two weeks. The latest one is close to a life size skull. Still having trouble sculpting the mouth part, but improved alot on the over all proportion of the figure.

Here are the pics:






And a smaller Skull:




And here is the comparison pic: