Done!

Finished shooting and editing few days ago, now I'm enjoying my break!

Reviving back from the grave

Hi Guys,

I've been spending the past six month out here in Vancouver doing my film study and pursing my dream. Been busy pretty much everyday. But that doesn't mean I stopped with my sculpting and hobby work! Recently I've been focusing on a individual study project which, for me, involves making a model and a diorama and then shoot it in a cinematic way. The model now is complete, and so is the diorama. What's left now is putting two things together and then some touch ups. Planing on shooting it on Saturday!

Here is the model:



And here is the concept picture I have in mind:



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Finally finished all the work, now is time to shoot!



That's all for today!

Back from Japan And Alive And Well!

Hi guys!

Is been a long time since I updated, and yes, I got back from Japan few weeks ago.

The trip to Japan was great, brings back a lot of memories,and once again it brought back one of my childhood dream : living in Japan.



Guess I will just have to work hard and achieve my goal one day!

For more photos click here

Watched animation REDLINE while I was in Japan, this is definitely one of the best animated film for the past decade!




Recently I've been volunteering for an independent feature film shoot as a production assistant, therefore I haven't had time to much of sculpting stuff since I got back. The shooting starts between 6 to 8 in the morning and can last up to 14 hours a day. Although the hours are long, but the experience and the people there are really good! I'm learning new stuff every day and I'm excited about it!




Took this while I was on set. :P


And time flies! I will be heading to Vancouver in a month for my film study, can't wait for it! Now I just need to find a place to stay...

Main Colors Complete

I just realized how much I dislike about painting metallic colors. Although the result turns out great, but the process is just very long and time consuming. Here is the latest progress:

I`ve pretty much finished all the body work of red and blue, except few touch ups and the shields.






On the side note: Heading off to Asia starting on Wed, gonna try to finish as much as I can before I leave.

Lots of Touch-Ups

Masking have been taking up alot... I mean ALOT of time on this kit. Spent pretty much about A WEEK working on and off just trying to masking out the body. But in the end I still have LOTS of touch ups needs to do once the over all paint works are finished.




And here is the over all look after the body is done:

A New Direction

University has been a struggle for me, and finally after five stressful years, I have finally completed my university degree and able to pursuit my true passion and dream. Looking back five years ago, I've come a long way, from someone who was so confused and lost, to someone who finally discovered his dream and passion, I gotta say, without the experience and people I met throughout these years, I would never be able to get here. Therefore I deeply thank you for all the people who have helped my through out the years, and thank you for all the readers who've been checking out my blog from time to time! (Although around 3K viewers over the past year isn't much, but still, thank you for dropping by!)


Now back to the main topic, since finally school is out of the way, I'm able finish up one of the work I've been working on, Gurren Lagann. (yes, I got so many projects to finish off that is not even funny -__-) And here is the latest update:

I finished the silver paint a while back, but wasn't happy with the surface so went back and did some sanding and now I'm preparing for a repaint of the silver.





And here are some of the progress pictures:




and here is the sneak peak of the finished forearm:






I wrote an entry few months back and mentioning about heading to Vancouver, and yes, by the starting of January 2011, I will be going to Vancouver for a year for Art and Design to truly pursuit my dream, and I'm really looking forward to it!

That's it for now, more updates coming!

Almost Ready For Paint Work!

After spending last two weeks on and off sanding this kit, I'm finally close to start the paint work. The sanding work has been a frustration for me, especially due to the shape and the details on this kit. Now just need little bit putty here and there and some final sanding and then the paint work starts!

Let The Work Begin!

Finally, school is *almost* out of my life for a while, after gone through 8 months of stress, I can finally see the light at end of the tunnel! Just three more months of summer school with light course load and then I can finally focus on what I love doing the most!

Here is a sneak peak of what's coming up:





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And I'm slowly working towards the finish line for unicorn's head display. >_>

Still Alive And Well!

School is giving me a very hard time in my last year of study, but thank god there only about a week left and then comes the exams. Can't wait until school is over so I can get back to doing what I love the most~!

Finally Spring is here!





PS: I will be heading off to Vancouver next year for film study, wish me luck!

Project Review!

Hi everyone, is been a while since my last post.

School is starting again, that means not much of sculpting or modeling work for me. However, I will be done school after this semester~! Can't wait until is all over!

Spent couple of quality hours at studio earlier this week to take pictures of all the "completed" works I've done at studio:

Start with a skull head, this is my 5th try on the human skull, is close to a life size.



Then did some facial feature practice:



Note that the eye is missing because I made a cast out of it, right now is sitting somewhere in my room...


And just before school starts, was playing around with my imagination...




And no, that's not ambassador Spock....

For more images, you click here.

Note that I'm trying to most of my pictures to flickr, please let me know if there are any dead links to the pictures.

Oh, been trying to pick up on photography lately:



(So much for being busy with school -_-)

Now, I have to spend rest of the month in piles of school work...

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...



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............ 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:





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weapon pic:

Took this a while back.