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!

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!

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...

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.

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......

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

Lame Health Care

So have my first experience in Canada's "ER" last night, due to the fact that somehow I caught a "flu" for no reason... Woke up friday morning and can barely move my muscle due to the massive muscle pain and headache, along with fever and some other flu symptoms. Got worse in the afternoon and couldn't take it anymore at night so decided to head to ER to get myself checked for swine flue.... after nearly 4 hours of waiting, finally got myself checked, which, didn't even took 10 mins. What a lame health service it is. Cause of the sickness: flu + took two wrong pills in the afternoon -_-.........


On the side note: No, I will absolutely not going to use Twitter because is a waste of time. period.

Rage On Hold

Rage Tube is on hold for now while I'm trying to finish up this other project done (almost done) and getting published if I can... (really should get one done and then start another one... sigh) So be back once I'm done~! (and that's why I've been MIA lately)

Oh, and no pics this time until I get response from the publisher...

Random Update

Been playing around with mold making alot lately, trying to get the hanging of it before going back to sculpting. (and yes.... I spent around two weeks on it...)

Since there are some mold that I made previously and realized that I will not be using them ever again, I decided to recycle them and turn it in a new mold.


First, cut the old mold in to small cubes:


Then just mix it with some now silicon and pour it in:


Once it dries, is done. The cast turned out well, but I wouldn't recommend if you are planing to keep the mold in the long run. But very useful for making one time only type of mold.

So moving on, also tried to make a larger mold the other day, but it turned out to be a failure.

Here is the picture before the silicon been poured in:



And here is the result of the mold:



The problem? Do to the fact that the pouring path is on the side,he resin can't travel fast enough to reach to the end of the mold. Also, the air is having a hard time to escape there are alot of details involved in each parts. The correct way should be playing the pouring path in the middle of the mold, and keep the mold simple, which will result in better casting quality.


Will be going back and remake the mold soon.


And... is time for some sculpting work...!

So here is a few hour work-out for today:

Laptop Died...

So there goes my laptop, harddrive died, needs to get a new desktop, and is exam period so I guess there won't be much update for another week or so... ><

So... next project?

Well, I realized that the Xam'd project will most likely be a failure for me at this point, due to the fact that is bit too complicated for me for now. So decided to go look around and get some ideas for the next project.

Came across these two awesome trailers today....

New Year's Second Mail Delivery

After 6 months of waiting.... this thing finally arrived at my mail box today...




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Gurren Lagan by Volks!



The cast quality is just amazing:



And here are some detail pics:





Here is the famous clear flame part:

New Year's First Post

First of all, happy new year everybody!


Finally got my camera back, couldn't update the banner with a decent picture until now. Well, better late than never!

From someone who lost his directions, to discovering the true passion in his life, 2008 has been a long year for me.

Thank you for all the people who walked me through all the difficult times I had in 2008. I can't thank you guys enough! <3

Wish the best to everybody in 2009, the year filled with opportunities, love, and... cows!


Oh.. and the snow man:





And tool of the day:
Upgraded my hobby knife, OLFA AK-4, it has great handing, and can use multiple type of blades on it, but it is not recommended for beginners~! XD



Edit: fixed the music player, now using imeem.

So, How Would You Like To Be Introduced As?

Been wondering few things recently so didn't really get much stuff done.

Was having a chat with my friend the other day on the topic of how would you like to be introduced. So it really got me in to wonder, what kind of person do I really want to be?

Everybody is unique, therefore everybody has things they really want to do. But the reality is different, there are things that what would you like to do and what you have to do for everyone. For most people, they have conflict answers for it. There are things that we all like to do, but there are also things that if we don't do it, we might not survive. But what if what you like to do is what you have to do... what if...


The current Yami:

"This is Yami, he is a programmer"

Wait a minute, a programmer... Everybody is a programmer...

But what if... :

"This is Yami. He runs Studio Reveus at (some place) for custom figure sculpting."

There, doesn't that sound alot interesting?


Life is too short to be wasted, be what you want to be, not what they want you to be.

Ravious Works Is Over...

Exactly 10 months a go, I got a invitation from a friend of mine I met on the forum to starting up our own hobby show case website, called Ravious Works. Things was going well until middle of August, the project has gone on hold due to variety of reasons. Today, things finally falls apart, but it was a great ride and a pleasure to know all these hobbyists that helped me along the way.


From bottom of my heart, thank you for those people who helped us out (if any of you are actually following my blog, if not, wherever you are, thank you!), although we have failed, but it was a great experience and worth a blast.

Without failure, there won't be success.