Avatar Love!

Over the weekend I borrowed the Avatar series off my friend. And I must say...IT WAS SO AWESOME!

It took me a while to get into it, as the first few episodes were a bit slow (also it reminded me of english dubbed in the beginning ><) But as you watch more of it, it seriously gets addictive! I think what makes this show really good is that it had a good balance of everything. Captivating storyline, likeable characters, action packed animation and light hearted humor. I found it really interesting that each character had their own hidden turmoil, which kinda made it much more deeper and complex than I had imagined. Their struggles reflected a lot on life and some things I've experienced, so yeah I found that really cool :) It was also surprisingly funny! Or maybe I just have a immature sense of humor :P But yeh, some of the stuff the characters say are hilarious! Kinda reminded me of The Weekenders. Witty light sarcasm bits. I think my favorite character has got to be Sokka. He's so dorky with his lame one liners. He's so cool in my eyes *_*

Another thing that really caught my eye was the animation. Although it uses a lot of anime elements, I'm so glad they didn't use cute anime chibi expressions!!!! I think the one thing that annoys me about anime is that when they make expressions, the face is so exaggerated that they lose their noses, eye pupils and proportions. It's cute and funny sometimes but it doesn't really make the animation unique or artistically creative in my opinion. I must sound like a nerd analysing stuff like that lol, but yeh I'm SO glad avatar didn't do that :) And the fight scenes were absolutely epic. The animation was so smooth and so much detail was put into it (particularly the final fight scene)

Yes, overall I loved it lol. It really inspires me to draw again. Hopefully one day I'll have the oppurtunity to draw characters for something just as great as this series. For now maybe fanart will do hehe

Ahhh I wrote heaps for once and it sounds like a review kinda! But I'm so glad I spent 2 days straight watching it. It was so worth it :D:D:D:D

Finished

HOORAH I finished the IOU booklet after 3 months she celebrated her b'day. Kudos to JD and Jordan for helping me :) My binding was pretty fail. Had to tape it twice because I didn't do it properly >< BUT lukily the birthday girl isn't a design student lol. ALSO some of the pics were pixeled :(:(

I've still got one last part of the present to do. I'm not sure when she'll get this lol, as I want to make this one the best that I can! (Plus it's the first time I've ever drawn on sneakers ^^)

Besides delayed presents, still working on my Oziental Gourmet Food designs. Not exactly the most exciting brief, but gotta do what I can I guess :)

PLUS, 3 weeks(?) til UNI STARTS ;__;

2010 - to finishing off last years projects.

First time, in a long time that I've drawn anything. I'M SO TERRIBLE!

This is a illustration for my friends b'day card. If she was a pig she would look like this. Cute with dimples. Was suppose to finish this months ago but just got sidetrack with work, kpop, road tripping and deadly Melbourne heatwaves. In other words PROCRASTINATION ><". More parts to go. When it's fully printed I'll upload the photos.

Since this is the first time in a LONG TIME that I'm just a bum, I'm gonna make sure I work hard and complete all the things I owe people

Must stick to my promises! (And start using colour! I'm getting so slack with my illustrations lol)

Secret Santa

Finally completed my Kris Kringle!

Camera quality is awful :( MUST HUNT FOR A SLR!

Anyway the doll is around 150mm and took around 6 hours to make. I think getting the hair right was the hardest! I put a phone strap on it, in case she wants to hang it somewhere. Hopefully she'll like it. Also got her a pocket watch necklace so she can tell me what time it is :D (Hopefully she doesn't read this hoho)

Happy holidays everyone. Stay safe and enjoy yourselves :)

Summer 09

Oh my it's been so long since i've updated here =_=

Here's what i've been up to (excuse the list mode feeling lazy atm)
- Re branding project for an Asian gourmet business
- KK doll gift (will upload soon since it's due in a week)
- Birthday coupon card
- Birthday shoes
- Got into RMIT honours! WOO HOO
- Working at the cave
- Lost my voice
- Watercolour movie poster
- Animal poster
- Shopped like mad

Sadly I haven't had time to complete most of the design stuff due to work -_-. The one thing I did finish however was this thank you card for my friend. Kinda looks like him, sorta lol. Probably the asian eyes and stubble are accurate haha.

Next thing to do is KK so i'll upload that soon! I hope all of you have a Merry Christmas and a Great New Year.

Bring on 2010!

End of Year Exhibition Opening

Wow. Three years.

Last Friday night was the opening of Monash's Art and Design students! It was a great night and turn out was HUGE. Was amazed at how many people attended. Probably the highlight of the night for me was giving the teachers our thank you cards; made by Liz and myself :) Their reactions were priceless (got a good chuckle or two out of it), was definitely worth it. Was pretty fun to make, perhaps caricatures is our calling ey?

Thinking about it now has made me feel sad. Everyone's going their seperate ways now. Wish we were able to take a group photo and also photos with the teachers (with our thank you cards hehe). Too bad my camera was upstairs and everyone was scattered everywhere. Ah well. Hopefully opportunities will come, and we'll be able to get together again :)

Thanks to all who came and supported us. Hopefully there will be many more to come :)

As for now, I guess it's time to maintain this blog (properly) haha. I'll be keeping in touch with updates every now and then so pop by if you can. ^^

Matrix'd

http://www.acmi.net.au/timeslice/Timeslice.htm?file=ts-20091106-91a960867cb37caf0a0c96b6ff8f4aad.flv

http://www.acmi.net.au/timeslice/Timeslice.htm?file=ts-20091106-efa84a840c87e92b0af0139855e9f07c.flv

To celebrate finishing uni we went to the ACMI - Screen Worlds. Had heaps of interactive things to play with! One of them was the Matrix room where you are surrounded by cameras and when the beeper went off, you had to pull a pose.

Was awesome xD