My thoughts on something

Happy Merry Christmas

tomo — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 20:24:28 +0000

I haven’t written anything for a long time…sorry everyone who reads this blog, which I don’t think there are many..

Anyway, I just wish everyone happy and safe holidays!!

Surf’s Up

tomo — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 06:57:43 +0000

I saw the second animation from Sony Pictures Animation, Surf’s Up with my friends today. Some animators at work went to see the movie at lunch yesterday and they all liked it. I think everything was solid. It probably wasn’t the greatest movie but it was good enough to get me into the story. Animation, lighting and CG water looked stunning. Great work guys who worked on it!

Pirate 3

tomo — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 06:30:18 +0000

so I watched the pirate 3 with my friend on Saturday. well, as I wrote in the last post I’m not a big pirate fan…

I didn’t really remember what happened in the first and second pirate films so I was easily lost…but VFX looked cool. I have some friends who worked on it over ILM so I tried to find them…impossible….soooo many names on the credit. You know what I mean if you already saw the film…I found one name who I knew, that’s it..

Oh, by the way, did you guys who saw the film stay after the credit? I didn’t, but I heard there was one more shot after the credit….the film was almost 3 hours long and long credit…who can stay after the credit? I had to go to the restroom…

spam comments

tomo — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 04:38:47 +0000

I’ve received so many spam comments on my posts….so I deleted all. If I deleted your comments I apologize. I hate those spam comments and emails so much.

I saw Spiderman 3 and Shrek the third a couple weeks ago. well, you know both have made a lot of money but….I won’t say anything..I’m not a big pirate fan so I haven’t seen the pirate 3..anyone saw it?

one more

tomo — Thu, 03 May 2007 04:29:12 +0000

one more painting from Tuesday night. I tried to crop the model this time…

another painting

tomo — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 04:48:43 +0000

one I did at the figure painting last night.

trying to post…

tomo — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 04:18:01 +0000

well, just trying to post something.

Here are some drawings and paintings I’ve done recently.

I guess drawings were 5-10min poses. The first painting was about one hour and the second one was about 2 and a half hours.

Painting is so hard…I’m trying the value study using 3 colors for those paintings. Too many things to think about…I’ve been using acrylic not oil. I’ll keep practicing and hope to become good enough to switch oil painting…

Books

tomo — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 04:36:40 +0000

Here are the books I got a while ago. I’m sure you know what the first book is. That is the book from Pixar exhibition at MoMA in NY that happened, I believe, in winter 2005. Unfortunately I didn’t have any luck to go and get a hold of the book at that time either. I recently heard my friend got one from his friend at Pixar and I was lucky enough to get one too!! That’s a nice art book to look at. Nice art works and sculptures, very inspiring.

The second one is the book from Disney Exhibition in Japan a while ago, well actually the exhibition has been held at different places and still running in Japan.

A little bit about the exhibition. Disney lent a lot of art works to the Disney exhibition that was held in Japan in 1960. The art works were preserved in Japan and had forgotten by people including people at Disney. Recently, the art works got discovered and proved by Disney people that they are from the exhibition almost 50 years ago. This time the exhibition has those art works discovered and recent art works from Disney.

I saw somebody at Disney blogging about the book that Disney gave to their artists. I checked the exhibition website but they didn’t sell the book online, so I asked my friend in Japan if he could get me one and I got it. Actually the website sells the book online now but would ship only in Japan…I got some for animators at work. It’s a great book and full of art works.

This is the link to the Disney Exhibition.

wow

tomo — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 05:06:23 +0000

It’s been a long while since my last post. I’m not sure if there are still people reading this blog around here….well, work is getting busy but I’m trying to go to the drawing class at work, and even tried to paint a bit. Here are some quick drawings I did while ago.

long time no post….

tomo — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 06:45:49 +0000

I haven’t posted anything for a while…sorry.. I wanted to put some drawings from weekly drawing class but my scanner doesn’t work since I moved in LA….

Anyway, my friend, Rico posted something interesting in his blog so I’d like to share.

He posted old Spiderman-3 trailer that someone posted onto youtube and that has a bunch of animatic stuff in it. He also said it was one shown at comic con. I found it interesting and rare to see this kind of rough stuff unless you are working for the studio that is working on the film.

spiderman3 trailer

It’s been 2 weeks since Flushed Away was out. I think it’s been doing ok, just Borat has been doing great job…If you go see Flushed Away, make sure not to miss Bee Movie Trailer in front of it. You can also see it on its official website.

Bee Movie Official Website