Snowboard Trip

I felt like a soccer mom today...babysitting, taking pictures, guarding all their belongings from 9am to 4pm.

Woot~~

http://picasaweb.google.com/huangrkul/StevensSnowboardingTrip

Pictures pictures~ most of them are my brother, sister in law, and the cousins.

Merry Xmas!

Rendered still images from thesis.

This is what you will probably see in the final version of my thesis. However, the colors are still a bit too saturated so I'll tone it down when I get into final rendering.


Tomorrow...a final review that I know I won't pass...woot?

Finish blocking all shots!

Finally...I'm done with all my shots. Even though most of them are still in blocking stage, but the rest is just tweaking to make their actions fluid. Again, the facial expressions aren't added yet except Rose can now blink, woohoo!




Well, monday is my final review and I'll just have to go in and tell them I can't finish it until next semester. Meanwhile, get some feedbacks from the directors.

Shot 4-23 Work in Progress

Again, no facial expressions on Rose or Caterpillar. However, major cuts and edits have been done on this version to make it look more interesting and increase the pacing.

Happy Thanksgiving~

New Update Shot 1-7

Shot 7 is no where near completion, but it gives the audience a pretty good idea where shot 6 is heading.... (i hope?)

Ok...I need sleep...

Shot 1-4 Update

So finally....let there be facial expressions!

This is what I've done two days ago. There have been much more fixed now. I shall post the updated version as soon as I can.

....4 more weeks before the final review......nightmare....

Sunflower Model Update

Facial expression is almost done. Then again, I won't really know until I continue on animating my thesis. Hopefully I won't need to add more...it's really a pain in the butt to create all these expressions.

Some of my friends have pointed out how he looks like me... now that I'm somewhat done with his facial expressions I have to say...

...omg I agree.... orz...

Hope this pic doesn't creep you out too much. I swear he isn't like this in the thesis animation.

Thesis shot 1-6

Yes yes...no facial expressions Orz... I'll have those up probably by the end of the month. Right now I just want to finish all the body animations and cutting them into one smooth short film. Final review on 12/15.... sigh...this pressure is so hard on my heart...

Halloween Party 2008

From Halloween Party

From Halloween Party

From Halloween Party

Thanks to Sevonne, we actually threw a house party. This is the first time I ever had a house party for halloween. She took the time to really decorate our place and I got to say, she did a fantastic job. On top of that, she and her friends made delicious food. We ate, played Wii, and some of us got drunk from all the drinks Walter and Leo were making.

Also, thanks to all the people who came. I really had fun that night. You can find more pictures here: (or you can click on the image)

http://picasaweb.google.com/huangrkul

A lot of these pictures were taken by Leo, but for privacy purposes, I uploaded those photos into my picasa album.

Enjoy~

Sunbath Thesis shot 01 test

No facial expression just yet. Most of this is just getting the timing and acting down.

I apologize for the quality of the video, but it's just a test clip plus youtube makes it even worse. I'll post up better version if I know how to.

Trieu's Wonderful Wedding

So finally....a blog entry about ART!



This is a photo cover design that I made for Trieu and Khang's wedding reception. Guests can put their photo inside this after taking a picture with the bride and groom. Congratulation to Trieu!

It was a very nice wedding and I had a wonderful experience seeing old friends. Here are the rest of the pictures:

http://picasaweb.google.com/huangrkul/


Enjoy!

MORE PHOTOS YAY~~

I'm beginning to wonder if I should change the blog name to simply "HuangRKUL's Blog" since I have been putting up nothing but photos from Taiwan Orz... Art? what is that? is that edible? :P

Anyway, I have been hanging out with many friends in Taiwan and I honestly have to say, this is my best trip to Taiwan ever. One of the main reason is I finally get to hang out with my best friend Caty, who 1.) I only met once in CA before she left for Taiwan. 2.) I chat with every night online because we are so much alike 3.) owes me many many meals when I go back to Taiwan.

So with that been said, majority of the new photo albums are pretty much Caty and I going to many cool restaurants here in Taiwan. I enjoyed them all very much.





Another reason why I think this is the best trip ever is because I finally get to spend more time with my awesome friends from elementary school. They are seriously a group of great people and I am proud to be their friend.









Here is the link to rest of the photos (more albums coming very soon):

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/huangrkul



Enjoy~~

My Demo Reel for Pixar 2

I'll post the result as soon as I get it. I really want to get into this class...but I know the chance is really slim since my classmates are all friggin good animators. They only accept 16-20 outta the entire department. So yeah...slim chance...wish me luck.

for those of you who can't see it, here is the link instead:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8108655068977931195&hl=en

Enjoy~

HuaLien and TaoYuan Trips

Photo first, blog later (busy injuring myself....I'm not kidding)

http://picasaweb.google.com/huangrkul


Ok, back to bandaging myself.

Walter's Wedding

A lot of things happened in the past couple days. It was hectic, but fun. Anyway, here are the pictures first:






CLICK HERE for the rest of the wedding photos.


Yay Walter is married woot. I'll put up the wedding videos I made for my brother on youtube very soon.

Party party~

Ok so I guess my art blog isn't exactly total art blog. :P

Anyway, this is from Irene's birthday last saturday. It was hella fun thx to Irene and her friends.







If you want to see bigger version of the pictures, go here
http://picasaweb.google.com/huangrkul/200867IreneSBirthdayParty

MSN characters~

*Another Update*: Caty gave me some wonderful ideas so I applied them onto the new ones. She also told me their english names so now they are labeld next to each picture.

*UPDATE*: I went hardcore tonight and finished the last one. All done! The last one was a bit of a challenge since she likes casual wears and earthy colors. Anyway here it is along with the msn version. YAY SLEEP TIME.

Here is a new one for Caty's friend. I feel bad for delaying it this long. I told her I would get all her friends' pictures done like half an year ago (?). Yeah...but it's progressing very very slowly. I apologize for slacking off Orz...

Anyway, here they are, new and old ones:

Cindy

Dora

Connie

Caty

here are the MSN icon version:









Hope they like it...I went back and reworked some of the stuff that was meant to be fixed. Now they're more unified in style.

Pixar Class Final

and again, this is not close to finish at all. However, instructors just wanted to see the ideas being polished and the animation we could polish later on.

and ta da~ here it is...the final dish washing animation. So you probably wonder "it's not funny or anything...why did the teachers like it?" Well base on what my instructors said, the important thing here is that in the simplicity of it, there is an entertainment value from how it stays true to the real world.

Though I may not have achieve it entirely, but this animation suppose to make some people who wash enough dishes immediately know that feeling as they watch this 7 seconds short excercise. So instead of just feeling like watching another animation, some can really connect with it. That's putting animation onto another level. It's easy to just make a cartoony character jumping or waving hands around, but it's hard to really capture the emotion or the mental state that the character is in.

I think this piece of animation has just touch the edge of what the instructors want. But it's good enough for now, at least I'm going in the right direction...hopefully.

Last class in Pixar 1, AND THE SEMESTER ENDS!

Though you would probably think it's not a big deal, but to actually see pixar animators satisfied with your work is...phenemonal. I swear none of my past assignments were even close to what they want, but THIS.......YES!

I was holding back my grin as much as I could during class until I went home muwahahaha...ok but I was actually wearing a boxer...not underwear...just thought it's funnier.

Alright, so school is finally over for me, I'm going to make a demo reel and apply for Pixar 2. We'll see how it turns out. In the mean time, I seriously need to work on my thesis...sigh...

Orz...

Dish Wash Excercise

This is a work in progress for my pixar class final. However, since he wasn't really washing dishes most of the time, I pretty much have to come up with a new one for next week sigh...

Anyway, here is what I have...

Final Gearchange excercise

So this is about 90% done. I don't have time to finish this since it's due in about 2 hours or so...enjoy.

Quick Blog Update

I added my old web blog and portfolio site to the link list on the right. Feel free to check them out anytime.

Pixar Class Gearchange WIP

So many things still need to be resolved with this one...and it's due next Tuesday. (sigh)

Anyway, here it is~

Thesis Catepillar WIP

So I notice my caterpillar video wasn't playing on xanga because it was set as private. Now the video is set on public so here you go.

Woohoo my first entry!

Finally, the blogger site has been set up! Hope things are better here than in Xanga. I'll post a whole lot of artwork later on.