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.