This is Animia from "IronBird" illustrated in the army school suit. Although there is a new design of the suit, anyway I would like to let it be the first promo poster for my animaiton piece which will be done this October ^^
To learn more about the story of IronBird (my self-directed, animated narrative) and watch the animatic of the intro animation, please refer to the previous post.
IronBird is the story that I wrote as an animation series program for TV with about 50 episode.
Plot of the story:
This story took place in a world which magic and science co-exists with each other. The magic in this world is the ability of people to sense the flow of the air particles (AF -air factors) and control them to do many kinds of things , such as light up fire in the air and fly!!!
And IronBird is the flying machine invented according to this magical power by a prince and a princess from two nations which are next to each other.
IronBird helped to imrpove two nations' economy and people's lives. It one of the triggers of the war.
The war lasted for 30 years. Our story starts 20 years after the wars ended. Animia, our protagonist was a 15-year-old girl whose dream is to be the top IB pilot of the world. She trained herself hard on flying skills and finally got the entry to the Nation Army school and trained as a pilot solider.
There she would meet her three teammates. From strangers, to friends and from friends, they became the most-trusted- partners after missions, adventures and challenges.
However, after the light of happiness, Animia didn't know that she was already put into the centre of a trape!
"A wounded swan will transform into a crow."
The finish OP animation will be released in October this year, see you then ^^
This is the test animation of Animia, the protagonist of IronBird, showing her fighting action.
This test is done frame by frame in pencil drawing then timing time in AffterEffects. As same as I said before in old posts, frame by frame animation is just sooooo fun!!!!
After showing all the characters in illustration, I would like to present you the animation piece.
H.M.Remi's Animated Sk8er Boi MTV (PV) is a self direction project of one of my subjects. Avril Lavigne's Sk8er Boi has been my beloved song since I was in junior high. Yet, back then I didn't wholely understand the lyrics (English is not my first language) and the meaning behind the story (was too young~~~). However, I like the rhythm and the story I hardly understood in the song. Therefore, I have been hoping to visulize this story story through animation for a long long time!!! The thing was that I didn't have the skill......
But now, I have the skill and I can do it!! Yeah!!! I am really a dream executant XD!!!!! I researched on youtube and discovered that there have been already many people animated the story which made me feel a bit frustrated for a moment (I wanted to be originally and the first one to do that!!) But I understood that if I let this chance go, I may not have another to make this dream which last for 7 years come true. So, in order to make it more original, I decided to apply the traditional Chinese painting style as the style of my piece and give the characters new personalities which would be more Asian (I target this MTV to be broadcasted in Asia, e.g. Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, China and South-east Asia).
To understand the Sk8er Boi's characters more, please refer to the former posts. Hope you enjoy it ^^
Wooo! This is the time for the first-person of the story, Rock n Roll Girl!!
I cannot say this character is the protagonist becuase Sk8er Boi is actually depicting more the past of Skater Boy and Ballet Girl. Rock Girl (shorten her name ^^) acts like a narrator of the story, yet a subjective one ^^
In my imagination, she is a confident girl and the singer of the band with Skater Boi. She always do her best for getting the things that she wants, therefore sometime, she seems a little bit aggressive.
These are the "naughty" friends of Ballet Girl. As the song depicted, they are the people who laughed at Skater Boy's baggy clothes and "persuade" Ballet Girl not to fall in love with him....
So the villains of the story...?? I am not sure about this. It was bad for them set value of a person by his clothes, however, perhaps they were just doing so for Ballet Girl as her friend, getting away the person that is not good for her....
Anyway, people's personalities and actions are complicated. For my version of the Sk8er Boi story, I hope to make this group of friends to be more humane, not just pure villains.
So I name them as "Naughty friends", but not "Evil friends" ^^
The second character of Sk8er Boi animation MTV~~ Ballet Girl. She is a character with a arrogant yet not confident enough personality, she could be affected by peers and acted opposite to her true heart... poor character actually....
Anyway, to express her character, a beatibul and arrogant ballet dancer, I came out with this finally ^^
Just love her ballet dress!!!!!
The graphics was sketched by hands on paper then painted in Painter.
The popular boy in this musical story, Skater Boy. A boy with baggy clothes who loved playing skating board and guitar, became a famous Rock star at the end. His clothes are no more baggy now, but you have already been late, Ballet Girl~~~ I used bamboo as the background to imply that the Skater Boy in my animated version has a sincere personality ^^
"WEN" is a frame by frame animation. As my own pc died before I went into the animation process, I had to draw all the frames by hands (I don't remember how many papers I have used). Then, borrowed my friend's computer to paint the frames in photoshop so that the clouds still look like what I planned them to be. Thank you! My friend!!
And then after painting, is to put them into the right timming with the music in affectEffects.
Special effects were added in this stage as well~~~ Enjoy~~
Although "Wen" is an abstract piece, there is a minimal, so-called storyline in it ^^
As there are two kinds of clouds in "Wen" , fire and water, they are acting on their own in the beginning, but at the end, they will meet each other and form a dragon pattern!!
All the illustrations that I have shown so -far, were either hand-drawing and painted in photoshop or were all done in photoshop with wacom tablet~~~~ love my tablet so much~~
To make the animaion tests I showed you before, is to create some concept arts first.
"Wen" is the animation I did for projection art purpose. My idea is to apply tradition Chinese painting style to animate the clouds, and create a space where people can be embraced by two kinds of coulds, fire and water ^^
"Wen" is a Chinese word means the pattern and the colors of clouds. You can see the Chinese character below as part of the design of the logo of the animation.
"Fetus" is the theme of this exhibition. To hold this exhibiton, I think is like a rehearsal for us to create the big exhibition at the end of this year, our Graduation Exhibition!!!
Rather than showing our animaiton pieces, our task was to design the space with projections. Having just 1 week to set it up, it was really a unforgettable memory!!
The following is the animation I did as part of the screenig in the space, of course it is related to the theme~~~ I named it "Truth of Frogs" ^^
"On My Way to School" is actually an intractice comic that we were are to make. To create a story, I rather make it un-interative becuase I am not a game person at all, haaaaa ^^ Again, I enjoy to design the story and character more than the game itself~~~ Anyway, to play this please visit http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/467387
Actually, this is a piece of motion graphic rather than an animation, anyway, just let me put this into the animation category in this blog~~
Basically, I am not a person who like making ironic art for politic....
Anyway, again this was a class exercise, sooo, you can't say no to your tutor about the project , right? ^^
So here you are, using motion graphic to visualize Jello Biafra's Die for Oil Suck soundtrack. The part that I had in this piece is just a part of his whole piece. If you are interested about his protest about the politics in the US, just goggle it, you will find a lot of his info.
All the symbols in the motion graphic are designed by me with illustrator and photoshop, then I animated them in aftterEffects ^^
"Finding Toilet" is the fash game that I did last year for a programming class with the the IT students. The part of the programming process is fine, but as an design student, designing the platform and character is much more more MORE fun!!!!!
Finding Toilet is suposed to be a hang-man game as the brief written. However, I don't like hanging people up just because they don't know how to spell the word XD!!!
Therefore, I decided to make it a game with narrative and cuite characters (this is more encouraging as I set my target audience primary school students)
The storyline is about a boy who loves eating so much that one day he ate too much and his stomach just................ Arha, an adventure to find the toilet!!! It is exciting, right? XD
The following is the character expression setting, just loving his extreme faces XD
The one below is the second character design, however, it was not used in the game. Honestly, I like the one above more ^^
And the one below are the object designs for the environment in the game.
This is an old design I did for the typograhy class in 2007. Almost forgot it.....
But this year, in the open day of my uni, accidently (it's really an incredible accident), I flipped a book on the display table and than the first page that I see this: "What!? Why is it here" I said. Then I turned over and see this:
"Oooorrrr~~~ I remember!"
It is the collection of the diploma student's typographic designs. The book was so expensive that I didn't buy........ I should have bought one.....anyway ^^
The page on the left hand side (the 2nd photo) was part of the design, but for now I just find out the one on the right (the 1st img), ummm....... I will look up my dvd library, it should be in one of those disc ^^
It is good to meet my old work in my final year of my degree ^^ Good memories of both the past and the present!!
Flow is an experimental video art done with my two friends in class. Through abstract graphics projection on the blinded girl turning around, we want to explore the meaning of love and death - both of them are like cycles and people are living in it, so cannot see them clearly from the inside......
To explain this need a proposal, so for the blog I will leave like this.
As this is an abstract piece, what you get is what you get ^^ Spirit of abstract art, haaaaaa XD
Magical Partners are the first 3D animation I did from modeling, rendering, building skeleton for it and then animate it, a lot of fun, just love animating bouncing objects XD Enjoy!
An other 3D practice done in the same time with the previous one.
The sculpture in the graphic is actually a sculpture that I did in the sculpture class. Model it in 3D was really another feeling of sculpting. (3D modeling is more fun honestly)
I have never seen any Chinese tea cup made of transparent glass in reality.... heeee..... anyway, it's pretty when they are in graphics, haaaaaa..........
We were asked to design an "unusual" calendar as a group of 5. And we came up with an idea to make a cubic calendar with an alien character going throughout the world, wearing different traditional customs from different countries. Just love character designing!!
We should have taken photos of the product, arhaaa! Anyway, these are the 10 one that I designed for 10 months. The other 2 was done by one of friends in the group. But already lost the layout now......We should have taken photos of the product! Too green as a design student back then. Teachers would not give you back the design .......
Again, for practicing water color painting, I "copy" art works with my "photocopier-hands" again Arhaaaaa!!!
This time, I chose the objects drawn in Otada's illustration book for "Hikaru no Go". I am also a big fan of it!! This is a story about a boy became an professional Go chess player with his tutor who is a spirit from a thousand years ago. Scary? not really because Sai, the spirit was really funny character!!
Umm, the blog is a litter too plain at the moment, here are just, black, white and grey....
Sooo!! I decided to make it look more colorful!!
To do it, I would like to present you one of my favourite manga character, NARUTO!!! I am a big fan of this Ninjia story, please read it if you haven't becuase it is really a very meaningful and exciting story!!
This is a fan art of him. And perhaps you have seen this illustration before, because I was just imitating Masashi Kishimoto's illustration, just did it for my watercolor painting practice ^^
In fact, I am more familiar with color pencils, I started to learn painting with watercolor in 2005. But still I loved color pencils more, haha.
However, for now, 4 years later, digital painting is my favourite!! Wahaaaa XD
Wohooo! Here you are, the 3D version of the poster !!
"Where is the 3D thing? Where's the lamp?" you may ask ^^
The name "PIXAR" is the 3D object I did using Maya! As PIXAR is a 3D animation studio, I thought it would be more suitable to use 3D graphics to be the main element of the design, so I did this version and in fact, the tutor like this more as well which was good~~~
This is an exercise of typography class, we were asked to design a poster for a recent exhibition in Melbourne at that period.
As a lover of animation, of course I would choose the Pixar Studio's Exhibition in ACMI.
That was in winter, 2007...... That was so awesome!!!! I love Pixar.
And this is the poster that I did for it.
As there were a big sculpture of desk lamp in front of the ACMI entrance (you know Pixar's lovely logo character ^^), which was so catchy that I used as the domain element of the design.
The desk lamp graphic was an illustrated (using illustrator again)version of a photo I took of the huge lamp in the entrance and the all the other things are done in Indesign.
However, at the end, this design was not handed in, because I did another version.......