Friday, December 21, 2012

Gotta get back into this

Long time no see. I knew thisll happen. Ill be good at blogging for a while, then give up.

Lets give it another go.

Ive finished my second year of uni. Its been a difficult year, mostly because of my midyear motivation breakdown. Animation is so not my thing, I find it far too difficult. However I did find I quite enjoy interactive media.

My minor project second semester was an interactive field guide to my own fantasy creatures. I really quite enjoyed making this, it didnt quite get finished to my standards, but I ended up doing well in the assignment.

Im considering expanding on it for my major project next year.

You can view my field guide here -
Field Guide to Liadan

2D, again, I found difficult. I do not have the patience for it, you can see my final 2D pantomime animation here if you wish - Glowy

I also found 3D quite difficult, we had to model and animate a character, I quite enjoyed modelling, though when we got to texturing I found myself getting very frustrated. You can see a poor quality version here - 3D Dino

So far Ive been on holidays nearly 2 months, and wasted it so far. Terrible anxiety has prevented me from doing a lot as well as socialising. However I hope to spend my remaining holidays teaching myself more actionscript3 and HTML5 as well as developing my Liadan world and creatures.

Wish me luck and happy holidays!

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Four months pass...

So, I got distracted. Im hoping I can still keep this blog somewhat alive, even if Im going to be the only one ever reading these entries.

I guess this is the time of the year that people get a bit jaded. Not sure if thats quite the right word. But it came to my head when I was trying to think of how I feel at the moment.

First semester is almost over, video, interactive and 2D are finished and handed in, now only 3D awaits.

Im bitterly disappointed at my 2D animation. If you wish, you may watch it at my deviantart here - http://fav.me/d52g3ro

Its just so much less than what I know I can do.

I had a bit of a personal issue mid semester when my dog had to be put down. Yes a dog, what a silly thing to get so upset over, but I was, and very much still am. I havent quite been able to 'snap back' into being cheery and motivated like I was before, but ey, I think Im getting pretty good at acting like it!

Anyway, once 3D is finished and handed in then I plan on trying to sort out some of my issues and hopefully return to normal before 2nd semester starts.

Heres my finished video project - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_qB9dOCPwY

Im quite happy enough with the final result. I wish I used a better quality camera though... I got quite sick of the Tetris tune by the end though.

My interactive project where we had to redesign and build an existing website - http://raws.adc.rmit.edu.au/~s3327985/a2makeover/

Im again quite happy with the result and I got a distinction grade for it. Gotta love pandas.

And again, heres my 2D - http://fav.me/d52g3ro

Its far too bright and odd.. and the sound sucks and theres no effects and I used horrible tweens.... arg.... but hey, I like the drop bears. Drop bears are awesome.

Good day!

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Second year student!

Back at uni, and I am liking it so far. I have a 2 day week, which I also really like, though tuesday is a long day. It has my favourite subjects though so its not too bad.

2D is going to be fun, right now we have a project that we have to hand draw a 20 second animation to a soundtrack of some nonsense sounds. So far I have the idea, its not terribly exciting or unusual though. Ill have to try something strange for the next assignment.

For 3D we have to design and build a landscape, which Im also excited about. Im doing a cabin on a swamp... hopefully itll turn out well. I enjoy modelling.

Im not 100% sure yet what were going to do in Interactive. So far we've learnt a little html, I imagine we'll keep learning on that and build up a website or something...

We also have Video, we have to plan, write, film a 1 minute video and edit it. Seems to be a lot of details and such involved, we have to plan everything including budgets, schedules, permits etc. Its going to certainly be different... Im not so much looking forward to it, and I have no clue what I am going to film...

Anyway, heres and awesome little animation-thing, I looove the way its made. I not only love watching speedpaints and such, but theyve taken this to a new level and made it into a gorgeous video of the making of a gorgeous picture. I hope to try out this sort of technique one day as I loved doing the 3D photo collages in after effects last year, though it was nothing nearly as gorgeous as this :)

Anyway, just watch and enjoy!



REBIRTH of GAEA - Flowing Meditation from Jesse Michael Newman on Vimeo.

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Three things!

One, I havent posted in awhile. Ive been on break, I still have a few short weeks until Uni starts, and IM hoping I can get motivated and excited in these coming weeks rather than even more terrified.

Ahem.

Two! I want to try out zbrush. Very very much. I enjoyed playing around with Maya in the short time we had, and I did enjoy working with details, up until the teacher decided to tell us about Maya disliking anything with more/less than four edges and I had to scrap what Id done. And seeing zbrush, which seems like a real 3d sculpting program looks like fun! I hope we get to try it this year.



 And three! Very short post... A fellow student posted a link to this animated short that in the process of being made, and I admit Im very excited to see it finished! I admit Im not too knowledgeable about animators or artists, but I did recognise one name on the list of artists working on it and thats James Baxter, who Ive loved the movies/characters he's worked on creating, especially Spirit.

Anyway, the short is called 'Adam and Dog', here is the trailer. Isnt it already looking and sounding amazing! I mean, look at those backgrounds! Nothing will ever replace 2Ds magical look and feel. I cant wait to see this finished.

Full screen and sound! Or your missing out :P


Adam and dog Trailer from Minkyu on Vimeo.

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Pretty vid + Ramble

Saw this awesome speed-paint/making-of video, and its just... awesome. Love the detail and the colours. Id so love to do something this colourful and detailed :P



Making film of Circulation(2011) 6Min from MinjaeLee on Vimeo.


Holidays are still happening. I dont belive Im going back until the start of March. Im starting to really think I should be doing something worthwhile, or teaching myself some things or at least practising!

But Im not...

I have been commissioned to do 9 pictures though, so Im quite very happy about this. Ive only ever done small $5-10 ones. I like being commissioned...

Ive also been reading a fair bit, and I like that.

Im not such a fan of xmas, so I doubt youll be seeing any crazy xmas stuff from me. I shall be spending it with the familys, which shall be interesting. But oh well.

I shall try n animate something. Dont know what, but I shall try. Just to feel like Im doing something worthwhile...

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

21 and concerns for next year

So not too much has been happening. Ive been a little less motivated than usual the past few weeks. But thats fine. Ive also been playing Psychonauts a bit, and thats quite distracting...

Anyway I have a few pictures I want to draw for friends and family for xmas, so I suppose I should start on them.

I had my birthday on the 6th, I am now 21, which is nice though theres been no great revelations or wisdom thats come with it. I did however get 'Drawn to Life volume 1 and 2' and another Terryl Whitlash book that I love. As well as some pretty nice watches and bag.

Im happy too. Which is always good.

Im a little concerned for next year. I always have been really.. though I am excited, Im still worried that I might just not be able to animate anything decent. Ever... but I shall try, and I want to learn all I can. I just dont feel as creative as others. but maybe that only means that I wont be an animator or storyteller.. I quite enjoyed what little 3d modelling we did, and I do enjoy doing character design.. so maybe they will be the areas I go into? Or maybe something completely different.

Its hard because Im interested in such different things, its hard to fit any together... for instance I love history and behaviour. As well as animals and research and drawing, books, learning, photography... siiigh.

I really like learning about behaviour, in particular canine behaviour. I wont go into it, mainly because I dont really know too much and dont want to sound like an idiot, but I love their social behaviour. The way they sort out their problems together and their social hierarchy.. its amazing.. I love em..

Anyway one good thing about next year is we also get to choose an elective class. Which Im excited about. I wanted to do the photography course, but Im worried itd be too... crap. I want to learn how to take better pictures, I want to learn about the proper camera settings to use etc. I dont want to learn about stuff I already know..

Then I was thinking I might do a language course. Id love to learn french, japanese or german. I learnt german in high school, but I dont really remember much.. then I though what good will another language do me... siiigh.

Ill keep thinking about it.

Heres a fjord horse I drew. Theyre cute. And I had fun with this style.



Heres a cute and funny little animation

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Been a lil distracted with my freedom

So my first year of uni has finished! Im very happy. And I admit Ive been a lil distracted and havent posted on this for awhile. Sorry about that. But Ive already drawn a few things, and Ive also bought my paints here, so maybe Ill play around with them at some point just for the 'lolz'. Paints hate me a little...

Anyway!

I managed to finish everything off quite well. Im happy with what Ive done. Even my imaging storyboard assignment wasnt too bad. Im quite very happy with my design work. Here is my brochure design -



Again, photos are my own. Im happy with this and I enjoyed making it.

Cant wait until second year though. For one thing, theres no imaging class, and we also start learning some more interesting animation techniques. The classes are 2D animation, 3D animation, Interactive and Video. Im looking forward to it.. I still dont think I have the patience for 2D, but we'll see. Itll be fun learning about it anyway.

Heres a very cool lil animation, Im not sure who made it, but I keep getting the song stuck in my head and I just love the 'story' :P