Animated Short (work in process)

This is a story about a little monk who can turn his writing into living beings.

Since the animation is still in process, this version will only be on this blog temporarily.
I will keep working on it during this summer and hopefully upload a completed version soon.

Concept art and some sketches:

Here is the first half of the storyboards from my original plan
I guess I will just show these for now and keep the ending in secret XD

Digital Compositing Reel 2008-2009

At the end of our second year, we turned in some of our works we have done in Digital Compositing through out the year for screening.
Therefore I made a 1-minute reel out of some of my works:

The music in this reel is “Attack of Butterflies” by Joe Hisaishi.
It is from a Korean movie named Welcome to Dongmakgol Village.

The first two assignments can be found in my older posts:

"Animating Puppet in After Effect"

"6-legged Walk Cycle"

Here are the rest of the assignments in their complete versions:

In this assignment, the instructor gave us a live action footage of a pan of a street scene and asked us to add any kinds of animation of effect to it. I decided to turn the original footage into an image with outline only, and added an illustration of a kid with a turtle, and animated all the strokes.

The music is from the soundtrack of The Sky Crawlers.




Later on, we got another assignment with another footage of a street. This time we had to animate an animal crossing the street. I decided to do that a little differently…

The last one in the reel was actually a pretty early work.

It was a lip-sync assignment in which we changed the mouth shapes not through hand-drawing animation but through After Effect.
I got the audio from an anime short named “KAKURENBO”
and designed my own characters for it.

This demon uses a puppet of a little girl as bait,
and seizes children once they approach it.

Tribeca Film Festival opening

An assignment for the submission of Tribeca Film Festival opening

Animation final project- test

What Happens When a Fly Falls into a Coffee Cup?

Digital compositing Assignment:
Do a short animation from any post we find in the personal ads section on Craig's list. The animation has to be at least 40 seconds and full-colored.

I happened to find a joke among those ads, and I had fun animating it.



the original post on website is already expired
but here is the original joke that was on the post :
(I only did it for class work, the joke does not represents my point of view)

What happens when a fly falls into a coffee cup?


The Italian - throws the cup and walks away in a fit of rage.

The Frenchman - takes out the fly, and drinks the coffee.

The Chinese - eats the fly and throws away the coffee.

The Russian - drinks the coffee with the fly, since it was extra with no charge.

The Israeli - sells the coffee to the Frenchman, the fly to the Chinese, Buys himself a new cup of coffee and uses the extra money to invent a device that prevents flies from falling into coffee.

The Palestinian - blames the Israeli for the fly falling in his coffee, protests the act of aggression to the UN, takes a loan from the European Union to buy a new cup of coffee, uses the money to purchase explosives and then blows up the coffee house where the Italian, the Frenchman, the Chinese, and the Russian are all trying to explain to the Israeli that he should give away his cup of coffee to the Palestinian.

Anatomy-gigantic hand drawing assignment

During November in Anatomy class, we got one special hand drawing assignment as homework.
We chose a hand position (for one hand or both hands), took a photo as reference, and drew on a roughly 30”x30” paper with any medium.

To help us decide a position for our huge final drawing, we first did five small hand drawings and chose one from them.

Most of the poses I did were too calm or quite ordinary except for the stretched out one at the bottom right, which was more dramatic. I didn’t do a good job for that position in that sketch, so I want to make it better in the final drawing.
It was November 1st when I started drawing that, and the Halloween just passed. So I decided to draw a hand stretching out from the wall XD and I wanted to give my viewers a feeling that the hand is really stretching out towards them. This then became an interesting test for my realistic drawing skill since I’ve never really drew on such big scale before. However, I didn't have too much time for this assignment because I still have works due for another class. When I have to draw at a great scale in a short time, charcoal is a good medium to use ^ ^ I ended up spending 7 hours straight (well a short break to grab food) to finish the piece, but it was already faster than I thought it would take, and I actually enjoy drawing it XD


30"x30" (roughly), charcoal, Nov. 01, 2008

I did the drawing on the floor in my tiny dorm room (felt like my eyes were going to drop out after 7 hours of drawing on floor (@_@) and I took a picture of me with the drawing after I finished it.

The space around me that’s not in the picture are my bed and the desk, so the drawing pretty much occupied the remain space in my room. XDD

2nd Year Anatomy-Fall semester

Now I can move on to my present works.
My Anatomy class~~~
During the class, students practice figure drawing and learn the structures of human bones and muscles. Every class we have a model, and the instructor will put a skeleton posed the same as the model. We learned the bones first, then move on to muscles, and we will still be learning muscles during the next semester.
For homework each week, we draw the parts we will be learning from the suggested text book---"Artistic Anatomy" by Dr. Paul Richer. It's a really useful book, I like it.

The following are the homeworks in this semester. All the drawings are on 18"x24" papers.
(Please bare with the dark and weird lighting in my dorm...=_=