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3D Animated short film produced at Natcoll Design School.
Artwork of Al from Mighty Ape, concepts, sketches and finished art.
Animation, designs, background art and character art from the opera.
Poster prints, interviews and media publicity
Pin-up fan art from videogames and movies.
The age of magic, ruled by evil. Join Xana and Bear as their adventure begins!
Follow Captain Eva and her crew as they explore the vast uncharted reaches of space.
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| The Skeleton Queen now online! |
15 October, 2008
Here it is, the website is finally up!, The Skeleton Queen part 1 mini story is featured in DMC's New Ground comic book issue 10B and will be available at Armageddon Expo in Auckland on the 25th October. Thanks to Chris Corboy my editor for this project and publisher Jeremy Bishop from DMC ;)
Next year in October will be the release of my first comic book, Space Chronicles Universe, issue #1 will introduce you to the Valkyrie Team and the start of an on going series. Can't give out too much details yet as I am still sorting out bits and pieces (publishers, retail etc). But for now I've launched a teaser page, check out the new updated logo :)
I am pretty busy now with several contract work, there will be updates on those soon, including Mighty Ape concept art, which should be online early November. |
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| Maui's Spell still around |
11 July, 2008
I spotted this at Auckland Airport Whitcoulls, I'm surprise it's still on retail shelf's. It's Maui's Spell, a game I worked on way back in 2003 with CultureFlow. I was the lead artist, did the game's background art, interface, intro/ending story slides, the DVD cover, logo and manual, good times :) |
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| Animation celebration night |
9 July, 2008
Great night at the celebration for Aucklands entry to the Hamburg Animation Awards 2008. It was good to catch up with some ex-classmates/tutors from Freelance Animation School. Space Chronicles Animated was screened there along with many other Auckland animation entries (25 in total I think). |
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28 APRIL, 2008
I've put in sometime to reworked the site mascot, also made it into a wallpaper for fun :) |
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16 APRIL, 2008
Finally, after months of work, the new site is now online, new artwork, codex, new comic and a updated trailer. I've put up the basic information to SC universe and main characters, of course I've left out more info that will later be revealed in comics or hopefully animation. Big thanks to Chris Corboy for tidying up my writing for the site.
There is a minor script error for SCU in New Ground #9, it's mention Dyna is Human, she is infact a Sumerian :) Also Captain Eva hair is now officially bleach blonde, instead of a heavy yellow.
Updated Space Chronicles Animated trailer, 2 new scenes added and some new sound fx and I changed the que cards alittle.
These are pretty old concepts for Nimby Opera, from middle of 2007 I think, if not earlier, as always I've only uploaded some of the concepts, can't show all the good stuff :)
Thats it for now, I have more other artwork lined up (it never ends.. and why should it! :) so keep checking back! |
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Space Chronicles Universe: Prologue
Yay it's finished, the prologue to Space Chronicles Universe has been sent to DMC for New Ground #9, this will be the start of a full comic out sometime in 2009. This mini comic introduces some new characters and new story elements. More information will be available once the new site is up by the end of March.
Also a new announcement soon-ish, still working out the details! but stay tuned
And Happy Sheep is now officially online! (thats the logo I designed for them!)
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Sneak Peek! The Cunning Little Vixen
I did this teaser artwork and character design for Nimby Opera in July 2007, it's been kept underwraps until now, they've recently printed these postcard sized to advertise their latest play Good Angel, Bad Angel in April and started promoting their next play, The Cunning Little Vixen, which will be ready by the end of the year.
If your in Wellington (New Zealand) you'll probably see these flying around, Nimby sent one to me this morning to have a look at my handy work :P The production is still in planning/development stage so I can't say much.
I will have this teaser artwork and maybe some character design available on my site later, as for now I rather if it's exclusive to print.
Also, portfolio section updated, finally!
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| Sketches Gallery 2008 and Collectibles Update! |
22 January
2008
A mixture of quick concept ideas that were lying around when I was tidying up my room, only a couple were done last year.
Original 1983 Don Bluth Dragon's Lair poster, love this game and mostly the animation style and characters. Move over Jessica Rabbit! :P
And finally, Girls of Chiodo figures, these came out in 1998, I did not know about them until now. Joe Chioho is one of my favorite comic book artist.
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2 January
2008
Here are some client based artwork done during Christmas. As always, I don't release contact artwork until it's ok from the clients :) There are a few more but I have to wait til February.
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24 December
2007
No I don't have holidays :) DMC website has been redesign and launched. Now has cool tab panels for each issue! that took awhile to do, it should work in IE7 and Firefox. The site isn't completey finished, I still have a few more things to tidy up. New Space Chronicles artwork upgrade probably in Feb, with Codex this time, and newly tweaked character designs :)
Happy holidays everyone. |
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| Space Chronicles Animated Trailer! |
11 December
2007
Took me about 2 days to do this, was dam fun :) Cost around $80 for new music and sound fx just for this trailer. Hope you enjoy it!
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9 December
2007
Spent about an hour on some random sketches, the polar bear came from watching too many Golden Compass trailers.
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8 December
2007
Well, it's Saturday and my Xbox 360 died, so I'm opening 2008 sketches gallery early! Just random character art. Also as you've probably notice I've changed the site a bit. For some reason I'm interested in Blade Runner DVD, hmmm must buy. I did buy a couple of dvds this week, The Simpsons Movie and David Attenboroug's Planet Earth part 2. Simpsons movie has great audio commentary (which is usually why I buy DVDs these days), one recorded for the directors and one for the animators.
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3 December
2007
My 3 years at Freelance Animation School is coming to an end, a few things left to do but I think I'm in good shape to say I'm done. However Space Chronicles Animated project is still going without the assessment pressure. Hopefully I will have final movie available online in Feburary 2008, but I still need to find out what else is happening at FAS next year regarding my project (I'll fill you in more on that later). For now I will be releasing a short 20 ish second trailer soon, it's been great fun putting it together. Other then that I designed a dvd cover for this project (no it won't be for sale), you can check it out here.
New Sketches gallery is now online, sketches from 2006 to 2007.
I will be available to take on new projects and also looking for work (or a studio) Right now I'm trying to get my portfolio and online stuff sorted, lots of house cleaning to do here. Back to work I go :)
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| Space Chronicles Animated screenshots! |
17 November
2007
Space Chronicles website has been updated with new screenshots from the project and the final poster design. Everything should be back to normal soon with new artwork (more girls and sketches) and more new contract work in the pipeline.
Next week is the Freelance Animation School Annual Exhibition, it's open to public on 24th Nov, Saturday at Jubilee Building, 545 Parnell Road, Parnell, Auckland, from 10am til 4pm. There's about 25 student (some left) work on display.
This is my last year at Freelance Animation School, it's been a 3 year journey and a dam good one, great people all through out, lots of fun and laughs :) As for now I want to get back to drawing some new artwork for my site and finish off part 3 of Space Chronicles mini story. Back to work I go!
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3 November
2007
Few more weeks left til the exhibition. Roughly 70% of the clean up is done, still plenty more to do. The online version should be up around the 10th of December, by then it should be 100% completed. Screenshots and the poster will be online next week! Haven't had time to reply a lot of emails and comments but I will get to it asap. No commissions until December the 7th :(
Bought some new action figures yesterday! Spawn series Agent 8 (photo left) came out last week in NZ. The Supergirl figure I thought looked good so I picked that one up as well :P
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22 October
2007
Took some time out to scan my new life drawings. Portfolio section has been updated as well. Not much to report, after a solid week of getting the Space Chronicles website up, I'm feeling kinda burnt out, right now I'm tidying up the Codex text for the site. |
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| Space Chronicles new website launched |
18 October
2007
Been awhile since I updated :) Ok the new Space Chronicles website is finally up, it took a lot of work. Still under construction but the bulk of it is online now. DMC comic New Grounds #8 is out now, the 5 pages of SC featured in there was created at a quick pace (took about a week in-between work and school) but it served the purpose of setting up for the animation project and part 3 finale in April 2008.
Lost in Space robot! I've been trying to get this robot on ebay for sometime now, never really found an auction suitable to buy. My tutor Joe from Freelance Animation School gave me this today! definitely a welcome edition to my collection :) thanks Joe!
More updates soon and hopefully new artwork.
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26 September
2007
Quick update :) Some art related work have been completed, I will be working down the list to get to your commission/contract work. As for my diploma animation, I've completed 2 mins of rough animation and now in the process of cleaning up all 38 scenes, more information wil be available on the 19th October on the new Space Chronicles website. What I've learnt about Captain Eva in animaton form, she is not easy to clean up, I think next time I'm going to create a model sheet just for her boobies as its not easy to keep those on model :P
I received my Halo 3 Legendary Edition this morning (thanks GPstore!), I probably won't be able to 'finish the fight' anytime soon due to work and school :( but the helmet it came with was not what I expected. I didn't think it was almost life size, very cool.
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11 September
2007
It's a really busy week and next
week as well. Apologises to all the late email replies
and unanswered commission request. I greatly appreciate
your interest in my artwork (and work), however for
the next 2 weeks my mind will be set on school. Thanks
for all your emails! I will be in touch as soon as I
can! :)
New life
drawings! :) |
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comics and Zillion |
3 September
2007
New Zillion
email artwork, this was done last week for their CDs
and DVDs auction special.
Space Chronicles Adventures for DMC Comics is
done!. 5 pages drawn and written, just have to tidy
it up. It's been (and still is) chaotic here, with multiple
deadlines for different clients/companies. Unfortunately
for that reason the comic art took some beating to get
it done, the quality isn't what I wanted, but it'll
have to do. Good news is it'll tie into the animation
being release end of the year, and the conclusion will
continue in April's DMC release 2008.
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26 August
2007
This artwork was
done in April 07 for Zillion Ltd, the old
Zillion team!. We've began on some new artwork.
I've also updated my Portfolio
section. Still need to update my Biography. |
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19 August
2007
Another work experience
for me from my animation school, this time with New
Zealand 2D/3D animation studio Yukfoo. However I'm there
for a specific role, to tweak/design and animate their
female characters :) I can't imagine doing anything
else :P
A little history on Yukfoo, they've worked on various
New Zealand adverts for Vodafone, Arnotts, Lotto and
Powerade to name a few. I visited their studio, great
place! lots of friendly people.
Note: I'm only doing work experience as part of
my diploma course this year. |
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09 August
2007
New life drawings
from Tuesday
night.
Still very busy at school, only several weeks left for
rough animation. Other then that, working and schooling.
Yes all contract work will be done before their deadline,
no need to worry if you haven't heard from me :)
New Space Chronicles website won't be ready until middle
of October, it's been pushed back to match the next
DMC comic release at October's Armageddon this year. |
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04 August
2007
New life drawings
from Tuesday
night.
Been really busy (and fun) week, we had a director assessment,
the entire school was involved, split into 10 groups.
Each group consist of 3 diploma students and roughly
12 novice students. I teamed up with internet famed
animator Andrew Kepple and our school's top 3D animator
Bryan Field. Although 3 of us were directors, I took
the role of character and art director. Hopefully I
can get ahold of our animatic and have it viewable here. |
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25 July
2007
New life drawings
from Tuesday
night.
My diploma project, the animation is taking longer then
expected due to a lot of action scenes (AND I have 3
walk cycle animation :) I'm not sure if the whole project
will be completed, but the animation quality should
be fairly high. I really want to finish it, but Freelance
wants at least 15 seconds of your best animation.. so
that is what I'm going to deliver and more! |
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18 July
2007
Life drawings from
Tuesday
night. There won't be any new gallery pin up artwork
for awhile. I will be busy with work: character, logo
and poster designs (more details on those later in the
year), school project and
getting all the Space Chronicles done before September
(5 page comic and lots of new website artwork). I might
throw a few random sketches online if I have time. |
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06 July
2007
Another old Ralph Bakshi animated
movie, Holli Would from Cool World. I chose her dancing
outfit instead of the main dress, though I think
she changes outfit quite abit.
I've started the rough animation on my Space Chronicles
project, only a hand full of scenes are done (starting
to look pretty good! :). I'm using my term break to
head back to my animation school and continue working
on it. Also working on the SCA comic now for DMC and
hopefully more promo artwork before September. |
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04 July
2007
My life drawing
night classes are back! in the freezing cold! Here are
some new stuff, mostly
5 to 15mins. |
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28 June
2007
Cult animation legend
Ralph Bakshi's Fire & Ice movie. Teegra's the most
voluptuous character
to date, and the most revealing for a PG cartoon. They
don't make cartoons like these anymore. Maybe someday
I'll continue that tradition after my diploma :) |
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23 June
2007
My internet connection
isn't working properly right now, so while I'm waiting
to get that sorted out, here's a new fan art! Based
off another favorite video game of mine, released in
2002 for the PS2 and Xbox. The only game in existence
to have a female pirate captain. Ahoy
bonny lass!
My email address has changed from tsailim@paradise.net.nz
to tsai@tsai.net.nz.
The old one still works, just making it easier to remember/type
for the new one :) |
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20 June
2007
Here are 2 artwork
I did for a school advert competition. I wasn't going
to enter but I figured it was a good excuse to draw
some female characters
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16 June
2007
Princess Daphne
from Don Bluth Dragon's Lair. One of the very few well
design and animated female characters (apart from Jessica
Rabbit of course!). I have a few more layouts to finish
for my Space Chronicles Animated project, so Daphne
was drawn and colored fairly quick. Here
she is.
I've done a minor update on the Freelance
Animation School highlights page and added a Site
Feature banner. Will update the Portfolio page soon
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12 June
2007
Bastila Shan from
the Star Wars Xbox videogame, Knights of the Old Republic.
I'm actually playing this at the moment (for the 3rd
time), the storyline and characters are on par with
the original trilogy, it's awesome!. Instead of Obi
Wan as your mentor, in the game you get... Bastila
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28 May
2007
There is no other
video game I have played more then Sega's Golden Axe,
I have this on my PSP and my old Sega Megadrive console.
I think this is the first ass kicking female character,
in a bikini for
armor to grace the video game industry back in 1989.
My two weeks at Flux Animation Studio has come to an
end, it's a nice place to work, filled with good and
very talented people :) The owner of Flux knows a friend
of mine that I've done some work for :D small world!
During our two weeks we mainly did (lots) clean up for
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22 May
2007
Although life
drawing is really important for any artist, I'm
kinda tired of uploading them on my site. Problem is
99% of artwork I produce are for contract work, I'm
not allow to show (yet). Any free time I have, goes
to my diploma project. Hopefully in the next couple
of days that will change, I've started on a new gallery
pin-up artwork (or two!) |
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15 May
2007
I was short listed
along with 2 other students (out of 34 diploma students)
at my animation school, to help Flux Animation Studios
work on their new project for 2 weeks. It will be featured
in a documentary. Right now I'm working on layouts,
then inbetween and finally clean up. That's all I'm
allow to say :P
As always even though I'm beat, I still manage to make
it to the life
drawing class tonight :) |
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4 May
2007
My dialog recording is now done!
I've never been to a professional audio suite or cast
a professional voice actress, so it was great to see
how it's all done and mixed. Big thanks to Carrie from
Word
of Mouth for organizing everything, Lucy for her
kick ass voice for both characters and of course Auckland
Audio :)
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25 April
2007
This was done fairly
quick last week, a birthday
card commission.
Few emails regarding Space Chronicles, the final website
will be launch around August - September, with completely
new artwork, site design and more information. The current
website is only a teaser :) |
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21 April
2007
Lucy
Wigmore, TV2 Shortland Street actress has agreed
to voice Captain Claire Eva in my Space
Chronicles Animation project. Recording will be
done at Auckland Audio studios. What can I say, this
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| Space Chronicles
website launches! |
20 April
2007
Space
Chronicles website is finally up and running, this
is only a teaser site, the rest of
the site will be open later in the year. Codex page
will feature all characters from the SC universe, their
profile shot and history. Comics page will be similar
to the Animation page, promoting 5 page comic strip
release with the next DMC New Grounds book, that leads
up to the animation event.
I've been getting quiet a bit of email and apologise
for the late replies as I've been really busy with this
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02 April
2007
I figure I should
upload something, it's been awhile. So here's Beach
Girl! roughly an hour to sketch and colour up. I've
also made the updates look alittle nicer.
All of my time have been spent working on my diploma
project at animation school. Check back before the end
of April, I should have something up for it. |
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19 March
2007
Here are today's
life drawings, we had roughly 45 mins of 1
min only gestures, so not all made it onto my website
:p If your unfamiliar with life drawing, one of the
training is drawing whatever poses the live model does,
capturing her/his attitude, weight and volume, under
1 min. |
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16 March
2007
Due to overwhelming
amount of work and school work I have now, the Gotham
Comics website will now be updated regularly by
the Gotham Comics team! yay! including the weekly shipping
list. Expect to see the changes early next week, as
I'm trying to explain the whole updating process to
them :) |
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11 March
2007
I had less then
3 hours to do this for their latest newsletter, which
is why it's missing shadowing layer. After this I've
changed a few things on how I approach 'zero-day' art
related work. In future, there will include shadow levels
and various other effects, even if its only 2-3 hours
work. I'm not sure when Zillion will release the team
page artwork of all of them, but this
character is Chris :) |
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art: The Golden Voyage of Sinbad |
1 March
2007
I've been real busy,
the diploma project is very taxing, however worth it.
Space Chronicles Animated is running along nicely, the
characters are final, the script approved and next will
be the storyboards. So I won't have any promo artwork
until June.
This week's artwork is based on Margiana
on The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, it was completed on
Sunday, I didn't have time until tonight to colour it,
it's also rushed since I don't have a lot of spare time
now :/ |
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23 February
2007
Some life
drawings for this year now online, 1min, 15mins
and 30mins, you can probably guess which is which, there
are a few more but I only picked the ones I like. I
forgot to bring my B pencil, the 30min life drawing
was done with a 6B, so I couldn't (as hard as I tried)
get details in as I would have with a B pencil. Oh well
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| Space Chronicles
Animated approved! |
16 February
2007
Space Chronicles
Animated project has been approved as my final (diploma)
project at Freelance Animation School. Here are concepts
of the first SCA pitch that didn't
make it, none of these designs will be in the final
animation. Sorry no character concepts, they were all
approved :) A teaser site will be launch later in the
year, including a planned 5 page comic strip published
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6 February
2007
Ok back to Freelance
Animation School tomorrow, I manage to rush one last
Gallery artwork for this week. Supergirl!,
more to come hopefully. I'm not sure when Zillion.co.nz
will be displaying new artwork I did for them last week
but look out for those! |
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2 February
2007
Anyone familiar
with the 80's sci-fi movie Battle Beyond the Stars should
recognize this
character :) |
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Quick sketches...
28.January.2007
I don't usually draw on a raging hot day, but
I thought I'll get some quick sketches
through. |
Background test...
23.January.2007
While planning for my final year at Freelance
Animation School project (Space Chronicles Animated), I did some
quick background work early
December to see if it's what I want. A lot of Samurai Jack background
inspirations for these. They were going to be left for my SCA teaser
site later in the year, but hey I'll probably be doing way more
concept art by then to use. |
Gallery artwork...
22.January.2007
It's been awhile since I did a World of Warcraft
fan art. I became interested in the Draenei race and their lore
in Warcraft (Muradin server, Redcloud or Redhorn :) So here
it is. |
more Gallery artwork...
12.January.2007
Anyone remember Bucky O'Hare? one of my favorite
cartoons, here is the next
Gallery artwork, enjoy! :) |
Gallery 2007 has begun...
8.January.2007
Starting off 2007 Gallery
with a fan art. I got the PSP Star Wars Lethal Alliance as a Christmas
present, I haven't had time to play it much but I love the 2 new
characters featured in the game and I love Star Wars tremendiously
:)
A
larger 1024x768 version is available here |
NZflatmates...
New gals for 2007...
30.December.2006
Here they are, new web template gals :D I figured
I'll put them on now incase I forget about them during the new year.
Back to more drawing! |
Quickie...
29.December.2006
As I try to finish up on the new website girls
(website template bikini girls on the top and left side) for 2007,
along with growing work I am grinding through. This
was one of the early reject poses. I've quickly colored this
as a news piece for today :D |
Zillion artwork...
Merry Christmas...
24.December.2006
Although I've done plenty of commissions, they
usually end up into regular work. This new page is for one
off commissions. A few updates around the site, Gallery
section has been updated, new 2007 pin-up artwork coming soon.
A highlight
page for my Freelance Animation School is online. Merry Christmas
everyone and a Happy New Year. |
Christmas Draena...
21.December.2006
These might be the last Draena artwork in this
art style, they were done a month ago, more characters and a different
Draena in 2007, for now here are the Christmas
artwork :) |
New Freelance website finally online...
20.December.2006
After months of designing, planning and everything
inbetween, it's finally online.. well 80% of it. There are few pages
missing and bits and pieces that need to be tighten up. I'm not
sure what my credit is here apart from web designer, I also manage
the whole project from gathering and sorting resources and information,
keeping (as humanly possible as I could) everything under control.
Jon Wenmoth took my designs and put it altogether into a Flash
website and also an impressively database driven site. He's
has done an excellent job, well beyond my expectations :) We'll
be continuing this project in the New Year, but for now, it's done!
What needs to be done:
- Stills and Video page (Student, Tutors and School TV Ads videos)
- Sound FX!
- Links
- Minor additions like a continuous roller for the staff page
We haven't add our names yet, that will be done soon, it should
appear at the bottom where the copyright info is.
Right now I'm grinding as much free time as I have into planning
for my 3rd year project, concepting characters, enviroments, story
structure and lots and lots of research. I'll have some artwork
uploaded soon that aren't related to this project, that will be
revealed middle of 2007 unfortunately :( |
Freelance Animation School 2nd year ends...
7.December.2006
Today was the last day of our 2nd Year at Freelance,
we watched some movies on a projector and had a feast! it was great.
Though I am officially on holiday I still have plenty of work to
do so I'm on semi holiday. On to 2007!, diploma year with the same
wacky classmates from Freelance.
I manage to sneak in a Jessica Rabbit picture during the last few
days in class before we had to pack up. Plus
photos of todays class event and various picture leading up
:) |
Cartoon sketches...
27.November.2006
I did all these last
week at school but forgot to scan them until today :( |
More Draena artwork...
20.November.2006
Collection of Draena
artwork a month ago, I've included some unused pose sketches. |
Zillion artwork #1...
17.November.2006
A commission for the Zillion.co.nz
team for their nightly
maintenance. This was done about a month ago, most likely to
be a series of them soon, hopefully I can include a sexy girl to
make people visit it during maintenance ;) |
Animation Gallery...
16.November.2006
Animation finally arrives at Tsai.net.nz. I only
picked a few to have on my site, the rest are mainly keys and breaks,
which is good training, but not so good for public viewing. I put
as much effect as I could with the given weeks to deck out Amazon
Hunter (background, shadow level, thick outline for animation
etc), to experiment and pave the way for my Diploma 2min animation
next year. My 3rd Year project will be announced soon :) |
Weekly sketches...
15.November.2006
I did some
sketches this week during class while waiting to use the computer
lab, to color my Amazon Hunter animation scene. They range from
under an hour to 20mins. |
Life Drawing update...
10.November.2006
6 hours of life drawing today, I was the only
one (including the tutor) that stayed through 2 classes (morning
and afternoon) of it. I've only uploaded the
ones I like, one 30mins and the rest are 7mins sketches :D |
Quick sketches...
9.November.2006
Though I've done a lot of drawings (like my animation
scene and other commissions) I can't upload them until later on,
so I figured I should update with something. Now that our animation
exams are over we're just relaxing and enjoying ourselves, I spent
today sketching and coloring (as best as I can with those awful
color pencils) lots of random girls, each sketch took about 15mins
or less, so you get the idea on how roughly I've done them. |
Work, school, work, repeat...
7.November.2006
Lots of work and school work, no time to update
:/
Lots of commissions, Freelance Animation School website, regular
GPstore, Gotham Comics, logo designing. Working on a fully colored
animation (2sec short) at animation school, should have that and
lots of other stuff online in December :D
I passed my exams at Freelance Animation School (key clean-up and
rough dialog animation), now we have to be interviewed for our next
year diploma in animation. |
In The Beginning
21.October.2006
I found a bunch of my old artwork I've done before
Animation School, I've uploaded a few from 1995 to early 2004. A
trip down memory lane :) |
Draena the Playelf
16.October.2006
Leviathan guild new Draena
artwork, used it in a very clever way on their website
:) More Draena coming soon :) |
Draena artwork
11.October.2006
New Draena
artwork for Leviathan guild. |
Draena is back!
3.October.2006
New artwork of Draena
for the Leviathan guild. I've changed her design a little, showing
a bit more skin! |
Welcome to the new design
28.September.2006
New site, new stuff! Space Chronicles is done
and included in New Ground #6. I had to finish up 5
pages and the comic
cover right in the middle of my animation exams, so the artwork
quality isn't as what I wanted it :( nevermind! it's done and it's
on the way to the printers. It's been a long road with Space Chronicles
but it's finally finished. A brand new comic (still
featuring women, of course) is in the works so stay tune for more
details. |
Sketchbook doodles #9
21.September.2006
My key and dialog animation final exam is over!
Won't know the results until almost 3-4 weeks later. Waited almost
an hour to use the linetester, so
I doodle this while I waited. |
Sketchbook doodles #8..
20.September.2006
Quick sketches,
while I was waiting for the linetester during our exam. |
New look, new website, very soon..
17.September.2006
Space Chronicles is done, DMC #6 cover is finished,
all sent and ready for printing. New Tsai.net.nz website is 80%
completed, should be online around 27th-30th September. No updates
until then :) |
Sketchbook doodles #7..
13.September.2006
Finally had some time to do some girlie drawings,
been so busy with work, school and.. lots more work. These doodles
are in the Gallery page,
figured I need to put some pencil art in there.
Few things to update, a new Tsai.net.nz website is in the works,
hopefully ready by early October. Space Chronicles is pretty much
done plus the DMC issue #6 cover is almost finished. Freelance Animation
School website concept design has been approved, I'll be starting
work on that very soon. Plus awhole heap of stuff which I'll mention
later. I have my final exams next week, so please expect delays
with my email reply.
Kiwi
Excavation has a website and have my logo design on it! it's
also on their staff T-shirt (you can just see it, I've sure it's
the logo!), very cool :D |
The Flatmates..
26.August.2006
New Flatmates Episode 14 "Realisation"
artwork, if you've registered with nzflatmates.co.nz
then you'll already have seen this through their email newsletter. |
New Life Drawings..
15.August.2006
Life Drawing evening class right after day 2
of my Clean Up exams, I'm surprised I'm still updating
my site after coming home. Includes 2, 5 and 20 mins drawings. |
Fan Art: Captain of the Royal Guards..
12.August.2006
I don't remember much of my childhood except
surrounded by He-Man toys. I had pretty much all of these figures,
missing was Teela which
my sister had. |
Leviathon Artwork..
New Website..
08.August.2006
Here's a new website I've finished, The Gibson
Comic Awards, which is run by Gotham Comics and DMC. Now's your
chance to take part in voting for your favorite artist and comics.
The awards will be held at Armageddon this year, hosted by J.Michael
Straczynski (Creator of Babylon 5). |
Fan Art: The Amazon Princess..
Website mascot...
28.July.2006
Commission
work for the Leviathon Guild, part of the World of Warcraft
gaming community. |
Portfolio updated...
18.July.2006
Big update for my Portfolio
section, with new art and web related work. |
Sketchbook doodles #6 + Sketch Gallery Opens...
28.June.2006
I've put together this week's sketchbook
doodles, no more doodles for the next 2 weeks since I'll be
on my mid term break. Doesn't mean there's no artwork being uploaded,
I will be working on a few projects for clients (artwork and design).
More details about some of them in July, including the release of
Space Chronicles online info.
I've also drawn an enviroment scene for fun early this week, which
will be used as my first sketch piece for the gallery. |
Sketchbook doodles #5...
22.June.2006
Yay finally, manage to do some sketchbook
drawings since I finished all my class work. |
Life Drawing updated...
21.June.2006
Last week's Life
Drawing added, human head and skull study. We had to learn about
the internal facial structure by matching an actual skull and live
model facial features. And construct the skull out of plasterscene,
unfortunately we weren't allow to keep them in the end. I did the
class twice so I had 2 sets of drawings. |
School Assignment...
20.June.2006
Slow but busy week, here is my less then desirable
rushed Rapunzel school
assignment. |
Logo design...
11.June.2006
Logo design for a kiwi operated excavation company
in Canada, Kiwi
Excavations!, here is the final design plus some concept sketches. |
Life Drawing Gallery...
02.June.2006
Finally sorted out my Life
Drawing artwork, only 2 new 2006 pieces, the rest is from last
year, more to come! |
Sketchbook doodles #4...
25.May.2006
This terms we have a character and enviroment
design assignment, based on the story of Rapunzel
at Animation School. This week (and probably next) I have been throwing
around ideas for it, these are just thinking on paper concepts,
the real concepts (model sheets etc) will start soon, those will
be uploaded when done. |
Sketchbook doodles #3...
18.May.2006
Exhausted and ill, sums up this week for me.
With meetings, deadlines, daily work load and school assignment
to complete, it's one of those... weeks. This week there isn't a
lot of doodling done, so here they are. |
Jack and the Genie...
15.May.2006
New artwork for my Gallery
section. Some nasty bullies have been picking on Jack at school.
One stormy night, he accidently discovers a magical lamp in his
attic. |
Pretty Pink...
13.May.2006
This was intended to be the new front page cover,
but... I decided no, so she's now a new artwork for my Gallery. |
Sketchbook doodles #2...
11.May.2006
Weekly doodles #2!, bald men, big noses and yes,
girls. A new front page
image will be up soon, so Winter Girl has been moved to the Gallery. |
Sketch...
05.May.2006
Just a quick sketch and color of a character
:) |
Sketchbook doodles #1...
04.May.2006
Finally bought a new sketchbook a few days ago,
so I got right down to just doodling whatever when I'm on my break
at Freelance Animation School, I've
only scanned a few, I will put more up at the end of every week,
looks like I'll have to get a 2nd sketchbook soon...
Space Chronicles will be revealed at the end June, including other
projects. |
Freelance Animation School 1st animation test...
15.April.2006
First animation attempt at Freelance Animation
School, we had to come up with a dance for our characters. There
are gazillion problems with this animation, so please bear with
it, there were many complications and this has been a huge learning
curve for me. This piece was completed in 8 days including planning
of the dance moves, drafts (and stick figure sketches), key, breakdown
and in-between animation. View
animation |
Adventures of Savage Woman...
14.April.2006
Frank Cho created Shanna, Budd Root had Cave
Woman(!), now I want a stone age super woman! so here's my version.
I was so busy with work and school I didn't have time to color it
until today, now I've lost interest to finish it however, I motivated
myself to sit in front of my computer, clicking and working away
on my tablet. So here she is - half completed. |
Online auction site Zillion wins...
7.April.2006
Congratulation to Zillion!
for winning 'Best New Site' at the Netguide Web Awards in Auckland
last night. Well done Dylan and Simon! (picture) |
Freelance Character Design Assignment...
31.March.2006
This year at Freelance Animation School we had
to design a character and animate it, so we wrote their background
history, personality etc, then created facial expressions, poses
and finally the model sheet with construction. I've decided to predominantly
use an existing character, Dragon's Lair; Princess Daphne, for my
design inspiration. I wanted to try and
capture the Disney style with her, though I found out very quickly
this was going be one hell of a challenge, she's really hard to
draw because she is made up of circular forms! But here she is,
Princess Sofie. These are just a few of the sketches I've done
(plus many more) but you get the idea. View
Artwork |
New Gallery artwork
30.March.2006
Added a new artwork for the Gallery,
not entirely sure what the theme is, hmmm, any ho more to come. |
Old artwork...
25.March.2006
Older artwork are now added to the Gallery page
by request, they are mainly fan art from computer games like City
of Heroes and World of Warcraft. New artwork "Sea Princess"
and another one (yet to be name) will be online soon. |
Open for business...
25.March.2006
Welcome to my new website. I decided to create
something simple, easy and user friendly to view my work, still
tweaking a few things but this is pretty much it. On the Portfolio
page, you will see designs I am currently working on and designs
I have completed, the Gallery page consists of random artwork done
in my spare time and the Home page feature sketches from school.
Enjoy! Space Chronicles project has been
pushed forward to October 2006 released by DMC Comics, 5 page
comic strip, 2 pin-ups and an A2 poster. More info later in the
year, stay tune! |
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Space Chronicles Animated diploma project is finally done and signed off to the 
I met up with animation producer 
