lie to me

http://www.fox.com/fod/play.php?sh=lietome#

will keep watching. :P

east and west audience

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Perhaps its because western audience (readers) have always used to a bigger variety of people within their group, whenever they see characters, they can only observe the biggest differences. To make my western audience not mix up some of my characters I have to make a greater effort to exaggerate the differences, (good practice for me i guess)

While my eastern friends and audience never have a problem telling each of my characters a part, nor do they have any problem spotting my influences at all. (so sharp it's scary)

Eastern audience really can spot for little differences in characters and accept them as different characters.... i think it's because it's an audience with fairly similar genetic traits, therefore observing little differences to tell people apart becomes a trained skill naturally... and it applies to manga.


Some people are mixing up Tian with Lien..... =_=bb I better work on that, i think they are interpreting any of my black long hair guys as Lien. Tian has plenty of different traits, but they don't know the character so its natural to compare to someone they know.
At least Tian is no more Inuyasha that's an improvement.


(chinese translation below:)
東西方的觀眾群最大的不同點,可能就在於觀察力.
西方的觀眾只能看到最大的不同點,最大的形狀,最大的顏色不同點. 大概是因為平常他們風格就是這樣,也和他們人群中不同的人種比較多有關.

東方的觀眾則是一點點小的變化都能查出來,細膩的可怕~XDDD 人物有一些不同點就能接受是不同的人, 連我受到的影響都能察覺出來. 也許也和他們平時生活的範圍裡都是類似人種有關,都是同種膚色,類似身高時,看小細節的觀察力自然提高...

要我的西方觀眾可以自然分別我不同的人物我還得多下點功夫~=_= 他們分不出天松和烈雷是不同人(不過很可能是不認識新人的關係)....至少新的天松圖不會再被跟犬夜叉混再一起了.

OK, now i know why i didn't like modern buildings, this, changed my mind.

Don't miss the toilet design.

Mystic Shenshu's growth

http://www.art-virtue.com/index.html <---挖到寶!


Well, this is probably the later Tian Sung... Looks like a high school student rather than middle school.

I decided to apply the caligraphy style of the person to the character lines as a part of Shenshu's style, it's going to be a manga that has to be done majority in brush and ink. Wooo hoo this is gonna be fun. (*sarcastic*)

The title is written by someone else who's better than me in caligraphy, but i don't have contact with her right now. ._.bb


神書的風漸定中...字是別人寫的我沒那麼厲害...
打算用個人寫字的風格來設計人物的線條和造形,變成要大用毛筆和水彩筆的作品...哇~~~~這可真會很好玩哩!(内:這下這部作品更整我了)

還有我很厚臉皮的e-mail那網站的作者了(看會不會回信)....沒辦法啦~真的很需要人幫忙做這部...
一個腦袋不夠用快燒焦了. 每寫一個字戰要翻3個字典很累~ (1.一般辭典 2. 書法字典 3. 成語辭典)畫圖的話加上繪圖圖典~(死)

about the heart of Taiwan entertainment

Since i have been around plurk, i got that Taiwan feel again.

It's the hope Taiwan can someday be recognized, for its potential and talent, for its worth. it's like a teenager trying to find itself in the world.
Call it The Taiwanese dream.

I personally support all those who wants to try building their studio.
In America, if we want to do it, we do it, if one fail, try another way. One person, two persons, go through that tough years, tough it out, work for others while you are still making your own series. Live your dream.

There's the same spirit in Taiwanese, just a lot more doubts surround them.
As long as they stop doubting, and start doing, it will be great. I believe in them.



I have vowed that... no matter how busy i get in professional life, I will never, ever stop my own work. One day they will grow into something.

Now that we have internet... there's even more hope.
And..... those kids need to stop being scared of english sites. XDDD Its not that bad. lol


因為現在在plurk上混...又染上了台灣的氣息...就是那股台灣夢吧?
希望"台灣"能夠在世界上站住一腳,被承認. 像是青少年尋找自己在世界上站的地位是什麼的感覺.

我其實很支持所有有夢想願意行動的人,
想做的事情就該去做, 想開工作室就去開,
人生就這麼一場,好好的為自己活,
最終也會讓別人受益.
我唯一不支持的情況是天馬行空的代有自以為意的想法.
只要肯落地踏實的做,不管是冒險心態也好,保守也好,都有可能成為真正的職業

這和美國夢沒有兩樣...唯一不同的是他們身邊往往有很多懷疑的聲音,不像美國這裡比較鼓勵人.
懷疑的聲音像是荊棘一樣抓著新人,讓他們懷疑自己的能力,開始往後退一步...
但是只要選擇專心的做,往前一步步也能走出自己的天空. 我相信他們是有那能力的.

現在有網路這東西...要是他們不怕英文,或是翻成日文...
擴大讀者群...就可以拿到世界的讀者群
加入世界流行~來網路大決戰~XD

Taiwanese animation

Since I have been thinking about how to make Shenshu an animation, and picking a style that is unquie for the film, i have thought about Chinese animation. I have seen some great stuff from China, so i began to wonder where are Taiwanese films...

So i searched out some and plus help from my Taiwan friends... some titles thats worth noting:

既然在構思神書弄成動畫要怎麼弄的時候,就想到台灣動畫界現在的景況... 就做了點調查,加上朋友們的幫忙,搜出這些我認為還有競爭力的作品... 大致上看來....正式的作品裡反倒是歐美影響力比較明顯阿~~~XD 台灣本身不就是中,日,美,韓,這些文化加上台灣特有的人間味嗎? 怎麼沒看到有人來一招混合版?
好像不是太媚外就是太試著當"台灣"的居多...結果台灣味有了,卻好像還是缺了什麼...
哪有人那麼努力要"當自己"的...?
也許是自己的臉反而看不清楚吧...
(台灣得努力培育配音員...聽起來都像1910-1920年美國老片的演技...錄音室好像也很差,一大堆回音)




Based on a famous illustrator's story book in Taiwan, probably the most original and popular animation short.






Heavily Disney influenced, (more like trying to be Disney) feature film that's based on a Chinese folkfore.


Others:


The one with the old grandma was Taiwan's first original TV series... but it didn't continue after the first season. It's not picked up.

cartoony anatomy literally

Source: http://www.saynotocrack.com/index.php/2007/06/03/cartoon-anatomy/







It Gave me a good laugh.

Sent it to my drawing teacher. XD

Plans change...

OK, family plan change... now it appears i am no longer going to otakon, instead my trip to over sea is going to extend, I put special family time before career... so cutting down one con is going to change my whole publishing plan.

Since I am already dangerously behind... and plus... my helper Molly got sick... so i have to do the last 34 pages. That felt like a lot when you are doing it alone. OTL

I have 10 pages left right now, I maybe able to place an order tomorrow night.
Safe to say I will have a proof printed for all three volumes, but its not safe to say I will have new books to sell in this con.... especially that the new printer does everything through paypal. I am not used to having such large order going through paypal... another problem is... all my credit cards are at close to their limits, technically... I don't have the luxury to borrow anymore money for print. My best bet now is let people order online themselves.... >_>

Maybe i should put together an artbook and sell that instead. OTL Much cheaper, and higher revenue... dang it.

thesis wip

Wip for a shot in my thesis film.

I like working on my thesis because i made it so i can do all my favorite subjects ha ha.

I would like to be where Jeremy is right now...

not here swamped by my commission work. lol (even though I love my job, in most cases.)

Lazy but productive day

A collab with my friends in pchat. :)

Today I just got this lazy feeling I can't shake off, so i just sat and watched stuff...and end up being productive after all.

I watched tutorial for the whole afternoon and evening on 3D max and Maya..... argh.... my eyes.

A shot planned for my thesis film.

We had our senior thesis screening last night, the next year I will be the one having my work on the big theater screen. I am glad we get a real theater now to show our work. (computer arts people have a better theater dang it, but I am happy with our cramped one, I think it has more seats though the seats are more crappy. XD ) But matter not, we get to LOOK UP to our films, that gives us a better reason to work our ass off for our big show.

This year's turn out is great, out of the 46 films I liked 19 of them, a much better percentage than the last year. (sorry yr2007! you were great, still) the biggest surprise to me yet is seeing three students link up their thesis film and have it work as one story, told from three different character's perspective, each struggle with their own little world.

That... completely blew me away.
I don't think the next year can even pull that off right now as we all started on our work already.... You need to have 3 like-minded artists with the same thesis prof to have that happening.

Next up, my favorite has to be Alex's little light bulb story, the most cinematic of them all, closer to what I want to present. However, I am going to state competitively here, his is what I want to beat for our school, but I have someone else's thesis in my mind, "Lady Ice" the difference is... she hasn't finished hers, but I want to finish mine. So I have to think hard, and work hard to finish it.

I am going to make a suggestion to have our thesis film compiled into DVDs for the next year screening if possible.


I love SVA, as imperfect as it may be. <3

Everyone went party last night, i had to go home right after... no fun. sigh. I will make an exception next year and go out for a drink and take the morning train home.

Format thoughts

There was a period of time right after i finished vol 1 sketches for 2Masters, that the thought of changing format from my current right to left, to left to right was suggested.

I thought and struggled with it for a long time, this format trouble disturbed me ever since my high school age, because there's benefits in switching as well as down sides.

The down side is that i have to change the whole volume 1 into Left to Right in order to switch, and I already established a workflow for the series based on Right to left. This will make a huge delay on when I will be ready to show the work to the world...



The up side is that... in reality the Left to Right reading direction is more established through out the whole world compare to Right to Left.

Right to Left reading directions might become an ancient asian kind of thing... People can take both ways, but for less developed countries that's going to come up later, they are used to left to right due to the overall European colonization and the westernization of the world. But this is not to say people cant learn... people in US learned very well on adapting Right to Left though its not how they usually read.

For publishing and retailing wise, being Left to Right is also easier around here.... sigh.... for example, i wouldnt need to work backward on everything... wouldnt need to worry whether the printer will understand my order... etc.

However, there's more down side to my own work flow in switching, my audience will wonder why am i suddenly switching, the previous work flow has worked for me, and i have established enough cultural rights to stay Right to Left. (claiming i am an immigrant and so on)


I may miss some "comic hardcore" readers staying right to left,
meaning a slightly smaller reader group, but it cant hurt too much.
i will have to deal with a lot of publishing hassles doing right to left,
it makes me wonder why i didn't do it Left to Right in the first place. XDDD

But since i already chose the Asian way, might as well stick to it... however troublesome it maybe.

wip

WIP 3


Finally i can get back to my unfinished illustration. ;_;

I LOVE this style of painting, invented by http://www2.ocn.ne.jp/~sigeya/pupa/

Very relaxing, slow paced kinda of painting style, using big brushes going from big to small in a foggy texture manner. Lovely. I enjoy learning his style. Several years ago i made one of his painting my wall paper, and it is still on my screen today, i just don't get tired of looking at his work. It's timeless. Hopefully one day I can say the same about mine.

I am liking this

I think i am getting it.
In both modern building drawing and atmospheric quality.
And I think i can stick with this style for a while.