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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

L'Arc En Ciel is coming to singapore!!!

Ok... I dont mean to sound like a girly fan-boy/girl but

OMG!!!!!


Credits: L'Arc~en~ciel (Laruku - STAY WAY MV

Perhaps the only Jap band that I listen to other than X-Japan! Got a call that woke me this morning by Yif and she was saying that tickets were selling out!

And YES! I know own a ticket to their 20th anniversary tour! =))))))))))


How did Yif manage to even get the tix?! I'm searching for it now and I cant find it! hahah but thats not the point. I'm a happy camper.

Ironic how I posted the MV Stay away when I'm so excited that they are coming ahahahah

JJ

Monday, February 20, 2012

Concept Artists


There has been a whole bunch of funny images circulating around Facebook lately and most of them consist of a series of photos going

Who the world thinks I am> Who my family thinks> What I think..> What I really do.

Artists is a very generalist term. I consider myself a media artist, doing 3d sketches and video work but the truly under rated folks are the concept artists.

Fair enough for those who enter the big boys league they earn buckets of money but most people just see it as another pretty picture.

It isn't really that hard to justify the works of a concept artist is it? In the past, an artist is "an enlightened one" who is able to see beyond what regular humans can. And to a large extent I think that is exactly what a concept artist is! They take a simple sentence like "Neo walks into a room" (Ref Matrix) and they let their mind go wild with micro worlds bursting from their brains. So what do I consider them? Genius dreamers. here's some of those who have blown my mind away.

**Note all these images are snipped off the web. I'm not trying to plagiarize! If you wanna see more of their work, visit their website in the links!

The GREAT Craig Mullins!


















And of course there are tons of other brilliant fellers out there worthy of praise including Kekai, Daniel Dociu and Feng mentioned in my previous entries.

I always feel the love when I see these great artists put up their sketches and demos for the world to watch, learn and simply be inspired.

JJ

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Master Designer Workshop 2012 part 2 Concept art


So day 2 of the master class featured Daniel Dociu and Feng Zhu himself.

It is a pity that Daniel did not have the time to do a live demo and frankly a lot of us were disappointed. Non-the-less it was great that these guys could come down and share with us some of their experiences.

As for Feng's session. Loved it as usual. If not for the fact that i'm not pursuing a direct path in concept art, I would have signed up for his school without batting an eyelid.

His general style of teaching is very Scientific. Suits me! (I really thought I would become a rocket scientist when I was a kid and woot? I became an artist lol)

So here he demos how to pick colours from live references etc... seriously speaking more than i was impressed with his painting... how does anyone speak and paint so fast AT THE SAME TIME????!!! cuz the final was probably done within an hour while he was talking and explaining a whole bunch of concepts. Respect!

Well that's it for now... Update on my potential gallery, me and Yanni have already settled for the topic and a few potential candidates. But we decided to work on creating a "movement" so it has to be top secret for awhile... Oh well... Will blast it when it happens =)

JJ

Saturday, February 4, 2012

Master Designer Workshop 2012

Feng Zhu and team has invited and brought in big names in entertainment design like Sang Jun Lee, Kekai Kotaki, Daniel Dociu and Feng Zhu himself together to run a masterclass in conjunction with his FZD school of design's graduating class of 2012! That's kinda nice!
http://www.fzdschool.com/2012/

Well attended the first session yesterday and only thing is that I didn't bring a camera lol...

So far the demos have been crazy amazing and I hope that FZD's team did a video recording of the stuff (though I doubt it) But i'm pretty sure they will be posting the "demo'ed" paintings up on their website soon, with permission of course. Well gonna head out for day 2 of e workshop now so I'll update then. Laters!

JJ

Thursday, February 2, 2012

The mixing of dramas these days

My buddy Nicholas was just recounting how he went into a video store last week and went.

"Hey buddy! Do you have 'Scent of a Women' by Al Pacino?"





And the store owner was like

"AHH!!!! Yess!! I think we do!"

So he runs to a corner of the store, grabs a DVD box set and comes back to Nic saying...

"Hmmm... I've Definitely got 'Scent of a Woman' here... But no Al Pacino leh!"



Nic left with his palm on his face... hahahahahhaha!

JJ

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