photoshopping!

I don't really use photoshop that often so I'd thought I'd  pick it up and attempt painting with it. I'm quite pleased with the results. Its a refreshing way to color since I constantly use flash all the time.

More new art

More new art. Bees and peacocks.

Yin and Dave part 1 is finally out!

Hey everyone. Yin and Dave part 1 is finally out on the web! Part two will be completed by the end of this year most likely. I finished the film as the plumber was at my house hehe.

I know this film was supposed to be done a month ago. Seeing that I had completed my thesis in a similar style, I greatly underestimated the time needed to complete. It actually takes a lot longer for me to color and composite than to animate. This film is more detailed than my thesis.

The inspiration for the film is not so much based on me, but based on people around me, partically my male non-asian friends who are dating asian women. Some of it is based off of my experience dating a non asian. Mostly tho, this film is really about cultural clash and racial clash. Many times I would bring non asian friends to my house as my parents would look at them kinda funny.

I'm psyched about part two. Now that I know how long it takes for me to color, I can better prepare.
Till then!

Yin and Dave

Yin and Dave is a new film that is coming out over this year. It'll be released in small increments over the year and hopefully be completed by early 2013. 
I know I said that the first two minutes will be released today, but due to side work, I wasn't able to. The film is coming along though and coming along great. Here are some screenshots of some finished scenes.
When the film is finished, I will upload it to Youtube and you will see it.

Illustrations of Love

Happy Valentine's Day guys. Here are some new illustrations to celebrate!

the bunny on the moon

Alma Shepard-Matsuo is having an event called Art Is Hope, that is taking place at the Japanese American United Church at Friday October 15. I am going to be selling prints there and half of the profit will go to charity to aid the people who were devastated by the natural disasters in Japan. Do try to participate if you can, its only 20 dollars a table. I decided to do a couple of drawings that were Japanese themed. Here's three of them. Definitely more to come.



So there's this story in Asian folklore that a rabbit lives on the moon. In fact, there's actually a pattern of a rabbit on the moon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rabbit_in_the_moon_standing_by_pot.png In the Chinese version, the rabbit is pounding the elixir of life, but in the Japanese version, its just pounding mochi, hahah. This is the first drawing I've completed ith flash CS5. I like that it has a much more sophisticated color swatch variety and icon organization. Other than that tho, not much has changed from CS4, and unfortunately, it still gitches and crashes unexpectedly.

This second drawing is a tea ceremony bunny. I dunno, I just like the way tea ceremonies look. I've heard they're extremely boring but hey. Plus it just gives an excuse to draw kimonos and Japanese treats.


And this last one I did about 4 months back. A lot of people seem to like this drawing a lot, so its definitely gonna be up.




More drawings and films to come! Be sure to check.

some illustration

thesis is over, so once again i'll be posting up art. i'd thought i'd fool around with flash some more. here are the results. the bottom one is a fanart of kingdom hearts.



do critique them and tell me what you think. i plan on adding texture to them sometime