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Another 10 drawing in 10 days! This time its "king". They are all drawn by teachers and assistants in the studio. Hope you enjoy all the kings coming your way in the next ten days or so. :)

Back from Vocation!

I took a little vocation last week, and left the studio running with my TA! They did a great job, the studio is still in one piece, lol. Maybe I should take more vocation now!

I went to Ireland! It was a nice place, didn't spend alot of time there, only about 4 days. Did alot of drinking and sightseeing. :) I will post up some photo later.

Yoshitaka Amano

Yoshitaka Amano was born in 1952 in a small town at the foot of mount Fuji in Shizuoka, Japan. As a child, he reveled in making unbroken loops of drawings on the huge paper rolls that his brother brought home from his job at a paper factory. "I don't remember a time when I wasn't making drawings," he recalls. After a year of training, Amano took part in designing characters for many of Tatsunoko's greatest cartoons, including Gatchaman (released in the US as G-Force and Battle of the Planets), Hutch the Honeybee, and Cashaan: Robot Hunter. Yet after fifteen years with the animation studio, Amano began to grow restless. He tendered his resignation at the age of 30, exchanging his established career for the precarious life of a freelancer. "Even the tax authorities questioned my decision," he remembers. "But once your life is too stable, your creative dies." He went on to collaborate with numerous writers, creating close to 20 illustrated books that have sold millions of copies. These works include Hideyuki Kikuchi's Vampire Hunter D, Kaoru Kurimonto's Guin Saga, Yoshiki Tanaka's Arslan Chronicals, and Rasen-O (Spiral King) and Chimera by Baku Yumemakura.

His artistic success won him access to yet another format in the 1980s; concept illustration for videogames. His first project, Final Fantasy, became an international hit. He also created character designs for the games Front Mission, Gun Hazard, Rebus (released asKartia in the US), and Emblem of Eru (to be released in Japan by Capcom.)

Amano pushed his boundaries even farther in 1997, when he began creating work in New York City. His 1997 "Think Like Amano" exhibition in New York City's Puck Building presented a retrospective of his work, and debuted his series of ambitious New York paintings. 1998 saw the premiere of 1001 Nights , a collaborative film/music project with composer David Newman that was commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The 3D computer graphic animated film was produced by Yukio Sonoyama and premiered as the inaugural event in the L.A. Philharmonic's innovative "Filmharmonic" series. Also in 1999, Amano has joined for the first time with Neil Gaiman to introduce a new edition of the wildly popular Sandman series.

To see more of his work go : http://www.amanosworld.com/

Animation Cell painting

This was done in the Cartooning class during summer. Its a animation cell painting. What "cell painting" ? Well, before computer is being used alot in animation, animators used to transfer all their character drawing to a transparent paper and then flipped over and painted on the other side with acrylics. It will go on top of the background layer, which is painted in watercolour. Its alot of work, in one second there are at least 12 drawings!!

I remember my student film is all painted this way and its almost 2 minutes long, alot of sleepless night. I wouldn't want to do it again.

Women in Art

Back to normal!

Now that summer is over and school just started, thing will all go back to normal. No more working 13 hours straight, no more 2 hours sleep per day, yea for normal! Now I can have more time to draw and update this place a bit more often, or even spent some time with my ps3 :)

Disney acquire Marvel for $4 billion

The Walt Disney Co. says it is acquiring Marvel Entertainment Inc. for $4 billion in cash and stock, bringing characters like Iron Man and Spider-Man into the Disney family.
Under the deal, Disney will acquire ownership of 5,000 Marvel characters.

"This transaction combines Marvel's strong global brand and world-renowned library of characters including Iron Man, Spider-Man, X-Men, Captain America, Fantastic Four and Thor with Disney's creative skills, unparalleled global portfolio of entertainment properties, and a business structure that maximizes the value of creative properties across multiple platforms and territories," said Robert A. Iger, President and Chief Executive Officer of The Walt Disney Company. "Ike Perlmutter and his team have done an impressive job of nurturing these properties and have created significant value. We are pleased to bring this talent and these great assets to Disney."

"We believe that adding Marvel to Disney's unique portfolio of brands provides significant opportunities for long-term growth and value creation," Iger said.

"Disney is the perfect home for Marvel's fantastic library of characters given its proven ability to expand content creation and licensing businesses," said Ike Perlmutter, Marvel's Chief Executive Officer. "This is an unparalleled opportunity for Marvel to build upon its vibrant brand and character properties by accessing Disney's tremendous global organization and infrastructure around the world."

Proof that Disney is taking over the world!!

Summer Camp - Clay dinosour!

I love this dinosour! It just have a character. haha

Summer Camp - Sewing Class

Finally got some time to upload some photo. This is the sewing class back in July. :) It was a fun class, and we did alot of projects. I love all the monster they did. :)

update...

Sorry for the lack of update lately... I have been busy with my summer camp, which keep me in the studio from 8:30 in the morning till 9 at nite. I am also busy setting up a new photoshop class. Spend alot of time getting the equipment and lesson ready. I am sure I will post some of the new photoshop work of my student here.

And on top of this, I am also getting a small art show for the students, it not a big one, I am just testing how it go and for sure if it go right, there will be a another bigger one.

I will try yo post some photo of the summer camp soon. There have been alot of great work s coming out of it.
O, and the monster kind of stop coming... they willl be back, I have been drawing them, and maybe i will do a big one next time, since its will the 50th Monster Monday!