Lighting Design Seminar

Last week I shared some lighting design tips at a concept art seminar hosted by CGProtege. I've always interested in how lighting set up convey certain mood, especially in movies. So for the demo I prepared the top image before hand. It is to convey danger, the guy, although is hiding behind a wall but is clearly exposed in the light. As for the bottom piece, I had the guy in dark, monsters in light, creating a mood that he is in control.

some photos taken by CG Protege below.

I had a great time. Especially enjoy watching the other artists sharing their skills & experience. I also had a portfolio review for a few students and professionals, giving feed back and suggestion instantly can be quite tiring, but it was fun. I hope everyone bring back something useful :)

Spawn 250 fan art contest

Hi!! This painting is for Todd McFarlane's Spawn 250 fan art contest
Todd has selected 13 entries and mine is one of them !! Yay!
Please help me click the image below and like the photo at Todd's page so that it can be included in Spawn issue 250.
Appreciate your help!

 

Sarah's Dream

Another interesting project that I've worked on with Omens team - Sarah's Dream. The unique experience for making this short film is that we want to have Sarah's room in the film as close to the actual room as possible. So we went down to her house, took a good amount of photos, brought back to the studio and recreate it in 3D. My favorite task for this short is to try to design the paper background for the 2D animated characters to fly through. Because this short is made for Sarah, and we love her drawings, so I went through Sarah's drawings several times and reconstruct them to make it meaningful to the story told.

The 3D model room is created by my director Sacha.
Enjoy the short film below!
 

In cooperation with the Make-A-Wish Foundation, it made our day to have Sarah visit us at Omens Studios some months ago. Sarah is a courageous and cheerful girl who fought an uphill battle against late stage kidney failure. Her wish was to visit an animation studio and see how animation was made. We were very happy to have her and her family come and see the studio and meet the team. In celebration of her 17th birthday on 20 September, our team came up with an animated short film called "Sarah's Dream", based on an actual dream Sarah had of her beloved grandmother. Sarah narrated the short film and provided drawings which inspired the animation. Please take a look, and please feel free to share with your friends and families. We hope you will enjoy it as much as Sarah and us did.