The blog of Kidchuckle.com: Vince Chui

Sir Seth Thistlethwaite Seeks the Truth of Betty the Yeti

2012-01-09T07:02:00.000-08:00

It's been hectic. I hope everyone had a wonderful new year and Holidays.I've just completed another Sir Seth book. This is the third book I've worked on.It's scheduled to be released in Mayhttp://www.amazon.ca/Seth-Thistlethwaite-Seeks-Truth-Betty/dp/1926973267

Jolly old St Nick

2011-12-05T17:08:00.000-08:00

I ended up deciding to do something simpler for the holidays.It's a busy time. I usually like to start holiday greetings way in advance but its been busy.Happy HolidaysYour choice in flash Or animated gif.

messing around

2011-11-26T22:21:00.001-08:00

Some warm up art and experimenting. I found these on the old HD. Figured I havn't posted anything in a while so I thought I throw these out there.A little bit of HULK for practice.

and then here's some experimentation I did.My Homage of Bruce Lee. Kind of Robot + paper cut out style.

Candy dance + bonus

2011-10-19T09:34:00.000-07:00

I must be in the halloween spirit. I guess it's all those fun memories as a kid.DO THE CANDY DANCE

and well if you're too old for the Candy Dance.How about the Zombie Chew(just a little bit of fun painting practice)

Jack and Candie version 2 and 3

2011-10-11T09:10:00.000-07:00

I noticed a lot of retro posters have a few alternate versions. I thought it was cool how they were able to rearrange and add elements to make it horizontal and vertical.I thought I'd try a alternate version.

Happy Halloween(hope use firefox/browser for this one)

Jack and Candie v1 (Happy Halloween)

2011-10-04T08:53:00.000-07:00

I love RETRO posters. I thought I do a fun fake movie retro poster.This is one of three versions. Why three versions? well I guess explain that more on the next post.I've also included a animaged gif/ Animated png version. if you wanted to see the steps APNG is a higher quality but it only animates if you use Firefox or Opera browser(click here for ANPG HIGH QUALITY).

Black Qinta + Play Interactive award

2011-09-22T08:50:00.000-07:00

Miles Holmes has adventures for you! Black Qinta plane, it's adventure story.Website isn't up yet.... but I'll post it soon enough

here's an alternate version

And in other news. I won Play Illustration artist of the year for the category of Comic / Sci-Fi / Graphic Novel Artist of the Year for the Sir Seth Thistlethwaite and the Soothsayer's Shoes (click here to see other tallented winners! Like my friend Charlene Chua!)

Hope this works Games

2011-09-08T09:08:00.000-07:00

The odd times I do Logo work. But this was a lot of fun. very character driven.
The mascot is "Bacon"
done for "Hope This Works Games" http://www.htwgames.com
A lot of fun.

Check out their game it rocks

He-man, MOTU. Toy Masters

2011-08-22T04:31:00.000-07:00

After watching the preview Documentary Toy masters, q behind the scenes of He-man. I was really pumped to create this piece.
The three heads up above are "the Masters of the Universe"
Paul Cleveland, Roger Sweet, Mark Taylor.

In terms of style I wanted to do something in the same vein as the original toy. As the documentary put it, he is wider then he is tall!
It was a lot of fun to do. One day I'll get to a Skeletor version...

check out the documentary preview (I can't wait to see the whole thing!).
Oh yeah and thanks to my fiancee (coolest ever, she got me the first season of He-man)

megabus 1

2011-07-28T10:12:00.000-07:00

I had some vacation time. Took a short trip Via Megabus. Vacation is a amazing thing. I would have liked to have done more sketches. But like everyone else on the bus, I passed out Zzzzzzzzzzz.

Ladybug

2011-07-05T22:41:00.001-07:00

I did this portrait a while ago. I thought I'd post it up.

Sir Seth Thistlewaite and the Kingdom of the Caves

2011-06-29T12:06:00.000-07:00

Sir Seth Thistlewaite and the Kingdom of the Caves. Will be coming out this Sept.

I just had recieved my preview copy earlier this month. But you can get your preorders at amazon Sirth Seth and the Kingdom of Caves

Here's the artwork version with out the title and border

the zoo

2011-06-13T08:19:00.000-07:00

I managed to head to the zoo last week with Charlene Chua and Mike Del Mundo.
A lot of fun... but I have a feeling that the animals knew we were drawing them and when they got bored of us they went to turn away.

C&G portrait 3 of 4 Eric Weiss

2011-05-30T08:09:00.000-07:00

This is the third portrait I've done for C&G Magazine.
Eric had asked me to put him in Wizard garb.

Silly Zombie Pumpkin Pants + starbucks sketches

2011-05-24T08:47:00.000-07:00

Well to keep it short. I've always wanted to have a toy of my own design.
so I've submitted it to patchtogether.com [link]
But I do need votes. If you could vote for me that would be great

1) rating of 5 is the highest, 1 the lowest.

2) you need to checkmark it if you would like it to be a toy or poster or both

If you have time.. tell your friends. Post some news/journal/blog it etc.

Thanks again for your time!

If you have time spread the news. Journal/blog/tweet etc!

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Here's some various sketches from starbucks

Interview with Japancinema

2011-04-20T22:55:00.000-07:00

The cool folks at Japncinema were nice enough to take the time to interview me.
Check out their website, they've got tons of reviews on asian cinema (live action and animated)
http://japancinema.net/2011/04/21/creative-spotlight-episode-25-vince-chui/

A cuter Easter. Bunny Girl

2011-04-12T21:13:00.000-07:00

Well here's another Easter Promo I did. Something completely different from my last piece.

I was heavily influenced by papercraft culture. Although the illustration took no time at all... but I thought I would spend more time experimenting with the animation.

Zombie Easter Bunny Vs Monster Eggs

2011-04-11T17:33:00.000-07:00

This was a mishmash of sorts. Combining Easter and Halloween. Creepy Chibi group on deviantart, had a challenge to do a easter bunny zombie, and I couldn't resist. I thought it would be fun to do with Easter around the corner.

I will have something cuter for those want something more friendly soon.

Miro-K Wallpapers

2011-04-05T10:30:00.000-07:00

Miro-K is GOGO Crazybones latest addition. It's a limited eddition 5000 made.
I worked on the wallpapers for the announcement. A love doing character work. So this was a lot of fun to just do a whole bunch of action poses.
here's 2/3 that were posted up on site.

To find the full wallpaper set click here.

Drawing Steve the Plushy

2011-03-25T09:03:00.000-07:00

Last year I had recieved a plushy by fellow artist Grelin Machin.
Her Plushy Steve is so awesome.. it makes me laugh every time I sit down at my computer.
I can't tell you how much I love the design.

If you want more go to her store Grelin Machin etsy store http://www.etsy.com/shop/GrelinMachin.

It's a bit of a sit through but jump at 8:45 in the video! (new photoshop plugin filter!)

I also started a Tumblr Blog (for those who are into following that format) http://kidchuckle.tumblr.com/

Zangief

2011-03-09T23:22:00.000-08:00

Just a little break from the usual. Had some fun doing a bit of fanart. Zangief (street fighter).

Thank goodness there's no tea bagging in that game

For no reason I'm throwing this in.

The skinny kid was the bully.Go Casey Heynes(he goes Zangief on him!)

found on http://calmdowntom.com/2011/03/top-5-mini-zangief-remixes/

Info on Casey Heynes

http://www.caseyheynes.com/a-tribute-to-a-gentle-giant/#more-144

LIttle Zangief (zangief kid) Street Fighter... by shadosw

Doodlefest

2011-03-09T06:46:00.000-08:00

I'm doing a book signing with my friend and fan favorite Hilary Leung.
We'll be doodling(with a big pad of paper) at the Markham branch at March13th! 12pm to 2pm!
and at the Burlington branch March 14th 2-4pm!

Gogos Crazy Bones 2/2

2011-03-04T08:24:00.000-08:00

Here are some Concept art for Gogo Crazybones that weren't used. timeline was too tight for them to produce to be used a limited release. Which was too bad, but they were a ton of fun to mess around with.

Another Store illustration used for their Gogos Crazybone.
Make sure you go enter their contest, it just started March 1st! Contest details

Gogos Crazy Bones 1/2

2011-03-03T08:35:00.000-08:00

I love doing toy illustrations! this was done for Gogos Crazybones website that just launched this week. The characters are fun they have all these vinyl-esque styled characters. I had a lot of fun putting the characters running around.

Be sure to check out their main page (their video section has some crazy fun ads!)
.I'll be following up with another post with some unused concept art.

Oh and if you have kids. Get them to sign up for the contest. Contest started march 1st! so sign up to get a chance to win some fun prizes!

C&G portrait 2 of 4 Brendan Frye

2011-03-01T08:46:00.000-08:00

This is the second out of four in a series, done for C&G monthly(comic and games monthly magazine).

Once I have all 4 portraits done I'll be working out a background to tie everything together.

It's GDC conference (game developers conference) this week. I hope my homies there are having fun!

If you wanted to see the first portrait click here

Lovebots, Happy Valentines!

2011-02-10T21:32:00.000-08:00

I totally missed out on creating a Christmas card last year. But I had worked out most of the valentines card while still eating turkey during the holidays. I was determined not to miss Valentines without making a illustration.

I'm not a animator but I enjoy moving pixels.

Hope you enjoy (in mutiple formats)

Happy Valentines!

Voltron, Yellow Lion

2011-02-08T08:15:00.000-08:00

Back in the summer I had done a collab with fan favorite Franchesco for a Voltron book.

World Events and 5Finity Production, published by Moonstone and its a whopping 200 page Hard Cover. He just emailed me last nite that he had just recieved his copy already. I havn't seen it yet but I'm pretty excited to see it myself.

I posted one more collab that I did with Franchesco's line work (and another voltron piece)

I posted that summer.

Pigsy: Journey to the West (monkeyking)

2011-01-25T13:31:00.000-08:00

It's been a long time since I've posted anything. I was digging around my old hard drive and found designs hand been working on for Pigsy, from Journey to the west.

Something we like: Interview

2010-12-27T21:24:00.000-08:00

Hope everyone had a good Holiday Cheer. It's been a absolutely crazy time... tiring, but thankfull everything is good!
"Something We Like" was kind enough to give me a interview/spotlight on their blog.
You can find it over here.

Oh yes and Happy New Year.

Get your cheeks to mars.

2010-12-15T20:21:00.000-08:00

I did this commission piece a few months back.

Thought I would make amends and post it now.

Dr Sketchy with Keela Watts

2010-11-28T21:39:00.000-08:00

I hadn't gone life drawing since last year. I went a with a few friends Jori and Charlene.
I thought I would take some of the drawings and do some quick shading for a warmup

C&G mag Portrait 1/4

2010-11-18T19:22:00.000-08:00

This is the first portait for C&G monthly Mag

This is the first portrait of four reviewers from the Mag. This is my friend Wayne Santos. His portrait is based off the game Seaman for the dreamcast (a really crazy weird fun sim)

For kicks I thought it would be fun to try and animate Wayne in a aquarium/sea.

Bikini Doodle

2010-11-07T16:46:00.000-08:00

My afternoon Ultimate Frisbee game got canceled,
so I was able to do a little bit of warm up drawing today

Oh yeah my threadless submission could usesome more votes (cough cough)

Oh and vote for this guy too!

Now something completely Different

2010-11-04T20:08:00.000-07:00

This was commission for a little contest I did for DeviantArt. (catch my 55,555 view)

Winner http://marujoreinu.deviantart.com/ who asked me to create the comision on her friend's design

Character design by http://yato-biora.deviantart.com/

I also have a submission to threadless to my RANDA piece that needs votes!

My hard working friend Hilary also needs some votes!

Raging Randa 2000: Threadless HELP!

2010-11-01T23:47:00.000-07:00

Hey folks if you're reading this I could use a hand here on Threadless!
3 possible candy flavoured colours!

1) sign up on threadless and register.

2) go to this http://www.threadless.com/submission/306640/Raging_Randa_2000

2.5) checkmark "I'd buy as a tee and Print"

3) vote ( "5 being the highest!").

4) Pat yourself on the back for being the coolest person I know!

5) tell 2 or more people to do the same or post the news! I could use the help

6) wow you're still reading this? you really rock!

Silly Zombie Pumpkin Pants

2010-10-24T21:47:00.000-07:00

Silly zombie pumpkin pants,

Silly zombie got bit by ants,

Silly zombie has got to dance

Silly zombie pumpkin pants.

If Zombie is not moving for you, well he's upset that you're not using Firefox or Chrome.

But he may dance you for you on youtube

Happy Halloween folks!

and just something a little extra

monstermana.com

2010-10-19T09:07:00.000-07:00

I had done this a few months ago. Monstermana.com. magic cards possessed with mana was the concept.
Monsters are fun!

Ontario yours to uncover: Interview

2010-10-02T09:36:00.000-07:00

Keef was kind enough to spend time to do a interview with me.
He also happens to know my obession to old japanese super robots, and mecha godzilla.

He also has interviews with various other artists, entertainers models and etc..

I also noticed I wrote "also" a lot of times.

http://ontario-yours-to-uncover.blogspot.com/2010/10/interview-with-illustrator-vince-chui.html

Underoo

2010-09-29T14:12:00.000-07:00

Well I had this done a while ago, I thought I would post it up.
The image of a monster running around in their underpants always made me laugh (you're probably wondering what monster runs around in their under pants... well Marvel's Fing Fang Foom does).
I went with a limited colour scheme, with a less is more approach

I tried a couple styles, but in the end I thought the most fun was a blocky vinyl style.

kidchuckle in 2d artist mag

2010-09-14T08:38:00.000-07:00

Been a little while since I've posted anything. Last month I was asked to write a article in 2d artist mag about sketching. Some stuff in the article is old, and some sketches never seen before (well unless you've flipped through my sketchbook or looked over my shoulder). I cover some of my process and go roughly how I take sketch to painting.

2dartist was kind enough to host my article and allow myself to share it. Feel free pass it along.

http://www.2dartistmag.com/artists/issue057_sep10/article01.pdf

I can tell you the full version of the mag is really cool too.. so go out and pickup that version tool.

Sir Seth Thistlewaite is in Stores

2010-09-01T09:23:00.000-07:00

Sir SethThistlewaite is now available in stores and online to buy.

I thought I would throw in some preproduction art that was done. These concepts won't be published in the book.

It's a fun book for kids 6-8

This was the final design of Sir Seth

And here's the various different styles and looks that were tried for preproduction for Sir Seth and his friends

Oh and one last thing. my good friend Hilary Leung is launching his second kids book
"Ninja Cowboy Bear Presents the Way of the Ninja"
a sequal to "The Legend of Ninja Cowboy Bear"

starbuck sketches II

2010-08-25T11:12:00.000-07:00

I've been archiving more sketchbook work inbetween work.
More patrons from starbucks
Pencil and sketchbook + photoshop markers.

Interview with Ziggy Nixon

2010-08-15T20:02:00.000-07:00

Interview with Ziggy Nixon

Ziggy Nixon as he's known by, was nice enough to spend sometime to do a interview with me. He has some fairly tough questions, the man does his home work.

He's aslo sick so drop by write some comments. Also wish him good health and well wishes.

Interview can be found here,

If you're wondering why it says Donkey Wonky do as the title... well you'll have to read the interview to find out.(Ziggy sure knows how to pick a title haaha)

Zoo Trip

2010-08-05T23:35:00.000-07:00

I've been going through some sketchbook stuff and scanning it for my for my archives.
These are some sketches that I had done at the zoo, a lot of fun. (I took the pencils and toned it in photoshop. Digi markers!).
I think this was back in April that I went with Hilary Leung, Haun Tran, Charlene Chua, Kay Huang and Jori Baldwin.

And yes there were Lions and Tigers and Bears (but didn't get a chance this round to draw them... Oh my).

Twisted Metal

2010-07-22T19:22:00.000-07:00

Ok this a long story here. C&G magazine contacted me to do some cover work for their magazine for the new Twisted Metal game, because Sony at the time didn't have the time to provide any assets. So I had to base all the artwork from the previous version of Twisted Metal(because I was given very little reference that sony provided, basicaly a brochure with some tiny pics of the arena to work from). It was cool I was really happy with the piece, and C&G was cool with it. And I herd that Jaffe gave it a approval as well.
But somewhere along the lines Sony suddenly was able to come up the resources and decide to do everything internal (got the face palm). I've seen before with big publishers, where things get muttled down the line . But what can you do.

I'm saddened that it wasn't used, but I was surprised they used a simular layout as the one I did. But at the end of the day I have a cool piece that I really had fun and doing a type of grindhouse style to a very cool game!

And now able to post it (and I guess you can compare it to the other cover down the road)

elpa46 Plastik-Kettle Smiles, Hearts and Stars

2010-07-14T22:48:00.000-07:00

Plastic Kettle relased a 4 track album.

To find more info head over to their blog

they've made their music available on the net plus wallpapers that I had done for their album

download here

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

2010-07-06T13:32:00.000-07:00

I did this Illustration for Lucid Media magazine.
This was a interview with the author Seth Grahame-Smith.
It was fun to try to get a represntation of the author into fiction of the book.
The expression from the photo I was given by the editor worked really well with zombies.

My colours ended being old and victorian. My friend Charlene suggested to push it further by adding canvas and a frame(big credit goes to her!). It made us laugh... I think it was just the right element to make it work.

my dad

2010-06-08T14:30:00.000-07:00

Did a little bit of practice painting.
Used my dear old Paw, as my guinea pig. (ha, I showed it to him, and he said... too many wrinkles)

Toronto Roller Derby

2010-06-04T07:46:00.000-07:00

Done for Lucidia Media magazine, June Edition.
It was a really fun article to illustrate for. I got to throw in some pulpy style art and feel from the 60's.
Before working on this piece I went to check out some videos, and boy is it ever a tough sport.

I thought I post up some of the stages I did for painting it. (it's a animated APNG, not all browsers can see this. unfortunately Internet explorer, and Safari can't see this animate. Try firefox or chrome.)

I recently opened a Zazzle store and I have this image for print (as well as others, you can see previews on the side panel.
Zazzle store

Sir Seth Thistlethwaite and the Soothsayer's Shoes

2010-05-25T09:29:00.000-07:00

Sir Seth Thistlethwaite and the Soothsayer's Shoes.

I just noticed that the book I worked on, Sir Seth Thistlethwaite and the Soothsayer's Shoes, started to see the book on amazon.

The book was written by Richard Thake, and Cover and interior art by me.

preorder book from amazon

Evolution of Gamers

2010-05-18T13:25:00.000-07:00

Some spot Illustrations I did for Evolution of gamers article for Cgmonthly.
I was doing these in style of Retro comic ads (70's and 80's).
Back when Game ads and comics went hand in hand.

Voltron: Franchesco

2010-05-14T19:44:00.000-07:00

Franchesco asked me to do a collab with him. Not just any collab. It's some Voltron Fanart. there's some secret stuff Franchesco was saying about it... not sure what it is. But I'll be sure to pop the news up when I hear about it.

This is one of the pieces I coloured of his awesome line work. A lot of fun.
I'll post the second down the road.

Starbuck Markers + pinup

2010-05-05T18:32:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I had a cool surprise in my mail box. Charlene Chua had gotten me the 6d pen for my cintiq. The
6d pen records 6 degress of movement. Such as rotation and tilt. The nib is a lot like a pantone Marker. As a test I tried it out on my starbucks pencils.
Incredibly a lot of fun to use!!!!!!
So I thank Charlene for getting that for me.

And I had done some practice painting for Staceytron pinup style art.

starbuck sketching + lost speedpaint 5

2010-04-28T15:25:00.000-07:00

Had time today to do some coffee and sketching with my friend Hilary
some random people. Got caught sketching someone. Awkward moment :P

Lost speedpaint 5. I didn't realize that I didn't upload this video.

Toshinho Collab

2010-04-24T09:38:00.000-07:00

I've been wrapped up on a few projects. And finally had time to do some fun art.
Toshinho of http://toshinho.deviantart.com/ had a colouring contest.
I love his illustrations. So for entire month I've been aching in wanting to colour this.

Speed paint 6

2010-04-17T18:57:00.000-07:00

Been really swamped of late.
Didn't have a chance to post this speedpaint.
1hr practice run

Return of Evil Easter Bunny: Happy Easter

2010-03-29T10:16:00.000-07:00

Here's this years rendition of the Evil Easter Bunny (click here to see last years).
He makes a return from last year.

Played around with the lighting and shadow for this one this year.
I threw in a shadow from a tree on the left side.. just to fall right on the kids and bellow the bunny (using it as a sort of a graphic design element)
Wanted to use that shadow/contrast to bring your eyes back to the kids and not just the bunny alone. I left a crack of light to highlight the eyes of the children, and the easter egg held in hand.

Return of Evil Easter Bunny

2010-03-23T08:33:00.000-07:00

Been a bit crazy last little while.
I've been working on this on and off. Last year I had done the Evil Easter Bunny... and it was well recieved.
So I thought it would be nice to have him make another appearance this year.

study + speed paint 2, 3 and 4

2010-03-14T12:25:00.000-07:00

Last little while been doing a lot of practice painting.
Speed paints I'm finding is helping to get into a comfort zone easier.. but also a bit of frustration (not enough time!!!!).
But I'm also enjoying the challenge.

Oxford Family and Friends book 5 and 6

2010-03-12T17:53:00.000-08:00

Some work I did for Oxford University Press is now in Publication.
I drew close to 97 b/w + grey scale drawings for "Oxford Family and Friends 5"
and another 97 b/w + grey scale for "Oxford Family and Friends 6"

I got a copy of each from Oxford from the mail today. As I flipped through the work books... I could hear my marker scream at me from the corner of my desk...
"You must marker in mustaches and funny hats" some habits never die.

Oh and also funny enough, my friend Eric Kim had done the cover for both books!

Some sample work.

Speed Paint 1

2010-03-10T19:59:00.000-08:00

I've been trying to do some excercises in the morning before starting work.
Speed painting isn't what I'm used to. My preference has always been line first. So I'm trying to get more used to thinking and working more on the fly within a time constraint.

So I had worked on this piece 1.5hr.

space babies

2010-03-07T23:07:00.000-08:00

I've been working on this on and off.
I tried to give it a little bit of retro 80's comic feel in the space background with swirls of colours.

Goku Dragonball DAC Challenge

2010-03-01T12:03:00.000-08:00

Well over at Design a Character on DA.
This week challenge was re-imagine Goku in a different style. (steps were supposed to be completed during the week... but I ended up finishing most of it last nite. A little bit pumped from watching Canada take the gold for hockey !)

I took it step by step, from roughs, line, line + colour(comic) to more painterly.
The more I colour I seem to find the line very distracting. I didn't intend in doing a painterly style.. but it seems to work better.

Crayonaut: line work

2010-02-27T22:37:00.000-08:00

A while back when I had just finished my Power Ranger Valentine, I found out my very talented friend Ander ( http://www.crayonaut.com and http://zaratus.deviantart.com/ ) was also big on Sentai/ Power Ranger stuff.

I was really excited when Ander suggested about doing a collab based on his alias "crayonaut" based on crayons + sentai/power ranger + robot.

So here's the line work that I did. I've been always been blown away by his art, so I'm looking forward to see what he does with the line work!
(make sure you check his sites!)

DAC Character week 4

2010-02-24T12:26:00.001-08:00

Another Design a Character weekly challenge. I'm really enjoying the challenges.

DAC Character week 3

2010-02-20T07:50:00.000-08:00

Well I joined up on Design a Character DAC group on deviant art.
I decided to participate on their weekly challenge.
Here's what I did for the 3rd weekly challenge (using their template)

Robin Mitchell Collaboration

2010-02-18T09:15:00.000-08:00

Inbetween work its nice when you can dabble on a few things.. just to change it up.
Robin Mitchell had posted some sweet line work, which you can find here.

After telling him how much I loved his line work, I had found out he had no plans in colour it.
But then said I could take a stab at it.

So here's my take on colours for Robin's artwork

and make sure you vist his website http://www.robinmitchell.ca/
his deviantart site http://robinmitchell.deviantart.com/

happy valentines

2010-02-12T21:19:00.000-08:00

I modified the last post to give it a little bit of valentines feel to it.

A little bit of animation.

Just another quick post for some pixel art.
I thought I would give it a shot

why are you laughing at me

2010-02-11T12:38:00.000-08:00

Was out the other day grabbing a few things.
Kids + winter clothes make me laugh

I wanted to get this sketch out. It still makes me laugh

poor kid.. I don't think she knew why I was lauhing.

Space Baby Valentines

2010-02-09T12:29:00.000-08:00

I really really wanted to do 2 pieces for Valentines. One kind of fun and retro and one baby cute and retro.
Unfortunately I'm runng out of time... and work is getting kind of hairy.
I rather not rush this piece.

Actually the main Baby is something I dug up from my sketchbook circa 2003. Totally forgot about it until someone had pointed it out to me.
At the time "floating babies from space" was the concept given to me from a friend of a friend (Pat a very tallented designer.. I can't remember his last name.. this so long ago).
But anyways... thought I dig it up and try to polish it up and redesign it some. I hope to finish painting at some point.

Heart vs Break: Happy Valentines

2010-02-08T12:07:00.000-08:00

I had this finished a little while back but I hadn't much time to post it up

But this is my homage to Sentai, Henshin japanese style (power rangers, kamen rider)

My goal for this piece was to play around with lighting. and how some objects are transparent and how they glow when backlit.

Hope you have a Happy Valentines

(feel like forever since I've posted anything :P )

here's a WIP I manage to save progress shots and make a animated gif

Featured on Kap design studio

2010-02-06T23:08:00.000-08:00

Kap design Studio featured one of my pieces for "inspiration friday's"
along with some fantastic other concept, scifi illustrators.
Really honoured to be grouped with those illustrators

Please check out the site and see the other fantastic works!

thanks to Chris Kapzynski for featuring me.

Heart vs Break: line work

2010-01-20T23:40:00.000-08:00

something I'm working on for Valentines.
It's a homage to 70's sentai and henshin (power ranger type shows). But it's Valentine themed.

Here's the current line work.
I'm working on this on and off jobs. I'm juggling. But the next update will hopefully be near valentines.

Lighting:Tattoo Wonderwoman

2010-01-13T21:23:00.000-08:00

Well I thought I'd spend sometime trying out some different types of lighting variations on wonderwoman.
My favorite is the last one... the lighting is non traditional for a portrait.. but very striking

Fanexpo Tattoo Wonderwoman coloured

2010-01-13T12:47:00.000-08:00

While waiting on feed back I thought it would be good to do a colour study. You can tell I changed the proportions and stuff a little bit (started to notice what things were off and bugging me so I adjusted it).

I would like to try to do another version of this same piece but under different lighting conditions (might be fun... to be continued at some point)

see the previous post if you want to see the picture I referenced

Fanexpo Tattoo Wonderwoman

2010-01-11T20:08:00.000-08:00

Just need to get away from work and doodle..
so it thought come back and look through those fanexpo pics and figure I'd pick Tattoo Wonderwoman as my subject.
Had a lot of fun... with this.. maybe at somepoint I'll come back to this.
I loved her Wonderwoman tattoo on her arm!

Spotlight: Streetbot (happy new year)

2010-01-01T12:27:00.000-08:00

I have a account Deviantart.com and I woke up to answered a few messages and while having coffee I started to realize.. boy there's a lot of messages here.
I got a spotlight on Deviant art!
Wow what a great way to start the year.

But I wanted to say thanks to Family and friends for all the support... and everyone else who frequents my page!
Hope you had a great 09.. and hoping you have a awesome 2010!

Robot on the Street: Finished

2009-12-28T11:02:00.000-08:00

Finally finished... just before the year ended.

Lighting was fun on this piece.

Well I think this might be my last art piece I post before the year ends....

So Happy New Year!

And thanks for making this year Great!

Robot on the street WIP 1

2009-12-26T19:18:00.000-08:00

Here's a small update of the image so far

Robot on the street

2009-12-22T04:35:00.000-08:00

had sometime to doodle a bit inbetween work....
been crazy work week the last while and I havn't updated (which feels like ages).
but I think may try to settle down and enjoy a little bit of rest and fun.
But here's what I got for now.

favorite Holiday movies

2009-12-20T22:57:00.000-08:00

It's the holiday season.....
here's a few of my favorite ones. (got any more to add? throw it down ... Home Alone has not aged well.. I'm afraid)

Christmas Carol 1951 ( by far the creepiest one).

Nightmare before Christmas

Die Hard

Elf

A Christmas Story

Shingo Shimzu

2009-12-16T13:59:00.000-08:00

Bogged down with work... the rush before everyone is on holidays (everyone except me... arg....)
But anyways happy to announce

my friend Shingo has released some sweet prints for sale.
check it out.

http://shingo_shimizu.inprnt.com/

Great prints for the holidays!

Choose your own adventure Comic. Awesome + some cool vids

2009-12-09T15:28:00.000-08:00

I caught this video well getting my fix of www.lowbright.com Derek Kim's web/comic.

The idea behind idea behind this comic, it's brilliant! I love how the comic is presented visually and physically. There's lines that lead to tab (cut into the book!) to reveal where your adventure leads too!!..

Idea behind the comic (writer/artist Jason Shiga).
I had seen him at TCAF.. while getting Derek Kim's autograph... and I regret not spending the time talking to the other artists that day (cutting the trip short running back for mother's day)

Well Here's a Video of Jason Shiga explaing his comic.. coming in 2010. (can't wait to get it)

Jason Shiga @ APE 2009 from Doctor Popular on Vimeo.

My friend David Cho had posted this Video on his Facebook page...
totally in awe of it.. and my friend Brian Wilson... sent it to me today.. remind me I'm such a idiot for not posting this earlier....

and a little more.... (this is better then bullet time!)
the kid is awesome in this... he totally gets into it and pulls off some serious kamen rider moves!

I just realized Nujabes feat are the same guys who did the samurai champloo soundtrack...

samurai champloo (the story/animation is awesome)

48X61 Kintaro Vs Otomo

2009-12-05T22:32:00.000-08:00

Man I love this.

48x61 : Kintaro VS Otomo
Uploaded by Webotaku. - Arts and animation videos.

Just for a added bonus...
this has gotta be one of the weirdest coolest transforming robots I've seen
http://www.collectiondx.com/review/action_figure/torabolt
Yes it transforms......

Mecha Santa + Tutorial

2009-12-04T02:42:00.001-08:00

Man I've had this video sitting around for a bit.
But I've been asked a few times to get a commentary done for the time lapse video.
I had a few hickups with the audio.
But I think I've gotten something now (going to take a while before I get better at this.

I threw the art on a 3d Box I did in 3d studio max.. quickly. I tried to keep it in style to those gundamn kits. I love building those things (although I hate painting models).

Oh and all the videos are in HD quality. so double click it if you want to see it with more clairty.

Mecha Santa from kidchuckle on Vimeo.

or if you prefer youtube (2 parts.. because youtube is lame and you can't go over 10 mins).

hope you've been good

2009-12-03T01:45:00.000-08:00

I didn't want to do the usual type of holiday card
so I tried something different for the holiday season.
I squeezed this inbetween gigs.

Turbo: Short film

2009-11-21T17:19:00.000-08:00

I saw this on Kotaku,
This short film is pretty kickass created by Jarrett Conaway.

A University of Southern California student film short Turbo, done with a 100,000 budget

TURBO from Jarrett Lee Conaway on Vimeo.

sleeplessly

2009-11-19T18:47:00.001-08:00

Something a bit quick,
dedicating this to someone who needs more sleep!

One Eyed Yeti.

2009-11-17T22:27:00.000-08:00

The One Eyed yeti... the idea came from Ryon Xavior http://www.htxbstudio.com/wordpress/ (go check him out.. you gotta check his sculpts.. some crazy stuff).

Unfortunately... I kind of put it off.. but Xavior was sooo patient. And it was in the back of my mind. I didn't want to give him JUST a one eyed yeti..
Tried of thinking of something I could throw on him to make the yeti seem different.

SoOooooooo.......
the little back story I made for this guy... He eats children.. but also hides among them by dressing up as them. *** Gasp *** that's why the Yeti is so hard to find.

good morning daddy

2009-11-17T01:23:00.000-08:00

threw this together. I get antsy when waiting for feedback...
so I burn the extra energy by doing something productive.

Thought this one would be fun. A little kid seeing daddy off to work.

Dagonlily

2009-11-16T01:21:00.000-08:00

boy insomnia keeps me pretty productive these days....
but I thought it might be fun to draw a character in cosplay... The design is my own...
But I figure if I say its cosplay.. it gives me some fun to mash stuff together.

I dream of

2009-11-12T23:27:00.000-08:00

Well I would be dreaming of....
but I have a serious case of insominia tonite. So what I'm doing.. drawing of course.
I had all these little doodles of robots. so I thought I might make into something.
I sometimes do these little cute bots as a exercise for shapes.

Deviant art is also having a contest about dreams.. funny enough.... oh man I wish I could sleep!

Boy this animator sure likes...

2009-11-11T23:48:00.001-08:00

The animation for this short is amazing.. all done by one guy.

You'll notice from watching... the animator sure likes ... (you'll find out when you hit play)
自主制作アニメ - フミコの告白　Independent production anime

I found a translation

girl- " um um... please go out with me!"
boy- " sorry, I want to focus on baseball now"
girl-" Takashi is stupid!"

-(end of first conversation) Crazy animation

"Takashi !?"
" ILL MAKE MISO SOUP FOR YOU EVERYDAY!"
boy(takashi)-" sorry, I want to focus on baseball now"
END

one more vid from Production IG (studio)
Beautifully done.. like a moving painting.

Kick Ass

2009-11-11T09:52:00.000-08:00

I can't wait to see this movie.
Kick-ass!

If you havn't herd about the comic.. it's about a young teen who decides to become a super hero (in real world rules.. no powers no skills... The only thing he has that makes him stand out from anyone else, is that he has a metal plate in his head from a accident. Funny thing is I knew a kid like that in grade school. He used to take money people by betting who would pass out first from banging their head against the wall.

The comic series is still in production. I believe the last of the issue comes out dec.
It's funny how the comic isn't even finished and it's already been turned into a movie.

Oh yeah also it was filmed in Toronto. Gooooo TO!

Kick-Ass

Trailer Park | MySpace Video

Iron Giant Project

2009-11-06T08:39:00.000-08:00

Last minute entry for the Iron Giant Project

Recommended Comics and stuff

2009-11-03T23:40:00.000-08:00

Picked up American Born Chinese by Gene Yang the other day. (link has many mini reviews)
Has a story that I can relate to when I was growing up.

There's also a daily comic by Derek Kim. Check it out here. Check out his illustrator journals.. I practically pee my pants reading his work.

I picked up creature box volume 2.

and Travis Charest sketchbook 2009 which you can also get at http://animationroadshow.blogspot.com

Halloween invasion

2009-10-26T22:43:00.000-07:00

A little something retroish for halloween.
I really love those old school posters. I finished this weeks ago.. but held off on posting this.
The lighting was fun to try out.

Halloween what to wear

2009-10-25T21:17:00.000-07:00

I had this idea of mashing up a few costumes together.. that I couldn't get out of my head till I scribbled it down.
kind of a best of the "bargain bin of costumes"

If you're having trouble which movies these are from.
1 Starwars (thats DannyChoo.com also of tokyostormtrooper)

2 Game of Death (yes I know its from Kill Bill too.. but in Kill Bill did it in homage to
Bruce Lee's game of death. I'll be really upset if you've never herd of it!

Yellow Chucks are from

(thats where the foot print comes from! If there's someone out there that can make a shirt with a yellow stripes on the side and a Giant foot on the front.. I would be sold on getting that!)

3) Batman (notice the cape and ears)

Silicon+Zombies+Subway

2009-10-23T09:07:00.001-07:00

It's almost Halloween. Probably my favorite theme to draw.
As a warm up... I thought I would do a exercise in lighting. Do something that's simple (rather then full on paint). But then it kind turned into something I could animate.
Mind you I would never call myself a animator. I tried it.. and I have no sense of timing.
But I took a shot and here's what I got.

Toronto: Videogame Industry + Ubisoft

2009-10-22T13:28:00.000-07:00

Well the news of Ubisoft coming to Toronto is old news right now.
But it's interesting topic that I've had with friends in and out of the gaming industry.

On the news it seems very focused on Ubisoft alone. but I'm more interested what will happen because of Ubisoft's move here. Will more larger gaming companies come to Toronto? I just hope with Ubisoft coming into the picture, it will give that Fire Toronto needs to have a more healthy Gaming Development Industry. (more companies to start here, and business opportunities etc).

Well anyways the article below explains it way better then I could sum it up.

Article is from the Examiner