Joust WIP 3

Just a bit of a update.
I should have posted this on the weekend. I've been swamped.
But here's what I done for the next part of the elements. On my list to do is highlights, colour and then putting the two elements together in a piece and background to tie it all together. I'll be writing a more thorough step by step. wish I had more time to go through everything now.

The line drawing




Mid tones


Darker tones


The next is highlights and colours

TATTOO -Tshirt designs

I thought this was a bit of fun news to share

http://www.metalinkshop.com
is having a contest for Tattoo designed Tshirts.
Winners get $1,000 plus residuals
sounds like fun.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Metal-Ink/41200507010?ref=ts

sorry for the lack of art updates. I'm hoping to spit something new soon.

In Honour of Michael Jackson

Who knew bubbles was in "mooonwalker:genesis game"


this second one is worth it just to see Michael zombie dance (thriller) and turn into a robot


this one is just worth it to see the first 10 seconds

Dungeon and Dragons : part 1

I did some work for Wizard of the West Coast, via Empty room studio.
I've been pretty busy this month on some more work with them.

But I thought I would post what I did for them last month



Having some time away from the piece.. and picking up some new approaches and learning as you go along the way. I thought I would come back to this piece and update it for portfolio.

TheLegend of Ninja Cowboy Bear: Limited on Sale and Signed.

Got a bit of this info to share.

For a short summary for those who have not herd the new of this book.
My Hilary and his friend Dave, had created a childrens book late last year.
It was so well recieved it was picked up by Kid's Can press. (a great success story as well).

so I'm just excited to pass the news below from my friend Hil. (buy it now! First printing LImited and Signed!)

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A quick update to our Ninja Cowboy Bear subscribers.
As some of you may already know, Kids Can Press has licenced our book and will be promoting it as part of their new fall series. http://www.kidscanpress.com/Canada/The-Legend-of-Ninja-Cowboy-Bear-P5900.aspx
This is great news for us because it means that "The legend of Ninja Cowboy Bear" will be in your local bookstore this fall.
However, this also means that there are now only a dwindling number of the self-published, first editions remaining. No more will be printed! So, for a limited time, we're offering signed copies of the book (first edition) along with a postcard and a high quality vinyl sticker, for the sale price of $12 CAD.
For more information see http://www.ninja-cowboy-bear.com/book/buy.php
Thanks for your support!
David & Hilary
http://www.ninja-cowboy-bear.com

Inspiring words by Alan Moore

Caught this the other day. Thought it was pretty inspiring.

Joust WIP 2

Just another update on this.
Still have a few more elements to go.
If you want to see whats next check out the thumbs version
here

Land of the Lost and a bit extra

Land of the Lost came out Friday.
I still havn't had a chance to check it out.
Earlier in the year, I had worked on the end credits drawing art assets and storyboarding.
If you want to check out the end credits helloalchemy.com

Art Direction by Jeremy Dimmock.


Animation by
Eric Makila
Kenny Tam
Bob Zagorskis

I put some of my storyboards and some sample art assets on my webpage.


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on another note.. I've been cramming to do some sample piece for a children's magazine publication (meet and greet) before I start some more work for Wizard's of the West Coast: Empty Room Studio

Bring your Vision to Life Contest

This is old art. But I entered it sometime ago, into the "Bring your Vision to Life Contest", and my piece is now a semifinalist

http://news.deviantart.com/article/81431/

Joust WIP 1

Thought I'd do a homage poster to the classic game Joust!
here's my progress so far.

1000strangers:Hilary Leung

My Friend Hilary Leung, is auctioning off his original art from his 1000stranger project

to find more about the auction follow this link to his blog

Swine Flu: Fashionable Surgical masks

Thankfully Toronto hasn't seen the swine flu yet. But I was thinking if I had to wear one... I would paint on a piggy snout like this.
(modified I-G@l piece I did a while ago)

Jonny Quest Documentary

I kind of stumbled onto this documentary trying to find the sound track of Jonny Quest

I'm shocked that this documentary was never released for dvd or doesn't have any kind of publisher behind this. It produced by fans, but a very professional and detailed documentary on Jonny Quest.

Everything from concepts, animation, music, layouts, writing. It covers everything.
This should documentary came out with the dvd series

The creators of this documentary have been very free in sharing their hard work.
You can find it to download here

or if you like you can watch it ready to watch on youtube Documentary starts at "quest 1". But the begining of the playlist is fun to watch too.

here's small snipit from the documentary about the music

editorial

In between work I've been trying to do some editorial samples.
I havn't posted much due to work. But here's something I've had on the back burner for a while. Hope to a have a small series of these.

TCAF +mothers day

I'm so worn out by yesterday.
I went to TCAF http://www.torontocomics.com/tcaf/.

I managed to swindle a spot with my friend Hilary Leung and partner in crime David Bruins.
The Legend of Ninja, Cowboy, Bear. Seeing the kids reaction of the kids was a riot. There were so many people.

I managed to check out some of the floor.
My friend was waiting in like to get a sweet portrait done by joe bluhm .
While just hanging out in line my friend was talking to none other then Kagan McLeod. He was really cool manged to talk to him for a while. His website is SWEET! Not only is his artwork brilliant. Is knowledge of old school kungfu is unbelievable. Plus a added bonus... the Sound on the website will keep you entertained for hours.

I manage to catch up with Bobby Chiu for a little bit. Man is always hard at work.. he doesn't seem to stop working!

I rant into my friend Eric Kim Another hard working guy. It was nice to catchup with him. He's been a very elusive fella like big foot. I always hear how Eric is doing from small circles.

unfortunately I had to rush out for mother's day so I didn't get a chance to see as much as I wanted. I did manage to catch Brian Lee O'Malley of Scott Pilgrim comic soon to be movie! The long line unfortunately didn't give me mucha chance to meet him in person.

Last stop before running home.

Derek Kirk Kim I didn't get a chance to talk to him much.. but totally envious of his work.. The guy can draw and tell a story.
got his sig and a doodle on his books!



And to top of the evening I went to my uncle and aunt's place.
Where his family shared a lot of laughs and good food. Vanessa, Tiffany, "B" and May, make the best food!!!!. I laughed as much as I ate last nite...
I'm still so tired.

life drawing

went to do some life drawing earlier in the week.. Felt a bit rusty. but I had fun

interview from studio aiko

I did a interview a few weeks back with Studio Aiko.
A very tallented illustrator/designer that I've followed from Mojizu.

you can find my interview here http://www.studioaiko.com/interview_VincChui.html


on a side note I saw this on the ToysRevil website. A ad for gloomy bears.
Man this look so sweet!

How Do You Find Your Passion and How Do You Pursue It?

My friend Frances sent me this.
I thought this was pretty insightful.

I dream of robots

When you were a kid, did you ever imagine building your own robot? Did you ever plan as soon as you grew up to learn how to build that robot...

too bad reality doesn't work out sometimes... but lucky enough there are those who can!

2 X times the fun

Saw this while I was taking a break today.
Man this blows my mind

Shin Mazinger Z

Wow over in Japan.
The new Mazinger (or retelling).
has just been released.

I'm a huge fan of the old school super robots (Go Nagai).
I havn't seen it yet myself... but I thought I would post some clips.

Avatar

A while back I did my business cards. One day I was bored and animated it.
Since the blogs don't take animated gifs that well.. I made a quick animated video of it.

if you're interested I put it on shirts at Mysoti
Iboi
ig@l

Easter Bunny Vs Evil Easter Bunny part 2

sorry i had a friend request putting a diaper version this and it turned out pretty funny.
the problem now is I'm not sure which I like more...

diapers or no diapers

I also ended up animating it with blinking eyes.

Easter Bunny Vs Evil Easter Bunny

Happy Easter!

I seperated the image into a few parts.
Background in one layer. Middle Ground (fluffy bunny and robo bunny plus Misc objects carrot drill and the basket of eggs). And then the foreground bushes and grass.

sad sad sad

sorry been busy the last while.. I'll post some art soon I swear!

but my friend Charlene Chua sent me this link for "artists to make money"

ok I have no problem about stock art. But you have to admit how sketchy that ad looks below.
It's just a plain mockery of any artist who work long hrs and years to develop their skills.

Yeah its hard to get started but I hope nobody falls for this kind of stuff out there.

CS4 add OpenGL drivers= Instant love

ok for the last month and half I have had photoshop CS4. Theres some nice touches.. but I hadn't had the time to get the OpenGL drives enabled for cs4.. in fear of destablizing my system during a job. So today I've finally been able to set that up (after dealing with 4 hrs of trying to get my taxes in order over the phone.... The people I talked to were nice enough.. but it took forever to figure what was going on).

But anyways OPEN GL IS AWESOME.. my machine is running way smoother with my file... the zooms/pans silky smooth. I still havn't tried everything yet.. but the rotating canvas is awesome. IT DRAWS like alias sketchbook (smooth lines!!!! no more jaggies).
I can't get over cs4.

tears of joy.
I'm so happy.

Bruce Lee Vs Iron Man

sorry been a bit busy,
I promise to get some fun art done soon.
But I had to post this... so awesome!
cho
it's in HD too if you like...

Darkstalkers

Well they announced the winners for the darkstalkers from Udon. I was really happy to hear my 3 good friends(Hilary Leung, Ted Kim, Charlene Chua), and super tallented made it into the book!!!!
Congrats guys!

Unfortunately I didn't make the cut. I wish I didn't rush the drawing and jump into painting.
but here's what I did.

I should count myself lucky to have made it into last years.
But congrats to all the winners.

Basement 416, Creative Photoshop (my name isn't Vince Chua)

My friends and I from Basement416 were interviewed in Photoshop Creative Magazine.
Basement416 (is our collective group of illustrators)

members are Christina Ung, Rey Ortega, Charlene Chua (not related or married to), Ted Kim(also not related or married to), and Sanford Kong.

Although Unfortunatetly my name was spelt incorrectly.
My name was spelt Chua. It's spelt Chui...
and I'm not married to Charlene or related!!! (just to clarify!)

I'm going to chapters and pick up a copy soon.
and bring a marker to make corrections at the store.

But Simon Skellon a writer at Creative Magazine. Was really nice during the process and I appreciate the hardwork (I handed in my interview sooo late!). Even after pointing at the small error. At some point he had mentioned making a editorial correction down the road (woohooo mentioned again in another issue of the mag!)

Charlene also did a podcast interview for our group
http://www.photoshopcreative.co.uk/podcasts.php

That Prinny Dood!

Just fitting in some game time before the next project about to start.
I havn't touched any gaming at all this year until yesterday.
I picked up Loco Roco 2 and Prinny.
Prinny is not for the gamer that has little patience.

But it's so frusterating!!!!! but deffinitely deep rooted like the classic side scrollers like Mario, Megaman, Ghost and Goblins.
Thinking it now, the games today seem far too easy compared to the games of yesterday.
But the frusteration, the game is beautiful.

now if I can only locate Disgaea for psp (man is that hard to find.. I regret not picking it up when it first came out!)

interview.

Here's a short interview I did over at sparyblog.net
It's short. To be honest I never know what to say for this kind of thing

sprayblog.net

Pirate Vs Ninja dodgeball wii

April 3 09.
Sigh unfortunately it looks like they are no longer using my artwork for the game cover.


EDIT--------------------------------
Well a few months back I had worked on the cover art of Pirate Vs Ninja Dodgeball.
It was fun project, the guys over at Blazing Lizard were a lot of fun to work with.
Well I know those guys are hard at work as the release date for them comes closer and closer. I just happened to google the internet to see if it was appearing out on the web and found it over at
www.southpeakgames.com

once the game is officaly released I'll post up a better pic.

Andrew Lam Demo Reel

I've been busy with work the last 2 months. Thats the reason for my lack of updates.
After monday my schedule will be much more managable.

But I wanted to make a quick post to promote my friend Andrew Lam's demo reel....
OOOooooh animation.

happy valentines

I'm swamped with work and I've been on this project since dec 21st.
Yesterday was my first real off since new years.

managed to get to some errands and whip this out in prep for vallentines

Happy New Year

I hope everyone had some rock'n holiday cheer (who talks like that?)
I'm going to be blogging a bit slower. My hands will tied up the begining this year fighting EVIL. (contract work till end of feb early march).

but what I wanted to start by letting you know about the Legend of Ninja Cowboy GIVE AWAY!
Yes giveaway!

http://ecolibris.blogspot.com/2008/12/book-review-of-legend-of-ninja-cowboy.html

Onell Designs

I think this maybe the last time lapse video for the year.

Over at Onell Design, I was very excited they have a new figure out!
Glyos Sarvos!
The new head sculpt is pretty sweet.
I'm hoping when I have time to line up all the army of figures, and take a few quick snaps.

They would make some awesome stalking stuffers!

Glyos Sarvos
Uploaded by kidchuckle

New website

I have to thank my good friend Charlene Chua For snazzying up my webpage. It was long over due.
Still in the process of updating more of my portfolio. Just going through the archives scanning and updating old work.

oh and my good friend Ted Kim has also recently updated.

street fighter crazy

I went Street Fighter Crazy. (I think it was partly due to insominia).
Chunli I wish I had spent a bit of time working on the pose more.
But the colour job wasn't too bad for the time it took.

Unfortunetly I did a few bit of editing to Chunli proportion wise after recording. Hands too big. Arm too long etc oh well...

Chunli Sketch: Kidchuckle.com
Uploaded by kidchuckle

SF2 Blanka Sketch: Kidchuckle.com
Uploaded by kidchuckle

Wizard Teen Girl

I took a break from the enviroment I was working on. So I decided to do another time lapse sketch.

Teen Wizard Sketch: Kidchuckle.com
Uploaded by kidchuckle

Spider Cave Mountain.

This something I'll be periodically updating. This image inspired by the novel "Journey to the West". A traveling tale of the Monkey King.
I was thinking of a cool temple/building smack in the middle of a giant cavern/cave would be really cool.
The concept was that it was partly chiseled and built out from the mountain. The bridge is made out of bamboo and rope.

I've uploaded a few of the Work in progress. I'll try to update my progress on this project, and detail out my thoughts as I work on it.

I'm going to find somewhere throw a person in there for scale too. Perhaps in the foreground.



Just a bit more tone into it.... I tried to make the lighting so that the temple/building is just at the opening of the cave...
So I had to narrow down my light to appear that there's a roof.
Now with my tones all laid out I think its time to colour.



Now with the final drawing out of the way.. my eyes nearly went blind. To help separate the image better I had to block in tones for readability.
Anything in the foreground Dark and in shadow... and everything in the back.. light.



More of the bridge worked out. Bamboo was a big part of the construction. I almost did wood planks.. but I remembered typically in whatever area you're in.. you build with whatever materials are in the enviroment. So if you have a bamboo forest.. you're not going to have a tree forest. Thus... no wood planks on the bridge.



I try to construct as much as I possibly can.. I know some bits will be obscured or erased for the bridge... But I lay it in anyways. I find adding these construction details are important. I know it seems like a bit of a waste to put into the construction and eventually erase it.. but I think it helps give it a little more history and believability(yeah I know... you can argue that its building on a mountain).



Slowly detailing on top of my roughs, and adjusting the composition.


This was my intial rough drawing of what I had in mind.

I had a heck of a time trying to do the editing. But it was fun to do.
I was thinking of Leia in my two favorite scenes...
Pose from "help me Obi-Wan, you are our only hope"
and costume... well you know where :P

Slave Princess Leia: Kidchuckle.com
Uploaded by kidchuckle

Prepping for the season with some Holiday Ecards.
My favorite thing during this season when I was a kid (oh who am I kidding.. still am).
Toys and the smell of gingerbread.