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.

Wolverine sketch.
Sorry I still haven't worked out the camera issues yet.
Still wonky

Just a bit of a quick video sketch.
this was more like a trial test.
It's jerky in motion (i guess I gotta mess around with it).

Grey Hulk Mr Fixit

Thought I would do some fan art.

One of my favorite shows to watch.

I was very grateful to get a copy of Liquid City from my friend Charlene!( like 2 weeks ago, yes I'm a bit late blogging it now).
It's a amazing book. I went with Charlene and her husband Wayne to the "Speak easy comic event"
it was a fun time (I'm writing this way past the event).
I totally urge you to pick up this compilation. It has some amazing artists in there.

I also have my favorite page from Charlene hanging up on my wall.
GO GET IT NOW!!!! Well the book... not the page that Charlene gave me (that page is MINE)

the commercial I worked on for PEI Heart and Stroke foundation.
I worked with the great helloalchemy.com
to produce the commercial.

I worked on the style guide with art direction genius Jeremy Dimmock.
I also worked on the storyboards for this project.. as well as some texturing.

You can watch the commercial here

I just wanted to take to time to announce my good friend Hilary Leung is launching a book. Titled "The Legend of Ninja Cowboy Bear"
Written by David Bruins and illustrated by Hilary Leung.

It's a beautiful book. And it's very exciting to see it from start to finish. I can't tell you how much quality oozes from this book. I maybe Biased... but you MUST check it out!!!! Oh and it's not just a bunch of pretty pictures.. its got a solid solid story to boot! Who says you need kids to get one of these!!!!

check out the book here
http://www.ninjacowboybear.com/book.htm

play the game here
http://www.ninjacowboybear.com/play.php

oh and come to the launch PARTY!!!!!