Uberbooks

Managed to run into this article over at Gamesetwatch.com
they have a bit of news of that Joust Pic I submited for Uber books.
You can read about more info there.

Who ever wrote the article as some pretty good investigation skills. Not sure how he found me.
But thanks for the post!

http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2009/08/remixed_paintings_from_uber_ga.php

Getter Robo! Chibi SD Fewture edition

Getter Robo! (I'll be posting a colour video of this soon... just rendering it now, so Stayed Tuned)

I have been aching to do some fan art of one of my favorite Anime of all time. Getter Robo.
I grew up with it as a kid.
Opening for the show
(actually more specifically Starvengers, aka Getter Robo G).

A few years back Fewture did a restyling by the late great Taku Sato.(I wrote a toy review it back in 2006)

Years later, they've done a reissue of it. I thought I would do a homage of Fewture Getter as a Chibi Super Distort figure (no they don't have one of that yet). But why not imagine what it looks like.




If youw ant to see a Time Lasped Video of me colouring...
here you go.
Double click the video if you would like to see it in High Def.

Joust Tutorial

As promised here's the step by step for Joust.
I also included a video version (sorry it's not a timelapse... but a slide show of the same image). I just thought a altnerate medium would be nice to have.

any questions please feel free... or anything that seems unclear. Just leave a message.
For a step by step click here
(and click download) for the high res version.
http://kidchuckle.deviantart.com/art/Joust-Tutorial-131655408

Hilary Leung's art Auction

ttc1
Originally uploaded by hilaryleung

Hilary Leung's art auction is almost up.
12 hrs from now


If you've been walking by Pages Art Book store on 256 Queen st
then you've caught his eye catching work.

he has his originals for sale as well as prints

Please note that limited archival Giclee* prints from
the TTC series are for sale.

24" x 36" Hahnemule Photo Rag paper print - $200
24" x 36" x 0.75" framed canvas (ready to hang) - $300

Note - Smaller prints are also available upon request.
follow his blog


http://hilaryleung.blogspot.com/

Night of the Cephalopods!

Miguel Sternberg, showed me this great game he's been working.
Looks pretty sweet.
It's called Night of the Cephalopods!
Free Indieware.
You can download the game here
http://www.spookysquid.com/notc/

Some game footage
It also has this cool commentary track that reacts to way you play

Joust Finished

Ok finally complete, and none too soon.
I managed to finish this afternoon before work got heavy again.
I threw in one shot between the final.
If you're wondering why there's two versions.
Well one of them is for a art submission for a book.
Second one I'll be making prints for the Toronto Fan Expo (make sure you drop by and say hi).

I'll be coming up with a more thorough step by step in Early August.







almost done (one of the WIP before final)

RhondaForever

My friend Andrew Lam sent this to me.
Fricking sweet!

if you want to be a beta tester you can subscribe at the bottom of their homepage
http://rhondaforever.com/

Joust WIP 6

oh man busy weekend.
I managed to get a bit ahead this week, and allowed sometime to socialize a little bit. It's good to go out and catch up with friends.
I spent Sunday to get back to doing some artwork(oh the guilt).
I'm so close to finishing this piece.

I just have the background to do.
I'll be working on a step by step when this project is complete.

I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight -U2

still working hard at work. I'm hoping to get back on to the joust pic maybe this weekend (if Luck will have it).

but anways I caught this video from drawn.ca
thought the style and look was stunning.

U2 - I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight from David OReilly on Vimeo.

Alan Moore and the Watchmen

Quick summary on Watchmen.
comic : loved it
movie : loved it.

Alan Moore
Comic : loved it
movie : hates it.

I mean he recognizes it to be one of his best pieces. But he hates the Hollywood medium of his works. He refuses to see it. Which is too bad. I thought it was pretty respectful of his work. I really believed it was going to be hard one to translate. But it was done really well.

So anyways here's this video.

Nobody Watches the Watchmen - watch more funny videos

Gobelins Annecy festival

Gobelins second year animation students (don't let the term Students fool you).
Some amazing shorts this year.
you can see past students work here http://www.gobelins.fr/index-flash.htm




still my favorite all time is burning Safari

Joust WIP 5

managed to throw up some colours.
Guess what still not done this part. I still have to add some colour reflections, as well as vary up the colours in the highlights and shadows.

It's going to be a while before I update maybe 26th of july or so. I have to meet my second deadline. Thankfully my third and fourth deadline is a long way off, so I can finish it off by the end of this month.

Joust WIP 4

Just another update.
The progress is slow. I have to finish this piece by 31st.
But I also have to hit all my deadlines for work(thats a lot of drawings. 100 roughs finished, 100 more to go). So I'm trying to wedge updates as soon as I can.

Remote Mechagodzilla 1974

Totally under my radar. Looks like its been released for sometime.
Robot figures are probably dear to my heart. I think its something I grew up with.
Mecha Godzilla happens to be one of those things I grew up with.

This is the rendition of the 1974 Mecha Godzilla

But clearly this is one remote control robot that beats anything I've seen hands down.

It's only avaiable in japan (with a hefty price tag)








here's a actual commercial for it

Nerf herders + Olivia Munn

saw this over at Kotaku.

pretty catchy. I havn't herd Nerf Herders do anything new in a while.

Doesn't hurt that Olivia Munn is in it.
totally targeting the gamers.

Video Game - E3 2009 - Attack of the Show

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