art gif-ing ;p

so i finally decided to actually do what i've been bumming to do since /o/. luckily it tagged along my animated mood now. wut? whatevs. anywee heres a couple of process es of some recent works :]

here are the final stills [or in my da. or tumblr. wherever ur comfortable]

i made these both for ngni. a collab art blog with some friends-

hanino : poster design

twas my entry for the 'omnibus theme design contest' for graphicon2012 -a local graphic design and multimedia convention here in davao city. coming this november. lol i lost. what i ended up with is not even a 'theme' but some poster haha. but i like the concept and the story behind this. so im saving it cause i might use it for something else later. it will be about 'this guy' and his shadow 'hanino' :)
-where in the image depicts them running, well, jumping late for an event(?) haha

i aimed around that animated and graphicnovel ish look. something different. also the bg was inspired by this old busy night-street i always pass by
as usual some research thumbs. then the final plus with the text and some variants-

some knight

yo. yeah just a knight character. i actually did this while kinda roughly following a challenge brief over at cghub. knew i wouldn't have the time to join the whole thing. it looks fun anywee. so i did some sketches. and later decided to flesh one out a bit -still not finish though. see? haha

quick for the night

scythe maiden sketch before bed. lets see how this looks in the morning. and.. zzzzz

huh?

 i had a mouthful of words in my last few posts. so now, i'll just go;

 petal faerie thing wip :)

back to scratch

so much for all the 'work in progress' when i junked a mountain of files after my disk miserably crashed over a month ago. some still lives, most dumped. but im still here. drawing.
and here's some speedies i did before i lost my tablet's pen which i've searched for the last three weeks. pffffckt. what's wrong with me? haha

personal piece. after everything.

dreamscape. i love water themes

some space hq's

sketches, animations and dot dot dot

(click the image to enlarge)

. . .

there is just not much progress. i guess that's why i've been neglecting any real update in this blog. but it's not all that bad. so here i am posting this haha. i've been saying that 'i'm inspired' these days, and i really am. thou it doesn't show. and i've just been going with how things are flowing. thou they're not all that good lol.

it's just that my creative juices just seems to get clogged just when it's about to reach orgasm. pardon the lame pun XD. it's not even mood swings or anything. i think one real problem is that i just can't find a suitable or any interesting 'sparks' out of a subject. dot dot dot
and even if i did, or even if someone helped and gave me something to work with, i become unenthusiastic to it in the midst.. ayaw na pangutana! di ko din alam hahaa -and the work ends up looking repulsive and then a change of heart sinks in the process, leaving something hanging about it.. it was somehow tormenting at some point. but. i do believe i just stepped on a small inevitable phase. and i think it's passing now. yey!

>:)

one big reason for that, would be this personal project that i've been working on for some time now. a big part of me is so into doing animations. aside from paintings and concept arts. it's what i've been dreaming of since birth haha. thou this isn't really that big. it's just a really short 2d animation; about a girl named 'maya'. i'll try to post something about it next time. but here's a tease. it's one of the color tests i did of her

:D

it's actually an old plan that i just revamped. i'm also doing this just to practice the small stuffs i learned for compositing and in applying simple sfx's -just like what i did to an old video that i seldom show to people. it's a walkcycle exercise of my characters; 'doti' and 'dotdot'

-that reminds me, the bg in the vid was actually made for maya. maybe i could still use it now. but that just proves how old that plan was hahaa

and i think that's why my mind flies off, more often than not. even when i'm already doing something, i could say, as equally important ohohoo. and so i guess i'd consider these as 'a really nice progress'. like i said, it's not all that bad. add to those is a logo and a poster i designed for our class' art exhibit, which took place like three weeks ago. hehe. this was quite refreshing since i haven't done any vector stuffs in awhile;

but that's not just it. another one big fat juicy cool distraction for me now is -another 2d animation project that my friend, Alben Tan and I just put up a blog with, we called it 'Bakinocaua' under our very own 'Studio Natu' weeh! -this one's a bit more serious thou and it really needed much research. doing this big things are the reasons why i've been practicing with video editing, like on 'maya'. here's a link to the blog: studio natu check it out! :D

by Studio Natu :)

ohoo now i realize it's just hours before the new year starts. 2012! yey! i'm really looking forward to it! -and that's all there is. for now. thanks and may i bid you all in advance - a happy new year! :)