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Please make yourself comfortable and enjoy your stay here while I go get some tea.

Too awesome for words
Saturday 7 June 2008

Fellow animators, I'm sure you're all familiar with this book:

For those who aren't, this is the holy bible for anyone who wants to get into animation.
I personally don't know anyone who doesn't own this book.

But that's not really the point of this post. The point is, now you get to see it in motion.

THAT... is the most beautiful animation I've seen in a long while. 8-)
*bows to Richard Williams*

A moment of clarity
Tuesday 13 May 2008

"Anyone can animate. What separates the great from the good ones is the acting."

-words taken from a fellow colleague, David H.

Golden week
Sunday 11 May 2008

Because I'm too lazy to write a lengthy post, I've decided to slap a photo montage that sums up my golden week. Enjoy!

That's about it! Now, apart from not being able to see lots of cute moé girls in maid costumes, my biggest disappointment of golden week is that I didn't get to draw a single art piece. I know that is something this site has been lacking for quite some time now.
I promise to put more content in the future!

I'll get back soon~

Guys... change your pants!
Tuesday 29 April 2008

Uniqlock is updated once again! Check it out below. 8-D

Animation celebration
~ brought to you by daimation ~
Sunday 13 April 2008

Recently the animation team celebrated my win in the Udon contest...

....no wait.... ooops....

*ahem* So recently the animation team celebrated the completion of a major project that we worked on for a while now. It was a wondrous feast. To be perfectly honest, I was only involved in a relatively microscopic portion of it (being new to the company and all), but hey, if everyone's celebrating, I wanna join too!

The food we had was great. There's okonomiyaki, a dish I first heard in Ranma but never knew exactly what it was until now. It's usually referred as a Japanese pizza, you get to mix your own ingredients and cook them on the grill. There's also monjayaki, a Tokyo specialty which is a variation of okonomiyaki, but has a more liquid-ish texture. It also has quite an unorthodox method of consumption as well, you just scrape it off from the grill with a mini spatula and eat it. Preparing the food is very interesting, and they taste even better! Everyone who comes to Japan needs to try these. Easily one of my favourite Japanese dishes so far. 8-D

I must say it's good to see everyone loosen up from the usual working habits. Sticking your head in front of the computer from dusk till forever gets a little monotonous, ne? A nice change of scene is what we need from time to time.

Omedetou, minna-san! Let's work harder in the future!

YOU WIN
Monday 7 April 2008

I just got this e-mail last week.

I won? Holy shit! I'm so happy!

It has been quite a roller-coaster ride waiting to know who the winners are. Firstly, Udon stated that they had received more than 1300 fan submissions! In the end, only 163 were chosen for the artbook. I feel so honored. 8-O

What can I say? I'm very thrilled to be included into the project! Who would've thought... 17 years ago I was a little brat who did "ABUGEN" to friends at school. And now I get to... well... show my abugens to the world. 8-D
Definitely didn't see that one coming.

As to respect Udon's request, I will withhold from putting up my artwork until the book is released, which is July 23rd 2008! Looks like a 4-month wait... it really can't come soon enough. Please look forward to it!

A big stupendous thank you to Udon.
To be a part of the Street Fighter Tribute.
I'm a lucky SOB. 8-)

Udon journal entry - Tribute Contest - Fan Submissions Done! - [link]
Udon journal entry - Tribute Contest Winners! - [link]

*ahem* so anyway, I'd like to take this opportunity to plug my cousin's new flash game: The Last Canopy.

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If you've been keeping up with my website, yes... he's the same guy who I worked with on B-B-B-BALLISTIC WARS. That's Hazmer of course (I'm linking to your personal blog because your EOG website is.... well... not updated haha). I was supposed to work on this new game as well, but due to the recent Japan preparations, I had to pull myself out on the last minute. It's very sad, because I really wanted to tackle this. It's something I've never done before.

But worry not, the people who took over are more than qualified! Firstly, we have Aidi, who is also my cousin. He did the designs of the enemy ships. And there's Dzaid, my brother, who did the illustrations and the player's ship.

I just want to say that it's really cool to see the 3 of them worked on this project. I've known these 3 for the longest time. God knows the bajillion antics we've been through, so to see them work on one mega collaboration is really something. 8-)

Technically, I am in fact involved a little bit in the game. Mainly initial ideas. And... uhh... that flashy thingy that comes up before the boss.
which looks strangely similar to the one used in Ballistic Wars.

So do give it a try. It's a pretty unique shooter with a nice art direction.
Currently, they're waiting for Jayisgames to announce the winners. I have good confidence we'll hear something good soon.

!!UPDATE!!- Easy Only! Games has done it again! The Last Canopy won FIRST in the Casual Gameplay Design Competition! [link] A big round of applause to Hazmer, Aidi & Dzaid. Looks like this entry title is for all of us. 8-)

That's all for today! And you know what? I might be updating my site a little more frequent now. But please don't quote me on that.

I love Uniqlock

New girls! New music! More quirky dances!

Five, six, seven... gogo Uniqlock!