wow

wow it's been so long since i posted last blog journal!
Kree and Sue are reunited-
and have been spending very much hours and days together since..
sometime I wonder-
is there really such thing as life long companion?
i never saw myself finding such thing-
but i see myself everyday i wish i could spend as many days just being with him.
today,
i was stressd for many personal reasons,
and kree reminded me of what i have in this country.
he is right.
i'm still a baby complaining more of happiness more of convenience..
when everyday becomes happy days,
i guess even little bit of stressed day is hard to bear.
in other words.. i guess i'm being spoiled by happiness.
GET BACK TO WORKKKKKK ;[

sketches for next project

our next student project is called "No Robots"
and my given role is to design a backroom.
it's a small scene and quick scene, but i really want to better!
WELL
im going to see kree tomorrow-
we haven't seen each other forEVER!
(just about 18 days to be exact, but it truly feels forever!)

so hopefully we could post something TOGETHER!!

GO GO GO GOBELIN

Gobelin's Annecy Shorts are up. Check 'em out here!

Facing Death and A Laugh

"Those who can overcome the frightening anxiety of facing a life-threatening situation will die peacefully."

I think that's true. It's like when in movies when there is a character who can maintain composure and not get panicked when a gun his being pointed him/her. I don't know, I guess I wanna be cool like that.

Anyways, here's a dirty joke I worte...

What does Santa use to carry his toys?

a ho bag!

Get it??? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA... I mean HOHOHOHOHOHOHOHO!

TAR!!! (Trip Proposal)

If ever there is a chance to go to LA, one stop on the agenda should be the La Brea Tar Pits!

Above in the picture is at the Page Museum which features some of the specimens found and is right next door to the tar pits; the picture shows a collection of prehistoric dire wolf skulls.

The tar pits are prehistoric and world famous. It is an astonishing sight because it is literally a graveyard of perfectly preserved fossils and bones, complete skeletons of animals that have lived over the course of millions of years. For paleontologist, this is like finding gold, because finding complete skeleton fossils is EXTREMELY RARE. To biologist, the tar pits is treasure chest of animals from prehistoric times to the present and act as a physical recording of bones that support the theory of evolution. The tar pits have encased hundreds of species including mammoths, saber-tooth tigers, wolves, insects, and birds. Only one human skeleton has ever been discovered, a showcase of just how little time we've walked the planet.

And in case you didn't know, the tar is still there and active!

Incoporating 2 Situational Ideas

Alaska Part 3: Yukon Trail

Last post of Alaska stuff...

The Yukon Trail game came free with our first home computer back in 1994. For a while, it was the only game my brother and I could play; we did so a lot. The game is like Oregon Trail but about the Klondike Gold Rush in 1896-99. In the game you stop at a town named Skagway. When we found out we were actually going there, we got really excited, and we thought it was funny that we knew the city already, but from a game!

My brother Kevin mimicing the game layout... he's on the wrong side -_-

Skagway was one of the port cities that one could stop on their way to the Klondike. The name comes from the Tlingit word "skagua" menaing "origin of the north wind" the north winds pass through the mountains. The city was used as a point to replenish supplies and food before heading on the treacherous White Pass trail. During the peak of the gold rush, the population boomed and prospered with many types of businesses including restaurants, prostitution, and gang activity. Today the population is only 800.

You can meet this character in the game. He's a bad guy!

Turns out he's the real deal, the most well-known character in Skagway! He basically took over Skagway during the gold rush and became the leader of an organized gang and con men. Ex: he set up telegraph lines, charging stampeders wanting to contact their families, the lines would lead to one of his men who sent back fake responses.

See his saloon there on the right...?

That really exist too!

That is the momenta he left behind... great... a skull

So it was fun reliving our gaming past. Of course we played it again as soon as we got home.

Alaska Part 2: My Souvenir

I wanna go back to my sugarbean... I really do...

This is lame I guess, but there are so many people you are stuck with on a cruise ship for 10 days that capturing their photo for the sake of my bad memory is all that I wanted. Most people you only meet once and then forget about cause nothing really stood out, but on occasion you will run into somebody more than once and those are the people that usually have something interesting to say... and so here is my small collection.

I asked if I could take this picture. This is Professor Yang, he is professor to a Martial Arts History class. He helps run a studio near Palo Alto that is the only martial arts studio certified by the Xiaolin Temple in China. I had dinner with him a few days later and found all this out. His favorite thing to talk about is how India tries to take credit for the birth of Asian martial arts.

I never actually talked to this man, but I saw him almost everyday at the same table, either smoking alone of with his wife. He looked so badass with his cigarettes and his rocky stature that I decided to snag a photo of him one day... and of course he wasn't hard to find.

Lunch: "So what school do you go to?" "San Jose State." "Oh, what are you studying." "Animation/Illustration." "Our daughter works at San Jose State, in the art department." "Oh really!? What's her name?" "Hmmmm, well tell us if you know this one... Her name is Elizabeth Briggs." "WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!????"

I ran into this lady so much, that I just had to take a photo of her. When I asked, she started shying up, saying "Why do you want a picture of a weird person?" She is an advent trader of stuff and probably the most flashy character on board. That panda hat she traded for an elephant hat because she is a SF Giants fan and her favorite player is Sandoval, nickname: Kung-Fu Panda.

Check out the guy on the right

He hella looks like Nikita! Turns out he is from Russia and is sailing for 40 days with his girlfriend; they are both dancers for the ship.



Okay so this was the souvenir of my trip, an exchange between two people that will probably never meet again. This is about Stephanie, a little girl I met on the ship the first day. I was drawing in the lobby, looking for things to sketch, and her and her mother walked by and she waved at me . I waved back. Her mother and her came up to me to look at my drawings, to their dismay I had only one page of sketches.

I kept seeing them after that and she was so cute, and always waved at me. I tried to get a picture of her waving, but always came out blurry.

One night, I went to the lounge to watch a band perform and I saw little Stephanie dancing with this boy and everyone was laughing and pointing because it was super cute. I decided to draw them and before I left, I showed the drawing to her parents.
From that day on, every time I ran into them they would always say hi and talk to me about stuff. I even had lunch with the family but each time, I would never have the camera dammit!
It wasn't until the final day that her father nervously asked if he could buy my sketch. I was somewhat surprised, but I decided to just give it to them. I literally ripped it out of my sketchbook and wrote a little message on the back. Her father said he was going to laminate and frame it.

And then right before I left the ship, I got my souvenir! I guess it sounds creepy now that I think of it, but it really isn't. It's weird to think that sketch is with some people who I will never see again and I wonder what little Stephanie will think of it growing up. Who knows though, I ran into my teacher's parents, maybe our paths will cross again.

PS. I saw "Moon Chaser" and was very impressed! That's so awesome it's going to Ottawa! Everyone did so well!

Alaska Part 1: My Treat

Been out for a while... where? Alaska
Current Residence: Sacramento
Current Status: Sweaty Hot
Current Song in Head: Land Down Under by Men At Work
Current Feeling: Missing Sue so badly

Here is a treat from the final frontier, my favorites...

Sue surprise attack! Isn't she sweet, came to visit before we left, only got to see her for 3 minutes. But it was worth this sumptuous picture!

No windows, always felt like nighttime in here.

Harsh wind always at the bow of the ship when it was moving. I mean HARSH!

Parliament... Victoria BC, Canada

This guy is pretty famous in Victoria. I was anticipating the dark lord in his gleeful violist attire! You can search him on Google and Youtube and hear him play!

??? on Mt. Roberts in Juneau. Dirty snow, doesn't count -_-

Red Dog Saloon in Juneau. The walls are covered with business cards from all over the world, but mostly CA.

Bald Eagle...no where in CA, but EVERYFREAKINWHERE in Alaska!

Now a vistor's center, the Arctic Brotherhouse was built in 1899. The frat house looks EXACTLY as it did over 110 years ago! Skagway, my favorite city.

Deceiving but that thing is 200 ft. tall, remember this is from the top of the ship! Glacier Bay

HARSH wind

Rusted crane, forest wins! Temperate Rainforest at Ketchikan

It's a beaver, see it? Totem Pole of an ancient Tlingit legend.

So Alaska really is the last frontier. Being the newest and largest state, equipped with the some of the most extreme climate conditions on Earth, most of the land is untouched by human activity and the government wishes to keep it that way. Besides, it's not really ideal conditions for people to live, but it hasn't stopped some, including the legendary Haida and Tlingit Indians. I only visited a tiny portion of Alaska. The parts I saw (apart from the glacier) look very similar to Northern California. Spruce trees lining mountain tops with snowy caps and clear water; in other words, nothing I've never seen before. But it does feel different. The Alaskan air is almost 100% natural and construction is limited due to the challenging climate; Juneau can only be entered via boat or plane. It's a place where nature dominates humanity; in a way, it is almost like looking into the past, how it probably looked thousands of years ago. Beautiful by all means.

Part 2 coming up next!

my scene

This is second half of my given scene. I've been working hard on it! First half would, should be done by today. HOPEFULLY!

...

Brian says we need break for each oter and love is fake.

._. i said

"WE MISS EACH OTHER"

I got a scholarship to summer class!

I applied for 3D toy design class
at Fresno State University this summer.
I was not sure whether I was able to get scholarship,
but I just checked e-mail, and they gave me enough scholarship so I could go!!
It would be for two weeks long in July
and it would be AWESOME!

There are going to guest lectureres from Denmark, Lego company!

Wish me luck!

who knows,
where and how my imagination can reach to?

Final color script

This is our final color script.
There were many many changes and talks over to change.
Personally, I don't know if I am 100% satisfied with it,
but to remind myself again, that this is collaborated project with someone's idea and vision.
Collaborating is real hard,
but overall I am very proud of us. :]

Summer project

We are helping out our fellow friend, Kira Formina's project.
Our goal is turning her 2D paper animation to colored animation,
to submit to Ottwa Animation Festival, CAN.

My role is to have color key-
color matching/ choosing for the shots.
Here are some things I've been working on: