Bee Walk

just fooling around with After Effects + flash,

pulling together some of the daily exercises.

fly

vector based (illustrator) + after effects animation test...

Something pulled together from my daily exercises to keep my animation timing still going on,
while I have been of course, searching for jobs/internships....

*for a creating competition in September

In the midst of job searching, doing own stuff, flash exercises...etc, I was also doing this, the past month. 

I was trying to create some characters for a possible creators contest, but then I found out later that they were looking for underaged creators. After working at it for about a month and even asking my friend Alex Austin to look at, it was kind of ...."Sooo... umm... Oh well. Whatever."

But, thought it was worthwhile posting cause I didn't really do too much of characters before my goldfish animation, "Wall Pets"-- and apparently to others, I might want to explore that more.

So here it is:

The world of Park Natives vs. The Dogs. (not the title, more like a description of what these characters are about... I never came up with a good title for the world... at least not yet)

And then all of them together, roughly to scale...

Inspirations:
*Pom Pom: Happy, the Kim family dog
*Poodle: fashionista/ personal nickname
*Scavenger Squirrel: crazy Providence, RI squirrels
*Army of Pigeons: a not-so-nice pretty celebrity for personality and facial expression.. And pigeons are everywhere...Seoul, Providence, and all the way to NYC...

D1- Julgoo Bunny

Here's a sketch in progress of the "Julgoo Bunny."


Okay, that sounds like there's a gummy bunny line coming out or something but "Julgoo" is what was used to make Rice Cake; It was essentially a large bowl and two/one pounding "sticks." Pound away for a pound of rice cake. 


These little Julgoo Bunnies-- I vaguely remember them in some story telling and possibly a child's song-- live in the moon or something. 


But, can't remember too well.


In my world though, the Julgoo Bunny and its companion would make... CHEESE,
since they live in the moon. ;) 

bee walking_v2

something along this line... as a possible starting point?

maybe I'll go even softer on the colors of the plants.

http://vimeo.com/6769156

bee walking_v1

Hmm... what could possibly bee happening in the background?

http://vimeo.com/6758761

Walking cotton ball

(in progress)

Staring At The Local Ducks in The Pond

After failing to solve certain issues, I was getting coffee from somewhere in the George Town area.

To my horror, the biggest coffee cup here at a shop in Washington D.C. is a dollar more than the large cup of coffee from Coffee Exchange of Providence.

So sad. 

So I propped down, with my ice mocha, at a nearby pond ... &

STARED AT THE PASSING DUCKS. (they look like orangish things bobbing up and down if you are looking at them from way up above...)

Let's call it a motion study for future animations. Bleh.  

Go, Set, Ready

After arriving on Saturday (08/29) to the Dulles Airport, I settled at my new "3rd home" in Washington D.C.

While my younger sister will be my provider and shelter, safely re-exported into the country, I miss Happy the family dog a lot. But, it just "feels" right to be in this country. I sense my chi (energy) level as a Tae-yang In rebuilding. :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Korean_medicine#History

Lots of messy unpacking, packing, cleaning and spreading out-- the past few days before beginning it all.

On the last weeks at Seoul, Korea, I learned an acronym used by Economists in the 1994ish era in Korea. It was referencing to the attitudes of the Mega Super-companies who insisted on doing things their way-- a massive stubborn attitude-- which in slang terms is called Bae Jae Ra. Economists of the IMF times in Korea therefore criticized such stubbornness of the super power companies by name-calling their attitude with the acronym, BJR.

But then those mega companies survived and conquered.

So, my new motto is BJR too.
Go, Set, Ready.