Wiping off that dust all over...

Hey :)

Its been 2 months... and what have I been doing?

Well... mainly 3D work actually... Character design, 2D animation, alot of drawing and the like... pretty fun stuff but, its very tedious and stressful, but hey its fun.

Over the past two months, I've been slogging off on 2D Animation projects, using TAB 3.0, a software to create short animation strips, and now... I have to make a simple animation strip and create a simple 2D character... well she would be like a chibi (AKA Super deformed form) of my 3D character... Which reminds me... my character for the year is Yuki Sukiharu, the gunslinger of the 6 man team in my writing universe, I've used her in drawing, for creation of a character, my 2D animation and my 3D character modelling....

That aside, Ive been doing filming. A musical short film, as a cameraman with a very good team, and im also acting in an action film as a government agent....

Well.. stay tuned, my 3D character will be out soon, in her full glory, guns blazing and stylish postures (That's after i rig her to a skeleton for animation though)

For 2D... its supposed to be a cuter reflection of her... which would add a touch of cuteness to my 2D animation projects.

Lately... i have seem to have gotten nuts over J-Rock bands... like L'arc en Ciel, Gazette, An Cafe, Siam Shade and the like....

Also, Ive been further developing my writing universe to accommodate my future animation projects, which will involve alot of violence, blood, guns, and the like... and dont worry, since Yuki is my character of the year, expect stylish combat and alot of asskicking from her..

Well check back later guys, gonna work on Yuki now :)

Now THAT's a long time

Looking at my old post's date... I have to admit... its been really really long since i last updated... well that's due to the fact that i have things to do

Sadly... I dont have any new 3D work to post up at this point of time... well my laptop had some failure sooo yeah i am unable to continue on any work yet... oh well at least I directed my energy into writing instead

I had been away for very long due to the fact that I was helping out in preparing for our SMIT FO camp.... making props, going for a trial run of the camp, eventually the real camp where I had to help man the games and so on. Very fun stuff, not to mention I met alot of new friends there as well.

Other than that, since my laptop is down, I went to collect images on what I am going to model, compiled a list on what I want to do, started reading some 3D books in preparation for my second year in my 3D Option

Well havent been doing much except maybe playing Dawn of War Soulstorm, Company of Heroes, Devil May Cry 3 and many others. Watched some movies and anime... well that's just about what ive been doing this whole holiday... and school's starting next week... sigh...

Oh well that's all I have so far, have a good one all :)

Updates yet again O.O

Hey all! Its been some time since i updated I guess... and sooo here's what I've been up to :

I'm currently involved in camp organisation, my 3D Projects (As Usual), my personal writings and so on. I'm trying to keep myself busy over the holidays rather than just playing games all day long.

Well, for my 3D Projects, I'm currently working on a competition regarding safety at work under the MOM... gonna have to work up a slew of quality models for that.

Other than the competition, I'm working on a M1A1 Thompson model and its Mobster M1928 derivative for a special friend of mine. Its coming along well, should be finishing soon I suppose.

For my writings, I have yet again tweaked my characters to give em more unique traits and so on.

Well now time for me to get back to work... Later all :)

The Unofficial end of the First Year War...

Though the offical dates for the end of the year arent here yet... but due to the clearing of all my assignments and only one single Java test in the distance.. its somewhat over... Finally...

However I do feel abit sad though... the year passed by so fast and our class isnt as bonded as I hoped... I guess i'll try to organize a class outing some day so at least we keep in contact and touch with one another...

I have to admit my portfolio still isnt that impressive as im rather poor in the creative art and drawing department... but my 3D and STSB are still my prime modules... though there are others better than me for sure. VAF wasnt that bad at all... at least I learnt some video techniques that I can use in my future 3D/CG projects. (Though I still hate Java to the core).

I guess i'll spend the holidays working on my 3D.. I've got a long list of what I wanna pick up and learn already for future animation projects...

Dynamics,Particle Effects.
Human Character Modelling, Rigging, IK, Animation
Model a whole slew of new weapons and adding weapon mods to my earlier gun works
General Rigging and IK.
Improve my Texturing and Lighting.

Strangley I've got plans for everything...
For the Human character.. I'm going to use a character from my writing universe
Then for the new weapons.. mainly WW2 stuff... kinda influenced by Company of Heroes I guess.

I'm going to give a shot at the Allied American Weapons and the Axis German weapons first by making the more famous M1 Garand, M1A1 Thompson, the M1918A2 BAR, MP40, FG 42, G43, Kar 98k. Then I'm going to move on to a vehicle or two... maybe a M4A3 Sherman and a Panzer IV? I'm working on being primarily a modeller though... though i wouldnt mind being an animator as well. Im just not that good at Lighting and Texturing stuff.

For my own writings... I seemed to have make the step into areas normally outside my genre and expanded on the specialisations of the characters....

Staff Sgt. Saori is no longer just a sniper.. but an assassin, skilled in long range marksmanship, close combat knife fighting and assassination techniques. She is also now the primary medic.

Master Sgt. Sakura is also now a half blooded demon (Dont know where the heck I got that idea from) and a partially cyberized person. Same role as before except now she is also a stylish in-combat executioner. Third in Command

1st Lt. Yuki is now a genetic experiment that succeeded and is a social outcast, with people shunning her for her behavioral quirks and outlandish looks, with her silver hair and yellow eyes. Still the expert combat acrobatic gunslinger as before, except is now endowed with the skills of interrogation, investigation and is an expert on torture techniques (Without killing them of course).

That's so far all the changes... havent thought of anything new for the remaining three yet though... oh well..

I have to help out in my upcoming SMIT FOC as well... so I wont be around for some days... Not to mention I might have some other social commitments at the same time.

Well in anycase.. you can always contact me on MSN or just leave a message in that Tagboard there :P.

Take care all!

New Updates!

Hey all! Its been a while yet again. I've been busy with work so yep. But anyway, I've just finished another model of mine. This time, its the famous M4A1 Carbine, without any modifications or addons as of yet. Here it is then.







So yeah. That's it. I'm working on the Animation part of my 3D assignment for now. Will post it up when its done. Take care all! :)

A short break... not the best but better than none anyway

Phew... its been a while I guess?

Well managed to find sometime to update this blog of mine... just finished off all of my assignments so far... Though there are some new ones coming, Im just taking a breather first... too much work can kill. Finally able to sit down and play some games as well, though I have to admit I havent been writing or drawing so far... just aint got the time yet... 3D's progress is kinda slow too... at least things arent as hectic as before...

On a good note, there's a PTN gathering in the following week, at Seoul Garden... something like a class buffet. Now that's fun. Not to mention we just had a so called gathering a week or two ago when we were doing our community service. We did it together with our buddy class... now that's fun too.

Well... home side, my old friends are asking me to go for a LAN party tommorow... not sure if i can make it in time though... lessons end kinda late... guess i'll have to let em know tommorow though.. I miss the good ol LAN party times somewhat...
Secondary school fun days...

Anyway catch me on MSN or somewhere :P I'm off first... time to use that well earned break time.

1 month later...

Hey All... Its been a long time since updates yeah? Well to tell you the truth... even now with my current assignment schedule... I barely have time to really write this blog entry... but anyways updates on my activities :P

The usual Saturday and Sundays gatherings, that's like the only source of relaxation i have these days :(.

The rest of the time is mainly spent on more and more assignments... heck E-learning adds to the work haha... at least my work is nearing completion... so far I have very little 3D updates save for my Assignment 2.... So anyways... here's a preview of it...












Well that's basically everything so far... heck i really feel like its been a long day everyday... I seriously need a break now....
Anyways, catch me later... I've got unfinished business to attend to

Interesting Lecturers > Boring Lecturers

Current State: Tired as Usual... Shit I really need a day or two off..

Quite a tiring week but at least the lecturers are more interesting that those in the last semester... at least they make the class more lively by having funny moments and etc.
Nice modules such as Video and Audio Fundamentals are present too... this one in particular will teach us how to do post-production and editing of videos and audio files. Quite interesting.
The rest are mainly leftovers from last semester : 3DF, DVDE, Storywriting, Java.
(At least now the present Java lecturer makes the lesson interesting by interacting with us more rather than just blabbering off like the one in the earlier semester)

Wierdly the first week is supposed to be the most relaxed week.. but hell.. I have so many things to do already... 1st 3D assignment has been put up... and I have to help out in the SMIT Talentime this Friday.. and I'm missing a lesson for it >.<

Oh well... nothing much to talk about now... catch me later... shit I'm feeling damn lethargic now...

Holidays are ending... Wow that's damn fast

State: Sad.

Sigh...

24th of September...

Start of a new semester...

This week had me seeing alot of action as well.. Man I seriously need some rest..

Monday.
Went out with Bun and company to Liang Court to get some stuff... Japanese stuff mainly... Bun's got some books and Ben Ng too...

Tuesday
LTC Outing. Got contacted by En Qi for an outing to East Coast Park. Gotta admit... its kinda fun mixing with those dudes.. Flew some kites, played some ball games.. but sadly.. spend alot on fast food lols.. dang.. that's the major cause of my financial problems this week.. but still in my opinion fun > money concerns...

Wednesday - Friday
ICE Camp (Man I'm starting to feel a bit tired from all these camps lol)
Well... this was one of the more boring and slow camps I've been through.. long delays between events and such... hopefully the 08/09 one will be better though

Saturday
Usual gathering...
Only lacking Bun who had to stay at home for the weekend due to his parents forbidding him from going out... Wierdly Galahad requested for a schoolgirl hostage model for his Counter-Strike but then oh well... I just gave it to him

Sunday
Went out to Orchard, Takashimaya with Galahad and co. to get some stuff... well.. at least Galahad's got his share of Japanese magazines, he's got one called Myogo and also another book.. regarding a daughter of a Yakuza. Then again the usual gathering at my place.. lawls its starting to feel wierd without bun around.. but oh well what to do haha.

School's starting tommorow... at least its a new semester with new modules, hope they aint THAT boring..

Oh well.. kinda tired out now.. catch you all another time then :)

Updated! After 2 weeks and above... Wow

State: I really need some time to get away from all my current activites...

Heh, its been a long time since I've updated. Well never mind that cause well.. yep here's the latest update :)

What I've been doing?
Time to get that dust off you Maya, you havent been touched in a while...

I just returned from a gruelling 4 day 3 nights leadership camp, under SMIT. It was harsh and I came back with many souveniers : A blade, a lightstick I took with me , many sandfly and mosquito bites from Pulau Ubin. Hell, now those insects are crazy things... my legs' are full of the remnants of their bites...I should have brought along a pair of track pants and insect repellant...

Then after that.. a nice surprise for a change.. Ian asked me to go with him to a Japanese Senior High School. Waseda Senior High



Went in there for a look.. kinda interesting place...





Also.. Galahad got a nice present from Ian too.. one of Shimokawa Mikuni's album.

I'm adding another weapon model to my to-do-list for Maya, the Beretta 92F... Also I'm starting to revamp my writing universe by cutting down the number of characters at the moment...Here's a sample of the roster:

Kisaragi Sakura : Combater
Sukiharu Yuki : Gunslinger
Hatsumi Saori : Long Range Support and Recon
Hatsumi Yuka : Demolitionist and Heavy Weapons
Kisaragi Kasumi : Tech Support and other supportive roles (Negotiation etc)
Kanushiyo Shintaro : Tactical Leader and Firearms, Weaponry expert

Weapons, organisations and such might change as well... so far, Sakura's the only one I've used in my Storywriting module in school... I havent been drawing in a while too... might wanna pick up my pencil and start drawing again...

Oh well... next week's got another camp (at least it aint as harsh as the leadership camp). Dang im missing out alot of my holidays >.<. At least my usual gatherings aint interrupted...anyways, I'll end here... have a good day all.

Quote of the day: Some people want to forget their dark side... but ironically..sometimes due to certain circumstances... their dark side will reappear and take over them again...

Yet another updates lols!

Current Status Analysis : Relaxed yet focused on something...

So far its been pretty hectic...
The 3 chalets have ended... man the fun in those events can never be described in words... only the feelings of the heart can explain how they were
SMIT,Primers and 1B/22 07... You guys rock a ton...

And dang i didnt go for today's Primer's outing. Bun and Co. were at my place so yeah.. and yep Bun's into manga drawing.. hope he makes it and James is on his Castlevania lols.. for me? Meh the usual... some things about me dont change does it? Hehe.

Well at least now took a breather and at least I had some time to do up one of my gun projects

Here it is the G36C Assault Rifle (without any addons or mods)



I'll be doing the addons and mods if I can find pictures of them as well

Next up in line?

I have a list here... but not sure which to do first.. I'm looking at the handguns first though

Colt M1911A1 Pistol
Sig Sauer P228 9mm chambered
IMI Desert Eagle .50 chambered
Benelli Nova Tactical
IMI Tavor
PSG-1
Barrett M82A1 .50 Cal

Oh well never mind me I'll take a while to burn through all that lol! Especially when it comes to the bigger weapons. More details and such. But... I'll see it through for sure

Quote of the day?
Being a master of one skill is already good enough but if you're a master at handling two skills or more... its more beneficial...

1st week of the Offical Holiday.. and its already so packed with Reunions? O.o

Well... its been a fun week.

Lsat Saturday... Bun's got a good deal on figurines at the Chara Fest and bought 3 models (or was it 4?) at discounted prices during a promotion hour at one of the shops there. Pretty happy man there. He's also been working on Melty Blood. Last time i saw him.. his fighter could only hit 9. but now its 21 hits. Not bad :P

Sadly.. D.C II S.C wasnt working that well for him.. he needed some CD Key which he's looking for now.. Hope he can get it working.

Today.. Had a fun day over at Coasta Sands Chalet.. SMIT MITO... I helped out with the barbeque and well it was lacking of freshies but well at least managed to know some seniors at least. The funniest thing that happened was the all-guys strip poker. Lawl... one of the players was down to his boxers. By then it was late so oh well.. I took an early leave.

And for tommorow? I have to send a friend of mine , Jeremiah , off at the airport. He's going to Dubai for studies. Though i have known him only for a short while, he's still a nice guy. Hopefully, he can excel over in Dubai and keep in touch with us. You will be missed, my friend.

I also have two chalets upcoming, one on the 30th and another on 4th Sept. One's my Primers Group Chalet, the other, well.. my class's chalet :P

Oh well... have tons of things planned for this holiday too, study more anime drawings, more modelling (I'm working on a G36C assault rifle atm, gonna work on other weapons like the PSG-1, P228 Pistol and so on and oh, a human model) and of course if i really have time, More writings.

Well.. I'll end off here. Have a good day all :)

Woohoo!!!

State : Relaxed, joyous and and other happy words :P

That's it! WEBP is over and now its the holidays for about 5 weeks woohoo! Oh well... went to watch Bourne Ultimatum with a group of friends of mine... damn nice show, very action packed and immersive story...

Then on Saturday, usual gathering except for Bun, Nice Exams :P ending on Tuesday and he'll be free from then on..

Sunday? A short stayover at a friend's place, played some LAN games together :P Playing alone = boring, playing with friends = priceless.

Today? Nice class gathering at this place called Settlers in Buona Vista. Not a bad place, good food , good ambience and nice unique board games to play as well. Our Personal Tutor, Daryl Lim, set up this gathering for us. Nice lecturer we've got there :) Thanks Daryl!. After that, went down to Bugis and walked around while part of the class went to Sim Lim regarding some job interviews... but in the end we still went to the arcade and played some games.. Saw one game Bun was interested in, Melty Blood and well told him about it and wow, what an excited guy he was :P.
Oh well I'm back home now, doing some Maya models for fun.. well catch me on the internet or MSN then! :)

Quote of the day: Having fun with friends sure is priceless, nothing can replace that kind of fun.

Holidays... please come earlier!!!!

State: Concentrate and Focus protocols activated...

Phew.. at least Java is out of the way... one of my most hated modules but well... I have no choice but to do it... if i dont pass... I cant advance to Year 2 (Now that's not a very very good thing there!) sigh.. holidays are coming soon.. but there's Maths and WEBP in the way. Time to get cracking and slack off later i suppose.

Quote of the day: He who works first and plays later, gets to reap more benefits than he who plays first and works later...

Updates...

State: In Combat.

Well... man.. its a long time since i last posted.. and im only halfway through this fight... cleared STSB so far only.. left WEBP and not to mention Java test( Omg that's a hard one!!!) and both a Maths Exam and WEBP exam too...

Well anyways cant talk much i'll just be posting up my maya models and recent pics of my last assignments which I just cleared last week...

XM-60 Conceptual Revolver and M-19 Pistol






IDEA Presentation After-Action Photo



OC Presentation After-Action



Well that's it for now :P

Man.. I'm lacking updates!! Blame School!!

State of the Day : Relieved.. phew..

Man, what a hectic week this week is >.<. So many things happened so far. Handed up Maya and presented my tank model to the class and my lecturer... sadly he's leaving hopefully he'll be alright and my model too lol. OC Presentation... time didnt allow me to present my speech so oh well its postphoned to next Tuesday, at least there's more time to prepare and that's a good thing.

Went for mounting at Bras Basah for my DVDE assignment, crap it burned a hole in my pocket but at least that's the final assignment for DVDE in this sem. WOOT!

Well.. for today, went to watch the Simpsons movie after maths class today, IDEAS was cancelled but lol that slot was occupied by a short briefing on GEMs, our auxiliary modules, which we can take to compliment our diploma. Anyway, the movie was good, kinda funny even to a non-fan like me though i rather be watching more serious films like the upcoming Die Hard 4.0 and Hitman.

Friday's a good day always, a good break day for me lol. After today, i gotta go work on my personal Maya projects, STSB and WEBP assignments then finally prepare for my tests... oh well for now, time to go kill some people in a virtual world... :P

Quote of the day: Nah im too tired now :P lol

O.o Working in the Library! No WAI!!

State of the day : Fired up and ready to go!

Sigh these few days I've been feeling rather fired up and I have been working on my work and assignments almost daily and trying to finish em up nicely.. just finished off two of them, my Maya assignment and DVDE Assignment two...

Well here are my finished works...



My DVDE Assignment Two work...



Maya M-19 Pistol Rendered mode



Maya Assignment One M2 Bradley Rendered

Well.. that's the update on my works for now..

For today, I went to help Kang with his Maya today and well.. Ash, Ling, Yitao and Gordon were there at the Library too so oh well had some fun together :) Hopefully Kang can still remember what I taught him lawl :P he always seems to be a bit muddleheaded.

Oh well im dead beat. Time to sign off for now. :)

Update for the week

Status: Feeling the lack of proper rest and relaxation

The coming weeks are turning out to be more a killer than before... So many assignments... WEBP, STSB, DVDE (This one i had better double time on it) , 3DF and wow nice Java test coming soon (And im an idiot at it >.<) , at least I got through maths but the big one is coming... guess I have to start preparing. Oh well time to unwind for a while :).

This week was kinda interesting. We had a large class outing to Jurong Point on Wednesday and lol had some fun there.. we went to the Arcade to play and I'm amazed at Ming Yong.. He's not bad at Time Crisis 4, he cleared the game without dying.. Man that's damn professional. The rest of us played some Daytona , Lethal Enforcers too.. Then we went upstairs to play pool. I didnt join in though.. was rather tired but in the end was "persuaded" to join for one small game.. Damn cold was affecting my performance.. Heck I was wearing 3 layers!! In the end we all went back to school to attend some talk by Alaric Tay, a director who talked about film directing and techniques, which were kinda interesting and the shows he made were damn comedial I've gotta admit.

That reminds me.. damn OC writing on Tuesday.. felt like O levels lol. Had to write out my speech on paper using pen ink. Maya... new technique acquired - Bump Mapping and Texturing and Rendering Techniques Man i love that but I want to perfect my sculpting first.

Stupid me today... I fell over a charger wire and landed in a wierd position, as if i was doing a pushup.. hands on the floor, legs up, bag on my head. (It felt wierd for a moment....) Must be the lack of relaxation...

Sigh.. I'm getting slow.. takes me a while to get something these days..

Oh well nvm that now to go rest and have a good night's sleep. Work calls again tommorow...

Check back later :)

Quote of the day: Nah im too tired now lol :P

Update for the week

Another gathering...

Status : Intensive Concentration

My house was yet again turned into a lan shop by Bun and co. lol. Luckily I had a multi-plug power point or else there would not be enough space for the chargers at the rate they were playing :P

Quite some fun time again i suppose... after that went to Liang Court for a Japanese Meal. WOW! One bento = 10.90 at least. Man.. that would be a big chunk out of my fianances so instead i settled for a soba noodle meal for 6 dollars.. Didnt want to spend too much cause I'm saving for Solid State Society.
Then went up to Kino and Bun and Ben Ng bought some Jap books and wow Bun asked Ben Ng to help him out with the payment lol. Guess Bun will return him someday somehow. He always seems so happy when he gets his hands on his Visual Novel stuff and what not.

But in the end we all went home after all that fun...

Came home and took a rest then went to play a bit, do some STSB and then did some minor changes to my drawing style... after hearing my friend's advice regarding character hair and eye types... So i went to work on the Kisaragi Sisters... Kisaragi Sakura and Kisaragi Kasumi



Since Sakura's a serious character, i did smaller eyes and gave her a less feminine look instead to reflect her character.



For Kasumi, she's a more cheerful and cute person so i did the opposite effect, larger eyes and a more feminine look..


Well... guess that's all for today pretty tired now... Will post more stuff next time :)

Quote of the Day : Sometimes... Change is a must in order for you to deal with matters, be it methods, thinking or actions..