gotta' get things rolling

Just some doodles and experiments I've been doing. Inspired by Foster's Home and wanted to look into my childhood and my strange penchant for daydreaming and constructing fantasy worlds/monsters.

an idea

Stumbled across an old DVD of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. I absolutely adore this show, not only as I kid, but even now.

Everything thing about the show is great, the premise, the character designs and just how innocent and childish it is. I always feel like I've been transported back a good couple of years whenever I watch this show.

It's great being a kid again.

Check out the first episode here.

western heights

This is taken from a bit of notetaking I did after taking photos of Western Heights:

"I decided to re-visit my old primary school for the concept of place; my memory doesn't go too far back, I can only recall memories only as far back as after my migration from Malaysia.

So I went to the school and took some photos, perhaps to help kick-start something. I'll see what I can come up with."

So here's a contact sheet of what I've collected:

holy crap

My last post was a whole month ago? Shit.

Seriously though, I've been working and collecting bits and pieces since my last post, so I've been busy (to tell the truth, I've forgotten about this blog lol)

I'll just upload all of my documentation, research and experiments that I've done/jolted down on bits of paper, so prepare for a huge dump.

the reason for tracing paper

I've been doing a tiny series of works where I overlay a selected number of photos of Western Heights with tracing paper and drawing over it (I'll upload a picture of them a little later, but for now, here's an example I found on the internet).

This is inspired by a process in traditional animation where people draw frame-by-frame animation by using tracing paper. 

While I'm really interested in getting into the animation business, I've never used this sort of paper in my whole life, so by giving this a go, it's definitely a new experience for me.

mini research: cory loftis

I was just browsing through the net when I stumbled upon an artist by the name of Cory Loftis, Lead Artist for Carbine Studios. 

I absolutely adore his work, it's like if Pixar and Dreamworks got really intimate and bore a beautiful offspring together. Definitely gonna' include him in my research and also my presentation (might scrap Yan Wei out if I have to, since I can't find too much to say about her to tell the truth).


Also found a pretty interesting interview with him.

'everything you do is balloons' by boards of canada

I remember referencing this music video by Boards of Canada in my first semester project last year (also a great song by the way).

I really like the 50s kinda' aesthetic, I'm a real sucker for that. 

It also encompasses the nostalgic feel I want my artwork to emulate, since it's based on my childhood (my experience in my primary school to be precise), 'kay, maybe not as rustic, but still, I want a 'yep, this is a couple of years old' vibe. 

Just thought I'd share; reckon it's quite relevant to my project.