Get Well Soon Jonas!

one of my exec Producers for "Unnatural History" down in Hollywood got into a car accident. I illustrated this real quick at work and hopefully it gets to him. If not, I'm hoping you somehow managed to cross my blog on the hospital bed! or better yet, fully recovered at home :)

Get well soon!!! From Fluid and the gang.

doodle at the mall...

old old old old old OLD drawing.

something i've been meaning to paint up for a long time but haven't had the chance to. Found it sitting on the HD... gonna paint it! :D

more old stuff.

StoryBoard and then Final TV.

LOL stuff I dugg up.

cleaning server. Found a rejected nite time design that was supposed to the inital intro plate for Lucy (this scene got turned into day).

Rejected: Too violent

PBS apparantly has strict guidelines. Oh well :( i liked these.

Jan!

Quickie Jan Rogers Sketches

This week's Big Pad...

I am an artist - that is how i define myself, my career path, my life, how i think. I am not some "guy" who draws for a living. It is not a JOB. It is a way of life. Not too many "non" artists see it this way... they'll look at you awkwardly. Well, i'm sorry if I'm not watching the football game and going shopping at the mall ... hanging out with friends and gossipping about what the latest hippity hop star is wearing. I'm not a recluse, but I AM an artist... and drawing is the essence of my life.

SO... with that rant out of the way... you'll notice i tend to add lots of junk onto whomever model is posing at the time. Lots of time it ends up looking like crap.


Yeah... she's got shorts on... spur of the moment, bad concept design for the torso, but i like her hands and her helmet.


Ran out of time to finish the critter, never bothered to finish... like the hair :)


The old silverback of a gorilla instructor struck this 3 minute pose with a hefty bellow "TURN ME INTO A GIRL!"... so i did :)



Time ran out on the last pose, never got to finish... but something about this drawing I like...

mmmmyeah... so that's it!

I guess i can show these now...

i think these are old enough now that i can post these without worrying about NDA stuff.

Who's Zat? It's ALBERT! doing some DuRaWings.

Space DOOD! same model, but i had to give him space gear... cuz...

i'm weird.

The Dirty Sanchez

Was over at bill sanchez's class catching up on good ole big paper pad and charcoal. 18x24 drawing paper. Feels "MUY BUENO!" to be drawing big again.

photoshop doodle @ work

ok, now i go do some real work.

Since i haven't been drawing :(

... because work is busy busy busy ...

Tomorrow I will be interviewed by KTVU in the GreenScreen Room @ 180. Supposedly they are interviewing me because the CG char that is used as the Guide for their half hour special was designed by Me and Ryan Long - he is an amazing 3D guy... wonderful rigging and absolute solid modeling skills. He's my Buddy!

So in the meantime, some reaaaaaly old rejected concepts from work for a particular friend to another concept. I posted these on conceptArt.org once, but had to take them down.

Unnatural History

Another project that I've closely worked on with Jonas McCord and Seth Piezas gets into the Press Conference! Read it here @ Animation Magazine!

http://www.animationmagazine.net/article.php?article_id=5726

Holy Cow... 65 episodes???

What's this? A drawing?!?!?!?

HEY look at that! Doodle doo-dad in photoshop. Got a new 20 inch screen!

My Fly!

I'm taking into macro photography now and it's loads of fun. These two photos were taken at the park near the metreon!

Back from vacation

went to fanimeCon... a link to Pictures soon to come!

edit to add:

The photos I took at Fanime-Con 2006 can be found at http://photo.alberttruong.com

My humongoid backlog of sketches

Here's the backlog of art done from various QuickStudies workshops... those are the only ones i can find time to attend ? :( On a brighter note: School Interview - I got interviewed from the Academy about my role in Lucy: the Daughter of the Devil. That's sweet! NAME ReCOGNITION woo hoo!

I thought that the interview fell through the holes, but then someone at the school pointed it out that it was on the main illustration dept web for a while. That's nice! I'm happy :)

more backlog

Some more quickstudies.

My backlog of posts.

And yet more...

DS LITE!

I got my navy ds lite from Lik-Sang.com!!!!

GOOD BYE DRAWING! HELLO GAMES!

if there WERE any games :( such a small selection of games.

OOGA BOOGA!

Workshop, 3 minute sketch.

OOGA BOOGA BOOGA!

Nude model but she was holding up some skull, so I changed it to a mask and added grass skirt and some things to make her look "Native"

WORKSHOPS... how engaging...

Workshops, why? Think of it like a cop going to the shooting range. 1's, 2's, 3 minute drawings.

Lucy's Official!

Greenlight, 10 episodes. I was told to keep hush about it till [AS] officially released news on it.

G5

Demo G5 at work with a 30 inch Cinema Screen. Monkeyed around. drawing is nice on it. want bigger tablet.

sweeto.

PROMOTION!

I got promoted to Art Director for an [AS] show. Does my pay stay the same? i dont know. i just got the news today. WOO! Here's an illustration i did for work. Hope they dont take it down. Hope they dont find out! Yay... happy aL.

Workshops...

3 minute drawing...


While at the workshop, I had a chance to glimpse at work by Jason Chan. I was really impressed. People say that he doesn't draw from the model much (or uses it for reference) - what's the big deal? Who cares? As long as Jason loves the work that he does, then doesn't that count? Art is for the individual and that individuals extension of their mind. Otherwise, why bother? Just take a photo and trace.

Too many artists with too many self objected opinions and throw in arrogance to boot... I really don't care. I consider my work to be not as good as others, and always seek improvements... but I seek it in my own way with my own discoveries. I believe that is why I still have the job that I do and why some people enjoy my work (PBS, KQED, and the folks down in L.A.).

So if people want to draw what they want, more power to them. That's the way it should be, no one else should tell you what to do or what you should be doing.

tOo lazy to update the real website?

WHY YES I AM.

i'll update it with this one soon. i like her... except for her shrunken mutant hand.

Workshops...

Other sketches done in workshops this week - mostly quickstudies (these are 3 minutes tops)

and more Workshops...

Quickstudies from this week. Met Andrea Wicklund (spelling?) -concept artist to Episode 1 and many book illustrations. She freelances mostly. Very nice person, very good work. Uber.

Lucy DOTD Ep. 1

BTW forgot to add a link to LUCY DAUGHTER OF THE DEVIL

i designed all the characters (with tweaks done by the director and other artists), worked on storyboards, and matte work.

ENJOY!

Lucy

My Art !@$#

Oh my god... my art sucks balls. Today @ work realized designs closely matched some of miyazaki's stuff... real bad, looks like i ripped em off good. UGH... UUUUUGGGGGHHHHH i hate that. very depressing when one of your work resembles another person's work. It really could just look like a nice lawsuit on me.

YAY BLOGGING!

I Surprisingly now have a blog! BLOG! The above image is for a PBS pitch. I think this might be published somewhere on the net, but not sure - so it might get taken down :( but for the interim, i'll be testing image posts.

can't wait to scan some sketches and post!