Monday, 24 May 2010

AZUREUS RISING


This is truly one of the best shorts I have ever seen and hopefully this is truly the beginning of many other amazing shorts to come and hopefully develop into a full feature film.

"Azureus Rising is the proof-of-concept for an all new feature film trilogy. Azureus is the story of a young man who after escaping death and enduring a life changing journey - matures into a heroic freedom fighter. Azureus Rising is an epic tale of self discovery, obligation and love against all odds."

To see the video in its highest quality, make sure you select the 720p HD version.

Enjoy and endure the moment




If you really liked the above video, here is a link to their official website and inside you can find the developmental process and understand more about the production system.

Enjoy!
Baja

Thursday, 20 May 2010

Bobby Chiu

Bobby Chiu on the right
"I'm an independent artist and teacher. Art has been my savior. It gives me freedom. Half the time I feel like I've already retired. I sleep when I want, I get up when I want, and I just do what I want all day: Art. What could be better than that?"
-Bobby Chiu-


For those of us who love art and know how to endure its preciousness, it becomes more personal to us. Hence we keep on drawing and collecting or even perhaps sharing, thus this gives us an opportunity to improve and understand more of what art has to offer and teach us. It is certainly not the easiest subject or skill to acquire, however it needs a great deal of consistency in order to reach to a high standard of quality. Regardless of standards, imagination is the real key or secret to a success.

I have been a great listener of Bobby Chiu's podcasts on YouTube and I have to say that this man is a real inspiration. If you love art, then you have to listen to his podcasts but it's not only about art that he talks about. He also talks about life, and how to improve yourself, how to promote yourself, how to change yourself and so on. His podcasts doesn't have specific titles or planned out scripts.

He talks naturally without any scripts and whilst he is talking he is also drawing and painting digitally. So it is a proof that he is not reading a script but rather just letting his mind divide in two and go with the flow. 

I highly recommend Bobby Chiu's podcasts and his own studio called Imaginism Studios, click on the below picture to go to their website.



Bobby Chiu recently worked as a Character Designer for Tim Burton's latest CG feature film Alice In Wonderland




Anyhow, here are some of his works and a link to his Podcasts. Enjoy and Good Luck!




PODCASTS





PART 1


PART 2


THERE ARE MORE PODCASTS ON YOUTUBE FROM BOBBY CHIU. CHECK THEM ALL OUT.

Good Luck
Baja

Tuesday, 11 May 2010

Perspective Drawings




Lately I have been practicing my perspective drawings and I am beginning to feel quite comfortable to take it to the next level. Perspective drawings are based on point based, such as 1, 2, 3, 5 points and so on. As the points increase it gets to the advanced stages, as it requires more accuracy.

Once you crack the code in understanding point based drawings, the possibilities are endless but only limited by your imaginations.


When you grasp the idea of how the perspective lines are drawn, they are literally stuck in your mind. Wherever you look, you start to see the lines and every building starts to make sense and become so much easier to draw if you ever wanted to. 

The below images are produced by advanced artists who use perspective drawings to greater length. In most cases this type of drawing system is used for architectural purposes because point based art provides sense of depth.



Sunday, 2 May 2010

NEW TURN

There has been a change of circumstances in my life, however, I am excited to take control and thrive with passion towards a greater future in my interest areas.

I am dedicating this blog as a daily developmental process. I wish to include and provide all kinds of my personal works and some guidance to many of you guys who are in need of help to understand more about artistic things.  In this blog every resources that I use and everything that would help me would be included.

Thanks!
Baja