Tokyo Anime Fair 2008

Last Friday I went to Tokyo Anime Fair with my colleagues. We got free tickets from our company. This year is not as interesting as last year. Except few studio works attracted me more. Especially Genius Party.

Here are the few photos:




























Moving statue. It's a guy! It's a real person.






Malaysia MSC booth in Tokyo. Happy to see Malaysia work exposing to the world.










Cute!




Looking forward to all these 5 films !













Shexee!!




Fat Ugly Astro Boy?








After Anime Fair, we went to the harbour and realised this cool futuristic hovercraft.


Super Cool Design!

Art Gallery & My Sensei

I went to Yokohama with my Sensei (my art teacher) last Sunday to visit an art exhibition. She's actually part of the exhibitors of the art gallery too.

My Sensei is a very fun person. Though most of the time I couldn't catch mostly what she speaks (coz she speaks too fast and most probably because my vocabulary is still lacking), but I was still having so much fun talking to her. Of course with my broken japanese. haha... Even that, I really don't feel any gap communicating with her. She is just as fun as my other friend. She can just make me laugh all the time.

By conversing more with her, I have learned many new japanese words and know more about jap cultures. You have no idea, there is so much to learn from them. Even little small things. It was really fun for the past few months. She's a great teacher, she's jumpy, she is active, she is talkative (in good yet funny way), and she cooks well. Yet, you have no idea that she is as old as anybody's mum, she's 46. hahaaa.... Every lesson in her drawing apartment was full of delicious food and cheerful atmosphere. With her around, the drawing session is so much fun. hahahaa...

The following is one of my latest portrait sketches (mainly practising my shading skills). Still trying to improve. I just need more time. =)



The rest below are some of my favourite arts photos taken from the visit of the art exhibition.








Check the unusual stand pose of the legs on the right, I call it Art too. hahaa....






This is one of my best favourites. The color combination and the extraordinary of detailed sculplting of the wrinkles of the branches are the things made my eyes wide opened. Really marvellous work.



















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"Ken Lee" is HOT all around the world!

Here is a new clip found lately featuring Valentina Hassan being interviewed by media and her fans crazy about her "original" Ken Lee song. Instead of singing with the original lyrics of "Without You", people now are more interested to follow the new version of lyrics "Tulibu Dibu Douchoo".
Needless to say, Valentina Hassan is one of the big hits nowadays after the legend of "William Hung" long years ago. (Thanks to a friend of mine who reminded me of this name. haha...)

Check this out.



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Go Go Valentina Hassan! "I Ken Lee~"

Some of you might think I'm crazy. Well, I have to admit. Yes! I am! hahaha...
For the past few days, I have been playing the same song again and again. And I just couldn't stop my mind stirring with the word "Ken Lee" and my favourite part - "Dulibu Dibu Douchoo".
In short, I guess I have accidentally become a "Ken Lee " FAN. hahahhaaa... XD

Check out the following clips.
(Note: I apologise that I'm psycho-ing everyone here with my obsessive weird interest. haha.. However, you don't have to play the clips below if you have no interest at all.. hahaa... )

First clip is showing that she performs on the stage singing the same song (I guess she is being invited as special guest), and surprisingly she improved her English this time. Not perfect, but close. She actually has potential in singing, just need a bit more work.



Second Clip is just her original Audidion singing which being edited by someone to make it sound cooler for dancing floors. Despite the funny lyrics, this version is actually sound cool. Just check it out. hahaha....

Funniest Song of the Year - "Ken Lee"

If you are familiar with Mariah Carey's old songs (which I'm sure everybody here is), I bet you will find this is the best funniest audition video of the year.

Thanks to my Singapore friend who sent me this link. Without knowing this video, I wouldn't have laughed so much from morning till evening non-stop, with so much tears rounding in my eyes. Guess what! The subtitles makes it even more fun to watch.

This is for those who haven't watched it. Hold your breath, or rather not hold it too tight coz you are gonna spit it out like a dragon spitting fireballs!



Below is the version by Mariah Carey for you to compare with the lyrics.

Rakyat Malaysia Boleh, Maka Malaysia Boleh! (Malaysians Can, Therefore Malaysia Can)

I have been following the General Election news (of my own country) so closely for the past few days. Even weeks before it started, I've been watching so many speeches and pre-election campaign online, be it from youtube or malaysiakini.com or other resources that provided by my dear fellow malaysian friends.



I was so touched to see so many of my fellow Malaysians have finally opened their eyes and had the guts come together as one, to stand up to fight for our brighter future. Though it may seem a simple win by the current government (BN), but the victory over 5 main states have already given them a Big SLAP on their faces, either to give them a lesson or rahter pass our messages to them that we all citizens of Malaysia are not afraid of politics anymore and we are the EYES of the country and we have the RIGHTS to gain what we deserve to gain! There will be no more cowards among us and together we stand up for our own fellow people! Malays, Chinese & Indians deserves EQUAL RIGHTS, because we all are Malaysians!

Together we build a better nation with No Liars in Government, No Discriminations of classes or races, And No Corruptions! I have strong feelings that the so-called Opposition parties will join-force to proves us with good results in the next few years in the 5 states. And the nation will start the Revolution Phase 2 in the next General Election when they all are ready and well-experienced.

We do hope BN will learn their lessons and realise their mistakes and become useful to the nation instead of becoming the next "Opposition".

However, I'm happy to see that Malaysians nowadays have become so much mature for not celebrating victory in public or rather avoid another unwanted events to happen. Thanks to the civilised Leader of all opposition parties - Dr. Anwar. All the credits should go to him and he will be a good model of Leader in the coming years, no one knows or predicts, but personally I have big faith in him. He is the Hero we Malaysians have been waiting for. At least for me. =)

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My New Flash 2D Animation (Work In Progress)

This is what I have completed so far. This is like just 70% completed from what I have intended.
Although I couldn't finish the whole thing for the competition due to time constraint, I have submitted online anyway.
But from now onwards, I will try to keep going to finish up this piece of work. To add more in-betweens, to polish up and at least to color it with backgrounds. Stay tuned. =)

Here is the animation. (Note: The voice-over was pre-chosen by the organizer of the competition. We animators just have to animate anything based on the voice given.) =)



~Cheers~

My Latest Character Designs

The following is my latest character designs by using Adobe Flash. It has been progressed for the last couple of weeks.



I was searching for ideas for the next online animation competition on youtube. Accidentally bump into a short parody video of Aladdin (which I have posted in my last post). And then I kept digging in more Disney videos, Lion King, Little Mermaid, Hercules, then accidentally dug into videos from Warner Brothers, eg. Road Runner, Bugs Bunny, and then Looney Toons. After that, I found some images of Baby Bugs Bunny and Toons. Very slowly, my mind went wild and got this mixture of taste for other Disney characters which hasn't been tried before. So that's how I mixed these ideas up and create a brand new monsters from few of my favourite disney's villian characters, as shown below. Hope you guys like it. hehee... =D


Initial Analysis of Original Characters.




Initial Rough Design on Paper.






Tried to Improve the Cuteness Aspects
& Pose Design Progress on Flash.














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My First FREE 36" Wide-Screen TV

Yeah, as stated above. I got it free.. hahaha... 36" but CRT. But well, since it's free, who cares. haha..



It started from 2 weeks ago when I intended to buy a decent 15" Flat LCD TV, so that I could watch TV and mainly play my Playstation games. Then I happened to mention that to my colleagues. And one of them, Ohno san (大野さん), was kind enough and told me that he happens to have an old 15" CRT TV which he intended to dispose it. So he said he could give it to me free. I actually didn't mind the size though. I was even happy then coz I knew I could save a big amount of money. So I accepted his offer.

Days later, he told me his TV was not in good condition, but asking me if I'm interested in another disposal of 36" Flat-screen but CRT TV. It was from another studio's boss which next to ours. And it happened that Ohno san heard that disposal news from his friend who are working in that studio too. The timing was perfect.

I was shocked by hearing that size initially. I never own such big TV before, yet I was excited too coz I kept imagining the big screen of watching movie at home and playing games. That would be fantastic! haha..

Well, long story short, Ohno san helped me getting the TV on his car and drove me back to my house and together we carried such big bulky antique into my house. We were helped by another colleague of mine who is a Korean, Dwight. Even with the strength of 3 of us, it was still freaking heavy. I was glad that Dwight came join us, since we all live quite near to each other in the same area. I'm so glad to know such kind friends. ほんとにありがとうね！大野さん、ドワイト！

Well, back to my BIG TV. hahaa.. It was really cool. I tried playing games and watching DVD at the same night. The feeling of watching on big screen was fantastic! haha... The TV have tonnes of special functions too. It supports dual-screen. Which means, I could watch 2 channels at the same time by spliting into 2 screens. hahaa.. I can even play games at one side, watching TV on the other side. haha... And it's so cool to watch DVD in wide screen mode too. hahaa.. man, i should have brought my Lord of the Ring DVD here... that will show fantastically great on the screen. hahaa...

Well, I sure will bring some of my favourite collections from my hometown when I return this coming April and May. Oh yeah, side track a bit, I have officially booked air tickets to go back KL and SG for 2 weeks vacation from 25th Apr - 7th May. This time I will land in Singapore first. Then spend one week in KL, and go down to Singapore for another week. After 2 weeks, I will depart from Singapore Changi again and back to Tokyo. Well, hope to catch up with you guys soon. Can't wait! ;)
Till then, take care everyone!

Ok, I gotta get back to my games now! Just bought 2 PS2 games today. kekekeke....

Cheers