Katsumi Mukai, the Japanese sculptor that I mentioned a few days ago has set up his exhibition of works he made while gracing our school for the past 2 weeks. Yup, he made all these at our school. In 2 weeks. The exhibition will last till 31st March at NTU, School of Art, Design and [...]

Hans Bacher, the legendary production designer for Disney’s Mulan and other great movies came down to NTU to give a lecture on colour and composition. This was a fantastic refresher course in how to create effective images. We often get so bogged down with datelines that we forget to incorporate basic rules of colour and [...]

Katsumi Mukai, a Japanese wood sculptor will be in ADM till the 5th of March to conduct workshops. For the rest of you, his sculptures will be displayed on the first level outside of the ADM building. Highly recommended. The sculptures feel very Andy Goldsworthy.

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Done in half an hour in Deborah’s Motion Graphics class. We were supposed to depict space in this sketch.

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Number 2 for 2 reasons. This was my second stop motion animation ever, and this was the second proper puppet I made, since the first one looked [...]

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Did this as an exercise for stop motion class this semester. It was to practice animating a walk cycle against a strong wind. The reason why the [...]

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Yes I know I should have uploaded this onto my blog a long long time ago but guess what? I was lazy. Here it is, the non [...]

Haven’t been posting stuff for a long time. This is one of the things I’ve been so busy with. Will probably do the texturing next week. This looks simple, but i had a tough time figuring out mental ray and subsurface scattering and final gather and global illumination. Still lots to learn man.

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It has been a long and tiring journey since the last time I updated this site. I have been busy to say the least, much busier than I thought I would be during the holidays. First there was special sem, then there was shooting for our mega blockbuster short film “The Last Date” and “For [...]

As promised, I am posting up an artwork I did for 3D lesson. I was supposed to draw a place that is in one of my earliest memories as a source of inspiration for a model we are going to build. I remembered a lot of my childhood spent in the Tampines Central Park, simply [...]

2006 will forever be engraved into my mind as the year I ORDed. It was something I had been looking forward to for 2 years, the date seemingly getting further and further away. And when it actually came, there were no trumpets heralding the moment or any fanfare. It was just another day.
When school started, [...]

Last Saturday, after the 5 minute Sepak Takraw match I spent the whole day in one of the ADM labs trying to fix bugs on this website. Because of that I ended up 45 minutes late for the farewell dinner for Grace and Lianya, who would be leaving to America for exchange. Thank goodness Grace [...]

Been a looooong time since I updated this site. It started with the mad rush for handing up projects, then the exams came, then she and I hung out everyday, then I just got lazy and didn’t bother with this site anymore. Then I fell sick, had high fever and severe diarrhoea then I took [...]

Pen rendering of hip bone. Actual size is A3.

Nude woman sitting rendered in charcoal.

Nude woman sitting rendered in chalk.

Logo for my hall block. The avengers are mythical servants of the Egyptian god Horus. Supposed to have the head of a hawk but I accidentally drew the head of an eagle instead. Did the hawk but [...]

Thanks Julia for helping us take this photo!

Contrary to popular belief, there is beauty in the NTU campus.

Go watch Singapore Dreaming. It’s a rock solid show with rock solid acting. No doubt its a show chock full of Singaporean cliches but it’s delivered in a bloody heartwarming way. Better than I would have expected.
Sometimes its the company that makes a movie feel good. I don’t know.
Anyway here are the pictures from last [...]