'In the Library' Animation Layouts

These are the animation layouts I've done for a 3-min animated film called 'In the Library' during an Animation Seminar workshop a year back. It is a team of 3, and the animation for this film is done. It is currently in the post-production phase.

Story:

Pip the boy meets a mischievous pranking ladder in the library. The old librarian granny is scary, silence is broken...and chaos ensue.

Introduction Shot

Library Interior

Interior


Top-down view


Action scene layout


Amongst the shelves




Background shelves


Ending layout

A brilliant colour test done by a fellow classmate, Xin Hui, who was helping out with the concept/painting of how the backgrounds should look like.

A Screenshot of a coloured scene, done by Ying Tong, background colourist.

The 'Mecha Fanboy'

These are some character design ideas/sketches done for a schoolmate's Final Year Project.

Attributes specified: Loves mecha obssesively, 8-10 yrs old boy, (and after further revision) a Victorian/Steampunk age look. =)

'A Cloudy Conundrum' Creatures =B

The pre-production research and exploration phase of this project gave birth to tons of absurd, weird and ugly-fascinating creature designs.

As we pondered upon what beings might live up in the sky on clouds, each of us attempted our own take on the creatures we named 'Smores'.

Which (as we found out way later when wiki-ing) was an amazing coincidental reference to real-life s'mores - a dessert with a roasted marshmallow and a layer of chocolate sandwiched between two pieces of graham crackers.

This is my part.

Prop designs for 'A Cloudy Conundrum'

Some gramophone and spotlight prop designs for our Final Year Project in ADM, 'A Cloudy Conundrum', a 5-minute 2D animated film featuring a city in the sky and an unwanted visitor in the form of a jet pilot.

We referenced heavily on a steampunk-ish era look for the film.

'A Cloudy Conundrum' City Concept

Concept Sketches

Some rough ideas for a city in the clouds....

Mr. Abracadabra and His Dumbdog

A simple sketch of the magician and his princely dumbdog.

They are the spazzztastic, mysterious main characters of a circus-themed short story (which still remains undeveloped to this date).

The 'Beach Boy' Chu

The Beach Boy is a Vietnamese legend of love and sacrifice. Chu is the poor orphaned boy in the tale, and his characteristics: Kind, young, gentle, tanned skin and dark long hair.

This was done in the pre-production stage of a funded research project called 'Tradigital Mythmaking'.

Narrative Series

A series of brush illustrations done in Chinese Ink for Advanced Drawing Final Project.

The Painting

Digital Painting

Medium: Pencil, Photoshop

Colour and lighting test

3D scene/object. Shapes, Patterns, Composition.

Rendered in Maya.

30 Trees Design

Exploration of forms, themes, and styles based on one tree.

2D Assignment - Concept Poster

Sketching poses

A variety of models with different figures, in various poses.

Line of action! Hannes says. =)

Portraits

A series of portrait sketches done in Foundation Class, first year.

The Model

The Friend

The Professor