WAYNE CHAN

Secondwind Market Place

haoran85 — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 06:35:10 +0000

Finished this a couple of weeks ago for a client who owns this website trading forum www.seoncdwindmarketplace.com
And here’s the finished product! the aim was to keep it as simple as possible

Canon 550D HD video

haoran85 — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 08:58:59 +0000

Testing out the video functions on my 550D i just bought. Must say it’s pretty good for the price

Blues Competition submission

haoran85 — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 07:14:08 +0000

Found an online blues competition where you simply just had to solo over a given back track and post it on youtube for judging. Anyway don’t think i’m gonna even get into consolation but here goes.

St Jude’s SEPCON promo ad

haoran85 — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:59:53 +0000

New promo done previous week for an upcoming church conference

St Judes September conference

haoran85 — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:58:53 +0000

Zeodia commercial/character design

haoran85 — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:30:14 +0000

Been working on a freelance project for a guy in Dubai, the video seems to keep getting longer. I hope my laptop can help sustain the project. Anyway here’s a rough sketch of a character in the video, MAEVE.

Drafted layout and artwork

Blog Featured

haoran85 — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:57:01 +0000

I recieved an email today that this blog has been featured on this link Kodak Printer Ink Cartridges .

they operate the largest Kodak Printer Ink website featuring more than 30,000 blogs. Our site averages 200,000 uniques visitors per month

As a gesture of gratitude, I’m plugging them in here on the post =)

The LOGORAMA dilema

haoran85 — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:22:24 +0000

So apparently there have been much huff about this years OSCARS and the winners. Frankly I feel a need to explore the results on this post and my thoughts on them as well, especially the best Animated Short Film category. For those of you who don’t know, Logorama took the OSCARS home for best animated short, here’s what it looks like.

Now on first glance and impression, I could not believe that this was even nominated to begin with. The story was weak and the Visuals were not ground breaking either. I didn’t even for a second think that this would actually win the Oscars. So now that it has, it leaves me baffling a whole lot, how could this in anyway compare with the other nominated films, or even previous Oscar winners such as Harvie Krumpet.

But given that my anger was out of frustration and impulse, let’s also take a look at a couple of other films (actually only the ones i know) at this year’s Oscars. Well for one, everyone was hoping that AVATAR would do well including taking home best picture, but thankfully it didn’t and I’ll tell you why. While AVATAR definately deserved to take home best VFX, everyone knows that the story line was just not original and too predictable. I mean cm’on Cameron, it felt like AVATAR was gonna break into a song when that main character dud( i forgot his name) started to fly on that dragon thingy. Now I’m not saying that it’s a bad movie, it’s for sure ground breaking VFX wise but it really isn’t an important film.

I was watching the Jay Leno show when one of the guest commented the difference between AVATAR and the Hurt Locker (which won best picture). While the Hurt Locker moves at a much slower pace, a cheaper budget, it doesn’t seem to be of any competition with the AVATAR visual wise, the story isn’t extremely wild like AVATAR, but none the less it is a film that is relevanat, important to our time, and urgent to recongize the condition of the IRAQ war. Which leaves me to remember, that film making is about being relevant to our times, to be able to bring forth that message where no other medium can take due to censorship, propaganda, cultural barriers, whatever..

Now Back to LOGORAMA

While I still believe that LOGORAMA IS visually unappealing, has probably or extremely bad content for its film and leaves you without any pay off at the end. Upon further contemplation, I must admit that amongst the other short animated films of the year, it does stand out the most, weather or not people agree with it that’s seperate. But it has caused quite abit of controversy in the air and has awaken people to realize that part of art is to from time to time again break apart from normal conventions. To reinvent, re discover and move forward. And further more, LOGORAMA does put itself relevant to its current times and economy and does deliver that strong message and the “truth of crime” about the falling US economy. Though graphically absurd and over exaggerated to some point, but there is still a huge portion of truth in it.

Let’s see what will happen in the coming year =)

From the eyes of film making

haoran85 — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:19:33 +0000

For a while I forgot what it was to be in the company of like minded ape like creatures. Was worth the while. I might be doing a short gig next week, will see how that goes. Always nice to wreck your nerves even though when you’ve been doing it for a while.

OSCAR NOMINEES 2010

haoran85 — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:04:51 +0000

The Oscar nominees for this year’s short film (animated) are out. Honestly they’re quite as impressive as previous years. However I would believe that out of all one stands out the most for me.

“French Roast” (Fabrice O. Joubert)
“Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty” (Nicky Phelan and Darragh O’Connell)
“The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)” (Javier Recio Gracia)
“Logorama” (Nicolas Schmerkin)
“Wallace & Gromit in ‘A Matter of Loaf and Death’” (Nick Park)

While ” French Roast” seems to be impressive on character designs and the look of its renders, the story gets abit tad bit complex and slow for me.

The other one that does it for me is Granny O Grimm’s sleeping beauty. They really nialed down that Irish mannerism and trades, reminds me quite abit of Shrek in a different sort of way. The use of both 2d and 3d is great but the animation ended up abit shy.

This one brings it home base for me

Trust the spanish to produce something really worthy of an Oscars.. everything is perfect from the concept,designs and the animation, and they’ve got some awesome clouds going.

In honesty, I could’nt be poofed about the other 2….one is about a world filled with “logo” characters, and another…Wallace and Gromit? A MATTER OF LOAF AND DEATH? dude seriously…its been done and re done already, move on from the puns…