CrowdStar Internship

This summer I got the wonderful opportunity to intern at CrowdStar on It Girl as an artist all summer thanks to the help of Liana Hee, whom I met at Wondercon this year. Liana has been nothing short of helpful and has been training me during the past month. She's been teaching me a ton of tricks and I've been learning a lot! I could not be more thankful for all her generosity.

This is us at Wondercon:

Here are some It Girl outfits I designed for the game:

The Green Ninja

During my last semester in school, I had the pleasure of working with Marty Cooper who wrote/storyboarded/directed this film. I took part in the visual development work and got to work closely with Melissa King, along with many other talented artists. We were funded by the National Science Foundation and were asked to inspire people to "go green" in a fun and entertaining way.

Everyone involved in this project dedicated their time to make this short happen on top of school work during the semester. There were many all nighters and stressful times to make this film happen, but we pulled through. It was so much fun, and I learned so much from everyone. Definitely one of my highlights to end my final days in college.

We hope we made a difference and that you enjoy our little short:

For more info, and to support the Green Ninja Project, go here:
http://greenninja.org/

Animation/Illustration BFA Gallery

Hello Everyone!

The Animation/Illustration BFA Class of 2011 is having a gallery at San Jose State University. We've been working hard to put the gallery together, and are so excited for you all to see it! Our opening night to showcase the gallery is May 3rd, in the Art building, room 224. We'd love to see you all there!

The Enchanted Garden

For our latest project we had to read Italo Calvino's Difficult Loves and choose a short story from the book. I chose to do the Enchanted Garden because it reminded me so much of my old childhood film I used to watch The Secret Garden (1993). Hopefully I can create the garden in the magical sense that I envision it to be as described in the story.

Here are some development work:

My friend Jordan Louie showed me a garden we had right on campus that I didn't even know about. I took more photos for reference so I plan to do more studies like these.

Update

Over the winter break I had the opportunity to work on the Cinequest Film Festival directed by David Chai. I was on the visual development team, and together my team members Priscilla Wong, Wilbur Liang, and Kimberly Knoll created the animation backgrounds for the short commercial. It was a lot of fun working in a group and learning from each other. Thanks to Priscilla leading the group, this project helped me tremendously about how to stylize/add character into everyday environments.

Here are some the backgrounds I did:

Storyboard by Michael Fong

Final background

In this last scene, the characters were animated by Aden Scott.

Here is our final trailer: