Graduation

omg..theres less then 15 weeks of school left.
i am TERRIFIED of the real world. ...well actually, i'm just terrified of that first step into the real world.

well this is just a reminder to myself

class of 2009 graduation

may 15
commencement exercise at Radio City Music Hall

all i want for christmas...

is youuuuu.
no but seriously there are plenty of things i want for Christmas that is unattainable as of now. but my brother wanted me to make a list.....

so here it is :)

don't judge me
size small please








or a canon/nikon dslr..
or an xbox 360...but i'm not desperate for one
OR copic set A 72 marker set
OR a YSL muse bag...a gray one....or croc skin <3

but yea the last 4 are too much, and i wont be getting that for a long while....
unless it's for graduation....... O_O

it's been a while

a long while...




a bg for my thesis i did a while back. i wish it were summer...and have my film finished......and working....and making money....

::edit::
hm...the sign came out blurry and weird when i shrunk the size...interesting.....it's more clearer in the bigger image T_T sorry

Election

barak obama won! i feel so strange right now. this election is definitely history in the making, and i feel so strange being a part of it. it was the same feeling i got when 9/11 happened, and to think that i've lived through such an eventful decade...wow
i have no words to really describe this moment.
btw...
his speech was so inspiring... reminded me of martin luther king. seriously. it was so good

:edit:



this just HAD to come up. YAY! celebration!

i need to pee

i know, but there's no toilet...we only have a sink in the bathroom.


i'm having a hard time finishing up the last few backgrounds...

background preview

preview of another background.


this is just a glimpse of another background.

i feel like i should upload more personal work on here (rather then just thesis)
i was going to dedicate this blog for my thesis, my process, inspirations, and just general thoughts but i don't want to get everyone sick of my film before they even really know what it's about.
i will dedicate at least 2 personal work blogs before i post up a thesis post...? maybe that's too planned out. we'll see how this goes :)

done

I'm done with people being competitive. It's not a competition to be better then one another. And I hate being pushed to become a competitor, so I guess the best way to deal with people like that is to just ignore them? I don't know...I just don't want excuses, or explanations. That is all. Thanks :)



This is an image of my characters Noah and his creature friend from an animated TV series that we have to create for my "creating an animated series" class.
This is not necessarily the style that I want my series to look like. Just an image I doodled during a class.



enjoy, i'll be posting more doodles in the future :)

inspire

“To be the best artist, animator, filmmaker, I have to be the best human being first before I can be all these things.”
-Mike Nguyen




sidenote:
i want to invest in copic markers...
where can i get a good deal....?

Goodbye and Farewell

Goodbye to my fixed sleeping schedule, which lasted for about a month and a half. Once again my insomnia strikes back with a vengeance. I can't sleep. I laid in bed for 4 hours tossing and turning with thoughts flying by at a million miles per hour. I finally just got out of bed at at 5am and made myself some coffee, only to realize I don't have milk or sugar in my room. so I'm drinking (what was once hot) Vietnamese coffee....BLACK. Yea. It burns like hell. It tastes like I'm downing some pretty gross cough medicine. Blech...

So I figured out reasons for my glitchy website, (thank you Shannon). I went back and fixed it..(partially) and now I'm going to have to go crawling back to her to ask her about style sheets, because that would be awesome.
If you're interested check out my sad little space that I call my website (for the time being...)
www.sandyhong.com


I've been listening to Mozart all day (would this be my reasoning for insomnia...? yes/no?) and it makes me want to work. Specifically his Requiem Mass. I'm in LOVE with it! Been playing it on repeat for some time now. And after listening to his stuff for quite some time, I think I want to have the word requiem for my thesis title..? It's a nice word.

req·ui·em (rěk'wē-əm, rē'kwē-) n.

1. Requiem Roman Catholic Church
   1. A mass for a deceased person.
   2. A musical composition for such a mass.
2. A hymn, composition, or service for the dead.

I want my film to be visually AND musically driven. So maybe if I can speak to my musician/composer, i'll ask them to write a requiem, which would be really nice. Ah, i'm still unsure.
((((side note to myself: 진혼곡)))))

hope I didn't lose anyone in my rambling...<3>

almost there

my lack of sleep/stress is killing me

this is a background for my thesis that i finished a few weeks ago.





more to come...

(i still can't figure out a good title for my film...T_T)

sylvia ji

Inspire me

some photos/illustrations that inspired me for my thesis film...

Vengeance

i just re-watched OldBoy today with a few friends. the more i think about it, the better the movie gets.

"be it rock or a grain of sand, in water they sink as the same"
-oldboy





so i've decided to rewatch some really old animated films that i've seen as a child. but you always get a different perspective on a movie when you watch it as a child.
here are a few movies i've seen as a child that i THOUGHT were good....


and



yea.....pretty bad movies....


so here are the next movies in my line up..hopefully they wont disappoint as much as secret of nimh and all dogs go to heaven...

1. balto
2. an american tail
3. an american tail: fivel goes west


i mean...GEEZ the animation weren't even good enough for me to give it some slack..what a shame...

words flowing like endless rain...

my current love affair

audrey kawasaki, how i love thy art for they show so little but yet so much
i love..

background peep show

sneak peak of one of my backgrounds for my thesis
enjoy

deadlines

August

• character analysis
• first draft of storyboard
• first draft of character design lineup with color treatment
• background designs with color treatment
• production method/ sound treatment (statement of copyrights and clearances)
• proposed work schedule
• 
  

September

• one sentence story description
  
• revised storyboards
  
• revised character design with color
• revised rough backgrounds with color treatment
• revised schedule
• rough animatic

October

• final storyboard
• final character designs
• final animatic

my baby

i love him
i cant live without him!
:')

WIP

finally got my confidence up and my fear of failing down. :)
here's a wip of my first colored background

i have to color the water and the bottom/opposite
side of the barrel.
um.......

yup!

Progress

Some B+W thumbnails from my storyboard for my thesis. Whoopee!





I'll probably post a few pages of my storyboard sometime this summer.

its early and its not because i woke up early

...more like insomniaaa! yayy~
some figure drawings I did this past semester...







I finally finished coding the main page for my website which I'm psyched about... even if it's really simple. Now I have to save up some money to get hosting. whee~

blah

boopboop beeboop#@~