Lost Son - Teaser Trailer

I am proud to reveal the trailer for a personal short film that I have been working on in my spare time.  It is written, directed and animated by myself so it is taking a while (4 months so far!) but it is a story about family, a journey, adventure and treasures that I really wanted to share.

Also here is a couple of exclusive stills for a sneak peek at some scenes not shown in the trailer. I will keep you posted on updates and the when(if) the film will be released / finished :)

Sim Card Escape - #TropVine 2015

Finally some update! :) This is a Vine I created for #tropvine and it got in to the top 20 this year again - http://www.tropfest.com/au/news/tropvine-top-20/

Lots of paper, sketches, drawings and cards were used to create my #TROPVINE #vine entry nominated in the Top20! Yay. #CARD #animation #framebyframe #tropfest #doodles

A photo posted by Brian Neong San (@neongsan) on Aug 11, 2015 at 11:15am PDT

Jumpamon

Jumpamon from Brian Neong San on Vimeo.

Happy Easter! Jumpamon is has landed!

I had a bunch of videos of iconic locations on my iPhone from my travels around the world. I originally thought I could make a short movie out of them but they were very shaky, the handheld type of shots.

So I thought it could work better as a short animation with those videos as the background. Nothing more fun than designing a little monster destroying those cities! Well it was more fun rigging, animating and compositing this little fella in After Effects with the Duik tools. Voila! :)

#monster #illustration #character #design rough #ink #pen #sketch to #aftereffects #ae #animation #2d #2danimation #puppet #rig #duik #mograph #motiondesign #jumpamon

A photo posted by Brian Neong San (@neongsan) on Feb 13, 2015 at 4:55am PST

Seven Star Re-Animate

Here is my shot contribution to the Seven Star Re-Animate project - a fun non profit project to reanimate an episode of the original Dragon Ball.

Kamehame Wave from Master Roshi! Blam!


Dragonball - Seven Star ReAnimate from Brian Neong San on Vimeo.

Learn more about the project here -http://sevenreanimate.tumblr.com/post/111915364556/here-is-brian-neong-sans

My new profile video

Celebrity mimic + Levitation photography #keanureeves Epic crossover with @jeremy.ng, visit his instagram page to see the #static version

A video posted by Brian Neong San (@neongsan) on Feb 20, 2015 at 9:10am PST

Merry Christmas 2014

Ho Ho Ho, here is a little animation to wish you all Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2015!


Christmas Animation Card from Brian Neong San on Vimeo.

And below is a quick collage of the process behind making this short animation:

Sketches, Color Studies, Layout, Character Design, Design for the Christmas Animation Card

Love Every Drop - Vine

A bit of fun with Vine using an animation I worked on :) http://vine.co/v/Oq9DP2nEm1q

LoopDeLoop - GO - Vine

Made a little Vine from this month's LoopDeLoop animation that I crafted - http://www.loopdeloop.org/2014/11/brian-neong-san-go/

Love Every Drop

OK... it has been ages since I last updated this blog :( . No excuses here, but I have really done a lot of travelling. I will try to catch up and have some posts about what I have been up to. First here are some animation snippets for a project that I helped out with.

Character Animations - Love Every Drop from Brian Neong San.

This was a collaboration with Round3 Creative and my role was specifically to redesign, illustrate and animate the water drops characters to be used in a set of educational animations. You can see below a few examples of the characters that were redesigned for an edgier look.

La Biosthetique - Stage Visuals

It was a pleasure to collaborate with the Artistic Manager Alexander Fuchs from the hair and cosmetic brand La Biosthetique. My role was to create and animate the stage visuals for the show FEEL.MOVE.BE.ART, a hair fashion show that pays homage to the youth culture movement that took place in the late 60's in the streets of Paris.

Below are some animated gifs of the visuals crafted in Photoshop and After Effects.

Rainy day in Paris, 1960s

Where is the party at?

You can also view the full video of the show below. A hair-raising visual feast :)

The Beautiful Game of Thrones (GOT x World Cup Mashup)

This started as a joke with my mate Okayboss. We were raving about watching Game of Thrones every week and about the upcoming Fifa World Cup in Brazil. After the excitement over the subject matter, we thought - what do you get when you combine the biggest pop culture show of the moment with the world's biggest sporting event? This is the result: an animation piece which was a lot of fun to create in our spare time using the usual adobe creative cloud apps. Welcome to "Reos De Jajaereos" :) Featuring names such as Neymar, Messi, and Ronaldo cast as various members the Houses Stark and Lannister, and cameos from Khal Drogba, Neuer the Wildling and a very special guest from beyond The Wall...

Showreel 2014

Animation Showreel 2014 from Brian Neong San on Vimeo.

I finally made a little compilation of animations that I have created from the past few years. It's like a mashup of all the little bits and pieces of animations that I had fun crafting at the design studios I was working for and for personal experiments as well. Music is by The Glitch Mob - Warrior Concerto - Free DL. Enjoy!

Create STUDIO - Making Of

After the pitch and approval of the concept, the process continued by using the storyboard to create an animatic in sync with the music provided by STUDIO.

Using the footage from the audition of the chosen dancer (talented Michael Marmolejos), I created a quick edit to identify the dance moves that would  best fit the concept and the flow of the music.

After that, all the magic is done on the computer. Editing, green screen replacement, colour correction, special effects and frame-by-frame animation took a while but it was great to see the final piece on TV in the end. Happy.

Create STUDIO Ident

STUDIO - Breakdance - TV Brand Spot from Brian Neong San on Vimeo.

The Foxtel channel STUDIO invited creatives all over the Australia to submit their ideas for a TV commercial to bring the STUDIO brand to life.

This was the opportunity to pitch a unique concept. My concept combines two unrelated art forms to visually form the STUDIO logo and is one of the three finalists selected to be broadcasted on TV. The development process from the moment of the initial pitch up to the final delivery was a wonderful journey as I was creatively involved in every steps of the way.

Even though my entry was not the winning one, it was an enriching experience to be able to actively contribute to tasks such as drawing up the storyboard, directing the shoot, animating during the post production phase and collaborate with a TV channel crew. I will share some blog posts about the process in the not too distant future.

More about the competition organised by STUDIO and The Loop can be found here. Also there is a behind the scene video below with an interview video of the three finalists including myself. Laughs guaranteed :)

LoopDeLoop - Light

My LoopdeLoop entry:



The theme for January was: LIGHT.

This timeI wanted to have a go at animating a Tiger frame by frame in photoshop! See the WIP here: http://vine.co/v/h3LBVBbxgrV

You can view the entry here as well: http://www.loopdeloop.org/2014/01/brian-neong-san-light/

Tiger - Animated Gif

Dark Knight, Riding Tiger...

See the complete version (with stereo sound :) ) on LoopDeLoop: http://www.loopdeloop.org/2014/01/brian-neong-san-light/

Tiger animation on dual monitors

A bit of fun with Vine while animating a tiger in photoshop :) http://vine.co/v/h3LBVBbxgrV

By Airmail - Making Of the bicycle slide

Watch this scene here : http://youtu.be/lJvajECUSWk?t=1m8s
A little homage to the movie Akira in which Kaneda's motorcycle slides to a stop. :)

GIF of the bicycle slide scene

3D bicycle with biped reference and then composited into the scene together with the 2D postman

By Airmail - Making Of

Here are some development artwork for the animals in the animation short: By Airmail

By AirMail

This is the latest short animation I worked on with ZZZ Collective entitled By Airmail.



By Airmail was fully animated in Flash and some additional elements in 3ds Max. Then it was all compiled in After Effects for some special visual treatment.

I'll post some behind the scenes next...