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

Historical Characters

Found some old sketches for characters that were used for a pitch.

Legends of history sketches and illustration

Steampunk Illustration

Steampunk heroes

A commissioned illustration as a Christmas gift. 

The brief was to illustrate two persons and a cat from photos as steampunk characters!

Steampunk Illustration - The process behind

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 - Making Of

This video shows the process through I went to create my LoopDeLoop entry



For November the theme was GO.  I blocked out the rough timing, and then built on that up until the final version all in Flash.

You can see the entry here: http://www.loopdeloop.org/2014/11/brian-neong-san-go/ 

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/

LoopDeLoop - GO - WIP

Go Go Go

Coming soon! Another LoopDeLoop animation that I have been working on.... The theme is 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.

Inktober 2014

I have been participating in the #inktober movement again this year and it's been a lot of fun.

Follow me on instagram to see each drawing individually...

Happy Halloween - #inktober

Happy Halloween! This was the little drawing I did for #inktober and #sketch_dailies. 
Follow me on instagram to see more drawings or random photos!

Inktober 2014 - mid way

#inktober

I have been participating in the #inktober movement again this year. I am half way through and it is a lot of fun again... Follow me on instagram to see more and for frequent updates!

Happy Halloween 2013

Boo! Scary cave!

Happy Halloween! This is my part of a collaborative Monster Art Show piece made with some good friends. Here is the never ending zoom!

Never ending zoom

The process

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

LoopDeLoop - Frantic

My winning LoopdeLoop entry:



The theme for November was: FRANTIC.

Yay the entry that you can watch above has been selected as the winner for this month's Loop de Loop competition! It was FRANTIC to come up and create this piece as I left it to the last minute but it was worth it and it suited the theme! :) I'll write up some making-of next... stay tuned..

You can view the entry here as well: http://www.loopdeloop.org/2013/03/brian-neong-san-frantic/

To This Day Project

My contribution to the To This Day Project. It was a humbling experience to collaborate with so many talented animators around the world to bring this piece to life. Kudos to the team behind the project and to Shane Koyczan for his beautiful poem.