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

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

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/

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...

Inktober 2013

#inktober 

And it's wrap! It has been a wonderful exercise to do an ink drawing every day during the month of October. I am hooked now :)

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

Inktober Week One

It's October, and there is no better excuse than #inktober to have a go at ink drawings. 

Ohhhh yeah! Here are the first seven pieces from week one.

You can follow me on instagram @neongsan for daily updates! 

Shoemaker

She smokes

"You are safe under my arm"

 Tigeracing

DreamKnight

Shady Bird

Quick feet

Sketch of Haz

Little sketch of my good friend Haz...

Jack in da box

Finally, here is an update with some artwork from a R&D piece that Hendrik and I worked on at Soap Creative for the Monster Art Show to celebrate Halloween.

My role as the concept artist/designer was to come up with the character visuals while Hendrik modelled and rigged the character to implement into Unity to work with the Kinect. It was lots of fun as it was more of an experimental interactive piece of art for the opening night of the exhibition.

Digital concept art painting of the character

From basic shapes, to sketches, to finger painting, to a black and white volumetric study

3d model with the textures that I painted over

Here is an actual quick screen recording of the work in progress:

Jack in the Box Kinect Hack from Soap Creative on Vimeo.

She's gone

She was a vampire like him...

Birds... not angry

Those are some old bird illustrations done for a pitch. 

Amazing how sometimes when you dig back trough old stuffs, you can find them more interesting than they were originally... maybe after I've been playing Angry Birds too much.

Windy reading

I had this dreamy vision in my head and I was itching to quickly sketch it to get it out of my mind...

Reading on a windy day... 

It was a windy day yesterday and I saw a little girl reading her book, totally immersed in it with no care about what was happening around her. I don't know why but this stuck in my little brain and I had to draw that emotion I felt whilst seeing that scene.... and share it :)

Reading on a windy day... a bit clearer

Finance illustrations sneak peek

Finance and management illustrations- sneak peek

This is a sneak peek of a series of illustrations I worked on for a finance newsletter. 

It shows some insights on the process of starting out with the rough sketches and then moving on to the create a unique visual treatment. I have to say that I'm far happier with the printouts as the colors and textures turned out richer than on screen.

More sketches on Sketchoholic

Big Eyes

Whiskers

Sketches on Sketchoholic

Trap

Big Belly

I'll post some of the quick sketches i've been and will creating on sketchoholic for the rapid sketch-o-daily contests which as a different topic all the time. It is the perfect opportunity for me to quickly practice my drawing and also to see what other people come up with in less than a day... 

ImagineFX

It felt good to hold the issue 60 of ImagineFX where a digital painting of mine was featured.
I created a caricature of footballer Thierry Henry in photoshop for ImagineFX's Fantasy Football Competition.

The step by step process in creating the final submission...

Sumo

I've been digging through some of my old works and found those character studies I did to explore the different type of sumos I could design for a flash banner.

They came in all shapes and sizes...

The one on the middle left was the one that just 'felt' right...

Final structure of the character puppet in Adobe Flash