"Legend of The Guardians" trailer

Hey what goes around comes around, right? Some birds make it through, while others crumbled to the ground...
The first official trailer of "Legend of The Guardians" is finally out there!

"Legend of The Guardians" is an upcoming CG feature based on the series of children's fantasy books Guardians of Ga'Hoole by Kathryn Lasky(These books are pretty amazing, BTW).
Production is taking place in Australia at Animal Logic("Happy Feet"), and the film is directed by Zack Snyder("300", "Watchmen"), scheduled to be released on September 24, 2010.

Gatchamural

This poster graphic titled "Gatchamural" was created for marketing and promotional purposes back in Spring of 2009, used at a several occasions including Comi-con last year(you can check my older post here). Despite of the rush delivery it turned out to be one of a few images which seemed to made most of crew happy enough so I was relieved.

Here is the full mural again, (I hope this image is kinda o.k. exception to post here since it is already exposed to the general public) with a bit better resolution with more close-ups since I made the previous post pretty low-res. It was originally so gigantic(approximately 17400 x 6300 pixels) to handle that I had to work on each element separately after the rough sketch was approved, still took me about 4 full weeks from start to finish(while we were also working on actual preproduction workload).

Goodbye, Gatchaman

Imagi, HK based animation studio brought "TMNT(2007)" and "Astro Boy(2009)", has closed down their LA studio on Jan 23rd, as well as pretty much entire HK production on the last week to let over 300 employees go("Hollywood Reporter").

I was on a development for their 3rd film "Gatchaman"(known as "G-Force"(Battle of the Planets) in the States) from November 2008 through out pretty much the whole year of 2009 in their preproduction team in LA, but now it is all over...
I feel sad since I know a lot of people put their serious effort and contributions in it, but a part of me is also a bit relieved that there is finally some conclusion to the epic struggle behind the movie. I really, really liked the original Japanese 70's TV show(I grew up with it, it's in my blood) and wanted to make something uniquely challenging to this tough genre, but on the other hand this project had been unreasonably difficult and consuming in many ways. I guess it was one of these great properties never meant to be made...

The top image is my "fan art"(yes, I can do fan art now!),  Joe in the classic "bird suit" as G2.
(This personal art does NOT represent any of the production art from the project, BTW)

Sunset above Chiba

15mins(because I could not stand there any longer, it was so cold), postcard size sketch from a hill near by my parents house in Chiba.
There used to be more greens/hills and farms in my childhood, now it is pretty much flatten down to be a suburban housing site.
(4"x6" Watercolor)

Happy New Year and sudden raffle!

Wishing prosperous new year to everyone.
BTW, if you hit exact "20000" counter(on the right section, scroll down a bit), please take a screen shot as a proof and send it to me, I will give you some small reward as a souvenir(has not been decided "what" yet though) to celebrate!

It will be for most likely someone visiting today!

Happy Holidays

I wish happy holidays to everyone.
Let's hope next year is going to be better!

Cheers,

Patrick

"Searching for The Door into Summer"

Here is a full image of the painting.
Water color on Rives paper, 24"x17"(about 28"x21" w/frame)

ROOT BRANCH WINTER ART EXHIBIT 09 @ Maverix Studios

It is tonight 8:00pm @:
1717 17th St
SF, CA 94103

Unfortunately I am not able to attempt in person, but my piece should be there(I hope) to be a small part of the show. So anyone around the area please swing by, there must be cool original art pieces from artists I admire in the industry and they are for sale!
Also, I have heard that a following exhibit will be held at Google in SF sometime next year so stay tuned if you miss the show this time.


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Sneak Peak of the new painting for the show(colored)

 

Almost finished now *phew* , I have to drop it at a frame store tomorrow morning and see if I can still make it to. It's going to be tight...

Sneak Peak of the new painting for the show

Here are some cropped areas of the final drawing for upcoming Maverix Show "ROOT BRANCH WINTER ART EXHIBIT 09", based on the idea sketches I was doing in September(wow, how come I ended up being so behind the dead line despite I started this so early on???).

I have started coloring this already, hopefully I can finish, frame and somehow deliver it to SF before the show ends(The event will be held next Thursday).