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Static Fish Spring 2010 Release Party!!

If you haven't gotten a copy at MoCCA this year, here is your chance now!! This is our best issue yet, so come out to Williamsburg, buy a comic and have a beer! (Yes, we will have free beer.) The artists will be around for signing too if you're interested. (Including myself, hoho.)

My thesis show this Thursday!!!

Poster by me, woo! Yes, those little eggs are me and my classmates. The red guy is our thesis advisor Andy London, haha.

Finally, my year long project will be shown this Thursday!!! I'm super excited to watch it with all my friends, classmates, professors, coworkers and family-- it's the most exciting time in my 4 years at Pratt! It's almost unbelievable how fast time went by from when I decided to be an animation major during freshman year to me now being in the senior thesis show. It was a great 4 years in college and now it's time to move on to my next step in life. I'll miss you Pratt Institute. Here I come, real world. :)

Info for the screening:

Anthology Film Archives

32nd second ave

NY, NY, 10003

7:00 - 8:00 PM

- FREE and open to public

...I just realized I haven' t posted anything about MoCCA 2010! If you haven't already heard, Static Fish Spring 2010 got chosen as one of the best comics in the festival by Daily News!! (It's in the 11th image) It's available for sale here for $18 with shipping and handling.

Next stop: Small Press Expo in Maryland. See you there.

Drawing on Location

Places our class visited recorded in my sketch journal.

The Mud People

Yes, it's an old piece, but I realized I've never put it on my blog! This was for my junior year final for Mike Enright's animation class. It was based off a mini comic I did for independent publishing class (which basically served as my storyboards). Thank you Chase and Melissa for being my voice actors!!!

Teaser ;D

So I've been hiding in a hole and working nonstop on my senior thesis animation the past few months. The deadline is near (April 12!!) so it's getting a little more stressful. I am so excited to see all of our hard work come to fruition. Our senior year has a variety of awesome animations from experimental to hand drawn to documentary, I can't even describe them all!!

If you haven't heard, our senior show will be played at the Anthology Film Archives May 5th, Wednesday night (7:30pm??) as well as at Memorial Hall at Pratt Institute April 29th (6-9PM) with the Digital Arts department.

Good luck to those who're treading through the last few weeks before the deadline.

Here is a little teaser for the audience:

Textures

Faux wood and marble textures are extremely fun to do. All done with photoshop on a cintiq.

Singin' in the Rain

During my film class last semester I watched Singin' in the Rain for the first time. It was AMAZING. It really changed my perspective on the 50s and even the late 20s - early 30s (where the film takes place). I guess I never knew how awesome film was in the past.

I decided to take a shot at rotoscoping and used Singin' in the Rain as the footage:

Unused still image I made with illustrator for this project:

Some screen shots I took from the actual film:

This scene was incredibly beautiful and surreal--completely took me by surprise. The entire film had a really energetic musical feel, but had this strange entrance of a lengthy side story. I found it very mysterious and loved it.

Aside from that, nowadays rarely do you see in theaters well done acting, dancing, and singing all at once. 

Happy Holidays

Kind of late but I made an animated holiday card.

Happy Holidays!! from Jane Wu on Vimeo.

My 4 paged comic about food stuff. <3 <3 <3

I wanted to try out a new style, as you can see it's very different from my previous comic in HATCH vol II. I really do enjoy manga and I don't think I'll ever lose that influence. It's an art form that I appreciate a lot, more than just as a comic, but as a childhood memory that is associated with it. 

The anthology that this comic is going to be in (Static Fish) will be printed by 2010!! Being editor for this comic was really rewarding and working with a different team this time made the experience very interesting for me. I'm super excited to put this issue out in stores once it's printed!!

Here is a sneak preview of the cover. Original artwork done by Kris Mukai. Layout editing of cover done by me with assistance from Melissa Ling.

Raw sex anyone?

A Public Service Announcement project done in stop motion. The meat is actually pork butt fyi.

PSA from Jane Wu on Vimeo.

Botany

Character Models

Last week I went to the Ottawa International Animation Festival for the first time. It was really great, I saw a ton of films and met some amazing animators! I was most inspired by Peter Sohn, who directed Partly Cloudy (a short film that was played before Up). He was the funniest speaker, it was almost like watching a stand up comedian with animated visuals and storyboards. He happened to be a first generation Asian-American that had to deal with language barriers with his mother, which was exactly what I had to deal with my entire life. It really reached out to me, especially seeing that he was able to become a director for a Pixar film! (Although it did take him 9 years to get up there.) I am definitely going back next year, and am pumped to work on my own film!!

Some photos from the trip:

Walking by the bridge at dawn. Photo taken by Katie Kirschner!

Went to a patisserie with DELICIOUS baked goods and coffee!

A plethora of breads!

Erica and I carving pumpkins.

A little update--here are character models of my two main characters:

Cabinet Girl

Book Girl

BYOP contest

The past weekend my beloved roommate and I decided to enter a 24 hour animation contest (called Bring Your Own Pixel). It was painful. It was amazing. The theme was "It hurts so good." Thanks a bunch to Chase and Keith for keeping us alive during the 24 hours!!

Here it is:

Fresh Juice from Jane Wu on Vimeo.

A little insight on the making of this video:

Advanced Post Production

Here is an assignment I did incorrectly, but I enjoyed doing it very much anyway.

Birth from Jane Wu on Vimeo.

A photo compilation/transition assignment. One of the best part of traveling in China was the FOOD!! Photos taken by me, winter 2009. Music from PUMP IT UP (Beethoven - Vivaldi Winter). The foods were from various parts of China, including Guangzhou, Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Hong Kong.

Food of China from Jane Wu on Vimeo.

Summer Days sketches

Took a visit to the park with my bike.

Drinking and drawing with my lovely yet strange friends.

Melissa Ling

Kris Mukai


Hunter Heckroth

Kat Mukai
Dick Chan

FML Moments

This week was a total Fuck My Life moment. Long story short, losing your passport and your birth certificate at the same time really sucks. Especially if you don't own a driver's license. Had to take several days off just to fix this problem.

In any case, since I didn't get a chance to do much animating, here's some random and old sketches just to keep up my weekly updates.

I like to draw random cute girls sometimes.
These are possible characters for my senior thesis animation. I've always liked this sketch and the concept that I've thought of for it, but I'll see where it goes.

The cover to one of my moleskin sketchbooks. Bringing back the Paper Manager from HATCH Vol II.

Roughly Animated

Abe Lincoln doin the robot. I was given the character design, and I had to choreograph the dance. Required hours of watching people on youtube doing the robot. I still can't do it myself. :(

Recent practice

Some things I've been working on for World Leaders Entertainment. You might want to play it a few times since it's pretty short. (I set them to 30 frames per second). This was animated, inked and colored by me! They provided rough sketches and a model sheet for reference.

First attempt with Hank.

My second attempt with Dean.

Both together

Random

Drawing of Andy Samberg. He is hilarious.