Sunday, February 17, 2008

Alvin and Chipmunks



I wanted Alvin and Chipmunks last week. It's a mix of CGI and live action film, is a lightweight, modestly pleasing family comedy. It is sweetness, energy and silliness that will likely please its pre-teen younger target audience while never fully losing adults who can remember the early days when all of the Chipmunks.

The film is directed by Tim Hill and produced by Bagdasarian Productions, New Regency Productions, and 20th Century Fox. The film has recieved extremely negative reviews from movie critics, but has proved to be a huge financial success, making over $210 million to date in North America alone and nearly $330 million to date in total worldwide reciepts.

"THIS FILM IS DEDICATED TO ROSS BAGDASARIAN,SR. WHO WAS CRAZY ENOUGH TO INVEBT THREE SINGING CHIPMUNKS NEARLY FIFTY YERS AGO." This words were dispalyed at the end of the film, make me think of the TV cartoon shows I have watched when I was a child. It bring back so many childhood memories for me.

Altough the plot of the film hasn't innovated, the cute character design and fantastic soundtrack will inject the new energy for this film. In any case, I think it is a good animated film.


Alvin and the Chipmunks is a five-time Grammy Award-winning animated music group, created by Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. in 1958.The group consists of three singing animated chipmunks: Alvin, the mischievous troublemaker, who quickly became the star of the group; Simon, the tall, bespectacled intellectual; and Theodore, the chubby, impressionable sweetheart. The trio is "managed" by their human "father" and confidant, David Seville.

The voices of the group were all performed by Bagdasarian, who sped up the playback to create higher pitched, squeaky voices. This oft-used process was also not entirely new to Bagdasarian, who had also used it for a previous novelty song project, "The Witch Doctor", but it was so unusual and well executed it earned the "trio" two Grammy Awards for engineering. Although the characters were fictional, they did release a long line of "real" albums and singles, with "The Chipmunk Song becoming a number-one hit single in the United States. Since Ross Bagdasarian, Sr.'s death in January 16, 1972, their voices were performed by Ross Bagdasarian, Jr. and Janice Karman in all subsequent incarnations except for the 2007 CGI/live-action film adaptation, when they were voiced by Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler and Jesse McCartney respectively.

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

New Coke ad-Charlie Brown

The new Coke Cola advertisenment "It's mine", combines live action and computer animation. UnderDog, Stewie from Family Guy, and Charlie Brown character balloons from the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade battle it out for their coke.
I looked at this animation ad at MSN video. It's awesome. I searched youtube then found the embed address. I pasted it below, hope you guys will interested in this wonderful animation.



Dan Wieden and David Kennedy made Super Bowl history by having four spots airing, including a new campaign for CareerBuilder.com.

The commercial was produced and designed by Wieden + Kennedy, with Creative Directors Hal Curtis and Sheena Brady.

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Monday, February 11, 2008

Reference Character Design

I found these character design pic on the web. I think the it might be helpful for my character of client project.
I will use these pictures to be the references then improve my original character design.



The character I put uppon, has some details I think I could use to be the refrence in my deisng work. Such as the black fram glasses and fat bingy. However this character looks very smart and claim, mine will looks like more messy and nutsy. I think this character picture will give me some idea for improve my original design.

The picture below is another 3D character design work on website. The character looks decadent, I consider my character should be remain this decadent style as well.

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Sunday, February 10, 2008

Second Artefact

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Client Project- Character Design

It's my basis character design for my client project client. But it's unshaped. I will put more details on this character in the next couple of weeks.For instance,
1. The cloth should be changed in order to present the personality of Otaku. (shorts, slipper and vest will be the final decision for the dressing)
2.The whole style of the character should be more cartoon
3.The texture should be applied

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Monday, February 04, 2008

draft of indoor environment design




props:
desk,shelf,fan,tv,tv table,comupter,carpet,postage,comic books

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