December 14, 2010

Portable Animation Desk Project : updated!

Recently, I learn that even an animator has to do some 'rough' job in order to get things done, or rather using his/her bare hands to do some woodcraft. This is a project self-initiated by us last august, but because of lack of resources and the time, we halted it.

Not too long ago, when I thought I almost forgot about it, my brother suddenly reminded me about it. Hmm, I guess an animator's got to pull off something that's not done on their comfy chairs nor desk, if their trying to keep tight of their budget.

As most knows, searching up for an animation desk on the net would usually come up with hard-to-swallow price tags! (US$ is too expensive for ordinary malaysians like me!)

So surfing for another solution, we'd rather make our own because its cheaper comparing to the materials needed to make the animation desk. We got many guidance and info thanks to many readily-available sites and experienced forummers that helped us throughout our project. Credits goes to... The Animation Forum community, the animation-studio-stuff blogspot, and Rio which his idea inspired our design too.

First, we started off with discarded wood pieces we got it from a factory(thanks to our dad, the interior designer, since he knows and works with those people).


Surprisingly, we had all the wood materials needed to construct it, just from those batch of discarded wood pieces. Those long wood pieces made great 'beams' to support the base and the surface of the table.

Adding on...we got off with two thick and 1 thin flat surfaced wood. These(in the pic) were used as the table surface and we made the hole about 16" inches in diameter at the thin one while the thicker one had slightly smaller hole of 14".(This is to make sure the disk stays in place, the way how gravity does its work on it, the usual.)


Later, we glued the both surfaces together, and then nailing it to ensure it's reinforced to stay in place.


From the above^, you can see how the bottom part of the table surface is made like this, if you get my point what I've said earlier.


In Malaysia, I personally think there wouldn't be any carpenter willing to cut the wood for you for free, unless he's a close friend or someone you know quite well, and willingly bare his hands and time for your request...

So, the rest of the wood pieces had to be cut by ourselves
(thanks mostly to my bro).


If you were wondering, the holes made in two of the flat surface wood were actually done by my dad's friend too. Oh, thank those good samaritians!

Putting the stuff together, it really looked like a real animation table already! It's was undeniably exciting for an animator to be able to use and at the knowing that, it was built by your own hands!


Some note to remember, the bolts used to hold the table pieces together needs to have a 'metal washer' to prevent a dent like this. we learnt this the hard way after making this mistake without our knowing, I guess we're not much of a DIY-expert.




That time, my brother ridiculously came up with some "cardboard' washers" to overcome the shortage of our washers, and it did work like a charm! Although just as a replacement...

Over the course of this project, we manage to learn a few things about woodcraft and its technical side, it's a plus for any ordinary people to have actually. Drilling, sawing through, sweats and tears...it's all worth the time, if you're tight on budget and wanting to have an asset of a traditional animator of course!

We finally can be proud owners of this table, so to speak. :D Here's some snapshot of the finished piece of project(without backlighting):




On the side note, we spent about roughly 5 days on it, not really a big deal since we had most of time in our hands..(plus it's school holiday too :)
It's only the table part, not the backlighting though. We couldn't find any suitable light source for our backlights at the moment, so we're just using it as a drafting table right now.

Dream come true...

December 8, 2010

Portable Animation Desk Project!

Since the last august holiday, we halted our project because of lack of time and also the resources to build it. Sadly, we shoved it off our minds for a few months even though we can't wait to do it.


Here's some of the photos of our portable animation desk project:
Sorry, but this post is too short. But we'll eventually try to upload all the pics up and post our process of doing it.

July 20, 2010

It's been some time since my last post, but nevertheless, I'll continue to showcase my range of artworks!
There, that's enough for one day, I still have more to come...so stay tuned!

June 18, 2010

Trouble zooms past me, sending a chill down my spine...I was nervous.
But that's not the point here (it's irrelevant to what I'm posting right now.)

Tadaaa, here are the fresh new additions to our artistic collection wardrobe!

As you can see, here are a lot of stuff that I drew about my school 'happening' (or events). How would I say that some of my friends even looks like a bunny or even a panda!!! *gasp*(Hope he doesn't sees this)

A logo design I created for an event (I'm the designer for this event). Orange-y colour spur in with red makes it feel energetic and that adrenaline rushing down, suitable for the sports-themed event like this!

June 8, 2010

Plus for more!

More drawings from my wardrobe are finally here, freshly served with striking colours!
This is a drawing of a boy riding a dragon with 'angelic' wings, odd huh? This was the final concept for my last year' design according to title themed 'My Grand Adventure' in the Creative Media Award 2010 organised by the One Academy.

This is an artwork done by my brother, Lih. He did this for the Geography painting competition as our teacher knew (as we all know it) love art so much!
Although I've never heard a word or two about our entries we sent in, I'm still glad that he took most of his time to do this beautiful art, Magnificient!

June 4, 2010

First addition of drawings to wardrobe collection!~

This is first digital complete drawing on a computer (using a tablet). It is quite messy a little as you can see, but since this is my first try doing digitally. Althought it took me hours just to get it done, my eyes were about to explode as it really hurts just to stare at the screen like you can imagine...

Please rate and stay tuned for more drawings to come and it'll entertain you endlessly! :)