More schoolwork! My naughty mardi-gras flashing character jump animation, observational color still lives, hatching drawing from drawing last semester,and my maze game for communication design.
One day i will post something that is not school work.

Mardi Gras Character Jump from klu on Vimeo.

Ringling Spring 01 Week 11

First is a picture of my birthday surprise. I have some of their blogs linked to the side. Be sure to check out their awesomeness! Thanks everyone! Then I have a still life of a loaf of bread. Painting neutral colors was really tough. And finally, are some gestures. 1-10 mins.

Ringling Spring 01 Week 10

Last week I had the most amazing spring break. To start it off, I saw Alice in wonderland,rode with 13 people in a truck,went to an arcade,ate chinese food,went to the beach a couple of times, sketch crawled downtown with friends, volunteered at habitat for humanity,got to be on television,and enjoyed the hot tub at someone's apartment. To end the week, Stevie took a group of us out to eat Korean food! I definitely had fun in Florida. This past week has been pretty busy and yesterday was my birthday! Too bad I only got 2 hours of sleep and had classes from 8 am to 6 pm.

I have my TA character design, and an Alice in Wonderland themed digital gray-scale painting. I might add color to the Alice in wonderland painting later in the future.



So here is Thibodeaux (ti-buh-doe) the lizard. He is based off of the goofy archtype and he is from a Cajun Louisianian background. He is friendly, usually cheerful, but a bit slow sometimes when it comes to thinking.I must say, designing my lizard character was really challenging for me. Not only did it have to be simple, it had to be designed to where it could have good poses,silhouettes,look like a lizard, simple and be animatable so i could draw it 200 times. Special thanks to my traditional animation teacher, Gordon, Adam and Stevie for giving me a lot of character designing tips.

RCAD Spring01 week 8

Here are some gestures 1-7 min. Also my head turn animation assignment for TA1. I can't believe it,only 1 week left till spring break! Animation has been quite challenging but enjoyable at the same time. To a regular person working for 20 hours to produce a 3 second clip sounds insane, but to an animator it is fun.

Emo Head Turn from klu on Vimeo.

RCAD Spring 01 week 7

Its been a while. Here are some paintings from my color class and an animation from my Communication design class.

In color class we don't focus on artsy strokes, we put down color swatches and treat the painting like a drawing. We try to communicate a color as clear as possible. It was very challenging. Communication design on the other hand is a pretty loose/concept based class. We were assigned an installation piece about nature. Tyler, Christine and I teamed up to create an animation about a plant growing out of the earth. I animated the tree, tyler shaded/rendered the animation, and christine animated the insect.

Nature and insects from klu on Vimeo.

Balls and Sacks

Here are my balls and sack. They are not perfect but please enjoy.
First is my flour sack jump 2 exercise. It involves acting as well as jumping. Second is a composite of all my ball bounces (perspective collision, heavy tail, and light hard). Though they appear to be simple animations they were challenging to animate. For some reason when i composited all of my ball bounces it gave me a black border.

Klu Flour sack jump 2 from Kevin Lu on Vimeo.

balls from Kevin Lu on Vimeo.

Farmer Bear and Sneaky Fox

edit: special thanks to stevie lewis for giving me character design tips.

Ringling 2nd semester of Freshman Year

Has been an amazing experience! I've enjoyed many awesome new experiences like creating animation,exploring more in character designing,and traditional painting. I've had the opportunity to attend cool events like volunteering at national portfolio day and help organize an art and music festival. Also I'm fortunately able to continue practicing figure drawing. My figure class has been really amazing and its focus is dynamic gestures that are proportionally correct! Art update coming soon!