Failing...

A fortune cookie told me "fall down 7 times stand up 8 times."

Drink away the pain...

...of boredom. Its been about 2 weeks into the summer, and I'm working on some cool projects as well as working at the job. Here's a simple doodle inspired from a friend and the bar.

Growing...

I saw this chubby baby at work the other day. He kind of reminded me of myself in my younger days. As I grow as an artist, I'm going to try and still be a hungry kid.

Anyways, i did a doodle and tried to mess with SubSurface Scattering (SSS). I've become more aware of color transitions from specular >light> terminator> dark.

Slice of Life

I've been inspired by some people to start recording the awesomeness of life. My grandma is 76 and still working at my family's restaurant. I always tell her she's doing a good job.

Oh yeah, She's over 9000! Get it? She's cutting up some napa veggies.

Reel/Portfolio

Kevin Lu's Spring Generalist Reel 2011 from klu on Vimeo.

Flat Pages Coming Soon

Sophomore is Year Over!

Ahh... its 1 week into summer and I've been procrastinating from updating this blog. It was a pretty tiring and painful semester for many. I'm glad its over for now. I'd say definitely got my money's worth this year. I can't say I was 100% happy with how the curriculum was conducted. I think my part of my successes this semester were because of the teachings of upperclassmen and peers.

Special thanks to Sam Tilson, Scott Mcwhinnie, Francesco Girodini, Rob Showalter, Uri Lotan, and Matt Sullivan for your generous help, crit and tutorials. You guys rock!

For your entertainment here are some projects from my Ecology of Water class. We had to create campaign posters to promote Crabs which are a sustainable type of fish. Tom by me, Ghaddafi by Mike, and Johnny by Tyler. I'll post my real projects soon...

Ringling Year2 Semester 1 done

Here are some of my final projects. The last assignment in CA1 was to design a simple biped character with no arms and do a series of excercises. I made a ricefarmer guy who pretends he's a ninja. Special thanks to Scott Mcwhinnie and John Gulledge for animation crits and painting weights advice. I got A-'s on the animation part of the grades so thats pretty sweet. It also seems that the Sorenson codec from Adobe Premiere makes all of my CA videos have a green tint...

The final animatic we had to do was the "thief". Someone wants a bite of your food. And finally are some more sketches.







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Ringling Year 2 Semester 1: Last Week

We have about a week left and 3 major projects left to do. It will be painful :D Here are some sketches and a 15 minute pose and 1 minute figure gestures. I've been trying to think more about shapes and simplifying into the idea of straights against curves in my sketching... I'll update with more work over the Christmas holidays!