Big heeeello to the blog space and all bloggers! I finally crossed the line to the blog community and am very excited to share my artwork and blah it up about process, ideas and inspiration here, and hopefully I don't end up blahhhing to myself the whole time. Come share and talk art!
First artwork I want to share is the posters I designed for SF Stories Movie that just had its world premiere at LA Asian Pacific Film Festival back in May 2010 and it won the Special Jury Award for Best Screenplay!! Allrrrrrright~And it's still going to be shown at other festivals throughout this year such as Chinese American Film Festival in October. I'm going! Are you?
So, if you or your friends have yellow fever or you are one of those Asian American feeling caught in between looking like Asian on the outside but white-washed on the inside, or you just simply love and support a good indie film, you can find further info at
(Click the posters on the left to see enlarged character details!)
Here are the total 5 posters with 5 main characters in the movie, the first poster (the stalker in yellow) is Michael the male lead who's a third generation Chinese-American with a misguided obsession for Asian culture and a fetish for Asian women. The second poster (the broken woman in green) is Wendy the female lead who's a frumpy Japanese-American woman, she's quiet and bold and is secretly fearful of the world.
The third poster (the kickass wannabe in blue) is Luk, a recent immigrant from China and he delivers Chinese food for the Chow King Express restaurant. The forth poster (the dude in brown) is Brad, who is Michael's best friend since high school, Brad lives in his parents' basement and desperately clings to his fading dream of becoming a heavy metal rock star. And last poster (the flirty in red) is Sulin, a female escort who is Luk's roommate and had a date with Michael.
No, this is not an animated film, I used line-drawn to depict the characters because this is an indie film and not yet any actor is worldly recognized, so we thought it'd probably be more interesting to use cartoonish style to illustrate both the character traits and their humor, and it turned out as what you see here, and we LOVE it!
There had been many many I mean MANY revisions and I almost killed the director a few times, because behind those simple lines that might seem easily done, there were a lot of homework from him like first was watching the film (yeah, the 3 hour rough-cut one) and then coming along with more character understanding, behavior studying and blah lessons by my ear... but I really learned how to portrait each character and who they are and how they are by putting myself in their skin to feel what they feel. It was not easy I gotta say, but it's rewarding when you know you got the look.
And that's why I truly appreciate and like to watch those behind the scene work of animated films. I think all animated films should include behind-the-scene features on their DVDs as a standard even on single disc ones, so people can see and learn how it's done and appreciate the art behind it all!
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