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The Infernal Machine is featured on 3D World's Short Cuts!!

2011-12-07T11:02:00.004+08:00

The Infernal Machine is featured on this month's issue of 3D World Magazine (issue #151)

The whole team and I are all very proud and excited to be on this issue! Do get your hands on a copy to get an insight on our working process and thoughts!

The Infernal Machine

2011-10-06T22:01:00.003+08:00

Just some screen shots of our short film=)

The Infernal Machine:
A rag tag team has been sent to repair, The Infernal Machine........ "From Hell!!", with dire consequences.

by: Team Awesomeness Reloaded; tareloaded.blogspot.com

Harold Cheng; harold_cwl@hotmail.com
(art direction, modeling, texturing, compositing)

Chua Han Xiang; han_chua83@hotmail.com
(rigging, animation, R&D)

Lai Yeow Kuang; mail_yeowkuang@yahoo.com.sg
(storyboarding, animatics, 3D Layout, animation, editing)

Teo Wei Yong; teo@audivarius.com
(Sound design, music composition)

*Production period: 12 weeks at the NCCA, Bournemouth University

Acting Exercise

2011-09-11T06:55:00.005+08:00

Acting exercise, scroll down for earlier iterations of the animation=)

Acting Exercise
Polish Pass
Time Taken - Approximately 7hrs

*Added details to facial expressions, fingers and lip sync. Cleaning up the overall body movements.

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Acting Exercise
Spline Pass
Time Taken - Approximately 5hrs

*Changed some acting choices and added more breakdowns and cleaned up the arcs and splines.

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Acting Exercise
Blocking+ Breakdowns Pass
Time Taken - Approximately 4hrs

*Added breakdowns and in-betweens.

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Acting Exercise
1st Blocking Pass
Time Taken - Approximately 4.5hrs

*Blocked in the main poses.

Body Mechanics Exercise

2011-09-06T05:55:00.012+08:00

Body mechanics exercise, scroll down for earlier iterations of the animation=)

Body Mechanics
Refining Pass
Time Taken - Approximately 1hrs

*Got some feedback from friends and made some tweaks to timing and popping in the animation.

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Body Mechanics
Polish Pass
Time Taken - Approximately 5hrs

*Cleaned up the arcs and splines, added details to fingers and further tweaks to the jump, adjusting the trajectory of the jump. Cleaning up the poses.

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Body Mechanics
Spline+ Pass
Time Taken - Approximately 2.5hrs

*Cleaned up the curves and readjusted some timing and poses.

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Body Mechanics
Spline Pass
Time Taken - Approximately 2hrs

*Simplified the arm swings during the jump further as it is a bit distracting. Fixed loads of gimbal locking in the upper arm.

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Body Mechanics
Re-Block + Breakdowns
Time Taken - Approximately 6hrs

*Got some feedback from friends, and decided to keep the actions in the jump more simple. Toned down certain parts, especially the anticipation before he jumps. The height of the jump was toned down as well, and made the jump a more "forward thrusting" jump as it is more realistic this way.

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Body Mechanics
Blocking Pass
Time Taken - Approximately 12hrs

The Infernal Machine (My shots)

2011-08-19T10:14:00.006+08:00

These are the shots that I animated on for "The Infernal Machine"
The full clip could be found here!

My roles in this project include, Story Boarding, 2D Animatics. 3D Layouts, 3D Animation and Editing.

by: Team Awesomeness Reloaded; tareloaded.blogspot.com

Harold Cheng; harold_cwl@hotmail.com
(art direction, modeling, texturing, compositing)

Chua Han Xiang; han_chua83@hotmail.com
(rigging, animation, R&D)

Lai Yeow Kuang; mail_yeowkuang@yahoo.com.sg
(storyboarding, animatics, 3D Layout, animation, editing)

Teo Wei Yong; teo@audivarius.com
(Sound design, music composition)

*Production period: 12 weeks at the NCCA, Bournemouth University

The Infernal Machine

2011-08-19T09:03:00.013+08:00

The Infernal Machine is a collaboration between a couple of my friends and me.
My roles in this project include, storyboarding, animatics, 3D layout, 3D animation and editing. Details are as below!

The shots that i've animated can be found here!

A rag tag team has been sent to repair The Infernal Machine........ "From Hell!!", with dire consequences.

by: Team Awesomeness Reloaded; tareloaded.blogspot.com

Harold Cheng; harold_cwl@hotmail.com
(art direction, modeling, texturing, compositing)

Chua Han Xiang; han_chua83@hotmail.com
(rigging, animation, R&D)

Lai Yeow Kuang; mail_yeowkuang@yahoo.com.sg
(storyboarding, animatics, 3D Layout, animation, editing)

Teo Wei Yong; teo@audivarius.com
(Sound design, music composition)

*Production period: 12 weeks at the NCCA, Bournemouth University

Block Pass of my 2 sequence of "The Infernal Machine"

2011-08-12T08:59:00.003+08:00

blocking pass of the 2 sequences that i worked on for "The Infernal Machine"

more could be found at our production blog

Foreman Walk Cycle test

2011-07-09T07:35:00.003+08:00

a walk cycle test that i did for my masters project=)just trying to find a walk that suits his pompous and selfish nature.

Model/Texture by Harold Cheng
Rigging by Han Xiang Chua

Team Awesomeness Reloaded - 3D Layout, Draft 07

2011-07-05T07:07:00.003+08:00

here's the 3D layout that i put together for my masters' short~

Model/textures by Harold Cheng

Team Awesomeness Reloaded - 3D Layout, Draft 03

2011-07-03T06:56:00.004+08:00

Team Awesomeness Reloaded - Animatics

2011-06-07T22:28:00.002+08:00

DemoReel 2011

2011-06-01T06:05:00.014+08:00

Hi! Here's my graduate reel 2011! Below is the breakdown of the reel.

0:06 - 0:16
Body Mechanics; Against the wind
Personal Work - Responsible for all animation only

0:16 - 0:20
Body Mechanics; Jump!
Personal Work - Responsible for all animation only

0:20 - 0:25
Acting; Institute or brothel?!!
Personal Work - Responsible for all animation only.

0:25 - 0:45
Masters Project; The Infernal Machine (Bournemouth University)
Responsible for Storyboard/Animatics, Layout, 3D Animation and Editing

0:45 - 0:54
Group Project; Mobile Mayhem (Bournemouth University)
Responsible for Storyboard/ANimatics, Layout and Animation

0:54 - 1:07
Masters Project; The Infernal Machine (Bournemouth University)
Responsible for Storyboard/Animatics, Layout, 3D Animation and Editing

1:07 - 1:15
Group Project; Mobile Mayhem (Bournemouth University)
Responsible for Storyboard/ANimatics, Layout and Animation

1:15 - 1:20
Masters Project; The Infernal Machine, walk cycle (Bournemouth University)
Responsible for all animations only.

1:20 - 1:25
Masters Project; The Infernal Machine, run cycle (Bournemouth University)
Responsible for all animations only.

1:25 - 1:36
Acting; Horror!
Personal Work - Responsible for all animation only.

1:36 - 1:43
Acting; I'm Sorry
Personal Work - Responsible for all animation only

Mobile Mayhem (Full)

2011-05-30T19:26:00.004+08:00

Here's the full version of Mobile Mayhem!=)
My part was the animation from 0:17 - 0:59!!

Mobile Mayhem by Team Awesomeness.
Harold Cheng - Modeling, Lighting, Compositing
Ruha Merchant - Rigging, VFX
Lai Yeow Kuang - Storyboarding, Animatics, Animation
Chua Han Xiang - Character Design, Animation, Sound

Reasons

2011-05-22T23:04:00.002+08:00

Just something that i tried doing, the same dialogue, but with different context.

Mobile Mayhem (edited)

2011-05-10T18:33:00.002+08:00

Rendered version of the part of mobile mayhem that i animated on. I am responsible for animation only.

Design: Han Xiang
Model: Harold
Rig: Ruha

Mobile Mayhem (Bournemouth University, NCCA, MA3D)

2011-04-04T23:26:00.001+08:00

Untitled from Yeow Kuang Lai on Vimeo.

A project that I did with Chua Han Xiang, Harold Cheng and Ruha Merchant.
This is the un-rendered version of the sequence that I animated on.

"BO" character test

2011-02-03T16:27:00.001+08:00

Untitled from Yeow Kuang Lai on Vimeo.

A character test of "BO" for my group project at, Bournemouth University, NCCA, MA3D course. Only the animation part is my contribution.
Big thank you to Harold Cheng for the model, Ruha Merchant for the rigging and Han Xiang for the character design.

Assignments!

2010-12-17T09:37:00.004+08:00

Billy Bob Run Cycle from Yeow Kuang Lai on Vimeo.

Billy Don't Be Crazy! from Yeow Kuang Lai on Vimeo.

Animation exercises that I did this term for my course at Bournemouth University, NCCA.

Boing Boing~

2010-11-19T05:42:00.003+08:00

Back to school~
Bouncing ball assignment, Bournemouth University, NCCA, MA 3D Computer Animation.

Animation Demo Reel 2010:: Yeow Kuang

2010-02-06T15:19:00.003+08:00

Here is a compilation of personal animation work that i did over the past year=)

"cacoon of horror" polished

2010-01-23T13:53:00.004+08:00

yeap, sadly I didn't manage to submit this 1 on time for the competition. But it's a waste to leave it in blocking so I finished it over the week=)

"cacoon of horror" 1st blocking pass

2009-11-12T23:43:00.002+08:00

here's my 1st blocking pass for my entry to 11sec club's November competition.

Change is a good thing?

2009-11-09T23:54:00.003+08:00

Hey~ this is the polished pass of my character animation exercise.

"Change is a good thing"

2009-11-05T22:00:00.003+08:00

did the lip sync for the clip. mouth shapes are a little off and a but huge, will tweak it soon. good day~

"Change is a good thing"

2009-11-04T00:37:00.005+08:00

Haven't been posting for a while now. Just feeling a little jaded recently. Seem to be losing some of the "drive".

but anyways, here's a new piece i've been working on lately (not like i've finished the last piece haa>.<). it's at splining now. just need to do some refining and throw in some lip sync and facial expressions and i guess we're good to go.

Am i like the clown pagliachi?
*PS: you may not understand what's happening here at all. but it's ok*

"never gonna give you up" 2nd blocking pass

2009-09-04T19:28:00.000+08:00

add some inbetweens in the bigger movements. more breakdowns coming up!

"never gonna give you up" 1st blocking pass

2009-09-03T18:06:00.000+08:00

here's the 1st blocking pass of the dance clip=)

"never gonna give you up" block part #01

2009-09-01T16:23:00.006+08:00

time to boogey!
this is the 1st part of the blocking phase, still doing the 2nd part=)

"against the wind" polished

2009-08-25T12:01:00.005+08:00

here's the polished pass~

"against the wind"

2009-08-18T13:43:00.003+08:00

more breakdowns and inbetweens, haa. may look the same as blocking+.
but trust me, there are some differences, trust me. . . trust me.. . trust me~

blocking plus~ did some re-timing, breakdowns and inbetweens=)

1st pass blocking~

"i'm sorry" polish pass

2009-08-12T17:16:00.002+08:00

just done with polishing for this clip, gonna refine it further when i get the time=)

Agent Boo's escape

2009-08-09T22:21:00.005+08:00

Final blocking pass before i go into spline -)

And the 1st polishing pass -)

Still need some refining here and there, hope to finish it soon.

next exercise's starting soon~ skedooosh

Agent Boo's escape :: block 1st pass

2009-07-30T01:47:00.005+08:00

new body mechanics exercise, blocking 1st pass!! and the 1st exercise is not even done yet o.O haa

It's snowballinG~~~~~~~>.<

skedoosh.

"turn around" Polish

2009-07-30T01:25:00.002+08:00

got some good notes from my lead, and changed some parts.

but the texture still need some work >.<~

"turn around" Block+

2009-07-15T00:46:00.004+08:00

2nd pass of blocking, and changed the turn around part a bit=) was suffering a bit from shelldon 360 turningtitis haa.

"turn around" Block

2009-07-14T00:03:00.003+08:00

A body mechanics exercise that I've been working on.
Still in blocking 1st pass though.

"I'm sorry. . ." Alternate Blocking++

2009-07-12T02:37:00.005+08:00

Initial 1st Pass

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2nd Pass

this is the 2nd pass with some changes and I threw in some lipsync to try to get a better feel of things=)

"I'm sorry. . ." Alternate Blocking+

2009-07-07T02:04:00.005+08:00

tweaked a bit of the poses, hopefully they can read better now=)

"Hangers are such @#$%^&*!!!" Blocking

2009-07-05T00:45:00.013+08:00

This is still the blocking pass though, some poses to change and
some poses need to be pushed more.
But overall, i like it, it's a exciting piece=)

Learnt a lot from Michelle Meeker on this one, great stuff.
And again Dr. M for the rig, thank you.~=)

"I'm sorry. . ." Blocking+

2009-07-05T00:32:00.009+08:00

this is the blocking+ for the 1st assignment that i was doing
for the gobelin's animation masterclass.

A big thank you to Jean Claude Tran for instructing on this piece
and also Dr M for the rig a dig dig~*

we need a heading

2008-12-19T13:22:00.002+08:00

this is a recent one that I'm currently working on, still w.i.p though=)

My life is gooood. . .

2008-11-25T23:28:00.003+08:00

this is the most recent clip that i did.
And by far the most enjoyable one!!

weight lift

2008-11-25T16:55:00.004+08:00

this is a weight lift animation exercise.