Digiron Work In Progress 5

Testing the rig. I's quite challenging to tweak the cloth simulation, but I've to admit that it'sa lot of fun!

I'm currently doing up the facial controls for Digiron. He's largely animatable already. I just want pump up the rig a little bit more before I begin animating him into the shots.

I'm eating the schedule a little, especially the animation time but I'll be able to make it up. :D

Happy New Year once again!!

Digiron Work In Progress 4

Production Schedule



Rigging and Rendering Test



I came up with a production schedule for Digiron project to pace myself.
Progress is great, texturing turned out better than I expected.

Unwrapping is much of a breeze with Maya 2009's new unfolding.
No need for Roadkill.mel anymore as far as I observe.

So, I'm now in the rigging process for this character and I'm aiming for cloth simulation for him. We'll see how it goes. Mr Chris and Mr Sridhar kindly helped me with some technical issues with nCloth. :) If not for them, I'd be searching high and low for the parameters to increase the simulation solving samples :P

Alright, I'll try my best to stick to the schedule. Digiron's animation test in the next posts! Keep checking back!

Thanks for reading :) Happy New Year! Happy 2009 to all and myself!

3D Lighting and Compositing

Experimenting tracking, lighting and compositing 3D elements with live footage.
My first attempt at feature tracking, so we might spot some sliding in this footage.
Promise to do something more interesting :)

Value Practice

Felt like doing some sketching in photoshop :)
I think it's essential to practice values once in a while..
don't really like the design of the bridge and the composition can be adjusted slightly.
But I'll leave it as it is to not lose the touch and serve as a reminder for myself. :)

Digiron Work In Progress 3

Completed the majority of the modelling revamp of Digiron this morning!
I'll be working on the uwrapping and texturing and hopefully rigging tmr!



This afternoon, I worked on the style for Steampunk using Digiron as the subject.
The idea was to achieve the Street Fighter IV Game Trailer Style. It requires some maya fluids to make the mimic better! :D enjoy!

Mini Cooper S 2007 Completed

After such a long time, I'm finally completed with this project!
After this, I might take this car model on a HDRI or IBL or VFX or Animation ride!

3D model of Mini Cooper S 2007
Objective was to achieve beautiful dark studio lighting.
Focus is on Lighting and Rendering

Modelled with Max and Maya
Mental Ray Renderer
Composited in After Effects

Special thanks Mr Frety Jacques, pokoy and the rest from CGTalk and others who have help to give comments and critics!

Siggraph Asia 2008 | Singapore

Eyeka Creative Challenge Winner at Siggraph Asia 2008

Eyeka Creative Challenge Winner at Siggraph Asia 2008

At the Autodesk Booth in the Exhibition Halls of Siggraph Asia 2008, I saw our Eyeka Creative Challenge Winning Entry!
I thought I was dreaming or something! It was screen on the big screen at the Autodesk Booth together with other NYP SIDM produced films.
I feel glad that this clip produced by Yong Yi, Zi Chao and myself has some small achievements all around. Hope to have more coming in!



Managed to take a photograph of it! :D

Siggraph Asia 2008 | Singapore

Siggraph Asia 2008 | Singapore
10 - 13 December 2008

Hello everybody!

10 December
Pixar's Renderman Course

I was at the first ever Siggraph Asia Conference last week!
The whole of the first day of the conference was spent at NUS Singapore for the Pixar Renderman Course!
Before the conference, there were only 25 seats to the Pixar's Renderman Course which I was hoping to attend.
Made my way down early in the morning and managed to get the last couple of tickets to the Renderman Course by Prof Malcolm Kesson!
Marcus and I attended the course together and learnt valuable stuff! Lucky me!

The Renderman course covers the concept behind using Pixar's Renderman, such as RIB files, RIB archives and the Renderman Shading Language [RSL].
We even had the fun of writing our own custom shader! I must say Pixar's Renderman is really powerful, it has a huge library of procedural textures in SLIM.
And the best part, the SLIM parameters are all able to be brought into Maya to animate!
Understand that the current version of Renderman for Maya [RFM] still has some inadequacies, hence I'm waiting for the release of Renderman 2!

Digiron Work In Progress 2

Pushed his proportions for him to be taller.
I'll sketches of him for a while before I get into making the changes in 3D.
Meanwhile I'll plan the boards for my final animation.

Maybe it'll be short animations for the front and end of my demoreel. :)
We'll see how it goes, everything is not set yet but I've rough ideas in my mind yet to be trashed out.

Digiron Work In Progress 1

So for easier skinning and rigging, I gave him a sweater... his eyes are just a texture now, his ears are weird.. But these are not going to last for long! :D

Here's the current look..


Here's a list of things I want to improve on him:
1. Give him some eyebrows
2. Improve his hair
3. Overall proportions can be pushed
4. Give him a jacket [That's what I'm always wearing]
5. More definition in jeans
6. Nicer shoes
7. Improved fingers and nails
8. Textures
9. Oh my! There's currently no specular on the face!
10. Nicer eyeballs
11. His ears are now.. Uh~

SO! 11 things to tackle for now! ;)

Digiron

Hello all!

I started creating a 3D character [Digiron] who is supposed to resemble myself early last year.
At that point in time, I was not very confident with 3D, I was afraid of cloth.. rigging.. and other potentially technical stuff. As a result, I came up with a very easy, typical and quite ugly character design.

Now that I've become more familiar with how to go about creating a 3D character, I target to redesign and create a nice and appealing 3D caricature.

The current work in progress is the guy you see at the top right of the screen.
Yep, that's Digiron! I have some plans for some live footage compositing for Digiron, so we'll see! :)

I also just started a CGTalk thread to seek opinion from the creative industry gurus. Will be back soon, see ya!

[http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=43&t=702668]

Rainbow sets up $25m studio

I was reading about this in the papers this morning.

Here's a link to their popular franchise Winx Club

If I'm not wrong, Rainbow is the top animation studio in Italy!
Italian animation studio Rainbow is putting $25 million into a new gaming unit here in Singapore. And it is by far the biggest investment here!

This is gonna be so cool!
Looking forward to the vibe in the interactive digital media industry in a few years to come! :)

Research on Further Studies

Research on Further Studies

Hi all!

I am planning to get a degree after national service.
Therefore, I started a little bit of research on a few potential institutions.
Below are links to their wikipedias definition and websites.

Wikipedia
NTU's Schools of Art, Design & Media
California Institute of the Arts
Academy of Art University
Savannah College of Art and Design
Art Center College of Design

Official Website
NTU's Schools of Art, Design & Media
California Institute of the Arts
Academy of Art University
Savannah College of Art and Design
Art Center College of Design

I will be doing an in-depth research and comparison between all these colleges to find a suitable institution and course.
In the meantime, I will concentrate on my studies and creative work :)
It'll be great if any of you guys, probably from CGSociety or CGTalk, or probably from any art institution can give me some tips and advice on my choices.
Drop me an email! Thanks in advance!

By the way, I'm now working on MTV + ME Competition which I embarked on a couple of days ago.
The concept, design, boards and timing reel is out.
Hope to update progress here but things are kind of tight here in school, so this weekend probably. :)

laters :)

Eyeka Creative Challenge Winner

Channel Box
Ronald, Yong Yi and Zi Chao

We have put a lot of effort into this Eyeka Asia Creative Challenge and we are very excited about it!

Just a couple of days ago, the winner of Eyeka Asia Creative Challenge is announced! It's us, Channel Box!!

We are so so happy!! :D
I'll like to thank Ms Grace, Mr Jacques D and my two buddies Yong Yi and Zi Chao for making this possible! Thank you guys!
Can't wait to show you guys what we've been up to so here goes! Hope you'll like it!

Please watch in high quality :D



[channelbox.blogspot.com]

Our objective was to create an engaging animation that will inform the audience about the pronounciation of eyeka.

Simple visual elements are used for audience to relate better. For instance, the mouth literally provides a visual demonstration of the pronounciation of 'Eyeka'. Therefore, the concept allows the audience to register the correct pronounciation of Eyeka without much complexity.

Disney Pixar - Up (2009)

Disney Pixar Up (2009)
Oh my! The trailer looks really good!
Grumpy old man and that little boy is so cute!

Renders and style looks beautiful!
Animation is of course superb!
"Hi! Mr Fredrickson! Please let me in!"



I'm looking forward!
The Adventure Begins May 29th
[Official Website]

Chasseur de Dragon is now on the big screens in Singapore!
I remember Yong Yi and I hunting all over Paris for the art book for this film! Didn't manage to find it in the end, such a disappointment.

In any case, our master Mr Kyle Balda is the animation director for this film! It's gotta awesome. Gonna catch it very soon! :D

The Grandfather of Soul

I love this short animation done by Keytoon Animation Studios!
Inspires me to do a super whacky animation! :D



Created by: Keytoon Animation Studios
Director: James Maestro

Aardman Retrospective

Aardman Retrospective
Tuesday 28th Octover 2008

Nanyang Polytechnic Theatre for the Arts

David Sproxton and Luis Cook from Aardman, the home of Wallace and Gromit, had a discussion session after the screening of some of Aardman's works.
The question and answer question was really interesting, so I thought I'll jot some of them down here. I cannot remember everything, word for word or every figure, but I guess the idea is somewhat like that, may not be too accurate :)

Q: Do you have life at Aardman?
A: In the past we used to work day in and out, now with advancement of technology, we adopt a 5 day work week. So we have time for ourselves during the weekends.

Q: How do you find your animators?
A: Source from institutes and we have portfolios and resumés coming in. From there, they are trained to be stop frame animators or 3D animators. It's interesting how stop frame animators can convert to 3D animators much easier than the other way round.

Q: How many animators do you have?
A: All the times, it depends on the scale of a project. The size of the team grows and shrinks based on the projects. For feature film length projects, the number of animators can go up to 40, whereas for short films or commercials, there coould probably be 5 to 8 animators.

Find out more about Aardman!

Overall, I found the talk really beneficial. I love The Pearce Sisters and a commercial (I forgot the title) which interviewed different creatures "Why will you do when you fear?" there were two comical cockroaches inside hilarious! And the Mcvities one too. They have really interesting concepts and execution here and there. Awesome!

Photography

Hello everybody!

It has been two and a half years since I began my journey through is course.
I've tried many different forms of art, most of which was digital art, though I still love to paint and colour with poster and colour pencils.

There is a new medium I never attempted before - photography.

Recently, I've been really into 3D shading and lighting. I know photography will benefit me in terms of composition, tonal, depth and lighting, and it is also a quick medium to achieve nice results.

Quick as it is, I feel that it really takes effort to learn to do it right. As to how long it takes to learn photography, I guess it's up to talent.

Currently, I have no idea what photography is all about. Therefore in these last 6 months of my course of study in Digital Media Design, I'm taking the digital photography module by my lecturer, James Lee. Really eager to learn a lot of photography stuff.

The first excercise is to take 3 photos of different aperture, take 3 photos of different shutter speed, take 3 photos of different ISO.. to show the use of each function. It's due on Wednesday and I've got none of them done.. Hmm.. How should I go about doing this?

Anyways, I'll be keeping a log of my photography journey here. A new catergory!
To begin with, I'll start with a photo I took. I chose to pick this as the first because James said it was not too bad of my amateur photos~ Hahaha!

Okay, here goes!

Mini Cooper S 2007 Work In Progress 4

I can't get the machines in school to render over the weekend, hence I only have 10 frames of the turntable that friday evening...
But I do have every render pass for those frames so I composited them just now..

Next up, I'll have to optimise the final gather points desity and interpolation because I'll be using rebuild off like Mr Frety and mrbond from CGTalk suggested and there's fg flickering using the current settings..

After which, I think I'll lower the reflection in the ground slightly and blur it a little more.. and cover up some visible holes in the car! :P

Model the interior? Hmm.. shall see :)

CG Contest 3 Work In Progress 4

Final Submission for CG Contest 3!



Fixed all previously mentioned flaws.
Further improvements will be to add moving hold to the body at the beginning :D

CG Contest 3 Work In Progress 3

Some changes to make :D
Poster falling off when he bangs the counter.
Overlap his turn when he says "we don't need no badges".
Overlap in eyebrow to not make him so rigid in the last flare.



CG Contest 3 Animation organised by my lecturer, Mr Frety.

Updates from Work In Progress 2:
Refined lip sync.
Added facial animation.
Changed background to avoid misunderstanding.
Added in the overlaps for most of the actions.

My Story:
Most wanted fugitive trying to get pass the customs with a bad police disguise. The custom officers asks him for the police badges.

Transcript
Badges?
We ain't got no badges.
We don't need no badges.
I don't have to show you any stinking badges!

CG Contest 3 Work In Progress 2

It's my first time doing a dialogue of any sort, so I had to keep refering to notes taken at Mr Kyle Balda's classes and at Gobelins! :P



CG Contest 3 Animation organised by my lecturer, Mr Frety.

Updates from Work In Progress 1:
Moved on from blocking.
Started on lip sync.

My Story:
Most wanted fugitive trying to get pass the customs with a bad police disguise. The custom

officers asks him for the police badges.

Transcript
Badges?
We ain't got no badges.
We don't need no badges.
I don't have to show you any stinking badges!

CG Contest 3 Work In Progress 1

CG Contest 3 Work In Progress 1

CG Contest 3 Animation organised by my lecturer, Mr Frety.

My Story:
Most wanted fugitive trying to get pass the customs with a bad police disguise. The custom officers asks him for the police badges.

Transcript
Badges?
We ain't got no badges.
We don't need no badges.
I don't have to show you any stinking badges!

Demo Reel 2007 [with sound]

Mixed the audio not long ago using Soundtrack Pro.
Will be working on Demo Reel 2008 soon.
Yep, I know soon is a bad word... but soon~ :D

Mini Cooper S 2007 Work In Progress 3

In this composition, following Mr Frety's advice, I added the radial specular to separate the car from the background. And it works!
But! I did this in post which is not what I intended.
I will do it in 3D next. Hee hee!

I switched to the mental ray car paint shader instead of the layered shader. It really works better too!

Added falloff the the light and reflection planes and the reflection looks like what I wanted to achieve already! Yay!

Rigging and Animation Research

Well, I have plans to rig and animate the MINI Cooper S I'm working on now.
Mr Frety kindly introduced me to the mental ray car paint phen shader for my MINI instead of the layered shader I'm using now.
I will try that out tomorrow :)

Meanwhile, I looked up on some videos of the MINI C S in action to observe the movement.

Single Leg Rig and Animation Test

Quickly modelled, rigged and animated this leg.
The objective of this exercise was to research on how to rig a animator-friendly leg.
I was inspired by the character setups Mr Kyle Balda used for some of his animation demonstration in class. :)

Mini Cooper S 2007 Work In Progress 2

I looked up some tutorials on how to make a car paint shader.

My friends, Bogard and Jason, gave me the idea to have a layered shader for my car paint. I spent quite some time connecting shading nodes all over and...

I'm very happy with the look currently. Plenty more shaders to design and textures to create. Will be back soon!

In the meantime, here are 2 test renders:

Mini Cooper S 2007 Work In Progress

Hello! My progress of the Mini Cooper S 2007 within the past few days.
I started this project a year ago hoping to decorate it with many cute soft shell turtles. I got all too busy with studies and I revived this project a few days ago and here's my progress.





Modelled the MINI badge and did a test render of it.
It needs a slight tweak to the raytracing samples.





I'm almost done with modelling this car and I really like the result. Hope to post the final model here soon! :D

New Look for ronald-fong.com!

Hello!

From


To


I thought it's time for some change in the look of my website!
Along the way, I made some improvements and hope you'll like it! :D

Updates and Improvements:
New works to the portfolio and reels section. [eg. RC Helicopter, Single Leg]
The Demoreel is now at a bigger resolution too.
Resumé is updated.

Possible Future Enhancements:
Write up on Masterclasses attended. [eg. Gobelins Summer School]
More visuals in all sections
Motion Graphics header

Glass

Description:Thought of painting something but there was nothing around,
except for this glass at my desk.
A quick sketch to practice observation skills.
The background was made-up so it's highly inaccurate :P

Time taken: 10 minutes
Medium: Photoshop, Wacom

Pdplayer

Hello!

Came across something really interesting the other day.
An ingenius player by Chaos Group.
Many people are used to fcheck which comes with Maya, which plays image sequences.
If I'm not wrong, it's something similar to fcheck just that it has a lot more features!
Looking at the features list, this player can come in very handy

Key features
• Layered sequence playback
• Realtime interactions
• External device output
• Industry standard file format support including HDR, EXR, CIN, DPX, SGI, TGA and more
• Variable framerate playback
• Infinite workspace
• Global and per-layer aspect ratio
• Layer flip, scale, position and crop
• Color controls including lift, gamma, gain, brightness, contrast, hue and saturation
• Exposure and soft clip controls for high dynamic range images
• Ability to save a composition
• Export composition or single layer as sequence or AVI/Quicktime movie
• Export composition as Adobe After Effects JSX script
• Export composition as The Foundry Nuke script
• Copy layer to clipboard as Nuke script
• Layer-based cache
• Full, half and quarter cache resolution
• Brush Layer
• Brush Sequence Layer
• Adjustment Layer
• Clipboard Layer
• Framebuffer Layer
• Layer blending modes
• Alpha channel source
• Depth channel
• Productivity tools including copy/paste frame, email frame/screen, replace with, open with, locate in explorer and more .
• Multi-core processor support
• Built-in HTTP server for remote collaboration
• 64-bit version
• Extensive command line support

url source: http://www.chaosgroup.com/en/2/pdplayer.html

RC Helicopter Work in Progress 3

The model 98% completed! Only left with wires and some screws to add detail :)
Will be doing a simple render of it once the model is done! Cheers!

Animate Faster

Strolling around the internet and found something valuable :)

"Tips on Speeding Up Animation Workflow and Animating Faster by Shawn Kelly"

RC Helicopter Work in Progress 2

Only left with some final parts to model in like wires and stuff. :)
It'd be interesting to animate it.

Channel Box

3 Good Friends

I had this idea in my mind about a month ago to get together a couple of my good friends and work on CG projects together where we are in total control of the whole process.

This urge became especially strong after I went to Gobelins, Paris and realise that there is a serious lack of creativity, adventure and boldness in the CG content created in Singapore.

Hoping to bring up this daring-arty-culture in Singapore....................


Yong Yi, Zi Chao and I came together to form Channel Box.

The main objective of Channel Box is to experiment CG content creation wildly in search for style.

Through this process, not only do we have a channel to put our skills to practice and showcase, we can also learn to work together efficiently and brainstorm te wildest ideas.

Ideally, we will be able to create and recognise our own style and have all these creative input evolve to an identity!

CHANNEL BOX

RC Helicopter Work in Progress

3D Sketch

A quick play of modelling and shaders :)

Stong and Mong Work in Progress 2

Top-right is the character design for Stong for Stong and Mong adventures :)
The hands are generally bigger than Mong and the silhouette is rounder on purpose.

Wall-E Fan Art Doodle

Hello!

I did this wall-e fan art doodle on my way home a few days ago after the movie.
The animation was awesome! :D


Decided to scan and color it yesterday. Took me about 5 mins.

A Short Love Story by Carlos Lascano

I like the colours and music of this short film! Enjoy

An Animated Short

Here's an animated short by Hischam Zouorob from Vancouver Film School.
I find it an interesting concept and quite well executed.
Enjoy!

GCK Season 3 The Toilet Episode

My Final Year Project Presentation went very well last Thursday.

However, that was not the end of the production. There were still more effects to be done and composited in while some of the passes requires rendering. Other than these, it's more or less close to completion.

I will be planning a 10-day schedule and work tightly on wrapping up this production because I belieave that dragging this production on will only make things worse.

In the meantime, I will concentrate of completing numerous personal projects too.

3D Bouncing Ball Experiment

Just a simple test. :)
Rigged using MEL expressions.
Animated in 3 minutes.

Animation Mentor Student Showcase Summer 2008

Personally like the last clip :)

Colourful Doodle!

Batman Doodle!

I doodled this when I could not get to sleep last Saturday night. :)

Had a reference from the latest inspiring dark knight movie.

Time taken: Approx. 1 h 10 mins.

Blurred Reflections test

Modelling this lift in a couple of minutes to do a test of blurred reflections in a lift.

Happy National Day Singapore!

Pixar "Up"

Hi, I just came across this interesting blog entry :)
Renders of Pixar's upcoming feature film "Up" were revealed at San Diego Comic Convention International 2008.

Click here to have a look!

Kyle Balda's Masterclass

[Click to enlarge]

Big thanks to Ms Grace and Mr Kyle! :)

Kyle Balda's Masterclass

Hi!

Mr Kyle Balda, an experienced animator who has worked on animated features at Pixar and ILM was in Singapore for the past week. During this time, he conducted an acting and animation workshop at NYP-SIDM. Some of my friends and I recently attended his masterclass at Gobelins in Paris just before this Singapore session, and we flew back to Singapore for his masterclass in Singapore. Despite that, I still learnt a great deal this second session!

Today is the last day of his workshops and I took the opportunity to clarify all my doubts on animation. Just to summarize, he is very generous, pleasant and patient when sharing his tips and tricks, and the best part is, he makes his animation techniques very easy to absorb and digest. For me, it's only after his masterclass that I know what is character animation (physicality vs acting & performance).

As with everything that I learnt, I will continuously put to use his teachings into my animation so that I will keep improving and I will not forget. I have a good chance to practice my character animation now because I am working on a short film production for the school right now and it's in its animation phase! Great! I really appreciate everything he taught us.

Had a photo-taking session at the end of the masterclass and hopefully I'd be able to get my hands on the photographs and I'll post them here. :D

I will be working on character animation tomorrow!

Deviant Art v6

Deviant Art launched a new interface a couple of days ago and I think it is pretty cool. I should probably build up my DA gallery properly.

GOBELINS Summer school 2008 in Paris

GOBELINS Summer school 2008 in Paris
Character Animation
From June 30th to July 11th, 2008
Find out more

Hello guys, I believe this will be my last post in Singapore before leaving for Paris to attend the Gobelins Summer School 2008!!

I'm very excited to meet people from all over the world with the common interest of animation, be it the lecturers, guest lecturers, or the other students attending this summer school. I'm even more thrilled to meet the students of Les Gobelins and to see their amazing work and how they work to achieve the result.

Given the numerous attractions in Paris, I believe this will be a very enriching trip in terms of exploring their art, culture, architecture, history and of course animation! :D

Now, I've got to do some preparation for the trip. I'll be back in Singapore a couple of weeks later! See you!

Shawn Kelly's Animation Tips and Tricks

Hi guys, I jumping around the CG Sites and ended up at Shawn Kelly's Animation Tips and Tricks blog. After reading a few recent entries, I found this entry to be very useful for an animator. I believe it will kind of help if us when we are animating so that we don't get lost during the process. Nice tip, I might have it printed out and pin it up at my work station. :)

Here's the link:
What kind of workflow do you use?

Great Animation!

Hey readers!

I found this really impressive animation by a student from AnimationMentor.com
Have a look! :)

Safety@Work Creative Awards 2008 - Safety Harness

On 30 June at Hortpark. My team and I won the Judges' Choice Award category! The prize was some cash and more importantly an internship at Infinite Frameworks! :D Hopefully I will be able to go for the internship. There are some issues because I have had my attachment programme already. Probably somethings can be worked out to schedule the internship after graduation :)

Judges' Choice Award winning animation entry from students Oh Han Wee, Goh Peng Fong, Tan Zi Chao, Ronald Fong Ren Kai, Lee Yong Yi.

Post Attachment

Well, other than being a post attachment entry,

it's literally about my attachment at VHQ POST.
The Industrial Attachment Programme is over and I have learnt a great deal. This entry can help me summarize it all.

Firstly, I will like to thank everybody at VHQ Post. Especially the people from the 3D Department, I seriously hope I had more time and chances to work with them.

I have improved a lot in the technical aspect of course, for example, Diana taught me some tips and tricks to "transfer" the animation of a geometry on a higher res geometry which can be useful in terms of doing cloth simulations in low res and then up res later. I have been using MEL in bits and pieces to do great 3D in Maya, we have a few lecturers in SIDM who are really capable of using the language. Back at VHQ, we have Ashish our technical director who seemingly uses his keyboard more than his mouse in maya! Ok, it's an exaggertation but it's true to an extent, even his animation is scripted! I also did some serious lighting and rendering. OVerall, my productivity in 3D has definately gone up.

There are many departments at VHQ, hence I will walk around to see how a productions actually works and get together. Out of curiousity, I kept asking questions to find out how their pipeline works in order to deliver great results within schedule. Definately, it required good planning to achieve that, hence they have a robust team of producers who fight for time and quality at the same time, such that every process in the production is given adequate time to complete.

To me, it was such a great experience working at VHQ Post. Now, I am applying what I have learnt to my Final Year Project! :)

Gobelins Summer School 2008 Character Animation

Hello everybody!

My previous post was 2 months ago!
Sorry about that.

Other than being busy with important freelance work, I've been on Industrial Attachment Programme for the past 3 months and I've really learnt a great deal. I'll write a more detailed post in the days to come.

Meanwhile, I'm also selected to go for the Gobelins Summer School 2008 Character Animation which is held in Paris, France. I am very excited about the trip because I can get to see and learn many things which I cannot learn here in Singapore. I hope to back valuable knowledge to share with my fellow coursemates.

That's all for now! :)

Demo Reel 2007

Hi all,

I uploaded my first demo reel on to YouTube earlier today.
It's called Demo Reel 2007.



Why 2007?

Actually, it consists of work in early 2008 too. I categorized everything under 2007 first to get things started, so that I won't have a Demo Reel 2008 so early in the year. So please don't get too confused. Anyway, more animation reels are up, have a look :)

Mong Render

Happy Chinese New Year to all!
Wish you the best of health and wealth!



Hello, I'm back with a test render of Mong.
He is rigged halfway and soon to be ready for animation!
It's got to be fun, do check back! :D

Meanwhile, I have a big project coming up and it's going to last for 3 weeks.
Hence, I am going to be pretty busy.

Plain 3D walk cycle animation

Title: Plain 3D walk cycle animation for my assignment.
Software: Maya

Mong

Hi everybody!

I'm working on this character, his name is Mong.
His bones and limbs are meant to disjoint every now and then making him a funny and lovable 3D character.

I will model, texture and rig him until he becomes a complete 3D character rig and hopefully make it to my animation show reels!

Do check back for updates! :D

Welcome to ronald-fong.com

Hello everybody!

This is the official launch of ronald-fong.com!

I am Ronald Fong and this is my website. There is much more in here than just my portfolio work, such as my demo reel, show reels, free 3D models and tutorials. Hence, feel free to browse around and have a look, hopefully you will enjoy your few minutes stay here :). Do check back as there will be many frequent updates coming along. This website is entirely designed and created by me.