Bedazzle My Ride

Not much to report about today, just a school/homework day I did see this car at one of the malls we go to, it is a bedazzled Mercedes-Benz. Not quite sure as to why but it looks kind of neat.

Sketch A Day: Day 3
Prompt Favorite Food, which I just happened to have for dinner today! Yumm :)
I didn't spend as much time on today's so this one is a bit more 'sketchy' than the others.

Temple

Last week for my Art of China class my professor (who reminds me of the butler from the Adam's Family) took us out to the nunnery, that I had been to the first week I got here, and another local temple. It is pretty cool because people put in their own deities/shrines and pray to them there so the temple isn't really dedicated to any one god.

They had these huge statues of all the animals from the zodiac, here is mine the ram.

Here they had this fortune thing that you knelt in front of this shrine and got a little bucket full of little sticks that had numbers on them and what you did was shake it while thinking of a question you wanted answered until one of the sticks fall out. You then right down the number and then get a slip that answers your question.

This is the paper I got, I asked Professor Cheung, who is a Hong Kong native, to translate it for me. All of the fortunes are in the form of old Chinese stories mine was about this man who was a really good son to his parents even though he's parents were not exactly what one would call nice or good people. They all lived on a farm and the son would work tirelessly everyday on this plot of land that was not fertile and good to farm on, but eventually he was able to make the land prosper. At least that is how I remember it went.

And also Day 2 of my sketch a day! Today's prompt was to draw your favorite animal. I wasn't planning to spend as much time on it as I did but I think it turned out pretty well. I'm hoping this challenge will help me to draw faster since it usually takes me forever to finish anything.

Sketch a Day

I decided to take up a challenge of doing a sketch a day. I started yesterday but couldn't upload it since the blogger website hasn't been letting me upload anything.

Day 1: draw yourself
I decided to start this off kind of silly by drawing myself as a Pokemon trainer

Nothing really has been going on lately, I was supposed to go shopping with Katie but she left some things she needed back at the dorm so we couldn't go, I think we shall try again another day.

That's all for now!

The Markets

This weekend Keith, who is a friend of Kristin's, came to visit as he stopped in Hong Kong in his journey around the world. So we decided to play tour guide and help him get around the city since we now have a pretty good grasp on what is where. We decided to visit some of the specialty markets that could be found on the streets of Hong Kong. The first one we went to was the Flower Market, which is probably the nicest smelling part of town that I have been in since the street normally just smell of fish, smoke, and Chinese food of course. My favorite part of the market had to be all the Orchids that they had, there were at least three stores that were filled with different colored Orchids in all sizes.

Right across the street was what would probably be my Grandma, Ita's favorite place to visit, the bird market! Which of course had birds everywhere! In and out of cages.  This smelled quite a bit worse than the flowers. The most disturbing parts were the bags filled with live crickets were all over! I tried my best to avoid them.

Afterwords we found a that there was a Hong Kong food festival which consisted of stalls of all kinds of food and tons of free samples, most of which were different kind of teas.But the place was extremely packed and super full of people, making it a bit difficult to navigate.

 Once we had our fill of food we went to the last market which is known a the goldfish market even though there were all kinds of different fish. It reminded me a lot of a carnival game since they were all hanging around in little plastic clear bags. 

Midterm week

Just finished up midterm week! It was a bit crazy but it usually is since there are always two big assignments and a test all in the same week. I'm going to need to talk to my professors at some point though because no one has put any grades up so I have no idea how I'm doing in any of my classes...

But here are some of my projects I have done. For Principles of screen design we had to do a paper cutout animation, which is the kind of animation South Park is like. There are still some parts I would like to fix up but I'll probably do that over the summer since it probably took me about 48 hour of working to make this thing. I was originally going to do it on actual paper and I had a rig set up to capture it but it didn't end up working since I would have had to buy all kinds of expensive software to make it work so I just did it digitally.

The audio is from an audio reading from one of the Grimm Brother's fairy tails "The Golden Bird" but it is only a small excerpt since I didn't have time to animate the whole 8 minute story

Also had to make a Dinner table set of for my modeling class, we had to make all the models and texture it all in a week, which I really fought against since I wanted two weeks to make some really good quality models and textures since I think that is what I want to concentrate on, but I had no such luck. It's not quite portfolio ready yet, it still needs some more work. I plan to completely redo the chairs and make them a lot nicer.

I also went to Hong Kong Disney this last week! Which was a whole lot of fun! It was kind of weird because it was pretty much just a mini version of Magic Kingdom, Mostly all the rides they had were the same, they even had USA street at the entrance!  Kristin and I decided to be total tourist and take tons of pictures and ride on all the rides we could.

 Also saw the 5 year anniversary parade which was really nice! I hadn't seen a Disney parade in ages!

And that's about it for this week! Hope everyone had a lovely week! I miss everyone <3

Busy Busy

Sorry for the lack up updates, school has really started to pick up and I've been bogged down with so much schoolwork lately that I haven't been able to go out all that much. I did go out today for two hours in search of construction paper for a cut out animation class but had no luck what so ever, I did somehow manage not to get lost wondering around by myself, which is good! I am really starting to get the lay of the land! 

But as I have worked Katie and Chris went to the beach and Kristin went out to Macau with the school. I heard though that it is better to go with out teachers since what is big in Macau is the gambling so I think the plan is to head out there on our own at some point. I think Kristin got some good pictures of the more historical aspects that can be found; I might post them up later. 

So I had another assignment due for Principles of scene design that we had to do twice the amount of frames as the last assignment, with an original idea, with the same amount of time; to say the least it was a bit of a challenge. I decided to go with a cut scene from a video game concept I came up with last quarter; in which two guys running one of those cheesy ghost hunting website go to a fort and perform a ritual which then summons a whole bunch of ghosts that they have to deal with. This scene is them getting to the fort and performing the ritual.

This is an areal shot of the fort that the Professor wanted me to put in, I'm not very fond of it :/

 Panning down to wards the fort

 The drawbridge

 This is a view from behind the tree looking down as the characters walk toward it.

 Gray guy is complaining to white about how stupid of an idea this is.

 White guy is all like "chill out bro stop being such a baby!' or something along those lines :P

 "we are already here" continues the white guy

 Pulls out the summoning book

 Reads and oh no all the ghosts come out!!!

I must admit I had the most fun drawing the last one!

Engrish

Nothing much going on the last couple days. We went to the peak on Tuesday which was really nice but definitely very touristy, everything was extremely expensive! I got on ice cream cone and it ended up being HK$35 where normally its only like HK$7. Katie (the groups ex photography major,  since now it's her minor) took some sweet panoramic shots of the city but I haven't been able to get my hands on them yet, I will put them up when I do.

The last couple days have been pretty icky since I caught a cough that has been going around so I haven't really been in the mood to do anything. But since I have been in Hong Kong I have stumbled across so awesome cases of engrish!

Until next time, hepplness ferris whee!