Another Fashion intro test

Here's a test of a new makeover show at our tv station. It's called Celebrity Makeover. The main people on the show are the photographer, clothing designer, makeup and hair artist and host. Each person will have a part in the intro.
They also called for a hi-tech feel.
Here's my test of the Photographer. I just used placeholders so they can see what it's gonna look like. The photos will be replaced by green screen footage.
I still need to add the blur and what not to make it look like focusing through a camera lens.

Summer 2009 Reel

Woop! Updated the reel!
Music: Perfume - Inryoku


PLEASE! Feel free to give me any suggestions. The awesome thing about Vimeo is that I can replace my vid with a new one without affecting the stats or url! So you can bet I'll be working on this to polish it up <3

Oh yes! and I added my awesome friend/coworker, An Lai, in the links. Go peep her reel :D

simple comics.

Both of these stem from conversations I've had with Kalen lolol.




By the way, Pete Candeland does not disappoint with this intro for the Beatles RockBand. http://www.thebeatlesrockband.com/cinematic.php

News graphics

There's something about news graphics that I just can't seem to grasp just yet. I feel like I'm lacking the professional look.

I referenced this Motion Graphics Lab page. I really like the abstract shapes and the circles. The layering and layer styles of each piece really makes it sharp.

We did a style similar to that for our VHN News package, so this time around I wanted to do something a little different. This opening is for Houston, and it's just a Local news show.

Here's the style layout I first did in Photoshop to give me the gist of the look of it. I found a random picture on google images and laid it as the background. The colors are a bit dull.


Here are two screenshots of it so far from After Effects. I spent the most time playing with the layer styles for each of the layers. I did the text in Cinema4D.



Still feeling like it's missing something. But it's a work in progress so we'll see!

By the way, thank you to Kalen for buying me the Up artbook. <3 you! :D

Tuoi Tho final

It's done! And check the awesome track, yo.
I didn't have time to draw and animate an alien but I made a rocket ship and used it as a wipe! Thanks, Teresa!
2 weeks for an animation at work is a new record for me. If I get anymore, I'll try to do it faster and more efficiently.


Also, I taught myself how to make an unlooping flash banner with a button that links to a website for a client. Wooo! Go me.

Take a Look!
Have a good day!

Tuoi Tho

2 weeks of work! A third of it was figuring out how to animate a character in Flash. I gave up since it was taking too long and I'm on a time constraint. Everything is animated in After Effects. The Puppet Tool was used for the character. Nice simple little animation. Oh! And I learned about converting expressions to keyframes, which is a godsend!
I'm still going to tweak a couple of animations like the Sun and the overall pacing of the whole piece and, of course, add music. Everything needs to be done by Tuesday next week! phew!

Any suggestions on what I can add during the space-y part? Right now it's feeling a little bland...Maybe shooting stars? I think she travels a little too fast.

I'll upload the final piece to Vimeo when I'm done with it.

Eventually I'll come around to animating in Flash, but that will just have to be on my off time!

Sensual Seduction

My best picture to date.

La Roux

It's been a while since I've drawn! lolol...as you can totally tell...
Just wanted to do this as a stress reliever.



La Roux! I really like her BulletProof song - especially the music vid!

A little preview...

Working on a new intro for a kid's show! :D
I might be animating the main character in flash...but we will see.

Boogiezone Intro

An Intro I did for the online dance community, Boogiezone

Boogiezone Intro from Sutefeni on Vimeo.

I modeled the ribbons and the planet in Cinema4D and then imported into After Effects for the final touches. Also, the city was animated with the mograph menus in Cinema4D woo!
I definitely had a lot of fun working on this project!

Epic! Portrait of me by Kalen <3

My wonderful, inspiring, and supportive boyfriend painted another portrait of me!
Omg! Thank you SOOO much Kalen! This is tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight! :D
Go check out his blog! www.kalenart.com

Hero - Five Second Project

Here's my project entry for Grey Scale Gorilla's weekly theme.
We just have to do 5 seconds of any kind of animation. This is pretty good practice for me! wooo
Kinda meh :/

Fracture test 01 and Tracer 02

higher quality: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbhBr6HoaUE&fmt=18

I was struggling with the Fracture objects in Mograph, but I finally figured it out! :D Well just the basics of it anyway. You need to have the shape as an editable mesh, explode segments, then disconnect the faces.

Fracture Object with a Random effector (effecting position of the faces) and three tracers (they're the ribbons rotating around the cube)
Rendered out in passes and brought into After Effects.

Tracer test 01

Just messing around with the Tracer tool in Cinema 4D. Also tried to learn more about rendering with the Object Buffers (passes) and luma matting them in After Effects.

I'm getting out of my comfort zone and into 3D ack!

Backgrounds

I don't usually do bgs, but here are two that I'm making for my next opening/commercial...



Used some references...
Been quite busy lately! xD I promise I will update more!

On Hold.

Brb in 3 weeks! Lol.

Girl_21-23; 2.02-2.04.09

Girl_21 2.02.09


Girl_22 2.03.09


Girl_23 2.04.09

Girl_18-20; 1.30-2.01.09

Girl_18 1.30.09


Girl_19 1.31.09


Girl_20 2.01.09

I never did think that Sailor Uranus liked wearing a dress...she was too much of a manly lesbian.

Re-VAMP intro

Enjoy!


Property of VHN-TV (DirecTV 2073) and VAN-TV (18.7)
Johnny D. Nguyen presents: Re-VAMP
Music: Mavien Bliss - Enough
Intro produced, directed and animated by Stefanie Huynh

P.S Added Mike Tracy and Frank Lin to the links!

Together.

Had to do it! xD

Girl_13-17; 1.25-1.29.09

Ahhhh I need moreeee!!

Girl_13 1.25.09


Girl_14 1.26.09


Girl_15 1.27.09


Girl_16 1.28.09


Girl_17 1.29.09


More to come for real!!

Girl_12 - 1.24.09

I will be uploading the rest in one set when I finish it. How many more sketches do I need to catch up? ELEVEN??

Teeheehee

Girl_11 - 1.23.09

ELELELELELELELELE!!!

Happy Tet.

Chuc Mung Nam Moi!

Property of VHN-TV.

Girl_10 - 1.22.09

boing.

need to work on gesture.

Obamawataaaaaaaaaa!

Sorry this is completely random, but I want one lol :]

More awesomeness here:
http://gamu-toys.info/sonota/sw/obama/obama.html

Girl_09 - 1.21.09

Discovering more and more what I need to practice on :]

group 01-08

Just thought i'd put them into one group so i can upload to deviantart :P

Girl_08 - 1.20.09

Girl_05, Girl_06, Girl_07 -- 1.17.09 - 1.19.09

Whew! Caught up! xD

1.17.09


1.18.09


1.19.09

Girl_04 - 1.16.09

Girl_03 - 1.15.09

Hiiiiii!

Girl_02 - 1.14.09

Late night sketch!

Girl_01 - 1.13.09

So I was inspired by AtomicToy's "dude-a-day" project, so I'm going to do a girl a day too!

Finalized Re-VAMP

So here's the finalized version that we are going to be using! :D
My next project is to do a whole tv intro for Re VAMP! Yay!

Re-VAMP'd version 2

Here's another design of Re-VAMP'd


edit: here's a revised version with some crits from Kalen and An

Re-VAMP'd

Here's a poster made by yours truly!

Salon.

I had to quickly jump to a new project, so I completely forgot to upload this:


Property of VAN-TV channel 18.7

Kalen.

Kalen's done TWO pictures of me already of me, so I gotta do at least one lol.
He's an epic artist in the making. I wonder if I should have him holding just a pencil. Maybe I'll make that pencil epic...


I'm still trying to figure out how I'm going to color this.

le brian progress 2

Here's another shot of characters. The bg isn't mine.


I finally finished my props and characters and only have ONE day to finish the animation! *crosses fingers* Gosh my time management skills are awesome (sarcasm)

le brian progress.

I was assigned an intro and then things happened and my previous idea was thrown out. So I'm in complete crunch mode with a new idea AND stress! At least I can figure out how to do things a little faster lol
Here are two little pieces (that still need a lotta fixing xD) that are going to be a part of this new intro for a makeover show.
All in Adobe Illustrator.



I'll probably take this home to work on. *fingers crossed* Wish me luck! :D

Me.

EDIT (12/05/08):
He finished coloring it lol
I LOVE IT! :D

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So Kalen decided to draw me and if I EVER eventually get the time, I will color it lol. Thank you, Kalen! :*
Go peep some of his stuff! kalenart.com

Face paint.

No quickie today since I'm going to work really early.
Last night I went to Disneyland and got my face painted! It took Manny the painter about 5 seconds to do it.
And look Tinkerbell pooped sparkles on my face too!
Definitely mind my awesome penguin pajamas.

MAGICAL! :D

Lady Brown.

Had my winamp on shuffle this morning and Lady Brown by Nujabes ft. Cise came up! I forgot how much I love this song! :D
Quickie before work!

Illustrator + mouse.

I love freestyling in Illustrator! <3

P.S. Added Anwar and Arthur de Pins in the links

Bubble vids.

An finally uploaded some vids of Bubble! We love pissing off the poor bird.
Here's my favorite where we put her food under the glass table and she can't get to it.




And here's one where she's just sleeping under An's monitor.


Such an inspiration!

Interwebs.

Yay we are getting the internet fixed! I think I'm going through withdrawal.
Quickie before work.

Really don't know what i was thinking with the choice in brush.... ¬_¬

Cheryl Koo.

Snuck in a quick one at work because I have major artist block. xD
Last night's hip hop instructor had such a dope style! I can't really remember the color of her hair or the shape of her glasses. I just remember the big ass red glasses with no lenses that just worked so well with her!
And when she would count the beats she would say "ee ah 3" etc. It was cute >.<

Adobe Illustrator pen tool + mouse.
I need to start doing more illustrator pieces!

Special Investigation.

*sigh* Still no internet at home. We're looking at Thursday or Friday before it's up and going again. Hey, at least I'll go out more...or watch tv.

Anyways, here's a little piece you might have seen from my demo. It's an opening for a (hopefully) future news segment at the station I work at. Directed and animated by yours truly. From storyboards to the final sound effects took me about a week or so.

Content is copyrighted to VAN-TV.

Le Building.

The lady of the house that I live at accidentally broke the cable cord so now we have no internets. I will upload when I get home (hopefully it will be fixed by then) so for now, here's one of my favorite animation shorts of all time from Gobelins.



Go here for their website and high quality version!
Le Building

Adriana.

For my bestest coworker from Starbucks! We started at the same time in '03 and have been friends ever since!

Sometimes I miss working there and meeting all different kinds of people.

My favorite time of the year

quickie before i head to work

Skate!

GARRR Perspective! *shakes fist at foreshortening*
You can bet I'll be doing more of these perspective shots!

I'm going to go color this to soothe my frustrations.
Oh and almost over my sickness yay!

AND as you can see, I've added new links to the right! --->
Check them out when you can! :D

Edit:
Work in progress! I needta sleep!

No draaawlings.

I was knocked into a coma at 7 last night by my aunt's super powerful mini pill. So no sketchies to show. But you can just watch this!
Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea:

Ah the movie was cute! The story was weird as hell but that's to be expected. Either way loved the animation and the characters! haha.
Hopefully I will have something to show tonight!

Bright Blonde.

This is what happens when they overprocess your hair. Your clothes burn off too.


I will call this a speedpaint. Though I've never really understood the meaning of it. I mean some speedpaints take an hour, some take three hours. Not really speedy is it? Anyone care to explain?
Btw, this took 1 and a half hours in photoshop.

Bubble

As I waited for my renders at work today, I decided to sketch An's bird, Bubble. It's a cinnamon green cheek conure.


I can't seem to get a consistent anatomy with it, so I'll be sketching it a lot more. At least it's there everyday <3
Bubble is the sweetest bird in the world but only to people she knows (like me!). She'll give you a "kiss" by pretty much licking you (dirty bird). Strangers beware! You'll get a nasty bite from her..and maybe some poop on your shoulder.
Oh and we don't know what gender it is because you have to take a blood test. An and I hope it's a she.

Sick.

So I decided to sketch a little before I went to bed. I'm still incredibly sick :[, so I figured why not try to sketch some sickness. I like to draw people throwing up.
I think I need to work on coughing because it just looks like she's crooning into an invisible mic. xD


Oh and Good general advice for all cartoonists: Details can't hide a bad drawing!
Woohoo!! Doesn't make me feel as bad when I can't get awesome details in. Eventually I'll be able to...

Caroline - Newswoman extraordinaire!

So I decided to scrap the old drawing of my lovely cousin and went with this one today!
You make me so proud, girl! <33 Sorry it took so long!

All photoshop.

My next splurge goal will be an intuos, that's for sure. :p

Sketches from 2007

Here are some year old sketches some of you may remember :]









I'm gonna be starting again so watch out! :D

Demo 08

So today I decided to throw a demo reel together xD
Enjoy!
Every piece was produced, directed and animated by me.
Music: Mr. Flash - Over the Top

Demo 08 from Sutefeni on Vimeo.

Bye bye past!

I've completely deleted all 900+ entries from my blog and am starting anew!! :D