It felt like fall yesterday, it smelled like fall this morning, so I wore my Snake Scarfie today! Happy FALL!

Anyways, working at Mobile Motion has been so awesome! Life is so busy as usual, and a bit challenging because of working and schooling at the same time, so here's a looksie at some more school work! Too bad I can't show you what we're working on at work! I'm so excited for it because the whole world is excited for it!

3D work! With an AO pass! And some color! Shack:





Metro Entrance:

Screwdrivers:


More work later! I am in the process of finishing them up!

First rotoscoping assignment! So many problems, but we finally finished it! Done in Nuke for our VFX class with Raul Moreno! The song is obviously from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.

Roto Magic! from Kim Vongbunyong on Vimeo.

Hope you guys like it!

If you have the time, this is pretty moving. It won an Grand Prix for TV submissions at this year's Spike Asia Awards.

I guess that getting busy with the things you want to do, but also have NO idea how to do it is the best thing ever! You learn so much! So for the first three weeks of school I luckily took it up so quickly-- it has become so EXCITING and AWESOME. So here, take this work dump below!

First off, 3D CHARACTER ANIMATION! the class I'm most excited about!

And this was for my 3D Animation class where we began to learn how to model in NURBS. It's funny because NURBS stand for Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline... but when you work on it, it's not very rational, rather very irrational lol! But at any rate, I modeled a True Blood Bottle as I waited for the Season Finale!

Currently in my life:
- SCHOOL
- D23 w/ PIXAR
- NUKE is AMAZING
- 3D Character Animation... is SO MUCH FUN!
- waiting for work dump!
- new internship is CRAZY cool with these guys!Only terrible thing is driving to and from Glendale to rush back to my 7 pm VFX class!

and possibly the future look of Ellipsis Closure?

so... appease yourselves with this 8-bit music Lego stop motion of awe:

It's a ball bounce! Plus some squash and stretch! It gets funky on the second to last bounce and when it begins to stop, I feel a bit like a noob, but it's progress I'd say. Especially because it helped me overcome my fear of the graph editor!

In other news, a couple of friends and I went over to Gnomon to attend the making of Pixar's UP, a lecture lead by Gary Bruins. It was pretty exciting!

To sum everything up...Comic-Con 2009 was totally AMAZING. Not only was it my first time there, but I had been wanting to go for about FIVE years. Back in the day when I was a wee kiddie in Chiang Mai, I religiously followed the blogs/websites of Enrico Casarosa, Kazu Kibuishi, and Kean Soo. So when they got to go to Comic-Con, they would blog and post pictures about it, and be uber excited about EVERYTHING! and so, I got excited by everything and promised myself that I would have to make it to Comic-Con one day, even if I would have to fly there over to the States. I respected these guys and their work so much that I wanted to meet them in person and to work in their industry. So thanks to these guys, they became one of the reasons of why I came to California.

*SNIFFFFFFLESSSS* So sentimental!

Alright, Hall H was epicly so hard to get into, but we managed to get in and the Panels where AMAZING! So some of the people and things we saw:

- John Lasseter = Pixar
- Hayao Miyazaki = Studio Ghilbi
- James Cameron = Avatar!
- Roland Emmerich = 2012
- Peter Jackson = District 9
- Robert Downey Jr. = Sherlock Homes and Iron Man 2
- Where the Wild Things Are
- Star Wars The Old Republic
- Jason Bateman = Extract! and Arrested Development
- LOST
- Olivia Munn!
- Zombieland
and soooo many more!






It was an amazing experience! Next week, I promise you a set of Character Poses! Since I'm back from Thailand and San Diego...I continue working/interning this Monday! WHOO!

Plus, check out what I found: http://www.kickstandlabs.com/tools/
It enables smoother character deformations in Autodesk Maya! I totally would love to have!

This one time... from nelson boles on Vimeo

Watch this awesome short by Nelson Boles, a CalArts dude.
p.s. I am going home tonight. Then, they are going to check me for Swine Flu!

Check out his blog here: http://neillcameron.blogspot.com/
p.s. as a kid I used to be so scared of Modok.

So guys, I've been really busy at work here at Jirbo and EpicTilt working on iPhone games, and hopefully before the end of summer, some of the games I've worked on will be up and on sale on iTunes! My good friend Michelle will actually get to see some of her work in the next two weeks. I'm really excited for her! The crew there is awesome, and I'll draw some cartoons of them soooooon.

Anyway, I'm homeward bound to the motherland...Thailand, so I've just been hanging around with some good friends, taking it easy and reading The Animator's Surival Kit, and just watching a lot of fundimental 3D animation tutorials, especially my good professor's Coddington's Gnomon stuff! And, surprisingly I'm all cool with this stuff just soaking in, and it's beginning to make sense :) hopefully I'll get to do some noobish animation ball bounce, character posing and some walk cycle before OTIS: season 3 starts!

Speaking of animation...TRANSFORMERS 2 was AWESOME! Of course I had problems with the story and some of the characters, but the VFX and Animation just blew me away. Hands down for ILM, Digital Domain, Imaginary Forces and all the other companies. This is our future industry guys!

Alright, I hope your summer is going well! LA has finally decided to get all warm and sunny. Oh and RIP Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, and Billy Mays.