Hey wud uppp

Soo, I have not blogged in a long time. But I figure I should prolly do that again seeing as I'm in a new place!

I'm currently living in Brooklyn NY, trying to find an animation job for a month because my friend was kind enough to sublease his apt for cheap!

So I shall start posting pictures and process and what not on this blog!

Today was my first day of being in New York.
Everyone thinks i've been here before. But I have not.
FIRST TIMEEEE EVARRR.

And today has been great. <3

End of the Yearrr

Well, Saturday is the day that I will be done with my BFA in Animation...
So here are a few updates of my animationnnn.

When You Sleep

When You Sleep from Diana Chao on Vimeo.

Life-World




Yeahh yeah yeah yeahhhh got them projects alll finisheddddd

Life-World Studio pics

I thought I might put up some process pictures of the animationnnn!!
Animation will be finished today.
Entire animation with sound and post and what not should be done by May 5th.

Commencement will be on May 15th and the exhibition will be @ 5-7 with screenings of all the films made!! Come play and hang out and watch some sweet films! (If you're in MPLS that is...)








This is a Monostand that Johnny got and let us use! well...It's part of it. Lol.


This is the monostand. It's intense and amazing. <3 Thx Johnny.




Some pictures of the sea. :D


More pictures of the sea.


Fish cakes?




Get ready MPLS. <3

Life-World

Here are some pictures of the stop motion animation that I am currently working on with Raychel Steinbach called, Life-World

Mountains

They are coming...

Made @ MCAD

One of my photos got into Made @ MCAD! Woo woo!!!

Some illustrations

Lololololol I drew some things yesterday.

La Maison en petits cubes [The House of Small Cubes]

I really enjoy this animation, I think it's great, so I wanted to share it with you guys too!

Major Lazer- Pon De Floor/Keep it goin louder

Too good not to post. If you guys don't know, Major Lazer videos are awesome.
Thx Eric Wareheim. (If you don't know it's the guy from the Tim and Eric show)

Major Lazer "Pon De Floor" from Eric Wareheim on Vimeo.

Major Lazer "Keep it Going Louder" from Eric Wareheim on Vimeo.

SWEEET THX BEN INNES!

Here are some colored photos of my series I did a few weeks ago. Thanks to Ben Innes for taking the colored ones. <333 They look amazinggggg

Broken

A Series of Photos

I haven't decided a title for this piece yet, but the context to it is from Chinese folklore and a self portrait piece.

Muhammad Ali Rumble in the Jungle

Check out this sweet project some of my professors worked on for Muhammad enterprises
Produced by Tom Debiaso, animated by Dave Novak, sound design by Rik Sferra and drawn by David Rathman

Zaire: David Rathman Project - Muhammad Ali Rumble in the Jungle 1974 from Tom DeBiaso on Vimeo.

2009 Demo Reelzzz

Check out my Demo Reel for 2009! Woot!

2009 Demo Reel from Diana Chao on Vimeo.

project project projectttttzzz

Currently working on a series of photos revolving around old chinese folklore called Nezha




Andd screenshots of my animation coloreddd

Ben Bury and Nick Bachman's animation for Mike EPPS!

Here's an animation that Ben Bury and Nick Bachman did for a Freelance gig for Mike Epps.

BACKGROUNDZZZ

Check out my new backgroundsss and screenshots of my animation!







Also my screenshotz:

The shadows I'm doing in maya:


Soo...Then they actually turned into shadows in maya:


Then imported into After Effects...My love.

Exercises!

This is awesome.

http://www.patrickmoberg.com/workoutplan/

A Mix and a Show

So you guys should totally listen to this rough mix that my friend Jake Nollette made. It's pretty good for a rough.
http://drop.jacobnollette.com/roughFreemix1.mp3


Also whoever is around mpls, you should totally look at the shows that are currently up. Which is the annual Ireland show, Jerome show and now the Study Abroad show that Kate curated and set up for us who didn't go to Ireland.

Woot woot. it's all awesome. <3

Storyboards for Senior Project and one background

Here's some storyboards from my senior project!
It will be in watercolored pencil and the shadows will be 3D animation.










And here's the background in the beginning!!