Timothy Chan

Gears of War - Marcus Fenix

2012-01-20T21:07:00.000-08:00

For this assignment we had to take a well known game character and pop them into a different game. I chose to put Marcus Fenix into the game Team Fortress 2.

I still got to model and texture this bad boy. Stay tuned!

Gas Can

2011-12-25T23:50:00.000-08:00

For this assignment we had to model out an object and bring it into UDK editor. I chose the gas can cause it seemed pretty easy to do. Its just a cylinder with a bunch of small cylinders attached to it. I just wanted to make sure I did this project properly and learn the steps involved when making hard surface models for games.

This is my highpoly model...

…and this is my lowpoly model…

unwrap and texture...

….and……BAM…loaded onto UDK.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

this post has got to be the least christmasy thing ever -_-

its a gas can.

Hobo Steve Walk Cycle

2011-12-17T19:02:00.000-08:00

First semester of school is DONE! I couldn't be happier. Schools been pretty hard and I'm not really happy with the work I've been pumping out. Hopefully things will be better second semester. Theres just too much things to learn.

This was our animation assignment. We had to apply a CAT rig to our character mesh.
More to come!

zBrush MODELS

2011-12-15T19:23:00.000-08:00

My first attempt at zbrush.

So HARD to get hard surfaces. But so awesome to get wrinkles and organic shapes.

Hobo Steve

2011-11-14T21:56:00.001-08:00

This is Steve. He thinks he's some sort of warrior in the mysterious land of Kanada.

The Adventures of Seneca's Gaming Program Part 3

2011-11-11T20:50:00.001-08:00

Level design using the Unreal Editor.

The Adventures of Seneca's Gaming Program Part 2

2011-10-08T14:27:00.000-07:00

Texturing assignment.
I'm pretty happy with how this turned out.
As for the other assignments................not so happy lol

The Lightbulb Eater

2011-09-29T20:34:00.000-07:00

Game concept piece. Its about a man who eats lightbulbs to get electric powers.

The Adventures of Seneca's Gaming Program Part 1

2011-09-20T17:34:00.000-07:00

These are 2 projects we had in the first 2 weeks of school.
The layout above was made using assets from the Unreal Tournament Editor. Its pretty fun! Its like playing Sims but with no restrictions. We had to basically construct a mechanical room using certain packages.
The "Afro-Man-Spider" was our first modeling assignment. We had to create a character using simple shapes. Mostly spheres and cyclinders.
I'll keep you guys posted! More tree-D projects coming soon!

A freakin 12-gauge, what do you think?

2011-08-19T01:42:00.000-07:00

"They kept trying to attack my cousins, what the heck would you do in a situation like that?" Napoleon Dynamite

Get Busy Living or Get Busy Dying

2011-08-13T23:48:00.000-07:00

I decided to draw Andy Dufresne(Tim Robbins) and Red(Morgan Freeman) from the movie "The Shawshank Redemption".

Probably one of greatest films ever MADE! I love it. I've probably seen it 10 times.

Side Note: This is the scene when Andy gives Red a little present. Its a Harmonica.

Old Stuff

2011-08-09T14:03:00.001-07:00

Haven't posted anything for a while so I thought I'd show you guys pictures that might not have been seen in my film. These images were meant to give the viewer a little history of my character. I tried to make them small enough for people to not notice after the first viewing.

I just love it when you watch an old movie and you pick up on things you didn't see the first time around. Its what makes a movie worth watching several times and it encourages audience participation.

Anime Expo 2011!!!

2011-07-06T15:09:00.001-07:00

Just came back from the Anime Expo which was held at the Staples Convention Centre in LA. I had tons of fun and made a lot of new friends. My booth was located at the very far back and my very westernized style of cartoons didn't really help with sales. -_-

The picture above is the booth I shared with my good friend Minh Nguyen. His prints were more of what the people were looking for.

Above are the 3 prints I sold at the convention. Out of the 3, my top seller was the Totoro piece which people thought looked really creepy and funny.

From now till the start of September I'll probably be working to improve my character designs. I'm also going to try and learn 3D software to prepare me for my studies at Seneca College. I'll keep you guys posted! =)

Online Portfolio Website

2011-05-25T18:40:00.000-07:00

So school's finished and now I'm looking for work. I've spent the past month working on my portfolio website and applying to jobs.

I understand that its still early and that I've just graduated, but I still feel unprepared to work in this industry. Most of the job postings are for 3D artist and I've spent the past 4 years trying to become a better 2D artist. The program taught us 3D but that was only for a semester or two. They taught us the basics hoping that we would pick it up afterwards to learn the more difficult aspects on our own. I was one of the many that believed if we had a strong 2D portfolio, we could land a job in a 3D studio that would teach us how to use the software. The reality is a studio would much rather hire someone who knows the software.

So anyways, I've decided to take the gaming program at Seneca college! In the meantime, I'm looking for freelance positions to keep me busy over the summer.

Check out my new online portfolio!

Timothy Chan's Online Portfolio

Feel free to contact me at timchan.animation@gmail.com

A Starry Night

2011-05-07T15:40:00.000-07:00

Lots of Tim Hortons and sleepless nights went into this film. I'd do it all over again if I could. Maybe I will!!

Here it is friends!

Hope you enjoy it as much as I had making it!

Password to watch the film is "stars"

Done SCHOOL!!....now what?!

2011-04-28T22:14:00.000-07:00

The last 4 years have been the greatest 4 years in my life! I'm going to miss everyone. The friends I've made in the past couple of years are some of the most talented and dedicated people I have ever met. I keep on dreaming for the day we all join together to make some kind of awesome studio. In the meantime, I hope for everyone to find a job and to just be happy.

FILM is almost finished!!! I just wanted to make it look pretty for the film festivals I'm planning to enter.

In the meantime....here are some of the layouts from my film.

Industry Day Promo

2011-03-21T21:48:00.001-07:00

Here is my final character design and colour. We needed to have a character pose and a screenshot from our films for the upcoming industry day.

Only 4 weeks left!!! I hope I can finish on time!!!

I'm so tired -_-

Scene_017

2011-01-24T02:47:00.000-08:00

Last post for my film.

See you guys in 3 months!!!

A Starry Night - Colour Script

2010-12-23T20:48:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas! Happy New Year!

Animation & Layout (update)

2010-12-12T01:55:00.000-08:00

I just realized that this is the first animation piece I've done all year. Its a little funny cause I'm in an animation program.

3 seconds roughed in.

only 1 minute and 57 seconds left.

This is one of the more complicated panning shots in my film. I still have to clean up the line and colour it. I also had huge issues with moving the camera on After Effects. Hopefully I'll get it done in 4 months.

More Lifedrawing?

2010-12-02T21:18:00.000-08:00

A Starry Night (Water Test)

2010-11-15T22:38:00.000-08:00

The water in my film plays a major role in the last few shots. If its not done correctly it could really ruin the overall mood of the film. This is a test I did on After Effects using a painting I did earlier.

Royal Winter Fair (Animal Drawings)

2010-11-14T00:54:00.001-08:00

Some drawings I did at the Royal Winter Fair.

Lifedrawing

2010-11-05T12:46:00.000-07:00

A Starry Night Leica Reel (2nd Pass)

2010-11-04T19:47:00.000-07:00

2nd attempt!

The main difference is at the end.

One more pass at the story and it should be ready for production. -_-

A Starry Night Leica Reel

2010-10-14T19:05:00.000-07:00

The title for my 4th year thesis is now "A Starry Night". This is the first pass at the leica stage. Lots of changes are probably going to happen.

4th Year Film Storyboards

2010-09-10T10:41:00.001-07:00

Some areas need to be tweaked but I thought I'd share what I got.

Man looks through telescope.

Cloud blocks telescope.

Man grabs vacum cleaner.

Man sucks cloud up.

Cloud gets stuck.

Man beats cloud with a stick.

Water from cloud creates a lake.

Stars from the sky reflect of the lake creating the feeling of space.

Any helpful critiques would be awesome. =)

Garra Rufa (Doctor Fish)

2010-09-10T10:38:00.000-07:00

I think enough time has past to finally post this on my blog.

I had so much fun making this film! I wish we had an extra year in college to do a second group film.

I was hesitant to post this earlier because we were planning to enter it into a bunch of film festivals. Some festivals don't accept submissions that have been posted on the web. In the end we only entered it into two film competitions.

Currently our film has made it into the finalist round for the Adobe Design Achievement Awards. Truthfully I don't really care if we win, I'm just so happy we made it this far.

Night Light?!

2010-08-18T23:23:00.000-07:00

So I recently just finished my co op placement at Pipeline Studios. It was a great experience and I definitely learned a lot about how this industry works. Now I have more time to relax and get my 4th year film up and running. I'm still not happy with the character design I posted a few weeks ago. I realized it took me too long to draw him in various poses. I decided to take a break from character design and work on a couple of layouts.

The telescope will be added later! I'm putting extra time on it to make it look really unique.

The title "Nuit Lumiere" was just kind of placed there without thought. Its french for night light which plays a role in my film. I just thought the french version of night light sounds really cool. Any word in another language sounds better.

We'll see what happens. I might just change everything again.

New Character Design

2010-07-14T19:25:00.001-07:00

This could be it!!

I have spent the past 2 months coming up with a design for my 4th year project. This is the 4th iteration for Louie and it could be the last. I've been so frustrated lately with this project. The frustration would sometimes have me questioning this career path.

If this whole animation thing doesn't work out for me...I dunno what I'm going to do

2010-04-27T20:34:00.000-07:00

More concept art for my 4th year film project. Its titled Louis. I'm probably going to change it later.

3rd Year Finishes. 4th Year Begins.

2010-04-21T18:39:00.000-07:00

Our group film is finished and awesome. I haven't posted anything for a while but thats because the film has taken most of my time. I haven't posted the film itself because there's still a few things that need fixing. I'm really happy with how it turned out and very excited to enter the film in a bunch of film festivals. I'm going to miss working with everyone that was involved with this project. I've learned so much about the process of making a film and I've gotten closer with many of my classmates. This year was truly a great year and I'm definitely going to miss working with such talented artist.

At the moment I'm preparing myself for my work term at Pipeline Studios. I also plan on getting my 4th year film boarded out over the summer. The sketch above is the character I plan on using for my short film. He looks like a Ghostbuster but he's actually just an old man who wants to vacuum up clouds.

Demo Reel

2010-02-17T19:37:00.000-08:00

I still got to fix the volume...

it gets really low for the music...but really loud for the dialogue

Update

2010-02-06T01:22:00.001-08:00

This is an update for a character design that I did a few weeks ago. I really hated everything about the original version but had no time to fix the small things. I thought it be cool to show the old and new version.

NEW

OLD

Group Film Leica Reel

2010-02-03T18:34:00.000-08:00

The final product of a whole semester of brainstorming. So much has changed from the original concept. I can personally say I am very pleased and excited to see the final film. Its going to be a long 4 months from here.

I'm so grateful for having such an awesome group!

Btw Garra Rufa is latin for Doctor Fish

we still haven't really finalized the title of our film

2010-01-18T22:57:00.000-08:00

The result of 2 sleepless weeks.

I might add a shadow to the character but thats if I have a lot of extra time.

Old Journal Entry

2010-01-09T15:39:00.000-08:00

I was digging through old artwork and found THIS!!

Toy Story was one of my favourite movies when I was 6 (i think)

It could be the reason why I chose this career path.

Its amazing how a movie can have such an impact on one's life. =)

Portfolio

2010-01-07T20:01:00.000-08:00

Still in the process of putting everything together. I will keep posting as I near completion. =)

2009-12-07T23:42:00.000-08:00

Lately I've been juggling a few projects in school. This is the one thats been taking up a majority of my time. Its going to be first piece for my demo reel. I want to make extra sure its perfect.

3D Animation - Thinking Character Assignment Rough

2009-12-03T23:07:00.000-08:00

First Rough for my "thinking character" assignment.

Second Rough for my 3D assignment.

Stop Motion Assignment 2

2009-11-28T23:17:00.000-08:00

Didn't really like how this turned out but I thought it be something cool to post. Half way through this assignment I accidentally bumped into the set. I had to spend a good 10 minutes re-aligning everything. You might notice the little jump at around the 1 second mark.

3D Animation Walk Cycle

2009-11-28T22:55:00.000-08:00

Started to learn 3D animation in class. Its a lot harder then I expected. The process is almost the same as doing traditional animation. Hopefully I can master this before school ends so I can get that awesome internship at Pixar. =)

Currently I'm working on my thinking character assignment. I'll post it when I'm done.

Royal Winter Fair Field Trip (Animal Drawings)

2009-11-12T19:47:00.000-08:00

Random Character

2009-11-10T20:49:00.001-08:00

Group Film Concept (3D Floor Plans)

2009-11-10T20:11:00.000-08:00

Bathroom Layout

2009-11-09T16:21:00.001-08:00

Here is the revised layout. The only big difference is the perspective on the shelf to the left. I also added a layer in the foreground because I felt the area below the toilet was empty.

A bathroom layout I did for my action analysis project. I showed it to my layout teacher and he pointed out a lot of mistakes that I didn't see. I've decided to just redo the whole thing. =(

I liked how it turned out but the mistakes haunt me when I sleep.

More Group Film Concept

2009-10-27T20:49:00.001-07:00

Experimenting with different stuff!

Concept Art for Group Film

2009-10-18T21:44:00.001-07:00

Stop Motion

2009-10-11T12:49:00.000-07:00

In our 3rd year of animation we get to learn stop motion animation. The video above is the first test we did in class. We needed to have the cars nearly collide on frame 13 and then crash on frame 35. We also needed to have one car do two loops while the other car did one loop. It was actually really hard to do. =(

Action Analysis Project - Leica Reel (Potty Training)

2009-10-05T20:16:00.000-07:00

Leica reel for my action analysis project. Only 5 seconds of this 30 second story will be animated. My story is about a little boy who needs to go to the washroom after drinking many bottles of milk. He finds out that the toilet seat is way too high for him. He decides to use toilet paper to boost him up. The toilet paper falls onto its side and the little boy looses his balance. The little boy ends up flying face first into the large toilet.

Action Analysis Project - Coming Soon

2009-09-24T20:59:00.000-07:00

Decided to create poster for upcoming project.

Thought it be a good exercise for digital painting.

Prison Break

2009-09-01T20:51:00.000-07:00

I've been watching alot of Prison Break. I tried to draw T-Bag.

Italian Street

2009-08-17T22:00:00.000-07:00

Haven't posted anything for a long time so I decided to draw the first image I found on google. I'm not even sure if this is an italian street LOL
A cool thing I noticed, while refrencing off this photo, is that the street lights hang from these cables that connect to the buildings. cool stuff.

Big Tree

2009-06-29T16:06:00.000-07:00

Dark outline?

Light outline?

Junk Yard - Another Possible 4th Year Film

2009-06-23T15:28:00.000-07:00

I had this idea about a garbage man finding something magical in his garbage dump. This film would be incredibly hard to make because the layouts would be too hard to draw. I found that most of the time spent was drawing and colouring the small pieces of garbage in the dump piles. Maybe it be a film I'd like to make after school. =)

Summer School Stuff - Incomplete

2009-06-18T20:47:00.000-07:00

I took this animation course over the summer that teaches us how to sync animation to music. The music I chose to sync my animation to comes from the intro of Pixar's Monsters Inc. I didn't have time to finish the project but here's what I got. I don't think I'll ever finish it because I've just gotten too frustrated with this piece. =(
If you didn't understand the animation...I don't blame you lol
It starts off with a magician pulling random stuff out of his hat. He eventually finds out there is a slimey monster in his magical hat. When the monster comes out of the hat, the magician uses the bouncing balls to hit the monster. Having little effect on the monster, the magician decides to use his wand to turn the monster into a rabbit.I don't know how I came up with such a silly scenario..it just kinda developed while I was animating.

The first half is near complete. The second half still needs a lot more inbetweens. The monster still needed to be animated. The slime the magician was looking at still needed to be animated.

4th Year Film Idea

2009-05-20T23:00:00.000-07:00

Here is one idea I have for my 4th year film. Its about this really old guy who wants to get to the moon. I'm not going to say much about it...but I will post a drawing every now and then. =)
I've been experimenting with some of the different effects in photoshop. I really like how the clouds turned out...BUT...I'm not a fan of the ground.

Final Project for 2nd Year ANIMATION!

2009-04-24T03:30:00.000-07:00

The last project for the school year. All I had to do is colour one of the layouts digitally.
Its currently 6:32am and its the last day of school. I'm happy and very tired.
I'm done. I can finally rest and begin worrying about finding a summer job.

Beak Animation - More Cowbell

2009-04-22T22:30:00.000-07:00

Final animation project for 2nd year. We had to sync dialogue to a character with a beak. I got this dialogue from a sketch in SNL.

I had to cut to the face for the last bit cause of deadline issues. If I were to do full body animation for the entire sequence, I would DIE.

I'm not sure I can do this for a living. Its toooooo hard.

Layout Project in the THIRD DIMENSION

2009-04-16T23:57:00.001-07:00

This project took an ENTIRE WEEK!!! man...
now all I got to do is the animation and the television storyboards.

Last Batch of Lifedrawings for 2nd Year =(

2009-04-15T22:52:00.000-07:00

One thing I've learned this year is that you got to keep practicing lifedrawing.....even though you feel like your getting worse. Its rewarding to see a slight improvement over the drawings I did in the beginning of the year. THEN AGAIN.....I've just noticed that most of these drawings are drawings of the models back. WHICH MEANS.....the ones I did of the front didn't make the cut. I still got to keep practicing.

Layout Project - Medieval Ages (Rough Final)

2009-04-15T00:57:00.000-07:00

Our final layout project for 2nd year animation. Sad =(

Our assignment was to design three layouts for our storyboards. The layouts had to reflect a certain period in history. I chose the medieval ages cause I thought it'd be fun. Turns out....its not. =O

Still to come are the digitized moving versions of these layouts.

Its kinda hard to see....but I think it looks cooler when you get to see all the layers.

Never again will I draw each brick...that was a pain and a half.

Muzzle Sync Animation - What Happens When I Get Upset?!

2009-03-25T20:04:00.001-07:00

Line taken from an old movie called "Little Monsters". Enjoyed working on the project. My fellow classmates thought I'd would crumble under the pressure of doing a 15 second animation.

DONE!

192 frames.....but I'm almost positive it could have been done in less.

klsdfjlkls nveroksfn apsadk.....I'm tired

More Lifedrawing

2009-03-15T21:15:00.001-07:00

Larry,Terry,Mary and Gary - Character Design

2009-03-15T21:05:00.000-07:00

Our assignment was to create 4 characters in a specific time period. I chose the medieval time period. We had to create a hero, a heroine, a villain, and a comic relief character.

I liked how these turned out =)

Human Sync Animation

2009-02-28T00:23:00.000-08:00

This line was taken from Talladega Nights. Took me a lonnnng time. I wished I spent more time working out the character design before animating. I ran into so many problems with the design of the character. ANASLKLSKDJL!!!!!!! But I learned a valuable lesson...and that is to never start animating unless your 200% sure you like the design of your character. Hopefully my next project will be more successful then this one. =(

Panning Background Assignment

2009-02-27T23:59:00.001-08:00

BG - Background UL - Underlay
OL - Overlay EOL - Extreme Overlay

The animation really didn't go with the pan. It seemed alright when I was putting it together a few nights ago...but now...EWW...so I'll probably fix the problem and repost this video in its respectful form....sooooon. Just posting so some of you could see how it looks in motion.=)

(just blur your eyes so you can't see the animation)

Lip Sync Animation

2009-02-10T22:12:00.000-08:00

Lip sync animation to the line "I thought I told you never to interupt me while I'm working!"

Title Page for New Portfolio....Mmmaybe

2009-02-10T20:07:00.000-08:00

I'm currently working on a new portfolio to get me an internship at an animation studio for the summer. But the process has been slow due to the amount of school work. This first attempt for a title page was more of an experiment then a final piece. I don't like how I have this huge cloud blocking everything on the bottom...and the colours I chose are kinda ugly. I DO like the out of focus scribbles and the focused scribbles around the cloud....prob going to keep that effect for the next attempt.

HUH!

2009-01-26T22:26:00.001-08:00

Yeaaaaaaa....I dunno...
Just getting use to the my NEW super awesome WACOM tablet!????
This concept of an old man came from my sketchbook. I've been looking at Silver's character designs. Pretty crazy. Trying to expand my library of noses and eyes....and face shapes.

Character Designs O_0

2009-01-23T13:10:00.000-08:00

This was the last character assignment for last semester. We had to create a male and female character based on people we see in life. The post-it notes are corrections that my teacher pointed out. The guy character was based on someone I saw at church. And the girl was just a student I saw in the cafeteria.

Digital Painting

2009-01-18T22:03:00.000-08:00

First ever digital painting...I was trying to copy this concept painting for the upcoming Disney movie "The Princess and the Frog".

The painting took me tooooooo long to finnish for something that looks like a speedpainting. But its the first for many to come =)

Expression Change Animation

2008-12-18T19:33:00.000-08:00

A super hero kid finds out the gel he uses for his hair is sold out. In his anger he lights a fireball and burns his hand accidentaly.

Storyboard - Meat Eater

2008-12-18T15:51:00.000-08:00

These are the first drawings we did for this project. It just tells the entire story in as few panels as possible. Once we got the thumbs up from the teacher we were able to go ahead with the project and tell our story.A colour study for my Storyboard. Gives an idea of how the story would look if it was turned into an actual film.

Final Leica Reel with sound effects and music.

Lifedrawingz

2008-12-18T15:10:00.000-08:00

2008-12-06T10:26:00.000-08:00

We had to paint something relating to a world issue......and I know oil spills aren't really that big of an issue but around that time I saw the Spiderman 3 trailer and I really wanted to paint black oil-e stuff.

Very old stuff from grade 12 art class....

Random Sketchbook Sketches

2008-12-03T22:47:00.000-08:00

Swamp Sketch

2008-12-03T21:51:00.000-08:00

More stuff from first year....
I used led shavings and an eraser....and pencil to outline some edges -____- I have to stop outlining!

Walk and Run Animationz

2008-11-22T19:06:00.000-08:00

Walk and run cycles for characters we designed in character design class.

The Subway Stop

2008-11-19T21:26:00.000-08:00

Interior painting assignment.
Liked how it turned out...but i got carried away with outlining.

2008-11-15T17:25:00.000-08:00

Final Painting....

Colour Studies...

Tonal Studies....

First painting assignment for 2nd Year Animation.

Got this idea of floating alien ships after watching the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Tried to do my own take of that same idea. Wasn't too happy with the colours I choose. I felt it didn't really convey the mood I wanted to show.

2008-11-15T17:04:00.000-08:00

A first year animation assignment. We had to pick a character and animate a full 360 degree head rotation. I choose Stimpy from the Ren and Stimpy show. At the end we also had to lip sync the character with a voice over.

2008-11-15T17:00:00.000-08:00

A bone study of some prehistoric animal.

We had to go to the ROM ( Royal Ontario Museum) to view and draw these bones. Then we had to hand in our drawings complete with what we thought the muscle structure would look like.

2008-11-15T16:52:00.000-08:00

This was a side project my sister wanted me to do. It was a design for a T-Shirt that was going to be sold to fundraise for CAP (Children Adoption Program). In the end not many T-shirts could be made so this design was only used for CAP volunteers.

A first year assignment from character design class. We had to create a sequence using a character design we created. My sequence involves a bunny trying to fit himself into a magicians hat.

2008-11-15T15:26:00.000-08:00

A night and day spacescape...

Character designs from first year...

Some layout stuff....

Got some reference from "the Art of the Incredibles" =O

Some hands and feet studies.....

Some bone studies......also from first year

Some first year work....