"Au Pays des Merveilles"

Trailer done for the French edition of  Wonderland, called ""Au Pays des Merveilles" which translates as... "Land of Wonders"  i think :p Always with the plinky rinky Burton-Elfmanesque music! Why must it be so? :p

The Half Flat Art Show

The Half Flat Art Show is on from Nov 29- Dec 30 at the Black Earth Art Musuem in Singapore. Original Comic Book Art and Robot Paintings on display, together with the works of another 3 illustrators :p



For more event photos, click here: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=88943

For a show review:  http://www.liquidcitizen.net/temp/IS-reviewsmall.jpg



For Gilamon Studio's report of the Liquid City book launch at Kinokuniya Singapore, goto:

http://gilamon.blogspot.com/2008/12/at-liquid-city-launch-in-singapore.html

Press Release thingy

Press Release info for the Liquid City launch and the "Half Flat" Art show :

http://www.liquidcitizen.net/pressrelease3.pdf

The Anthology launch will be at Kinokuniya (Ngee Ann City) 2:00-4:00 PM on November 29 2008, and the "Half Falt" art show opening will be at the Black Earth Art Museum, later that evening at 7:30 PM.

Singapore Toys and Comics Convention - Saturday

It was the first day STCC was open to the public today, and many of us had thought it might turn out to be a sedate affair, so it was a real surprise on arriving in the morning to see the queue that had  built up by bout 11...



Not quite the San Diego Comic Con , but given its a first time affair, the turnout and buzz was pretty impressive, and those of us who had rented booths were left frazzled (in a  good way) by the end of the day by the activity involved - meeting fellow fans and creators, selling merchandise, all that.

There was also was great toys on display, including an excellent Star Wars section that had a whole bunch of storm troopers, the debut of the Clone Wars toys line, and best of all the full old school line up from the 70s and 80s, including two of my faves, Han Solo and Darth Vader in all their limited-articulation glory :) The presence of stores like Basheer Books, offering proper convention discounts, debut showings of the Manga Batman anime and all sorts of competitions also added to the general atmosphere.



One letdown was the absence of Lao Fu Zhi/ Old Master Q artist Joseph Wong Chak, who was unfortunately unable to make it due to 'urgent  personal circumstances'. Generally the number of celeb-level artists present was on the low side, and too few people had risked taking on Artist Alley booths (on unfounded fears as it turned out), but in general it did feel like a small -scale SDCC, with lots of growth potential. A lot of publishers and companies approached apparently want to wait for the second STCC  before committing resources to taking part, and I do hope that the convention gets bigger and better every year :)

As was most the Singapore fraternity was there: from IFS, to ACAS, Ken Foo, Troy Chin, plus some from across the causeway like Gilamon and Gempak; even Tan Eng Huat was wondering around for a bit ...more pics of everyone tomo! :p



For lots more photos go:

http://sgfrag.net/?p=3689

podcasted

eh... my first podcast, with the usual ahh and ummms and non-sequiters :p much thanks to Chris from cIndyCenter.com for putting up with it all :p

http://www.cindycenter.com/

http://www.cindycenter.com/SonnyLiewFinal.mp3

Colouring Idiosyncracies

Some queries from various sources recently about the colouring done on Wonderland and Malinky Robot, so here's a quick walkthrough :p

Programme: Photoshop

First thing is scanning in the pencils at 300dpi, after which i adjust hue/saturation, brightness/contrast until it looks ready...



Image layer is now changed to 'Multiply' so you can see the  layer of colour underneath it. Then its the mechanical process of blocking out the major areas in flat colours, which ends up looking like this:



Next a duplicate layer is made of colours and highlights, tones, shadows etc are worked on in the new colour layer. The layer box looks something like this:



The reason for keeping the old colour layer is so that its easy to select a large area on it using the Magic Wand tool; then you can go back to the new colour layer,  and adjust the hue/saturation - its a quick way of making changes to the palette...

So eventually you end up with something like this (still a work in progress i think! :p)

malinky robot short

working on a short malinky robot story (um... about robots!) for flight 5 and /or liquid city. early colouring stages for a double page spread: