Author: Lucas
07 Oct VFX – Giving the Monster His Eyes
Animation, VFX | LucasIt’s the Friday before thanksgiving, so I thought I’d go out with a *bang*!This one’s from the summer. I had to wait a couple months before being able to show it off, to avoid conflict with the client’s own release schedule. The following is…
10 Sep The Great Korean Sketchbook Dump, PART 5
Sketchbook, Travel | LucasIt’s the GREAT KOREAN SKETCHBOOK DUMP, now with ten percent more kimchi! (Above: Kathy, at the royal palaces in Seoul) Below: Top: Samantha Ronson. Bottom: 해녀(woman free-diver) on Jeju Island, from an article in the Jeju Weekly. This sketch was…
07 Sep Photographs of Jeju
Travel | LucasI kept a map on my wall in Jeju where I marked out all the territory I had covered on my motorcycle. The island is roughly 100 km end-to-end, and is crisscrossed by a few large, modern tourist highways and thousands of labyrinthine farm roads. …
26 Aug The Great Korean Sketchbook Dump, PART 2
Sketchbook | LucasThese sketches were done in the Jeju Natural History and Folklore museum (check out their site!) during my Christmas break last year. I have to say, as far as the richness of their displays goes, Korean museum put their canadian counterparts to shame. And the admission…
24 Aug The Great Korean Sketchbook Dump, PART 1
Sketchbook, Travel | LucasTHE GREAT KOREAN SKETCHBOOK DUMP! In the fall of 2010 I was invited for a radio interview with Arirang, as representative of the ‘TaLK’ English teachers living in Jeju. A fellow guest on the program, a catholic cleric who operated a support network for immigrant…
21 Aug 3d Projection Concept Art
Animation, Concept Design | LucasRecently I did some concept art for an ‘urban fantasy’ that was in the beginning stages of development and in need of some brainstorming. One of the concerns was budget (practically nonexistent). The filmmakers wanted to achieve a reasonable scale to the production without the…
14 Aug Portrait of a Friend
Sketchbook | LucasAn inspirational notebook inside cover for Christian Yetter, writer-in-exile on Jeju Island.
22 Jun Adventures in Projection-Mapping, continued
VFX | LucasFor a recent project, I used this same technique to create a series of tracking shots from still photographs: As explored earlier in a proof-of-concept video here: From Pencil to 3d, projection mapping (or photogrammetry, if you want to be all scientific about it), is…
06 Jun My new Name Stamp
Sketchbook, Travel | LucasAnybody out there ever try to make shapes with their name? A long long time ago, back when I was attending the August TaLK training in Jeju City, I was doodling in my sketchbook, and started playing around with my Korean name. I’m not sure…