This year, I resolved to do a quick sketch every day. Every morning, I commit at least twenty minutes to draw whatever comes off the top of my head. One of my favourite drawings so far: A smuggler’s ship, landed at a secret desert…
After a week in Mongolia, we crossed northward into Siberia, where our first stop was on the shores of Lake Baikal, in the tiny, idyllic town of Utulik – a beautiful little village full of rustic, brightly-decorated homes.
Last year I travelled to North Korea and, inspired by artists such as James Gurney and Guy Delisle, decided to try putting my camera down once in a while and pick up a sketchbook instead.
This summer I created an animated scottish terrier for a promotional campaign at Knowledge. ‘Scotty’ in his final form turned out to be immensely popular, but not every idea I developed was met with approval. Here are some of the concepts which were rejected (god…
I’m currently (slowly but surely!) working on an animated film based on the folktales of Korea’s Jeju Island. In it, Seolmundae Halmang, the giant goddess who created the island (imagine an old-asian-lady version of Paul Bunyan), makes a deal with the normal-sized villagers who reside there….
During my trip to North Korea in March, I brought along a sketchbook and tried to draw what I saw. Aboard the Air Koryo flight from Beijing to Pyongyang: Contrary to what many other travellers report about flying on rickety soviet-era jets, our plane…
Yesterday, the O.W.L Rehabilitation Centre in Delta had an open house! I went there and did some sketching:
As I get deeper and deeper down the rabbit-hole of production on ‘The Legend of Seolmundae Halmang’, my home office has evolved into a proper little studio. I thought it would be cool to show it off 🙂 My animation desk. Brainstorming: How would and…
A popular adage describes how the unique dialect spoken on Jeju Island evolved so that fishermen could call out to each other over the wind and waves and be still be heard, and if you were to hear a native speaker you would believe it….
I have a new epic project in the works, an animated adaptation of a very unusual Korean folktale. This is the story of Seolmundae Halmang, the giant goddess who created Jeju Island: A long time ago, Seolmundae Halmang created Jeju Island by gathering dirt in…