Ten Thousand Teeth

It's done! My entry for the "TEN" challenge over at cgsociety. Check out the competition page and other entries here.

TEN challenge update

Small update on my progress. Just got back from festive holiday, so I haven't gotten too far. Going to power on!

TEN challenge WIP's

Lunch time sculpts

just messing around during lunch hour...

TEN wip's

little late in publishing, but here's some WIP sculpt screenshots...

TEN challenge

man, I've been mia and still terrible with general posts. Anyway, busy with alot of things, one of which is I've started the TEN challenge over at cgsociety. Go over and support!

here's my WIP of my idea and concept, the theme of the challenge in "TEN", and my idea is entitled "Battle of Ten thousand teeth". Simple, I'm not going to overthink it ;p

Eggs dialogue test - Blocking

Working on a dialogue test, here's my blocking progress so far.

Eggs Blocking 2 from Martin Sen on Vimeo.

11SecondClub

Forgot to post this.. oops. Here's my 11sec entry for Dec'10.

11secondClub December 2010 from Martin Sen on Vimeo.

Pepsi

Here's a little short film that we did at Luma for Pepsi around April 2011. I did the fur setup and lighting, and I animated the last shot. It was very rushed, we had about 1 week to do the animation, hectic! So for the time constraints I think we did an awesome job!

Pepsi Short Film pitch from Luma on Vimeo.

Siggraph Asia 2010

It's really an honour to be selected in the Computer Animation Festival for this year's Siggraph Asia 2010. It's beyond words! I think it's gratifying to know I'm pushing my career in the right direction, even though at most times the goals just seems so far away. Thanks again to everyone that's supported me, I'm excited to be in this industry and can't wait what the future brings!

Animation Mentor Showcase 2010

AM has released their 2010 showcase! Inspiring work as always and I'm really impressed with my fellow classmates. Well done to everyone that features on the showcase!

> view the showcase

Raindance Film Festival

New Digs will screening at this year's Raindance Film Festival in London! Tickets are on sale so if you're in the area and love film go check it out.

doodle warmup

Wow, I haven't drawn in so long ;( I've been meaning to get back into it. Anyway, here's a small doodle that I thought looked decent enough to post. Need to practice my rendering, one step at a time ;p

NEW DIGS short film - completed!

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Originally uploaded by Martin_Sen

YES, my short film is finally done. It's been a loooong 18 months of production but well worth it. I like to thank my mentors from Animation Mentor - Kieth Sintay, Chris Derochie, Jason Taylor, Michelle Meeker, Chris Chua and Ray Chase. Thanks for all the feedback and crits from my classmates at AM (there's so many but you know who u r ;)
Thanks to the guys from the "old" Anamazing Workshop that helped me listen to my story pitches - Sean Viljoen, Karen Botha, Samantha Cutler and Allan Cameron. Thanks to Luma Animation for letting me use some render power. And finally thanks to my family, Sidney, Katharine, Cydne and Donovan for their support and encouragement.

I'll try to post some making of's soon ;)

one light to rule them all....

So I'm in the middle of lighting my shots, and I just thought this WIP shot was really cool. It's basically 1 light, far from finished obviously, but just the basic shapes and silhouettes it created was almost a new style in it's own. Almost Sin City like. Meh... enough blab, back to work!

New Digs production stills

Post production on my short is still going.... slowly! But here's some progress on it.

Blog?

I have just forgotten about updating my blog completely! Or just simply not having any time to dedicate towards it. Anyway I'm going to try to update this more regularly and post some WIP of my short film!