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Some Old Stuff

2011-02-16T22:30:00.000-08:00

2010-05-18T11:17:00.000-07:00

Logo by: Michael Villamejor

IT's now live!

TREETOPIA on FACEBOOK

This is my first official facebook game release. I was fortunate enough to work on and art direct. The team though is awesome, thx to Aggie Cheung, Virgil Serrano, Alpha Gomboa, Jay Tang, and Mike Villamejor, this project was Crazy fast but an extremely fun process. It has now gone live on facebook, so come on through to check it out :)

here is an article that gives a good overview of what this game is about.

Treetopia Overview

And I will be posting work for it later :)

Thanks for stoppin by!

2010-02-24T01:48:00.000-08:00

Some doodles for a project I was helping a friend out with. Fingers crossed on it seeing the light of day :D Probably the most exciting thing I've gotten to work on in a while.

2010-01-20T00:10:00.000-08:00

2009-12-15T17:08:00.000-08:00

A dump of stuff that will unfortunately not see life, but like many fallen projects, a lot of fun.

2009-04-07T17:37:00.000-07:00

The life of this gaming business. Alas, two games in for me and two games down... on the Cutting Room floor that is... :( So this was another title... that only by the will of the gods ascended on high that can resurrect this project.
Either way though, I learned an amazing amount between these two project, and am still learning a lot, about this industry.

2009-04-05T22:55:00.000-07:00

Here's some goofy stuff I had worked on, on a project that unfortunately will not be seeing the light of day :( it will remain in the dark for boding, dis mall place, that we in the industry refer to as...THE SHELF... duh duh duhhhhhhhh.....barf.
I've posted the rest on my website and you all are more than welcome to check it all out there.
http://www.moonboystudios.com

2009-04-04T15:47:00.000-07:00

Some old stuff I hadn't posted...
Doodle doodle doodle with my noodle noodle noodle..... :D

2009-02-10T11:09:00.000-08:00

2009-02-09T08:17:00.000-08:00

here's a random birthday card I made for my buddy.

some doodles

2009-01-27T09:58:00.000-08:00

2009-01-03T23:01:00.000-08:00

been a while since I've just doodled without too much of the noodle :D good times :D

2008-12-24T10:52:00.000-08:00

A doodle for the Holidays

HAPPY HOLIDAYS :D

2008-09-26T13:34:00.000-07:00

These are some studies inspired by Armand Serrano. I really enjoy the color choices he makes and how he's able to keep things really saturated at the same time not losing a lot of value. I like the doodles I came up with here, but with each one, I realize how much more I need to learn about composing with light and color. The shapes and compositions with enviorments i'm confident about, but with the edition of light and color, that is only half the battle now.

2008-09-22T12:55:00.000-07:00

Some recent art I've been doing. Just getting more color and working on a process that works for me.

THANKS!!! QUACK!!!

2008-09-11T12:42:00.000-07:00

The Gallery Show went freaken GOOD! Thank you all for comin out to the show and giving your support. We really appreciate it. All of us who put on the show couldn't have asked for a better audience. We enjoyed putting on the show so that you guys could enjoy it. It was great seeing a lot of you again and hope all is well.

Best,
Martin

2008-09-03T00:31:00.000-07:00

It's finally here!!!

DUCK!!!

the show will be at:
D-STRUCTURE

Opening is:
Friday September 5, 2008
8-11PM

Hope to see you all there!

CHEERS!

2008-07-28T11:05:00.000-07:00

2008-07-09T23:02:00.000-07:00

Just some new doodles, toying around with stuff.

Good fun

Security Robot

2008-07-03T05:52:00.000-07:00

So finally colored this guys up, i like the way he turned out and the subtle texture work for his shell. I pushed him more and added some stretch to get a better feeling of the weight or the baby. His main purpose is to guard and protect the house, NOT baby sit, but to show that he is more than just a mindless, emotionless drone I thought the idea of showing how his owners take advantage of his kindness would be good for a chuckle :D

2008-07-01T18:50:00.000-07:00

Just some more expressions for a robot i liked

2008-07-01T00:51:00.000-07:00

Some more stuff I've been workin on.

2008-06-11T03:22:00.000-07:00

These are part of a series of plane concepts I had done, just for the sake of seeing whether or not i could do them, and like any fun project they began to develop into a bit more. The first idea was just for fun I wanted to see what a plane in that configuration would look like. I wanted to do a futuristic stunt plane. The idea came from watching a documentary on space planes that were able to control a free fall by adjustable wings (amazing in a totally nerdy sense). So that was the birth of the idea, that arial acrobatic pilots in the near future could perform the impossibly looking stunts with complete control.
Artistically I thought the first one turned out pretty well, I really made sure to hammer out the perspectives and to get a bit of texture.
For the second one, I wanted to push the lighting a bit more. There is more to be pushed, so I will come back to it again when my eyes have rested, but I do like the way it's turning out, and I'm real happy with the abstract viper decal logo. It's always fun to do some Graphic Design to make a piece more believable.

2008-06-10T01:38:00.000-07:00

Recently finished this up. There are a few more things i want to toy around with, like a colored backlight just to see what happens, but so far i like where this has gone. Started with a sketch, then into illustrator, and finally photoshop. Good fun.

2008-06-04T13:20:00.000-07:00

A landscape i did and then totally manipulated in Photoshop

2008-04-13T01:47:00.000-07:00

Here's some random stuff I've been doin since the last post. Enjoy

This was a random illustration I did for a buddy, this is not really being animated to my knowledge, it just reminded me of a cell when i finished.

Duck In A Box, another random thing I'm working on. Possibly more ducky ideas to come.

Yeah, i don't know what i was thinking either. Chicks, skirts, leather/vinyl, and wierd machines... hot?

Ahhh yes, my good ol co-worker from EA. Ben, the master of cuteness. Poor guy had to draw the cutest princess outfits for weeks. I've never seen one man tackle some much cuteness (not that cuteness is a unmanly thing... just sayin...geeze...)

This was a blast from the past from me. Did this years ago... and I was like, traditional? Brush? paper? God?

2008-02-05T01:21:00.000-08:00

It had been a long time since I've just sat down to sketch. Met up with a buddy and we just drew. It was great. The little boy was halarious. He kept pumping the tea squisher thinger majigger up and down, laughing histarically while doing it. This was great for the first minute, but the novelty wore off especially when he started scream laughing histarically, which was just a bit obnoxious, but hey, if I were his age, i'd be having a freakin blast too ;D

2008-01-18T21:26:00.000-08:00

2008-01-11T01:33:00.001-08:00

Some wolverine doodles, I love the intensity in wolverine's background, good fun.

2008-01-11T01:28:00.001-08:00

here are some doodles over the past few months... man it has been a while. Feels good to be doodling whatever in teh sketchbook again.

2007-10-24T22:57:00.000-07:00

Working on reworking some old projects that I had fun with, but I think I can have an even greater time with now. This has to do with a sea beast that is used by a civilization to migrate to warmer climates.

2007-10-22T02:26:00.001-07:00

Birthday card i did recently.
good fun. It's of me and my roommates' pets, Obby the guinea, and george, guss, and bear.

2007-09-05T23:44:00.000-07:00

A few weeks ago I went camping with some friends up in MENDOCINO COUNTY. Beautiful place with a quaint little town. I was able to steal away while everybody napped on saturday to do some doodles. It was a great experience. Last year I also did a painting, but gave it to the hostess. I highly reccomend this area to just relax. If you do have money to burn or just want to get away somewhere there are a lot of bed and breakfast type places around there. If you do go, I highly recommend the chocolate shop in Mendocino Town, and not the one in Fort Brag. Oh and abalone diving is awesome out there.

2007-08-08T02:20:00.000-07:00

Some more doodles. I'll probably finish these up in illustrator.

2007-08-07T02:17:00.000-07:00

drones and worlds, just trying out some new techniques and ideas. Thus far it has been fun and interesting. Just by rotating the thumbs i get a completely different scene and landscape. I will be painting a few of these to see what I get.

2007-08-04T02:02:00.000-07:00

So these are some ideas running through my head of redesigning certain super heroes. It's a fun little test to build another folio for a company. These are just busts, but for wolverine I was thinking that since he uses mostly his blades fro fighting he would have an extremely muscular and large upper body, and for his face because it is undetermined just how old he is, he would appear older in the eyes, more wrinkles to show the struggles and the hard times he's faced.
Flash, smooth, arrow dynamic like a shark. I added goggles, cause it always bothered me that he ran so fast that i figured his eyes would dry out, or bugs may splat in his eyes, and it also helps with wind drag.
Spider woman, i'm not sure yet, just wanted to try a woman and spider woman I always thought was interesting being one of the first jet black haired women, but still working on these ideas. more to come.

2007-08-03T13:31:00.000-07:00

here's my idea of a mad scientist that uses his nose to fullfill his mad plans. This is a work in progress and I hope to emphasize more on the fact that he uses his nose for his science.

2007-07-27T16:26:00.000-07:00

Some more doodles.

2007-07-24T23:55:00.000-07:00

It's been a while since i've posted. Still doodlin, here's some recent sketches i did on an excursion to the SF. good times.

Blah

2007-07-24T23:38:00.000-07:00

2007-05-07T18:59:00.000-07:00

You know how there's those days where you just want to do this. It just feels good to give a fat little gopher a good squishin now and then :)

2007-05-07T13:17:00.000-07:00

Some new images. Fully painted the plane to the best of my ability and now i'm thinking i'm gonna paint up some of the other planes. These were really fun to do. I can see why scott robertson enjoys vehicles so much.

THIS IS NOT MY PIECE, Favor for a friend

2007-05-03T14:41:00.000-07:00

I didn't give the whole piece a makeover cause it would've took to long, but you can see i just pumped the contrast with the cart area. I outline the areas i wanted to overall deal with using the pen tool and then i went in and painted, and used the dodge tool to bring out some highlights. good luck man and keep up the awesome work.

2007-04-25T22:39:00.000-07:00

Here's some new stuff i've been workin on...... can we say Scott Robertson... ugh... i'm trying some new techniques, seein whether or not i can do this stuff, render realistic, and yadda yadda yadda, trying not to get too pigeon holed. I dunno, just doodlin. I can confidently say though, it is fun, and i'm eager to see what will land on paper next.
Oh if anybody has any advice or, just plane, hey try this, please lemme know. word.
Oh yeah almost forgot, these are all works in progress, it's a long road to painted finish, but i look forward to the finish :) sweet!

2007-03-14T17:54:00.000-07:00

These are some new doodles I did. Good fun.
I'm hoping to take some of these to full color and even further exploration. Some of these are part of a larger story. There are definite influences. The typ for the gamblers is influenced by Tim Burton films and type. The Goat is a mix of ideas I've seen from my friends, Emperor's (sp?)new groove. some recent inspirations to draw more are my coworkers and inparticular some ground breaking artists Sean "cheeks" Galloway and dreamworks's Nicolas Marlet, who if you haven't heard of either of these two half man half amazing artists I really recommend them. Beautiful sense of style, and technique is solid.

2007-03-08T20:26:00.000-08:00

For some reason i've been noodlin cats... Definitely influenced by Claire Wendling. Good fun :)

2007-03-08T20:17:00.000-08:00

More Noodles

2007-03-02T19:10:00.000-08:00

Some stuffs to unwind from doodlin obj and layouts all day at EA ARGH! I've been on some cat and rabbit spree these days... can't explain just have, but i like it it's good fun :)

2007-02-20T11:18:00.000-08:00

Here are some doodles from a meeting and here are some plein aire doodles touched up in Phtoshop stuff. Tried to preserve that brushy stroke kinda a thin, but didn't wanna spend too much time on it. It was a good day in monterey though where they were done.

2007-02-16T16:41:00.000-08:00

Konstantin honored me by painting up my little doodle noodle. Schweet :)

2007-02-14T13:21:00.000-08:00

Here's some doodles over the weekend trip to the Annies. What a great trip and experience. To see people like us geeks getting recognized and appreciated like that for our hard work. Well worth it.

Landscapes

2007-01-15T00:13:00.000-08:00

These are just two of a few chinese landsacapes I did. I was researching Fu Xien to see where possibly my family heritage came from, since I'm 5 generations deep in Taiwan. With the language barrier and the lack of relative resources I tried to find out whether my family were originally farmers or fishers. No luck though. So i Just toyed around with the ink brush pen to instead. No where near as beautiful as true brush painters, but it was a fun experience. I'm pretty happy with the results though. Hope you guys like it too.

2006-12-01T01:47:00.000-08:00

So this was randomly burped outta the brain. But the whole bit about culture just got me thinkin bout how there are those people out there that WANT to be percieved as "cultured" and how funny they are, with their abrassive "I have seen the world attitude" big deal, i love culture and I really love just knowing random cultural tidbits, mostly to entertain and humor myself. So yeah... dunno where the soap box came from so i'll step down now and quietly pack the wooden crate away.

THANKSGIVING... YAY!!!!!

2006-11-23T05:08:00.000-08:00

Alright, It's been awhile, but I just wanted to post something. These are a few random things i've been workin on. It has been busy at work and finishing up this semester, but still workin on stories and ideas. these are for inspiration and from inspiration. The chick with the scythe is actually supposed to be..." lil miss muffet who sat on a tuffet brooding bout having her way, along came lil bo peep with all her sheep and chop chop is all she had to say." partly inspired by a past story way back that i was doin to just jostle things up and have a more adult twisted side to all those ol nursery ryhmes. It has a dash of those good ol brothers grimms and recently after seeing some INCREDIBLE previews of Pan's Labyrinth it has been time to do it again. The ribs, well just ribs, it was a piece of a collage i was going to put together, but decided i didnt' need them, but they look tasty and hey ribs are good, YUM.
Well happy THANKSGIVING and hope everyone at least did something to unwind a bit and to enjoy this life we live. Take care and Best :)

Dragon Balloon

2006-10-24T16:46:00.000-07:00

Here's a bday card I was working on. now I just wanna finish it up and tweak it into a better piece. It's inspired by images from Andreas Blasich's short story in "Out of Picture" and some clouds studies i've been seein people do, and I've always been fascinated with ho air balloons so why not and chicks with wispy hair. So far it's been good fun and i'm finally gettin over my fear and just goin at it with this whole painting thing. Good fun, i am really enjoying photoshop painting now. Still miss the traditional, but digital is really easier.

2006-10-14T20:49:00.000-07:00

Some random stuff. The Painting was about 20 mins. I was thinkin back and was like hey that's not bad for 20 mins. Too bad I haven't built up the stamina and confidence to finish, but working towards it. And the doodle is just a doodle. good times :)

Hobo Lady 2

2006-10-08T15:51:00.000-07:00

Just another drawing of hobo lady
I thought it would be nice to have two pets, a cat and a bird just to add diversity to the scene and her character.
I'm beginning to think she will be my main character and we would be viewing the world through her eyes. She had an open mind about things and sees the world as an endless adventure and source of happiness, the conflict within herself though would be her desire, since she is 42, to settle down and just find a place she can call home.

The librarian and the HOBO

2006-10-08T01:22:00.000-07:00

Hey ya'll. These are some new drawings. The librarian is a addition to the Time travelers, it is his book of history and what needs to be repaired. The hobo lady is a new idea i'm toying around with. Just trying to think of something fun to do with hobos, they're the dirtiest and most rugged adventurers of our day now and they're all sorts, stow aways, river folk, hitch hikers, all the sorts, so just seeing where this idea could take me. Plus since they travel a lot they may have some really interesting ambiguous sillouettes to play around with. This may give me a chance to really toy around with different styles too.

SHM alumni get together

2006-10-07T02:47:00.000-07:00

So these are from a while ago, but it was a great night of drinkin and drawing. Good times with my fellow classmates from SJSU. We're all a bunch of art dorks and dang proud of it :)

COLOR

2006-10-01T06:37:00.000-07:00

So here are some recent color additions to the good ol folio. What fun. I had a good time coloring these. I am still intimidated by full matte paintings, but these definitely help with conquering that fear. Especially with the help of Illustrator. I find Illustrator to be so much funner and faster. Using all the big shapes. It's like putting a puzzle together. At work that's all we pretty much use.

Travelers 2

2006-08-14T02:09:00.000-07:00

So these are some more ideas of the time travelers. I wanted to keep a victorina feel so to keep that I added more decorative details to suggest that. These are both essentially edits of characters I had already posted. The girl is now sitting on a victorian bench and the man is a much older version of the young man. He is the chief inventor. He is making a specialized pocket watch that can keep track of where they are in time.

Black Bunny

2006-08-11T17:23:00.000-07:00

This was done for my friend. Recently out of the closet, she wanted a drawing of a babe with bunny ears. So here's m black bunny. And a sketch from Villa Montalvo. beautiful place which caters to the artist. Just missed a show there apparently, but they have a new one coming up and they seem to be pretty different. So I hope to head out there again once the new show is installed.

Time Travelers 1

2006-08-11T00:03:00.000-07:00

here are some ideas for a possible female mechanic and a young half asian/caucasian male scientist. They are time travelers in the Victorian era.

White out

2006-08-03T23:30:00.000-07:00

Some Stuff been workin on over the week. And the watercolor was from a while ago. It's been fun using whiteout like this.

RACH 3

2006-07-28T05:58:00.000-07:00

Title has nothing to do with this art piece, but Shine is playing in the background, and the madness of Rachmaninoff's 3rd movement is playing. The energy the power, dang amazing. For any of you who play the piano or just appreciate good classical, the dynamic insanity of this piece is crazy.
But anyways.
So this piece was inspired by a lady i saw walking accross the street a few months ago. She walked like a chicken, had a crazy hair doo, and crazy huge sunglasses, and a belly, her stature was short and squat, so I attempted this memory sketch. Not exactly like her, but i'm pretty satisfied with this outcome. I've been using Illustrato like mad these days creating Yahoo Avatars, so I decided to draw the final in illustrator. Good fun. It is a tool I never thought i use seriously to draw with, but I've found a new appreciation for it. I'm enjoying the speed and simplicity illustrator provides for clean graphic shapes, it is a bit easier to get that effect in illustrator. Another cool thing is that if I want I can just outline the character in illustrator and then just import it into Photoshop and then paint by selection.
Welps good times, and more to come.

Speed Paint 1 hr

2006-04-28T14:53:00.000-07:00

This is a piece I was sittin on or a long freaken time and finally just decided to paint it. Also submitted it to the Adobe competition. What do you all think, anything worth touchin up or just move on to the next lesson?

Hipsters

2006-04-28T00:22:00.000-07:00

Just learned what a hipster is so decided to doodle some. Dunno if these are really hipsters, but according to a reliable source they just tend to be really effeminate guys. I'd never be able to pull jeans off like that, so I guess I'd just be physically impossible to be a hipster even if I wanted to be :|

Time off sigh

2006-04-27T01:59:00.000-07:00

some sketches i fuddled around with. The blue stuff is from Art 1. Some of you may be familiar with this class, but for those that aren't. It's a time of relaxation and occascional tid bits of cool info. So I take the opportunity to just unwind and kick back and sketch a bit. There ain't too many occasions too these days, so it's nice. But when an occasion does arise and i forget my sketchbook post its come in real handy. The post it drawings aren't my favorite, but it was a fun time listenin to some indy rock live. Oh yeah. The music was performed by three bands, but one band inparticular had one of our fellow SHM alumns Debbie Bruce, who i personally do not know, but it was a good show, and a great way to get away from it all for one night.

Oh her band is Anchors for Architects cool stuff, not my usual, but somethin different is always good.

Oh and yes, that is one of our faithful leaders now here at SJSU David Chai telling all us art 1ners to do animation cause it is like being a God. YESSS!!!!

New blog, online portfolio

2006-04-19T14:16:00.000-07:00

Today just finished my first online portfolio full of NO COLOR!!! dag nab it... slowly but surely color will come. Feel free to check it out. And critique is always really really really welcome, and I ain't talkin bout yadda yadda yadda it's nice, but you all know what i mean the stuff that would make me cry and want to scream, i mean yell, a manly yell, from mountain tops. Thanks you all.
The site is

http://martinkau13.blogspot.com

Peace to all

Tribe

2006-04-17T21:53:00.000-07:00

Some ideas for a guy comin of age in a hypothetical city. He's tryin to summon the great beast to tow their city before the ice season comes. He wants to become a shaman. So those are some ideas of different elder shaman costumes. One of his trials is harvesting fish under water.

Ma-MA-MA-MAquettE!

2006-04-08T02:13:00.001-07:00

An owl, a barn owl at that, course nobody knows it is. But we know it's a bird and i could possibly be an owl. So this is Larry the Kooky cousin owl that no one likes to talk about, possibly the one I relate to the most ;) I had a lot of fun doin this. And there will be more to come.

Child Thieves

2006-04-07T18:01:00.001-07:00

Paintings of two of the child thieves.

2006-04-06T23:06:00.000-07:00

So These were some Ideas for street kids and their tyranical leader. These are the favorites out of the bunch for the idea of the evil leader.

sketchbook days

2006-04-03T00:24:00.000-07:00

Some sketchbook pages. Up down days, always a good time though :)

2006-04-02T01:36:00.000-08:00

These are some ideas I did to try and get an internship at Hallmark. The idea was pretty much design the cutest thing you can think of. It was tough but i dug deep and pooed out some of the disgustingly cutest things i can think of. With a bit of help i came up with the juggling mouse on a unicycle, which the more i look at I think is just wierd, but I like it. The mouse with the flower and the slightly retarded look though still makes me smile :) those crazy mice.

some poo

2006-04-02T01:23:00.000-08:00

here's some random stuff I've been sketching and havin some fun with. Whatcha all think?

Day 1 Noobism

2006-03-30T00:08:00.000-08:00

So this is my first post and my new adventure into the cyber world of sharing parts of my life. What will the future hold. Currently after browsing the many blogs I've discovered that this is pretty freakin cool. Got to catch up with tons of people whom I haven't had a chance to talk to and to see what's been goin on in there lives, plus all the kick ass, sick ass, bomb ass art work they've been doin. I love it! Plus it's easier than setting up some crazy layed out website where you have to navigate for days to find something. Thank you blogspot. Here's me in my new ride fresh from L.A. courtesy of Curious George.