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New Address!

2008-07-10T14:26:00.000+10:00

I've moved! I'm now hosting my blog from home at http://rhys.homelinux.com/

Bunny Collection

2007-05-15T15:56:00.001+10:00

Emoticons

MSN Display Pictures

Wallpapers

Goodbye Market Square

2007-03-30T01:52:00.000+10:00

Oh my gosh!!! 10 shops in Market Square burned down today!! ARGH!

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Film Making Links

2007-03-26T13:16:00.000+10:00

MakeMovies.co.uk - EXCELLENT script writing resource from the creator of "Henry's Cat" :D

Car Blur

2007-03-17T19:35:00.001+10:00

There are some cool photos I took in the car once which I've uploaded to my Picasa Web Album.

Check them out here.

Clear Screen

2007-03-17T18:43:00.001+10:00

Cool little trick idea I stole from some photos I saw at Flickr on w00kies page here.

Naval Strike - Visual FX Test

2007-03-11T06:07:00.000+10:00

A 2D visual effects test, combining several effects, including strobe effects, smoke, and sparkling water (scribble cel).

2D/3D Hybrid Test

2007-03-09T15:48:00.000+10:00

An experiment I did to try out a hybrid 2D/3D animation. I know the walking speed doesn't match the scrolling speed, but whatever, it's an experiment it isn't supposed to be perfect :P

Egg Head

2007-03-07T15:15:00.000+10:00

See character design, story board and animatic in "Egg Head Production".

Oh, this is my first "actual" animation too, cool huh?

Egg Head Production

2007-03-06T22:53:00.001+10:00

Concept
I originally got the idea while chatting with a friend on MSN. I'd just drawn my first walking cycle and sent it to him as an emoticon in MSN.

After making the walking cycle I got the silly idea of the legs walking off by themselves. While we were chatting, we mentioned the emoticons head looks like an egg, then I got the idea. Here's the exact original concept from the MSN conversation:
He is walking along happily, then his body stops, but his legs keep on walking. Then he's like :| wat da? And tries to drag himself after them, then the legs come back n kick him, crack his head, then he cooks himself.

After that, I story boarded...

Story Board

...and came up with a character design...

Character Design

...made an animatic...

Animatic
This is just a very crudely animated story board, so don't get disappointed.

...and then animated. All finished the day after I thought of it. View the final animation

Walk Cycle

2007-03-06T13:50:00.000+10:00

Here is my first 2D walk cycle, and scrolling background!

Made with Macromedia Flash 5.
Thanks Google Video for hosting my videos ^_^ Internet sure is getting handy these days! If I wanted to put this online back when I was in highschool, it wouldn have been slow and expensive. Now it's easy fast and free, mwahaha. Good progress!

3D Wooden Doll Backflip

2007-03-05T23:00:00.000+10:00

Today I made this little animation of a "wooden doll". There are a few problems in the animation, but I only learnt how to do this today, so I'm not sure how to fix the problems... oh well, next time!

Falling

2007-03-02T22:32:00.001+10:00

Day 2 @ School

2007-02-13T16:53:00.001+10:00

Today was 2D animation day. We just learnt the basics of drawing vector graphics. I drew this with Flash 8 (Wah nice, all my other drawing is my old old Flash 5!)

Monkey in the Tree

First day of school

2007-02-12T20:31:00.001+10:00

Today was my first day at school! Studying animation~~ Anyway, here is what I made at school with Maya in my 3D animation class...

Weird Plane Thing

Melly Monyet

2006-11-07T11:18:00.000+10:00

In response to these comments

Zombie Plan

2006-11-07T01:18:00.000+10:00

Titles were inspired by "Planning to Fail" from Red vs Blue.

Zombies are still cool.

Oh, sorry I can't link to the hi-res pictures anymore! Apparently I was violating the terms at Flickr by directly linking to the images, so I better not do that anymore... oops! You can still see them, you just need to do more clicking.

Memory Pit

2006-10-18T00:46:00.000+10:00

Some things... should be held forever
Some things... should be thrown away

By The River

2006-06-08T22:45:00.000+10:00

Colour Me Winter

2006-06-08T21:53:00.000+10:00

Bones

2006-06-08T18:56:00.000+10:00

Raining Street

2006-06-08T18:55:00.000+10:00

Wish of a Dying Man

2006-06-08T18:54:00.001+10:00

Soomin 2

2006-06-08T18:54:00.000+10:00

Leong Ik Mu

2006-06-08T18:47:00.000+10:00

Random Chic

2006-06-08T18:46:00.000+10:00

Soomin

2006-06-08T18:45:00.000+10:00

Smoldering Building

2006-06-08T18:43:00.000+10:00

Dead Man Dead

2006-05-03T11:09:00.000+10:00

Daniel Blue Funk Smokin

2006-04-25T15:58:00.000+10:00

Christine's Graduation

2006-04-13T19:03:00.000+10:00

Sakura ReMiX Rendered

2006-03-30T02:42:00.000+10:00

Sakura Dream ReMiX

2006-03-29T16:35:00.000+10:00

Sakura Dream

2006-03-29T13:22:00.000+10:00

Daniel X Blue

2006-03-27T21:46:00.000+10:00

Friend on Fire

2006-03-24T00:13:00.000+10:00

Valley Somewhere

2006-03-23T11:49:00.000+10:00

Simple

2006-03-23T11:47:00.000+10:00

Scandal

2006-03-23T11:44:00.000+10:00

How shady is that

Orange Autumn

2006-03-23T11:35:00.000+10:00

Hope Brisbane Messy

2006-03-23T11:33:00.000+10:00

Storm

2006-03-18T16:54:00.000+10:00

Weird

2005-12-01T13:21:00.000+10:00

Katana 3

2005-11-09T15:11:00.000+10:00

Katana 2

2005-11-09T01:00:00.000+10:00

Katana

2005-11-07T17:35:00.000+10:00

Guitar

2005-10-27T16:40:00.000+10:00

Forest 2

2005-10-17T16:57:00.000+10:00

Forest

2005-10-15T20:53:00.000+10:00

I stand before You

2005-10-12T10:03:00.000+10:00

Unidus

2005-10-10T21:34:00.000+10:00

~ Build the dream ~

Teacher Mess

2005-10-10T16:28:00.000+10:00

Oh, Teacher!

2005-10-10T12:46:00.000+10:00

Honda NSX (Incomplete)

2005-10-05T22:54:00.000+10:00

The Lonely Princess (3D)

2005-10-04T14:12:00.000+10:00

The Creative Thing - 3

2005-10-04T00:05:00.000+10:00

Bus Stop - Moment of Realisation

2005-10-03T16:36:00.000+10:00

Got Rice?

2005-09-30T15:54:00.000+10:00

3D Monkey - Eat

2005-09-30T13:03:00.000+10:00

Here's the original version of "Monkey - Eat":

Here's the final 3D version of "Monkey - Eat":

Here's a screenshot of Blender with the completed Monkey:

3D Monkey

2005-09-30T09:04:00.000+10:00

The Blob

2005-09-29T21:35:00.000+10:00

Eye Eye Eye

2005-09-29T21:32:00.000+10:00

The man with a face

2005-09-28T22:21:00.000+10:00

The Creative Thing - 2

2005-09-28T18:25:00.000+10:00

My First Man

2005-09-28T11:23:00.000+10:00

The Creative Thing

2005-09-27T00:57:00.000+10:00

Shekinah - Streets

2005-09-12T20:17:00.000+10:00

Monkey - mspaint

2005-08-30T16:51:00.000+10:00

Monkey in the Whirlpool

2005-08-22T21:24:00.000+10:00

Monkey Troubles

2005-08-17T19:34:00.000+10:00

Happy Birthday Dave

2005-08-16T13:13:00.000+10:00

Hey Dave!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Doraemon

2005-08-10T10:29:00.000+10:00

Here's some drawings of Doraemon I made back in January this year.

Bus Stop - Endless Thinking

2005-08-09T11:42:00.000+10:00

Monkey in the Trees

2005-08-04T21:19:00.000+10:00

The Ring

2005-08-04T12:54:00.000+10:00

Monkey - Computer

2005-08-03T22:42:00.000+10:00

Monkey is online chatting with it's friend, Cat.

Monkey - Eat

2005-08-03T20:38:00.000+10:00

Monkey See, Monkey Do

2005-08-02T16:52:00.000+10:00

No More Darkness

2005-08-01T16:27:00.000+10:00

Mr Lonely

2005-08-01T15:41:00.000+10:00

Explosion

2005-08-01T11:22:00.000+10:00

I've been playing Metal Gear Solid 3 lately, and it has this really cool effect when there's an explosion, everything sort of goes black and white with really high contrast... ohhh... sooo cool!!

Testimony

2005-07-30T23:58:00.000+10:00

Tomorrow I'll be sharing my testimony in church!! Cool! Well, here it is...

Hi!!! I’m Rhys, and I come from the lovely group called… Hope Brisbane!!! I’m also from Daniel 5, *grin*. I’ve been a Christian for around 1 year now. Before I was a Christian, I had a very high paying job for my age, I was happy, everything seemed good. I didn’t really have any sense of direction or any goals though, but I just didn’t care that much.. I was just drifting along but completely happy with it all. I thought I pretty much had it all. Man, was I wrong!!!! Anyway, one day I was going to his mates birthday party. While I was there, and old friend from high school invited me along to some Christian group thing. At that time, I thought Christians are probably a *little bit* narrow minded, conservative, boring, and ah… wrong. But yeah I was pretty interested in trying to be some sort of holy man super human guy that does all the nice things for people, like ah Mother Theresa or something, but, not so old and.. a guy.. but yeah, I decided to go along anyway. So the next Friday I met up with my mate outside of hungry jacks so he could take me along to care group. Now at that time, I was *REALLY* shy… I mean… if you came up and spoke to me I’d probably reply, but you’d be lucky if you could hear it. Yeah, super shy guy. Yup. So, we’re on our way there and I felt this really strong urge to not go to care group, but *thank God*, I was to shy to tell my friend I didn’t want to go, so I just followed him anyway. So we get there right, and I met some really nice people and stuff, so it’s all cool. Then we had seekers for me and this other new guy, but of course I didn’t realise this at the time. Yeah basically our lovely sister Charis shared to me about God and her amazing journey with God. Never doubt the power of your testimony!! I had her testimony rolling around in my head for a few weeks… really wondering if God existed or not. I mean, either she was insane, lying, but was the point of that? Or, she was telling the truth. I decided she’s not lying, and she didn’t seem like she was crazy, at least, not at that time :P, so maybe just maybe she was telling the truth. Besides, I could never really accept the idea of evolution, it just seemed too ridiculous. Maybe there is a God. I decided to try Him out. I prayed this really silly prayer… ok, I’m quite embarrassed to tell you this, but I prayed this… “Ok God, if You’re real, You gotta prove it to me. Next week when I go to care group, I want someone to say my middle name to me, since there’s no way anyone will know it. Yeah, that sounds cool. Amen.” So I went along to care group the next week, and it finished, no one said it to me. But on the way to the bus stop I was walking with my friend and somehow the conversation took on a strange twist. We started talking about middle names for no apparent reason. Then my friend asks me “What’s your middle name?”, “Ahh… Matthew”, “Matthew? Ok.” Yeah, God didn’t secretly whisper it into his ear, he had to ask me but he did say it to me. But I wasn’t satisfied! I said “hang on God, that was too easy!! Let me think of something else…” But then I thought about it for a while, and then I prayed “Alright God, You win, You are real, no need for another test”
So, I decided God was real. Somehow I ended up going along to the missions conference the next week, and I said the sinners prayer on the second day of the conference. Now this is interesting! The day I was “converted” was the day I got my vision for where my life should go! I’m not talking about some supernatural dream-type vision, I mean like a plan for the future. I decided I wanted to plant a church in Japan. Ok, now that’s a pretty big plan for a 1-day old Christian, especially when they were drifting through life without any plans or purpose. The other big change in my life, which you can see right now… I’m not so shy at all anymore!!
It wasn’t all milk and honey though after I became a Christian! To be honest, my life has become much harder at times. I was working for an online-gambling company at the time, and I decided this wasn’t exactly the best place for a Christian to be working, so as a two-month old Christian I quit my high paying job. That was eleven months ago, and since then, I still haven’t been able to find another job at all. All of my savings disappeared. I ran out of money, I’ve been out of money for months now. On top of this, I went from being pretty much happy all the time to experiencing some very intense spiritual attacks and depression. I’d never really experienced depression before I was a Christian, so this was pretty difficult to deal with. I just kept clinging on to Jesus the whole way, and thanks to God and Set-Free I managed to overcome it. Being a Christian isn’t easy, it’s not easy at all. It wasn’t all terrible though, there is so much good I’d have to take over Ps Wilson’s preaching time to share it all! But you know what, no matter how hard it gets, Jesus is always there with us, by our side. He always loves us, and will always pull us through if we hold onto Him. I can say from the very bottom of my heart, becoming a Christian is the best thing I ever did. It is totally worth it! I really want to encourage anyone who is struggling, cling on to Jesus NO MATTER WHAT!! He’ won’t let go of you! I also just want to say quickly to anyone who isn’t a Christian yet, just try God. It won’t hurt, just give Him a try! Just try, you never know what God can do through your life!!! I used to think I had it all, but with God I’ve got so much more! Live the abundant life with Christ~!!!!

Note: The actual testimony I shared was a revised version of this...

Get behind me satan

2005-07-20T23:53:00.000+10:00

When I'm gone

2005-07-20T22:33:00.000+10:00

Leviathan

2005-07-17T21:19:00.000+10:00

London Bus

2005-07-08T20:04:00.000+10:00

I'm sorry.

Psyblast

2005-07-08T12:33:00.000+10:00

Happy Birthday Daughter!!

2005-07-06T10:34:00.000+10:00

To my dearest daughter...
Happy Birthday!

Omigosh Drool

2005-07-05T23:08:00.000+10:00

Bus Stop - Hit 'n Run

2005-07-05T21:19:00.000+10:00

Kicked in the head

2005-07-05T20:57:00.000+10:00

Bleeding Eye

2005-07-03T20:57:00.000+10:00

Happy Shepherds Day - Alvin Racer Boy

2005-07-03T19:23:00.000+10:00

Happy Shepherds Day Alvin!

Total X - Issue 01

2005-06-29T00:30:00.000+10:00

Total X ... It's about zombies and stuff...

- 29/06/2005 12:30AM -

- 29/06/2005 10:00AM -

- 05/07/2005 5:21PM -

- 05/07/2005 6:27PM -
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The Scream

2005-06-27T17:03:00.000+10:00

Total Carnage X

2005-06-27T16:59:00.000+10:00

Bus Stop - I Don't

2005-06-27T08:55:00.000+10:00

Another memory (manga)

2005-06-23T11:57:00.000+10:00

The Lonely Princess (manga)

2005-06-23T00:36:00.000+10:00

You are the Christ

2005-06-22T12:34:00.000+10:00

This morning when I was listening to "You are/You are Lord" by Hillsongs (the one that goes "You ask me who do I say that You are, and I say that You are the Christ") and I just got this image in my head of a sunset over distant mountains and the words "You are the Christ", so I immediately thought "I must draw this!", and so I did.

[ Matthew 16:13-16 ]
When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, "Who do people say the Son of Man is?"
They replied, "Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets."
"But what about you?" he asked. "Who do you say I am?"
Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."