Kingman Cheng's online portfolio

"You were thinking. It's annoying."
All done in Photoshop. Started it last night, just spent tonight tweaking it.
I told myself not to be such a geek.


_{I failed.}

Annoying someone powerful must always bode well for you...right?

Also I haven't abandoned the next animation I was going to do but I felt like the idea needed refining first. :P

I have to say, although I have never made a 'major animation' in Photoshop other than emoticon and gif animation work, this video has opened my mind on what can be achieved with Photoshop alone.

I've been experimenting with the general working method a bit myself, this gives me an idea for an animation!

Will be done in time for Valentines Day (at least that's the aim!).

Ok so I sort of lied a bit, I said I would post screenshots or something before with my work in progress. However I got focused with making the animation that I just ended up finishing it!

Hope you guys like it! 

Title - Chase

Art & Animation - Kingman Cheng

Texture - lostandtaken.com

Music - Letter From Dublin 
From: Music4YourVids.co.uk
http://Music4YourVids.co.uk

Currently working on an animation in Flash, but also been really busy with day job work so things have been a little quiet around here recently. I will post some screenshots and related stuff in the near future!

In the meantime if anyone knows Junior Animator jobs or similar (entry level) about, do let me know!

Here's a new one to start 2012 off, I bought the Tin Tin Collection box set after Christmas as a treat to myself. As I've been saying this is truly 'childhood in a box'. The intro and music feels just as great as it used to. I have yet to watch the new CG movie that's out.

I finished this piece last week but only had the time to upload it today!

As you can see I've been a bit obsessed with Skyward Sword recently.

I have a range of images for you guys for todays update. Firstly I did some sketches in Hong Kong when I went to a local island, 3 pages worth of sketches that I've put together into one. I loved the different shapes and sizes of the boats there. (Check out my illustration gallery for a bigger size)

Then here's something I started in Google Sketchup which I've been growing to love recently, and finished in Photoshop.

And finally some sketches I did whilst on a train journey, and I just slapped a bit of tone on in Photoshop later when I got back.

Originally I wasn't going to finish this and I was going to leave it at a sketch, but a lot of people asked me to finish it so there you go! Coloured!

I've been picking up Maya again recently and to stop me from going 'computer crazy' I've always been sketching quite a lot in between. So I've got quite a few sketches I've got down and I'm not sure which ones to work to a complete piece or not. However I'll leave you one of the ones I was working on. If I keep at this should be quite a few more and maybe some 3d stuff later in the month depending on time!

A piece I did to celebrate DeviantART's 11th birthday, if you're a member of DeviantART check out the various events we got going on there!

I repeat this is not a drill!

Just a random idea I had a little while back which I finally gotten around to, having a bit of fun really!

So I've survived July and I should be back in the swing of things now with artwork. So here's a little exercise I did tonight just to get warmed up again.

Once again titles stump me.

So I've been doing some sketches and stuff recently but nothing worth uploading yet. In the meantime I've been busy busy busy as I've had to work the day job as usual + weekends so artwork is slow this month unfortunately.

However I'm taking the day off tomorrow as it's my sisters graduation. And because of work and all that I haven't really had the chance to go out and buy a graduation gift or anything.

So instead I've made this for her just tonight, the graduation owl is holding a graduation scroll but it's a message to my sister that I've hand written. It has been a while since I've done any papercraft, plus please excuse the photo quality. I had to use my phones camera because I'm charging my 'real camera' for tomorrow. Unlike a certain sister of mine who went to my graduation back then without charging her camera...

The Wacom Graphire 3 tablet that I have used for donkeys years is pretty much giving up the ghost now. I messed up the cable before because when I was younger I used to wrap the cable around itself when carrying it with my laptop. Unfortunately being the idiot I was I never thought that would knacker the cable. So sometimes I'd have to painstakingly adjust and move the cable around until I get a nice position and fix it there for the tablet to turn on and work. Unfortunately I couldn't get it to work recently, maybe I can still carry on adjusting and all that but it wasn't so much of a pain before. I just can't get it to work now.

So it's possible that it hasn't completely died but given the amount of effort I was putting into fixing it, it wasn't worth it. As sad as it is I think it's time for change! I'm waiting for my new Intuos 4 M to arrive now which should arrive Thursday I believe. So in the meantime I'm just doing sketches and plenty of planning for a piece of art. Looks like this piece I'm working on will be the first to surrender itself to my new upcoming tablet.

I've just been playing around with matte painting techniques with this piece, I haven't really done it before so whilst I don't think it's spectacular, it was academic but quite a beneficial experiment!

I've been doing my sisters website on the side so I've been busier than usual recently, which is why artwork has been a bit slow. She is just graduating from her Illustration and Animation course, her work is very good so please check out her website! http://www.kyancheng.com/.

Colossus of Air

The Pilgrimage

Right not feeling too well at the moment, but I'm getting better. Managed to finish this though, Demon Hunter for cghub.com.

Got another piece I need to work on and also a website to build.

Been quite busy recently, working on various things so here's a quick one from me. Will be working on some character designs soon so more to come later.

I have to admit I had no idea what I was doing with this or where I was going with it. I started this one night recently based on a nice stock photo. Then all the way through I thought what if I did this, and this and this. And I just ended up thinking maybe I'll make it 'Snow Queen'ish' (whatever the hell that means) and I just ended up with this at the end.

Hence the lame title, huzzah.