Miyuki's Mansion

Walk Cycle - pencil-Test-

2012-01-31T18:54:00.000-08:00

A short pencil test of a walkcycle! trying to clean up right now.

OOOO MY !!!

2012-01-26T08:10:00.001-08:00

I only wish this was a musical....

Any way!!

Toothless!!!!

Bloom

2012-01-26T01:18:00.000-08:00

http://bloomanimation.blogspot.com/

This film, Bloom is worked on last year at SJSU by my fellow artists!

It's a great film, everyone check it out!!

And what a great honor to be in a film, though I didn't work on it.

Watching everyone animate a character named Miyuki was pretty fun :)

Heart

2012-01-06T17:01:00.000-08:00

I think I love Heart with face.

Puss in Boots

2012-01-03T14:00:00.001-08:00

is watching out for the visitors that comes to my house.

Only down side about this is that you have to kiss the puss every time you check outside.

Well, I like gatos. So I guess it's OK.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

2012-01-02T17:57:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year!

The year of dragon:)

It's japanese tridition to send out New Year card to everyone with Chinese zodiac.:)

Figure Drawing and Some doodle

2011-11-18T10:52:00.000-08:00

Figure drawings and some doodle I did during figure drawing session.

Marktwain and Lulu

2011-11-18T10:46:00.000-08:00

Here's some of my latest animation test in progress.

One assignment from my class.
To animate Mark Twain reacting to a big news. It was pretty fun researching about him.

I still have to polish it better but here's the progress so far.

And a walk cycle of a character from a book, Abandoned by Paul Gallico.
Most of the characters in a book are cats but we took those character's personality and animated as a human.

Halloweeeeeeeeen

2011-11-13T04:04:00.000-08:00

Well this is my art blog.

But I guess this is part of art too.

lol

My collection of Halloween costumes:)

And this one is from last year.

My profile picture is from 2008 Halloween.

A woman changes a lot by changing make up, you know.

You see?!
The best day of the year is Halloween.

The year starts and ends with Halloween!!!

I came to the U.S just because of Halloween.

That's a lie,, but I love Halloween anyway!

Kids at Mall

2011-11-13T03:46:00.001-08:00

Kid's playground at a mall.

Kids are so fun to draw.

New Grudge

2011-10-28T23:49:00.000-07:00

New Grudge!!!

Just kidding.

It's just me playing with halloween makeup.
but It looked pretty scary so I made it like a horror film!

World of Hearts

2011-10-02T18:14:00.000-07:00

I would love to live in the world of hearts.

Creepy Ghost Test

2011-09-28T23:48:00.000-07:00

First Animation Assignment of the semester!!

The assignment was to create a moment with two characters in conversation.
And then something happens in the scene and there is a reaction to that something.

My character is a man and evil, extra evil, very evil Ghost!

This test need some more refinement but it was as far as I got by the due date.
I will have some time to polish this throughout the semester and the end of the semester.

So here's the playblast of what I have so far.
I still need to offset some parts and make some revision but! I like GHOST!!

But I usually don't like evil ghost, I like one like Caspar!

A Dream of mine

2011-09-28T22:57:00.000-07:00

It's nothing art or animation related..

But It's been kinda my dream to play ocarina on a tree!!

Because that's what they do in Totoro!!!
Right?

They play ocarina under the moonlight!

Like this

Too bad it wasn't under the moonlight but I managed it!!!!!

Kiss me Por Favor

2011-09-28T22:55:00.000-07:00

Who Am I??

2011-09-04T00:46:00.000-07:00

I am taking BFA for Animation/Illustration.
This is the class we take when we are graduating senior.
Since few years ago, the very first assignment of this class have been to make a introduction video of yourself.

It was pretty fun to see everyone's intro video.

Well I love musicals and I do minor in Musical Theatre.

So I just made a intro musical.

4 or 5 Miyukies singing at the same time... crazy!

Here is my intro video done in a week.

The numbers used in this video are

"Avenue Q Theme" from Avenue Q
"Life with Harold" from Full Monty
"the One Feather Tail of Miss Gertrude McFuzz" from Seussical

I changed the words to fit in this story of myself.
And I did sing this! Everyone thinks this isn't me singing this!
But It's ME!! haha

Well whoever doesn't know me. This is pretty much who I am.

No Robots

2011-09-04T00:43:00.000-07:00

No Robots from YungHan Chang on Vimeo.

It is finally up online.
I worked on this film last summer.
Directed by Kimberly Knoll and 張永翰 Yunghan Chang.

I animated the almost 30 sec scene close to the end.

traveling Kinoko

2011-07-05T18:25:00.000-07:00

Kinoko Shitake Mushroom!!!!!!

Love mushroom.

Something I did very quick.

My friend suggested that I should make Screen Saver with this.

The Green Ninja

2011-06-12T18:10:00.000-07:00

Green Ninja! The Eco Ninja!! Go Green!!

This is what we worked on collaborating with Science Department.

Here is the Finished Clip, and 2 scenes that I animated.

Animation 2011 Spring Smester

2011-06-12T18:06:00.000-07:00

Here is what I submitted for the final for ART129B 3D character animation class.

I am hoping to refine it during summer so that I can polish it to the better level.

Animation Doodle.

2011-05-24T22:30:00.000-07:00

I get bored a lot.

So sometimes, I pick some recycle animation paper and animate something for a while.

I call it animation doodle. Just like people doodle on the paper when they get bored.

It's an animated doodle.

The first one that looks like spider is actually a head of Green Ninja (an animation project during semester I will post it when it's done.)

But I messed up when I was inking, and Started draw legs and arms on the head.

Then It looked like some spider so I animated it.

DCM

2011-05-24T22:25:00.000-07:00

DCM is something we(Danny, Crith, Miyuki) are doing for fun.

We are just animating for fun.

And I did this ghost-ish soul-ish things being born , and dying.

Married Woman!

2011-04-14T11:17:00.001-07:00

I am a married woman now.

I just got married last Wednesday.

We won't do big wedding until after I graduate, but I am a married woman now!

WOW!!

Witch

2011-04-05T11:18:00.000-07:00

Progress of Animation Test I am working on this semester.

We will have one more test to do after this one.

Hina chan

2011-03-20T23:33:00.000-07:00

I am an aunt now!

My brother (actually younger brother!!) just had baby!

They said the room was shaking when the mom was giving a birth due to earthquake!

But, whatever happens in the world, A new life is born somewhere in the world!

So I have a niece now! Soooo cute. soooo cute.

She is adorable!!! Her name is Hina!

Hina Maruyama

Ohhhh,,, cute..

I can't believe my brother is a father now!!

Yōkai

2011-03-06T21:01:00.000-08:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%8Dkai

Here is the wikipedia page of what it is.

I love them. Just because they are so funny and cool and just awsome!

They are like Japanese monsters.

So I decided to draw them and complete all of them from my book of Yokai.

There are almost 200 different kinds on this book, but it will be fun.

Amefuri Kozou

A boy who serves a god or spirit of Rain.

Rokurokubi

A woman with very very long neck.

Nuppeppo

Some kind of chunk of meat?

Dorotabou

It comes out of mud. Usually they have 3 fingers and only one eye is open. Usually it is a old guy. but made it a kid, I like kids!!!

Keukegen

I think it's a hairy monster....

Most of Yokai is weird and some of them are actually joke and not really based on traditional monster. But who cares, I think they are lovely!

Climbing Tree

2011-03-05T04:06:00.000-08:00

First assignment for my 129B 3D character animation class.

It came out very,very, umm I don't know how to say it but.

Not very strong poses.

and the character's motivation is not that clear.

I like the bird though!

Cute! and Pink!

Still, need to work on it and make it better by final.

Very nice words I found.

2011-02-27T19:29:00.000-08:00

My friend in Japan found this.
It says something like

Everything happens out of necessity.(or should i say Nothing is coincidence?)
Good things and bad things.
All the things that happens are something you need in your life.
Everything has a meaning.
Everything teaches us something.

It's a teacher who make us a better human being.

So

I thank everything.

---------------------------------------------------

Something like this, I don't know how to translate it well.
so I don't know it has original feeling.
But I really love these words.

Introduction of myself in Flash

2011-02-13T04:51:00.000-08:00

I did this for my Flash Class I am taking at De Anza.

It's kind of a self introduction of my self.

Learning flash is pretty fun!

Cinequest Trailer

2011-02-13T03:05:00.000-08:00

I worked on Cinequest film festival Trailer during winter break.

It was up on Youtube so here I have the finished trailer.

129B from last semester

2011-02-12T16:30:00.000-08:00

Final Reel art 129B Fall 2010 from Miyuki Maruyama on Vimeo.

This is the final reel for Art129B I took last semester which is 3D character animation class.

It was my second semester taking it. I was supposed to put all the shots I've done in chronological order.

I just realize, It says Spring 2009 but that's wrong, it's Spring 2010.

Now, I really see some errors and many things I need to fix.

I try to polish the last one especially.

And Now I am taking this class for 3rd time. I hope I will get goooood shots out of this class this semester.

Taking Flash class

2011-01-31T22:53:00.000-08:00

I'm trying to learn flash right now.

Always the first thing we do is bouncing ball.

HAAPPY NEW YEAR

2011-01-01T15:26:00.000-08:00

It is Japanese thing to send out new year card for everyone with a simbol of chinese zodiac of the year.

so! Happy new year everyone.

あけましておめでとうございます！
そして、
今年もよろしくおねがいします！

丸山幸

Oh, today is..

2010-12-25T21:25:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas :) Everyone..

Story Board

2010-12-25T16:25:00.000-08:00

Final Animatic for Art 118 the story boarding class.

A New Family from Miyuki Maruyama on Vimeo.

happy late halloween.

2010-11-10T03:18:00.000-08:00

My dearest friends in Japan were wearing costume and got on a train on halloween day.

In Japan, Halloween is not that big event like in the U.S. But I love how they just do it.

They said they walked around Shibuya station and went to T.G.I Fridays and got some dinner.

They said people pretended like they are not looking at them.

I looooove Halloween! I wish the world turned into Halloween town.

Dooooooodle

2010-11-10T03:13:00.001-08:00

I was doodling on scratch papers while I was waiting. really just doodles.

Figure drawing

2010-11-10T03:11:00.000-08:00

I can only go to figure drawing once a week now.

Birthday, Clown and Zombies.

2010-11-05T01:05:00.000-07:00

More 9 panel asaignment.

The first panel was provided for this one.. I think it is a bit weird. I had completely different idea. but after I opened photoshop, I had a vision of a guy coming out of nowhere like this. And it turned out really weird.

The middle panel was provided for this one. I don't think I should call this story board.Because the panel is not in usual order. Time looooop.

The latest one, It was assigned before Halloween. The first panel was provided for this one. One of my friend said the girl looks like my friend Michelle. so I just call her Michelle.

This is sort of inside joke. Since the three zombies looks like our faculties. I put one more faculty. I need John Clapp in here too, and maybe even Sheldon.

You cheated on me!!!

2010-10-20T15:39:00.000-07:00

This is the assignment for my 3D animation class.

The assignment was to animate some change of emotion.
Mine is happy to angry.
A girl she her fiancée cheating on her.

Oh, and this is same animation, and totally happened by accident, but it looks a bit scary but interesting.

Another 9 panel assignments from last 2 weeks

2010-10-12T23:55:00.001-07:00

First one, we got first panel. and second one, we got last panel.

9 panels!!

2010-09-29T14:39:00.000-07:00

I am taking Storyboarding class.

So fun, and so hard.

It is hard but that makes me learn :)

These are fun assignment we do weekly.

We get one panel and come up with story and fill the blank panels.

hitting hitting

2010-08-28T23:56:00.000-07:00

First week of the semester.

My laptop is not working.

I had 6 hours break between classes.

And did a penciltest.

I hit my birthday gift doll for taking reference for this.

Sorry for hitting , my poor bear.

quick study

2010-07-18T13:07:00.000-07:00

My Rat

2010-07-17T14:14:00.001-07:00

My rat's sick.

She looks really bad...

FlipBook

2010-06-07T03:18:00.000-07:00

I was bored for about 30 min in animation lab.

I had a sketchbook.

I did something that I used to do on the corner of textbooks when I was in elementary school

Art 115

2010-05-30T18:37:00.000-07:00

This is my film for art 115.
Umi , means beach or , Ocean in Japanese.

Character Model Sheets.

2010-03-26T12:39:00.000-07:00

You know what,,, I just figured I spelled Turnaround, wrong. It says Trunaround.... nooo.

These are the character model sheets for my short film for ART115.

The story is so simple.

5 guys wants to go to beach!!!! that's it!

海ーーーーーーーーーーーーーー！！！！

u------mi-----------------------!

うーーーーみーーーーーーーーーーー！

Turning

2010-03-11T09:34:00.000-08:00

1st assignment of the semester, from 3D animation class.

It's not done so well. but I hope I can become a better animator through this course.

Assignment was to do 180 degree turn. No facial expression. Just body movement.

Our instructor, Raquel is such a great animator.

She knows what she is teaching, and her critique helps a lot.

I'm so glad she is teaching us.

animation sketchbook

2010-03-11T09:28:00.000-08:00

An assignment for the biggining of the semester.

Animation Sketchbook.

We had to create some kinda animation within a week.

We could use any method, medium,, it can have story, can be abstract.

It could be anything as long as it's animated.

I did pencil test..

I really love Japanese summer.

It's really an enchanting season.

Forest

2010-02-21T15:20:00.001-08:00

Pencil Rendering and the Painting of three forests from last semester.

114

2009-12-27T21:13:00.000-08:00

Sack pantomime from 114.

Many people says it's like Shin Chan.

yes that's the soul of Japanese people!!

But the author of Shin Chan died while ago.

I loved shin chan, R.I.P.

Animation tests

2009-11-20T11:43:00.001-08:00

The semester is almost over.

All I have to do is painting for 113B and Sack Pantomime for 114.

This is the all the tests I did for my animation class.

Ball Bounce,

Brick Drop

Sack Drop

Paper Drop

Water Balloon Drop

Mechanical Walk Cycle(and with skirt.)

Walk cycle in Character.

For the last test, I wanted to do some more at the end, but I did not have time to finish it till by due date.

I might wanna work on it if I have time.

this is the keys for the rest of the character walk.

ahhhh, the semester is almost over.

Studies

2009-09-24T12:39:00.001-07:00

Studies of an acorn, a branch, and a branch with leaves.

I hope it will become three great forests.... I hope,,,,,, I, of course, work hard too. Hoping only doesn't get me better.

and some figure drawings..

フィギュアードローイング

2009-08-14T00:35:00.001-07:00

the title says figure drawing.

Sketch Book :0

2009-08-14T00:30:00.001-07:00

Some drawings from my Summer Sketch book :o)

I need to go to zoo, otherwise I'm gonna keep drawing my rats.

秋（aki）　夏(natsu)

those are my rats' name.

means fall and summer in Japanese.

one restaurant in SJ down town

2009-06-17T23:49:00.000-07:00

this place was really nice.

rats

2009-06-17T23:48:00.001-07:00

rats are cute!!!

I have two rats now.

and they are too cute.

Color Rendering

2009-05-24T22:55:00.000-07:00

It is my color rendering from the class this semester..

so many things I could have done better..

ahhhh.

Feel like I was lazy.

Maybe I should have chosen better photo too.

Well, I could paint it better, I am pretty sure I could.

ahhhh.

Tone Paper

2009-04-12T18:11:00.000-07:00

This drawing is done on a tone paper.

And I have to finish my term paper for PHYS166 class by Thursday.

It is about Acoustics of Flute.

I am going to discuss about a tone and other aspects on physics of music.

A term paper discusses about tones..

Tone paper.....

.........

........

I guess I am really tired. Ha-ha-ha.

Can You Give Me Hair?

2009-04-08T18:24:00.000-07:00

I had a weird dream the other day.

a creature like this

is trying to offer me some emerald things to get him a nice hair style

Is there any meaning to this dream!!???!!

Is it because I am so nervous about the Portfolio Review?

So, does it mean I have weird dream when I'm nervous?

anyway.. I have weird dream all the time.

so, maybe this smiling yellow guy has nothing to do with portfolio review....

Black and White

2009-03-22T23:41:00.000-07:00

Black and White,, that means there is no color.

It looks Black or White of Gray..

And old films were black and white, and they are really beautiful..

,.................

well! I did a black and white rendering assignment in my class!

I think I need to scan it with bigger scanner.

Happy happy.

2009-03-03T02:14:00.000-08:00

I've heard a great news.

I am extremely happy..

But that's not why I'm posting..

it's for figure drawing!!!!

Drapery,,,, hirahira hirahira

2009-02-26T12:26:00.000-08:00

ひらひらひらひら。Drapery...

hirahira is what it sounds like (or looks like??) when some kind of fabric is flaping,,,in Japanese..

we can say pata pata too..

patapata pata pata,, drapery

ぱたぱたぱたぱたーー

anyway,,,,these are draperies I did as my homework

EYE EYE EYE AYE!

2009-02-25T01:10:00.000-08:00

I made this looking at a video tutorial.

It was really helpful tutorial!

ummmm but I think it's kind of scary.....

Figures ,,, figure drawing,,,, figuring, figured, figuree, figurenge, figurest, figurer ,,,,

2009-01-31T04:40:00.000-08:00

What am I doing in the title,,,!!??

well it's 4 in the morning,,,

I'm getting somewhat weird,,,,

I'm always weird anyway!!

some gestures i did

MIKAN MIKAN

2009-01-22T20:15:00.000-08:00

Ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!

みかんだーーー！！！
(That's a mikan!!!!)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikan

basically,, it's kind of an orange.

Quick Sketches on Train

2009-01-22T20:05:00.000-08:00

Nobody noticed that I was drawing them,

These are just quick sketches I did when I was on train.

Final Comic.

2008-12-18T03:26:00.000-08:00

I finished all the finals on Wednesday.
I finished my comic pages for final! There are plenty of things I could have improved.. But I always notice after I finish.

Nengajo

2008-12-18T03:09:00.001-08:00

In Japan, they send out new year greeting cards to everybody. It's called NENGAJO.

And it usualy has image of the chinese zodiac of the year. Next year 2009, will be the year of the Ox. My mom told me to make one of the design for the card by wednesday, so I did it. for fun!!

Reversal

2008-12-18T03:06:00.001-08:00

This is a reversal drawing I did in my class. I am not really happy with the result though I spent time on this...,.,.,.,.,.,

some self portraits with 3 values

2008-12-17T04:46:00.000-08:00

Color Pencils

2008-12-08T01:20:00.000-08:00

Using Color pencil just because I got Prismacolor's color pencil set (48) for 33 dollars,,,,,I love christmas sale!!!!

Before the Final

2008-11-15T19:09:00.001-08:00

These are some weekly comics strips I did for Art112A class.

The final will be two pages comic,,, ,,,

girl,,

2008-10-22T00:59:00.000-07:00

a girl looking at something. I got bored so I drew this :0

Another Figure Drawing.

2008-10-12T21:46:00.000-07:00

is it getting better?????

Beggining of Drawing 2006 Fall Quarter at De Anza College

2008-01-22T04:16:00.000-08:00

Still Life, Birdnest
One structure from De Anza College
Collage of many things for Final Project

Design class 2006 Summer at De Anza College

2008-01-22T04:00:00.000-08:00

A lady looking through the window
The music notes will be frogs someday.

It is actually a head of a dog. She is not ordinaly dog, she is the cutest dog in the world. I mean, she is my dog.

Do your home work before you play the game!!
I got a lot of cavities.....sigh....
ho-ho-ho-
a jelly fish turns into a fork

cat dreaming at the middle of the street.

Oil Painting 1 2007 Fall Quarter at De Anza College

2008-01-22T03:54:00.001-08:00

Second Project: Self Portrait.
It is pretty scary me though....
Final Project: Modern things in the famous paintings.
I added Christmas tree ornaments to one of the Magritte's paintings.

Intermediate Drawing Class 2007Fall Quarter at De Anza College

2008-01-22T03:39:00.000-08:00

First Project: Copy of Magazine with Color Pencil.
It was around the time I love,,,,,,,,, Halloween!

Second Project: Collage of Magazine with Pastel.

These are all ads from a game magazine.

Third Project: Water Color and ink.

I just wanted to do something related to Japanese Ghost, since I was researching about it in another class.

Final Project: Collage on Wood, pastel, colorpencil and ink.

this is weird.