Adam Celeban's CG Blog

My God, i swear to you, Ratatouille is going to be such a damn good movie.
I have no idea how this was leaked, but take a look…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v42LVMi6Suk

oh, and this one too..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0KPVtkq0qs

As promised, Repellex has been released to the world…sure to rocket Michael (the talent) into internet fame/infamy. I’ve finally uploaded our student commercial to YouTube. Anyone who reads this, please rate it so that gets noticed. we might have one of those freak cult favourites on our hands…well, its wishful thinking, but it could happen!

Go, watch and rate it here!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FjHHKPkYyM

Some little known facts:

Magnus, the owner of the kitchen we filmed in, was less than pleased with his kitchen bench top being covered in Mr. Sheen.

The number of takes, im sure, went beyond 50. Its difficult getting the right balance of cheesy unprofessionalism.

Sam pulled the cupboard open, standing on a chair, using an extension cord. Zhen was made to hide below the oven and pull it open by the tea towel.

Michael had a harder time pronouncing Repellex(propellex), than he did, saying “tri-polimer based killing agents and active ingredients di-hydrogen oxide”.

The name, Cumberdale, is borrowed from one of our favourite creepy flash cartoons, Salad Fingers (btw, if you’ve never seen it before, i’m going to warn you before you click on the link. You’ve been warned).

I realised that after a year at my last job, I hadn’t been drawing. Well, almost not at all. I think i remember an occasion during that year when i just had to draw something to tell myself i could still do it and the talent hadn’t begun to deteriorate. thankfully I’ve still got it… but i was rusty, and definately out of practice.

When i described my job to at least 3 friends, ones i hadn’t seen in a while, they were all surprised that it didn’t include any drawing. they all imagined me doing something where i was drawing. And to be completely honest with myself, so did I.

It seems the video games industry has had a remarkably draining effect on many other artists as well. At the surface it sounds like a dream job to geek out over, but I’m not sure if its so good when other people are more excited about your job than you are.

Anyway, I got inspired watching one of Bobby Chiu’s video casts, and made a start on some digital illustration challenges with my friend, Mr Marques, where we each do a drawing concept. The first one is “Panda with office supplies”.
It’s a work in progress - the office supply part is coming soon.

Office Pandamonium - Digital Painting (Photoshop) - 7-8 hours