Merry Christmas friendz! New Art: Mystical White Lion

Just popping in and wishing all friendz merry christmas! Heres another art submission from myself, a mystical white lion I just did today. I took the original lion art and simply changed its color, done in less than 5mins but it still looks kinda nice huh?

Long time no see friendz! About the cafe press store..

Hey friendz! Wow...its almost 4 months I haven't posted anything to this blog! Its november now and soon be december, and I'm in the middle of rushing projects for my assessments on the 7th and 14th of Dec(well I 'm always rushing projects for the whole semester, assessment or not anyway.. :p).

Next year my class and a senior class will be starting our internships for 3 months...actually its 2 and a half months to be exact! I'm also in the midst of applying for internships and attending interviews. Actually I feel pretty nervous about it, because it will be my very first time working in an office/big company enviroment. Imagine the stress and pressure! I don't dare to think too positively about it, and I believe its gonna be tough. Well..because a little negativity is good, it will tone down the overconfidence and keep me up on my toes. I don't think I'm prepared so I have to tell myself that I have to work harder to keep up. I hope everything will be ok and it will be a good and steady 3 months!

Yeah now about Cafe Press..yeah why did I suddenly put my Cafe Press store back up again? Hey didn't I took it down months ago? Well I thought I wanted to give it another chance and try harder, earn some extra money while at it.....okay okay! I admit that I'm feeling emo about my future so I'm trying whatever I can to earn some money! =.= Geez.....but thats not a real answer and you know it. :p Anyway, all you need to know is....

Feral Friendz Cafe Press Store is now back up! Click Here!

Yeah go check it out before I close it back down again...just kidding! :p Please bear with the lack of products, thats what I get for using a basic Cafe Press account..hey I might upgrade to premium or look for other alternatives for my stuff...yeah who knows? Who knows what does the future holds for us. XD Do let me know if you have some advice for me or if you see something that is not right.Thanks for reading and supporting peeps. :)

REAL One Malaysia Fun Weekend - Feral Friendz T-Shirts for sale!

Hi friendz, I want to announce that on the 8th and 9th of August 2009, there will be a charity event called REAL One Malaysia Fun Weekend organised by the REAL group(which is Alfa College is part of) at Stadium Putra Bukit Jalil. The good news is Feral Friendz T-Shirts will be for sale for charity there! ^^ Also my senior Min Siew's Baoz Family T-Shirts will also be available for sale for charity. So if you like our character designs you can come and check out the t-shirt stalls by then. Other than the t-shirts, my college mates will also be there selling items such as handicrafts, food, drinks and other fun stuff! Hope you guys can come and support this charity event! Big cats and baoz waiting for you!

We are on the newspaper!

Last tuesday our designs appeared on the newspaper! Thanks to Alfa College for publishing our character designs on the Sin Chew Jit Poh newspaper. :) Also thanks to those who checked our blogs out. I'm pretty happy to notice increased traffic to this blog, but I haven't been updating the blog for almost a month due to projects, sorry peeps...now that I'm free I will continue to update the blog. Ganbatte! ^_^ Anyway here are screenshots of Google Analytics for this blog hehe..

Fortune Cat by Tony Chiang

Another submission from Tony Chiang. Thanks for the wishes!

Shadowpaw by Tony Chiang(again!)

Another art submission by Tony Chiang. Looks like he can't get enough of it and this is quite an improvement! Shadowpaw is his frostsaber mount in the mmorpg World of Warcraft(why do you need to give names to your mounts?? =.=). Anyway thanks noob and good job again XD Keep practicing!

Nekomaru by Tony Chiang!

Chiang chiang chiang chiang~ Here's an art submission from a noob called Tony Chiang from Taiwan(also the first submission from overseas, yay!)! I taught him a bit how to use Illustrator over msn and he picks up quite fast. You did a very good job as a noob, thanks dude! Enjoy making more art using Illustrator!

New wallpapers! Magical World of Feral Friendz!

Finally our friendz have more desktop wallpapers, yay! ^_^ I'm glad cuz its better than the lame Valentine's Day wallpaper(and it was the only wallpaper..). I was reading a book about character and contemporary designs and I saw some of the designers combine their models/toys with real life photos. So I thought why not I try it too with Feral Friendz. I don't have the clay models with me so I just have to settle with paper cut outs.. :/ They are very high res wallpapers thus the heavy file size. Hope you all like it!

For 2560x1600 wide screen or lower:



For 1600x1200 non wide screen or lower:

Fun Quiz : Which breed of big cat are you?

A friend of mine suggested that I post up this quiz in this blog since its related to big cats. I tried and this is my result :

Rawr! I need to take a break!

Want to know which big cat are you? Take this quiz and post your results in the comments! ^_^

Baby Friendz : my papa will eat u

She said it, so don't bully the little kitten. ^^

Chesire Cat

You don't want to see this at night!

NO MORE HOMEWORK

I had a rough week and I didn't feel like doing any homework. What is the pictogram up there about? Yes I did it while I'm already crazy with all the homework. I was surprised that you still get inspiration from going crazy. So when you're stuck with something, try going berserk!

Now you know why I didn't finish my homework, I was doing all these stupid things. :p Hopefully I can figure out how to make these into actual bumper stickers, I think it will be quite funny! Oh and I've never thought that pictograms can be sooooo fun...hahaha.... XD

Blog Exhibition 16/03/09 - 18/03/09

Exhibition Hall a.k.a. Student Corner :p

On the 16th of March till 18th of March 2009 we had our blog exhibition in the college's student corner. The participating students are Wan Nur Liyana(C.MO's World), Chai Min Siew(Bao Family), Joe Lin(Tales of Hoola), Sum Yuet Tyng(The Penguins), Kartini JR(Jello The Yellow Dude), Rachel Chu(Nininja), Ham Cheah How(U O Bean) and of course myself too. Great job everybody! ^_^ Thanks to those who visited and also thanks to the school and Mr James for organizing this! Now time for pictures! XD

This is my table(thanks for lending me the table cloth Liyana..lol ^^). As you can see I made a T-shirt, badges, mousepad, bookmarks, notebook, pencil lead, eraser, clip, mini calendar and clay models.

Don't use optical mice for this mousepad ^^;
Clay Model 1
Clay Model 2

Thats it for my display. Now pictures of classmate's displays!

(Please click on the picture to see the original size. Pictures in this page are resized so you don't need to scroll around like crazy.)

This is Liyana's C.MO's World. She put a lot of effort for this project and the lecturers agree too! She improved her character a few times until its perfect and those packaging things are not easy to do. Well done sayang! ^___^ and thanks for the marshmallows? hehe..



This is Min Siew's Baoz Family. She made a lot of nice merchandise especially the fans. Those are lots of effort put in! Nobody wants to eat these Baoz, too cute to be eaten!



This is Joe's Tales of Hoola. Cute, simple and effective character design. This project was a good lesson for me that sometimes complicated things are not good! and I'm not sure why the clay models are naked? ^_^; Nevermind, nude is cute!



Posters of Hoola and The Penguins. You all trying to kill people with the cuteness??


On the left of the table is Yuet Tyng's The Penguins. This is one of my favourites, I love the save the enviroment concept that goes with it and the cuteness that kills. Her merchandise are printed on recycle paper and it looks very nice!

On the right is Kartini's cute little Jello the Yellow Dude. She did very well for a 1st year 1st sem student and I admire her efforts to try her best even when she is not familiar with Illustrator yet because our school don't teach Illustrator until the 2nd sem. Well done! ^_^


Here we have is Rachel's cute Nininja and Cheah How's violent U O Bean.
The special thing here is the paper cutting done by Rachel. She likes paper cutting and it sure takes a lot of work! She did box templates for her character rather than a flat template for 2D artworks. She also included a sketch book(black book on the table) to share her progress of designing Nininja to other people, cool! One of her merchandise is a umbrella but I didn't manage to find the photo of it(in fact alot of photos went missing for no reason -.-;), oh well.

I like Ah How's sense of humour in this project. XD U O Bean directly translates to 'lei lou dao' in cantonese and his character is a bean that kills people! o.o *sha sha sha sha sha sha sha sha......* If he continues to develop his U O Bean character I'm sure it will be interesting. ^^ He did the badges(left of Nininja badges), CDs, bottles as the merchandise.


That's all for the participants of the exhibition. ^^ I think we all did a great job and we continued to put effort even though we know this project doesn't carry any marks or contribute to our CGPA. Most importantly is the process we went through, I'm sure all of us learnt new things and upgraded our skills. Don't forget this project is also a valuable addition to our port folio.

So give yourselves a clap! *clap* XD

New MSN Avatars!

After so long I finally made the MSN avatars. :p They're all 96x96 pixels so don't worry about resizing and quality loss. Just right click and save!

New look!

Hi friendz, I've gave a major face lift for this blog and its unfortunate that I didn't manage to do it before the exhibition. ^_^; I think it looks much better than the basic black template and it gives more life to the blog, I hope you all like it!

Things I've changed :
1. New hit counter can be found on the most bottom at the widget's column.
2. New background - Previously I couldn't find a suitable background to go with the theme of Feral Friendz, and its not that I don't know how to put a background and so I left it black, haha.. ^^; Finally I decided to make a simple one with all the Friendz in Illustrator. The background is not fitting completely on bigger screens or too big on smaller screens is because everyone is not using the exact same monitor and screen resolution on their computers. I also want to avoid tiling the background. If you know how to solve this problem please teach me! ^_^
3. New banner - The FFZ family has grown from 2 to 7 and I feel they all should be in the banner. Also the old banner looks lousy and the colors don't look right anyway.. The new banner is much bigger and cleaner looking too.
4. The wrappers have their own background color now. Posts and widgets have their own boxes. Post and widget titles have background color too.
5. I made it so that everyone can post comments now even if they don't have a blogger account, but there is still moderation.
6. Blogger Nav Bar is out of sight now but it will still reappear if you hover your cursor at the top of the page.

New gallery for Feral Friendz artworks!

Hi peeps! I've created an album at Picasa Web Albums to showcase all FFZ artworks. If you wish to submit your own artwork, please feel free to do so and click here to see the instructions! ^^

Click here to go to the gallery!

CJ7

A quick and simple one. When I saw Liyanna's keychain, I went ding! New idea! So I made CJ7! ^___^

Angel Friendz, designed by Tsuey Yee!

This is the very first artwork submission to this blog and it is by my classmate Tan Tsuey Yee. Very cute angel!! Thanks so much Tsuey Yee!! ^_^

Please visit and support her character blog Bronny!