Pencil4Art

MY BLOG HAS BEEN MOVED

2010-11-28T21:17:00.000-08:00

CLICK HERE!

PLEASE UPDATE!!! my website address is now "www.wonchoi.com"

2010-11-02T19:33:00.000-07:00

no more "www.won5choi.com".

Rose rendered in max

2010-10-14T21:19:00.000-07:00

Rose in action

My blog has been made~

2010-10-11T23:17:00.001-07:00

I've been a bit anoyed by blogger.com for last couple of month. the blog has been very unstable and there was few times that I couldn't post anything because the server was down. However, they seem to implement few new features like new templates, so I'm not as upset as I was.

My first HDR with D90

2010-09-22T23:25:00.000-07:00

The result is really surprising and impressive. Here's my first HDR

HDR tutorial

2010-09-22T22:40:00.000-07:00

Great tutorial about HDRI (High Dynamic Range Imaging). If you have iphone 4 with latest firmware update (I think 4.1) you can take HDR pictures. click here

apple... iphone

2010-09-18T22:59:00.000-07:00

issues and more issues...

apple's got some serious issues with the iphone.

I've posted on my blog about how disappointing I was with their service few month ago. Now, Multimedia text messaging on my iphone. I noticed other users are experiencing similar problems and were able to resolve it so I followed their instructions, but I just can't get it to work. I'm no newbies to solving these kind of problems but this is just pain in the ass. After spending 4 hours I've decided to call apple support and see what the fuck i'm doing wrong. If apple doesn't streamline the way the iphone works with itune, it's really easy for them to lose customer. google is already going strong and I can see them surpassing easily in next few years if apple doesn't get their act straight. (update) I think Samsung Galaxy is pretty good. I think it's a better device overall than latest HTC phone. However, both phones are still lacking in usability compare to iphone. I'm betting on next generation of the Galaxy to be the biggest competitor to iphone in the future.

Boss character contest

2010-09-15T21:07:00.000-07:00

Thank god I finally finished Boss character contest. Sweet~

I only added the beauty shot but if you guys want to see the whole thing check link below. Hope you guys enjoy.

http://www.cgsculpt.org/sculpt/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=498

Plano Police Dept.

2010-08-31T19:16:00.000-07:00

eat shiiiit!

I just got another $75 ticket for not making "complete" stop making a right turn.

Rose model wip

2010-08-30T21:42:00.001-07:00

Rose

2010-08-30T21:35:00.000-07:00

Rose concept

Boss Battle Contest

2010-08-30T08:41:00.000-07:00

Boss Battle Contest <-click on here for more detail info.

deadline: sep. 15, 2010

I should of posted this earlier... I forgot. anyway, the regulations and rules are a bit more strict in this contest so, make sure you read the details before you begin. good luck.

Blizzard Art Contest

2010-08-24T15:36:00.001-07:00

Blizzard Art Contest <-click here for more info.

deadline:12:01 AM PST September 27, 2010

Character Design Contest

2010-08-24T14:54:00.000-07:00

Character Design Contest <-click on this link for rules and regulations.

deadline: oct. 3rd, 2010

현재의 당신

2010-08-06T10:36:00.001-07:00

무슨 소리를 듣고, 무엇을 먹었는가.
그리고 무슨 말을 하고, 어떤 생각을 했으며,
한 일이 무엇인가.
그것이 바로 현재의 당신이다.
그리고 당신이 쌓은 업이다.
이와 같이 순간순간 당신 자신이
당신을 만들어 간다.
명심하라.

- 법정의《살아 있는 것은 다 행복하라》중에서 -

희망이란

2010-08-02T08:21:00.001-07:00

희망이란
본래 있다고도 할 수 없고 없다고도 할 수 없다.
그것은 마치 땅 위의 길과 같은 것이다.
본래 땅 위에는 길이 없었다.
한 사람이 먼저 가고
걸어가는 사람이 많아지면
그것이 곧 길이 되는 것이다.

- 루쉰의《고향》중에서 -

dinner and drink at bonedaddy's with friends

2010-07-31T20:23:00.001-07:00

Marco's new shade...

I think it looked better on me. the lighting wasn't that great at the place and I forgot to turn on flash on my phone.

Apple service is sooooo disappointing

2010-07-24T12:44:00.001-07:00

apple makes a great product... but your customer service fucking sucks. I can't refund my bumper because I bought it from non-apple store and it's been more than 30 days. That means I can't even return it to it's store because I exceeded the return policy period. If they had this free bumper program started a bit earlier this wouldn't have happened, but they didn't, even though they were well aware of it. I called apple store and apple online customer service and they can't do anything about it. The sad thing is that they don't seem to be apologetic at all. It felt like they are very arrogant. WTF apple... wtf.

apple ipad design

2010-07-06T11:06:00.001-07:00

Retro style~

More Bears Championship winning pics

2010-05-11T11:33:00.001-07:00

Fastest way to change multiple file extension without external software

2010-05-10T22:51:00.000-07:00

1. Create a 'Text Document.txt' file in the folder you want to change file extensions.

2. Open the text doc. you just created and type following command.

REN *.(old extension) *(new extension)

example:

REN *.m4a *m4b

3. Close the text doc. and change the '.txt' extension to '.cmd' and double click on the file.

4. You'll see the changed file extensions.

pretty sweet ahy~

K-League Softball Championship

2010-05-05T23:48:00.000-07:00

We won the League!!!

Life and Time

2010-04-17T10:15:00.000-07:00

I'm so inspired and motivated by so many people and my surroundings. Everyday, the life inspires me greatly. I have so much respect for life and time. I believe those are the greatest gifts that were given to us. Sadly, we are not wise enough to realize how valuable those gifts are and take it for granted. I guess that's why we are only a human

There are enough bad things happening in the world these days and it's time to lift your hopes high and strive for the best. I'm grateful everyday witnessing my life as it unfolds before me and how much joy and love it contains. My vision for my life is set and clear now and I have everlasting appreciation to those people who made it happen especially Zen. She taught me to see beyond what my eyes can see and how to live happy. I haven't lived long enough to make any kind of conclusion about life but I believe Life is a journey of great escape from reality. Life maybe tough right now but as time goes by we should learn to live life with happy filled with joy and freedom. Free from reality. Make a lot of great memories because that's the only thing that we are going to take with us... forever:)

Style is so hard to develop

2010-04-16T00:45:00.000-07:00

I took a long break from painting. Not that I was lazy but I just didn't feel like doin it. But, I'm starting back again. I think I have something good. Theme-wize. Style is so hard to develop. It has been my homework for a while and still is. I'm starting to get a grasp of what I want but still a bit behind developing it to support my needs. Meaning I need more practice and experiment. I guess I was a bit oblivious about what type of art I wanted to do and style to go along with it. However, I'm glad that I'm not as struggling as much as I used to. Which is a good thing.

NEOALPHA

2010-02-17T23:44:00.000-08:00

새로운 시작...

새로운 세상...

새로운 종족...

새로운 대지...

새로운 종교...

이제 시작이다.

random character design

2010-02-16T00:24:00.000-08:00

practice... practice...

Dark Cruiser... Dark Crusaders

Mind Explosion

2010-01-15T00:06:00.000-08:00

I felt like doing some abstract painting. I like doing paintings like this cause there's no rules. My mind has been too controlled and fixed. This is good way to let my self loose for a change.

snow mountain in Washington

2010-01-08T01:41:00.000-08:00

spent about 5hrs today working on this piece.

still need to work on clouds.

Cintiq pen doesn't work?... download a new driver from wacom

2010-01-04T22:38:00.000-08:00

feaked me out when i tried to paint on my cintiq and the pen didn't work. i see the pad blinking so it's recongnizing the pen but it won't track. so, i quickly looked on the internet to see if anyone else had similar problem. found nothing. frustrated and mad... i looked my receipt to see if my cintiq is still under warrenty and thankfully they offer 2 years for cintiq and i only had it for a year and half. i was a bit relieved but still sucked cause i can't paint. I hate waiting so I went to wacom site to check for a new driver to see if that can resolve the issue. Luckily, they did have one released mid Nov. so i downloaded and installed it... and Thank god it works now.

Year of the Tiger

2010-01-01T19:01:00.000-08:00

It's the year of the Tiger... White Tiger

Happy New Year guys!!!

EXOGEARS character design

2009-12-06T18:20:00.000-08:00

been working on this character for a while. he is one of the exogear pilots. don't have too much details yet.

VLC player

2009-12-05T13:05:00.000-08:00

is just simply awesome. I hate it when those players giving you an error about missing codec and won't be able to play the movie. Don't waste your time with windows media player or any other players. Go download VLC player if you want hassle free video player . You can pretty much get it from any popular downloading places like cnet and etc. And the best of all it's Free.

My Inspiration

2009-11-20T14:33:00.000-08:00

Michaelangelo

Norman Rockwell

Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri

Frank Frazetta

A new character in the works...

2009-11-15T21:24:00.001-08:00

I don't think I spent enough time building up character when I look back on all my characters I had done. So, for this time I like to try that. I want to invest more time and effort to develop a character. I want to know what it would be like to see my character that look and feel complete. Enough to make me think I went beyond what I think I was capable of. Feeling of accomplishment. Something that I thought I could never do because of lame excuses... like not enough time. So, for this project I'm going to be generous. I'm going to give my self 4 weeks. I want to see what I'm really capable of. Let's do this Won!!!

PS3 external hard drive with Vista 64

2009-11-08T07:52:00.000-08:00

I need more hard drive space for my PS3 since it's draining out fast. I spent about 8 hours yesterday trying to setup my external hard drive to work on my PS3. Most of 8 hours were spent formatting the HD. I guess having so much crap in the HD didn't help at all. So, while I'm waiting I did some research on how to do this and I found very useful information. http://www.wikihow.com/Add-an-External-Hard-Drive-to-a-PlayStation-3 <-- This link has pretty easy to follow instruction on 'how to' in 10 steps. Anyway, here's little info about my hardware specs. I believe I have 2nd generation PS3 with 40gig and I'm using Seagate 500gig for ext. HD. First thing I had to do was formatting ext. HD to FAT 32. When formatting the HD with vista 64 I found http://www.partitionwizard.com/ this partition software useful. You shouldn't have any problem using this software if you have done partition before. I believe that pretty much covers on how to make ext. HD to work on your PS3. Just follow the instruction on first link above and get the partition wizard to finish off. Good Luck. LMK, if you need extra help and I'll do my best to fill those holes. Thanks.

more Borderlands

2009-10-27T22:22:00.001-07:00

more...

Borderlands

2009-10-27T22:17:00.000-07:00

I'm so happy that Borderlands is getting a good review and also the game looks very fun.

Here are some of the early concepts I did when I was at Gearbox.

castle in the ....neighbor... can't think of any good name...

2009-10-27T14:01:00.000-07:00

latest work i've done.

Clash of the Titan

2009-08-18T21:30:00.000-07:00

couple of guys at Robot including myself spent few weeks painting on the clash of the titan. here's mine. you can check out others here. http://www.robotentertainment.com/Blogs

enjoy.

www.pencil4art.com ... now online

2009-07-22T23:46:00.001-07:00

Now I have my own domain name for this blog. no more .blogspot.com... yay~

DW 4

2009-07-15T20:03:00.000-07:00

Psycloid close up render from 3d max.

no touch up.

sorry guys~

2009-07-13T23:08:00.000-07:00

I didn't know you can leave comments on the blog until today. I feel really bad that some of my friends have left comments a few month back and I didn't even know about it. Now I feel like an ass. Please don't take it personal if I didn't reply to your comments. I didn't know. Anyway, I'll be more aware from now on. Thanks for visiting my blog.

speed painting

2009-07-05T17:59:00.000-07:00

Dominance War 4

2009-05-18T22:33:00.001-07:00

I feel really good finishing DW4 this year. It was very challenging and exhausting days for me but I enjoyed it very very much. Some how I managed to survive and submit finals before the deadline and I'm happy with outcome. I haven't felt this kind of accomplishment in a long time. It feels like when you accomplish something you learn a little more about your self. Whatever that might be... ^____^

HALO WARS million unit sold~ sweet!

2009-03-21T08:41:00.000-07:00

HALO WARS <-- click on the link to see halo wars concept art in conceptart.org

HALO WARS ART / CONCEPT ART COMING SOON...

2009-02-23T22:47:00.000-08:00

Since we are finished with the halo wars I can start posting some of my art work and concepts I did for the project.

HALO WARS

2009-02-18T04:55:00.000-08:00

I'm really glad to see Halo Wars is getting very positive demo impression by many people. I'm very confident that the game is going to do very well. I feel honered to be part of the project and can't wait to see how people react once they play the full game. Good Job Guys!!!

TRIP TO KOREA

2009-02-16T02:45:00.000-08:00

Few pictures i took in Korea. I have more to come later on. I've never visited Korea since I moved to states which has been 20+ years. The experience I have so far has been very interesting and different. I really love the fact that there's so many varities of restaurents everywhere. I still have 3 more days left here in Korea and I'm going to try to make best of it.

Octopus

2008-12-12T11:00:00.000-08:00

I wanted to paint something massive and big. . I'm not sure what this thing is but it reminds me of an octopus with that long tentacles. I spent about 3~4 hours to finish this painting. Photoshop.

skull soldier concept

2008-11-10T11:14:00.001-08:00

another quick painting after lunch...

Robota

2008-11-07T16:58:00.000-08:00

quick painting after lunch.
subject was female robot.

Left hand drawing

2008-10-15T21:55:00.000-07:00

Another drawing done with my left hand...

Left Hand

2008-10-15T20:53:00.000-07:00

I have start practicing drawing with my left hand. I thought it was interesting idea to see what i can come up with drawing with a hand that I rarly use other than driving and typing. I like to explore and what I can improve using more of my right side of the brain. So far, I came up with some interesting style of sketches that I don't think i could of done with my right hand. Here are some of the drawings.

Capcom Challange

2008-09-12T16:08:00.000-07:00

my latest work. it's female bionic commando

circle of life, circle of time

2008-08-21T21:59:00.001-07:00

This quick sketch was inspired by MC Escher's "Drawing Hands". I'm going to work on the final piece in photoshop soon.

My home workspace.

2008-08-14T14:35:00.001-07:00

me and few other guys from work did quick painting of our own workspace.

first

2008-08-11T08:31:00.000-07:00

haha... welcome to my blog.