GODAIZER: For Animated Short Film Initiative Proposal back in 2007

Animated Short Film Initiative Proposal

Here was my reference and concept designs for my proposal to get the Animated Short Film Initiative grant from Singapore Film Society and Media Developement Authority of Singapore back in 2007.

Reference Images

These are the look of backgrounds that I was going for. It is to have a painterly feel and definitely not photo - realistic. Kazuo Oga was a huge influence on me visually as his paintings expressed a certain feeling that just brings me back to my child hood days. To me his work speaks so much to a person's emotional core. Of course I could not paint to his level and I am not very good with a real brush.

I was also heavily influenced by the Tekkon Kinkreet's art director Shinji Kimura. Which really was really detailed and visually astounding.

Similarly these are the robot influences that I have. Most of these are done by Yoshiyuki Takani whose cover art featured prominently on the old japanese and Takatoku toy box covers that I couldn't really afford to buy.

Concept Designs

These are some rough concept Designs done by Ray Toh (www.raytoh.com) and me for this animation short proposal. Again, this is only initial conceptual art to approximate the look and feel of the animation. And is to be developed further upon successful application.