Maruna's Blog

kids and sydney

2011-10-20T06:42:00.000-07:00

Moving to Sydney

2010-10-27T06:56:00.000-07:00

Hiii Blogger!
Just resently I have moved from my home town Brisbane to Sydney! Last week I found a nice shared apartment in Surry Hills and now I have all the time in the world to draw and animate(until I find a job that is!)
Sydney so far looks really cool with the old, beautiful, rough, raggered antiquee buildings with the ummmm what do you call it a nostalgic atmosphere? It's only a 12 hour drive from Brisbane but the difference between the two cities are subtle but definetly there.
Oh and the art galleries are AMAZING! I haven't been to much yet but one in particular that was purely breath taking was the Billich Gallery at the Rocks. If any artist comes to Sydney please don't miss that one!
and for the first time on my blog I might put some photoes up:

My new room! Small but very cosy :)

My desk and laptop : D


The hotel I was staying at until I found my apartment

And a drawing I did today, I know I'm not very good with colour coordinating so I tried to keep this one subtle...what do you guys think??

So I am a bit away from home again now but I will do my very best to settle in to Sydney and to find a job and to keep on drawing! So please watch over me blog! I will update you again soon! (>_<)

Experimental animation snapshots

2010-09-08T08:20:00.000-07:00

Hello blo-g (/>_<)/ These are some still pics of test animation clip I was working on when I had some spare time.

and a anime cliche eye opening bit.

and another new art piece.

Land scapes and 2d VFX test

2010-08-24T18:26:00.000-07:00

These are two rough landscapes, really need to make some effort to finish them more properly.

And this is a rough blast thing I drew.

Abstract and Trapcode

2010-08-24T17:59:00.000-07:00

These are some random abstract arty things I made while experimenting with trapcode Particular. I really love the trapcode plugins and resently I bought the suite :-D!!! So excited to play around with the new forms and horizons and stuff! (cos I only had particular before)

New Drawings

2010-08-24T10:19:00.000-07:00

Finally putting some things on this blog again... hmmm I don't even have any excuses so lets just move on >_
Just some simple drawings I've done in the last couple of months. I really need do some life drawings again!

Anime style update!!

2009-09-26T09:57:00.000-07:00

Hellooo blogger! I know I know its only been 8 months and 19 days since I last posted here!
I suprise myself with my own slackness! p(>_<)q!
But better late then never so here I am! (/^_^)/
I've finally got in to the pattern of drawing more and I'd like to share a few of my new drawings! My style (as you can see!) is heavily influenced by Japanese anime and especially at the moment from the anime series "Saki"(I've been helping out in the comping for it for the last 6 months).

I've also been working on some short simple animations with these kinds of drawings. I hope can finish them to put them up aswell.

Okay I wont take so long to post next time! so see you soon!

Me and VFX of 2008

2009-01-09T21:32:00.000-08:00

Oh myyy its been a whole years now since I last posted here!!
And I'm very ashamed to say I've still got no drawings to put up (T_T)!

However today I thought I might put up some of the exercises I've been doing during the my first year as a VFX compositor! These are just few little exercises I was doing during free time at work. everything has been done in After Effects 7.0 and with plug-ins such as Trapcode Particular and Shine. And I was also having a Energy ball contest with some of the others girls from work, so I put a few of those up as well!

I will Defiently put some drawings up soon!!

Luv

Maruna

Portraits of Gods

2007-12-13T04:00:00.000-08:00

These paintings were all done in Photoshop. They are portraits of the five Gods of Love, Power, Health, Wisdom and Death.

Pencil Drawings

2007-12-13T03:23:00.000-08:00

These are some sketches and drawings in pencil. Some are just quick sketches others are extensive.

Miracle Weaver compositing

2007-12-12T03:43:00.000-08:00

I worked on the post production of our short animation clip Miracle Weaver. I color graded and layerd the final 3D renders. The images on top are the original images and the ones on the bottom are the images I worked over with After Effects.

Polly- After Effects

2007-12-12T03:37:00.000-08:00

This is an animation clip I worked on with many of my friends for the introduction of our gradate screening. I worked on the compositing and animating.

Choo dikka dikka - Aftereffects

2007-12-12T03:08:00.000-08:00

An introduction animation clip I worked on for the music video 'Nothink' by the Dum Viva Disco. My friend Hakon Anderson illustrated the characters for me and I worked on the animation and compositing.

Illustrations

2007-12-12T03:02:00.000-08:00

Some illustrations I done as presents for family and friends birthdays.

Modeling in 3D Maya

2007-12-12T02:59:00.000-08:00

I'm not that used to 3D but managed to model out and texture a simple city scape.

Dave's Film

2007-05-23T00:59:00.000-07:00

Hi all this is Maruna again :)

Through out the year I decided to help out with a bit of my friend Dave's film as well. It's a cool short film about a lone wolf traveling through the desert and helping out this little kid wolf.

It's a 2D film and I'm helping out with a bit of the layout when the Wolf is walking through the desert.

I like how the design are working out, thanks to Ling who helped me heaps with the texturing of the cliff face. I rather like the deep blue colour of the sky even though in the desert it's probably a more lighter blue.
I'm trying to play around with the designs of the clouds a bit as well, I like the thick solid clouds even though deserts probably won't have clouds like that.

Sorry Dave I know I'm taking long but I'll try and finish the other layouts ASAP!

Cheers,

Maruna

Miracle Weaver

2007-05-23T00:21:00.000-07:00

Hi again :)

Miracle Weaver is the project I'm working on at uni with my friends Makochan, Gem and Marisa.
It's a feature film idea so we're only making a trailer but it'll be awseome when it's done.

It's about this 14 year old girl called Page going to "Babel Corp" to complain to the 5 Gods of Love, Widom, Happiness Power and Death about the injustce and inequality of the world.

It's going to be a 3D film, hence I'm helping out mainly in the concept and texturing.

This lady to the left is my design of the Goddess of Power, her name is Nina. We wanted all the Gods to have their virtues twisted in a modern kind of way. Hence Nina is a power hungry feminst who thinks Victory can always be won by money.

The image to the right is just a concept for "Babel Corp" a huge building towering over the city.

I have a lot more artworks for this film but I'll update it more once they are a bit more finalized.

Cheers,

Maruna

Starting a Blog

2007-05-22T23:56:00.000-07:00

Nice to meet you I'm Maruna a 2D animator from Australia.

This is my first ever blog and I would like to put up some of my own artworks and concepts for my animations for your viewing.

It'll be great if you can give me some of your opinions , comments or any criticisms. I'm open for complements as well :)

True regards,

Maruna