Game cycles

J-STARS Victory Vs - Opening/Intro: Fighting☆Stars!

My childhood japanese heros of Sonen Jump all in one games, and it's 3D.

Working in a japanese studio, for now I understand why there are little 3d japanese animation except Final Fantansy. Japanese style don't care about the real world of light, volume, environments, reallife movement...For them, these elements are supplementary for one important reason: did these heros look cute? cute big eyes, cute coiffure, cute costumes, cute outlines, cute poses.. and even cute highlight, cute shadow, cute colors, cute dirty texture..

I did mistake that the japaneses must not like 3D. But in fact, Japanese studios works on 3D applications even for 2D film and create exactly their manga style. That's awesomes. There are no question about 2D or 3D in Japan, just the cute art and design, the japanese style.

Function of art?

The first cover is my concept. I want to show to everyone how interesting and how great what Einstein had discovered about physics, through a curious and complex schematic.

The second  is the printed version of the editor. I found that the text is too huge, as if all they did care about was the famous name of the author.

Some people just care about the function of applied art more than art itself. From this point their designs become "functional" and uninteresting. If I have to give an advice to a student of applied art, it will be "think of art and love it before you apply it to any function".

My old work for a science class

The meets of art and science ^_^

Finally my works for this science book of  "Laboratoire physique thermique de l'ESPCI" are published.

It's helpful taking a step back to better analyse what I did. Besides the works of  preparing the stage, camera, lighting, the gelatines' moulding.., the really precious thing was the idea behind all those things: use science to make art.

Inside the laboratory of miss Madeleine, the stage was in fact the cover of the rheometer, the gelatine was reserved for the current experiments projects, the colorants came from the Japanese laboratory of monsier Katsuyoshi, and all the final forms of the gelatine was made with the experiment tools.

Looking at the way the colors are blended, the basic geometries are composed and enjoying the light play on the translucent property of the gelatin,,. I call that's the meets of art and science.

Demo real 2012

Demo2012 Trang from Le Viet Trang on Vimeo.

Porto dance salsa

Porto is one of my personal character's concept. I've built him in maya, from modeling to set-up, texturing, animation.