jeffliuart

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2012-03-05T23:00:00.001-08:00

OOPDATE

2012-03-02T16:56:00.007-08:00

Some character designs based off of characters in a live action film my friend is making

And some girly doodles

JoCo

2012-02-14T18:22:00.001-08:00

Here's a drawing of one of my favorite creative peoples, Jonathan Coulton.

(HAPPY V DAY)

Runrunrun

2012-02-09T21:19:00.001-08:00

Weird Snoopy/Astroboy design haha..

Silhouettes

2012-02-08T18:30:00.000-08:00

Bonus dog drawing:

I drew this with this crazy web-based drawing tool.

shake your

2012-01-27T17:28:00.000-08:00

butt

Drinkin' Budzz

2012-01-26T18:19:00.000-08:00

Just two guys. Having a good time.

Here's the rough drawings toooooo

Dehydration Quest

2012-01-24T18:00:00.000-08:00

Dehydration Quest by Jeff Liu

Here's my first chiptune track made with Logic! Imagine that you're playing a game that takes place in the desert.

Logic and SoundCloud!

2012-01-21T02:48:00.000-08:00

I just purchased Logic! I've been using Garageband since high school. Garageband is a really great amateur program, and I learned most of what I know about music by messing around and composing things with it. I figured it was time to move to the next level with my music-making so now I'm learning Logic!

Also I made a SoundCloud account to share my music things!

This one is from a three year old collection of songs that I made. It's one of the first chiptune songs I composed with Milkytracker. Looking back on this one, it seems pretty busy. I think I've tried to simplify things in recent years.
blueberries by Jeff Liu

Another song from the same collection. I just did a brand new mix of it with Logic as a learning exercise! This one is pretty silly. It jumps around from style to style, something that I really love for some reason.
Brainz! by Jeff Liu

This is the very first thing I made with Logic. I just started making tracks without really planning anything and this is what resulted. I stayed up pretty late working on it so it kind of reflects my sleepy state of mind?
NEWTHINGS by Jeff Liu

Kid

2012-01-20T18:06:00.001-08:00

Hmmm

2012-01-18T20:09:00.001-08:00

Sunset3

2012-01-17T18:30:00.000-08:00

Sammy

2012-01-09T16:41:00.000-08:00

The coolest member of the studio.

Wweeeeeweewee

2012-01-06T18:34:00.001-08:00

Another sunset

2012-01-04T18:44:00.001-08:00

A Sunset

2012-01-02T16:10:00.000-08:00

Happy new year everyone!

I've been seeing some incredible sunsets lately, so I started taking photos to use as reference. There's something really overwhelming about the sky to me. Here's an attempt at trying to capture that feeling.

Things I do while animating

2011-12-20T18:39:00.001-08:00

Doodledoods 2

2011-12-19T18:24:00.001-08:00

Hanzagain

2011-12-14T18:38:00.000-08:00

More hands drawn without reference!

Abstract Doodle

2011-12-14T12:11:00.000-08:00

'ca-jones

2011-12-13T18:39:00.001-08:00

Yay it's Erica!

Goat Rodeo

2011-12-13T18:32:00.000-08:00

I just bought The Goat Rodeo Sessions collaboration between Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Chris Thile And Stuart Duncan. It's really really great music, I recommend it!

Doodledoods

2011-12-07T18:27:00.000-08:00

Punchergeist

2011-12-02T12:18:00.001-08:00

Cave Monsters

2011-12-01T18:38:00.000-08:00

So is this hard to read or what?

Jumping

2011-11-30T17:45:00.000-08:00

I'm trying to think less when I draw. I hope that stuff he's jumping into is soft.

Color Bars

2011-11-18T18:17:00.001-08:00

Lizardman

2011-11-16T18:56:00.000-08:00

I don't know how to draw lizards!

Dog Dood

2011-11-16T12:20:00.000-08:00

Dog Dood don't smoke it's bad for you.

Dog Dood doesn't care.

Strobe

2011-11-14T15:51:00.000-08:00

Water

2011-11-08T11:00:00.001-08:00

This happens to me a lot.

Slice

2011-11-02T16:59:00.001-07:00

Venice Canals

2011-10-30T19:34:00.000-07:00

The first time I've used watercolor in a long long time. Super super fun day!

FIREFIREFIRE

2011-10-26T11:55:00.000-07:00

Here's some fire I did for work. I'm much more accustomed to doing character animation so effects animation is kind of foreign to me.

Also some experimenting with exporting gifs out of Flash. I'm liking the weird stuff that's happening to them.

Wobbly Walk

2011-10-21T17:12:00.000-07:00

Every time I try to walk, I feel like I'm doing it for the first time.

Oh

2011-10-20T17:29:00.001-07:00

BECAUSE EVERYONE LOVES ZELDA RIGHT?

2011-10-18T18:37:00.001-07:00

EVERYONE

HANZ

2011-10-18T18:36:00.001-07:00

I've been trying to get better at drawing these hand things. There's lots of mistakes in these but this is where I'm at currently, drawing without reference!

Bass Fingerz

2011-10-17T14:40:00.000-07:00

Abstract

2011-10-17T14:35:00.000-07:00

Colors from a dream I had a few nights ago.

Landscape

2011-10-16T23:13:00.000-07:00

This was inspired by an awesome hike I went on with some awesome friends. The sun was starting to set so the tips of the shadowy mountains were lit bright yellow. I dumbly didn't take any photos so this is my best attempt at capturing it from my head.

different

2011-10-13T15:46:00.000-07:00

me

2011-10-11T23:34:00.001-07:00

Girl

2011-10-11T18:53:00.001-07:00

In the Woods

2011-10-11T13:29:00.000-07:00

Doin' squats.

Abstract

2011-10-10T17:14:00.000-07:00

I am an artist I have feelings and stuff!

Loof Drooing

2011-10-09T21:11:00.000-07:00

From Phil Rynda's workshop! I had to leave early unfortunately. I'm hoping I can go back and keep practicing this drawing stuff. It is tricky.

Chaz

2011-10-05T15:48:00.001-07:00

Snazzy Chaz

Chazzy Snazz

Life Drawinging

2011-09-29T14:38:00.000-07:00

Doodle

2011-09-27T18:02:00.000-07:00

Honus Honus

2011-08-23T18:32:00.000-07:00

or Ryan Kattner of Man Man.

Tin Foil Bagel Soda Cigarette

2011-08-18T15:35:00.001-07:00

We saw this woman on Main Street when we went to get lunch.

Deer Run

2011-08-11T17:31:00.001-07:00

Click for animation:

This is my first time trying to do a 4-legged cycle. Also my first time drawing a deer (I think?). Don't really know what I'm doing with either haha. Need more practice.

Thanks to Nelson for some advice on the deer. Fixed some head rotation and changed the landing poses of the back legs.

Life Drawing

2011-08-10T15:00:00.001-07:00

Link

2011-08-08T12:36:00.001-07:00

Baby Monkey Man

2011-08-06T00:39:00.000-07:00

Just think about it.

Jenny Wang

2011-08-05T14:07:00.001-07:00

It never came up in the film but that's her name.

summer sketch

2011-08-03T14:35:00.000-07:00

The studio provided sandwiches for lunch on the beach today yay.

bbbassss

2011-08-01T15:03:00.000-07:00

Doooodle

2011-07-26T12:51:00.000-07:00

Drawn with a tablet this time. No more trackpad. NO CARPAL TUNNEL. NO. NOOO.

Pikaman

2011-07-26T00:24:00.000-07:00

I joined a fun blog started by some classmates. It's called Doodlepoops.
This week's theme is Pokemon:

Also this is my last trackpad drawing. It's super awful for my drawing arm. SAFETY FIRSTTTT

Pumpkin

2011-07-22T14:36:00.000-07:00

This is what I did at work yesterday. It'll be in one of the Halloween e-cards.

Click for animation:

Hand Antlers

2011-07-21T23:23:00.000-07:00

Doodles before bed. Drawn with the trackpad.

La La Lala La Lalala Lala La

2011-07-20T23:18:00.000-07:00

This first one is the first image I have created on my new macbook pro. Putting all that fancy hardware to good use. Drawn with the trackpad.

Some sketches from life

Annie Clark of St. Vincent

Doodle people

Based off a dude I walked by in the hallway at work.

Sketchesketchesketches

2011-06-30T22:10:00.000-07:00

Dudes at the cafe. The dude on the left is Alex Chechik. He's an amazingly talented dude.

The counter at Rose Cafe down the street.

Muh hands.

Obligatory naked girls.

Treble clefs and some music thingy.

Some Sketches

2011-06-24T12:25:00.001-07:00

Drawing consistently in a sketchbook has been one of the hardest things for me to do. I'm trying really hard to keep this one going!

Landscape

2011-06-01T12:42:00.000-07:00

Drawn with the trackpad. Click to make bigger!

Films!

2011-05-18T13:03:00.000-07:00

The year is finally ending, and I'm graduating in two days!
I just uploaded my films from this year. I also did the music for the first two. The Producers' Show Opening has music by I Monster.

Here is my final CalArts film:

This is a film made up of animations I made in my spare time this year, all animated with a laptop trackpad.

Here's the opening for the Producers' Show! I came up with the idea and asked everyone to contribute to awesome results!

Cedar Waxwing

2011-04-14T22:39:00.000-07:00

Here's a drawing I did quickly for a buddy of mine. He's going to be playing some music at coffee shops up in Oregon.

Demo Reel Update

2011-04-04T12:28:00.000-07:00

I uploaded my current demo reel to my portfolio blog. It has some scenes from my fourth year film which I am currently working on, a few from last year's film, and two other tests I did earlier this year.

Demo Reel 2011 from Jeff Liu on Vimeo.

Cat emoticon

2011-04-02T15:16:00.000-07:00

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Flower

2011-03-30T20:53:00.000-07:00

Fun flower from film.

Life Drawing

2011-03-08T20:55:00.000-08:00

Here is life drawing!

I did these in Flash because I'm also using it to animate my film, and hopefully it will aid me in controlling the wacky vector lines. Also I don't have to pay for supplies!

every frame at once

2011-03-05T14:19:00.000-08:00

When you look at every frame of an animated sequence at once, it makes some really awesome designs.

Here's some from my film I'm working on right now.

Banana

2011-03-03T12:53:00.000-08:00

So this is how I spent the past hour and a half: making this visual recreation of something that lasted about thirty seconds.

Click for animation:

flying moose

2011-03-02T17:45:00.000-08:00

Click to see it move.
I animated this in Flash with the trackpad on my laptop.

Testing testing

2011-03-02T17:17:00.000-08:00

This is a new blog!