There are No Goodbyes, Just Inside Out Hellos

Been a while, right?

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Recent Work

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More from Term 7

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Thanks to everyone who's been keeping tabs on this blog. The encouragement has been amazing, and I'll try to post more often from now on.

A few more...

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New Stuff?

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Been a while, right? Here's a little bit of what I've been working on this term. More to come.

CTN Portfolio, pt 3

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CTN Portfolio, pt 2

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CTN Portfolio

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Breaking the Rules

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Yeah, it's that guy.

Obsession/Traps

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My submission for this past week's Picture This meeting.

Waiting

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This was going to be my submission for yesterday's Picture This meeting, which unfortunately fell on the same day as moving day for me.

The Colony Storyboards

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The tiniest fraction of my final project for Storyboarding class. The assignment was to board out a story you'd written yourself. If you want to see the full story, send me an email.

Lord of the Rings Storyboards

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A few pages from the Mines of Moria sequence I boarded out for Ricardo's class. If you're interested in seeing the full sequence, drop me an email.

Superbad Storyboards

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Some boards I did for the ID sequence in Superbad. Again, if you want to see the whole sequence, just drop me an email.

WALL-E Storyboards

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As many pages as Blogger will allow from my take on the intro sequence from WALL-E. Done for Storyboarding class with Ricardo Delgado. Blogger can't take PDFs apparently, so these Storyboarding posts are only going to be the tip of the iceberg as far as the total volume of boards I've done. If anyone wants to check out the full sequences, hit me up via email and I'll send them to you.

Character Designs

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Character designs from a graphic novel I've been working on.

Here's your future

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A future cityscape from Historical Environments

...But it's very pretty hubris

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Underwater Art Nouveau hotel with a jellyfish motif is my top pick for a good Bond villain location. More from Historical Environments.

Jaisalmer Roof Runner

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Baroque Rundown

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More from Historical Environments. My inner jackass just liked the idea that someone would devote the time, energy and technical aptitude it would require to build a Da Vinci style flying machine, and then just chase people around with it.

One of my top 3 swordfight locations

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Flying buttresses on a Gothic Cathedral, from Historical Environments for Matte Painting with Gary Meyer.

Visual Development, pt 2

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Visual Development, pt 1

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The story of Iggy Pigalof, a little boy the size of a thumb. From Visual Development with Will Weston.

The Prestige: Key Scenes

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Key scenes from Color and Story

The Prestige: Character designs

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The Prestige: Color Script

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The color script I did for Color and Story with Richard Keyes

I don't know where the sunbeams end and the starlights begin

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A few logo designs for the Flaming Lips I put together in Expressive Type a year back.

A few of my favorite pieces from Digital Illustration, circa a year ago

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Travel back with me to another time...

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...A distant, simpler era known as "2008 through 2009", a time in which this blog either didn't exist, or I just acted that way. So yeah, enjoy some old stuff. These ones are from Sketching for Illustration back in Fall of 2008.

Breathe again

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Drive

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Innocence

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Heaven

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Break away

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Seeking solace

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Dark

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Light

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Love

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Introduction

I've never been good with introductions

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So I think it would be better if I skipped them completely. In fact, I tend to be a little bit on the shy side with most people (or "mysterious and aloof" if that's what you're into) until I've known them for about half a year, so I think I'll skip to that. Also, the year after that is mostly filled with fairly mundane small talk, plenty of "how about this weather?" and "can you believe the price of paint these days?". After that I usually get to be pretty good friends with someone for maybe six months or so before one of us transfers to a different school or finds a job that takes him or her to a different city, and both of us will probably fall out of touch right about then. Sure, we'll probably see each other maybe once a year or so, but we'll rarely hear from each other outside of that. We'd both have pretty busy schedules, I'd imagine, it's really sort of inevitable.

Seeing each other once a year would gradually fade into exchanging Christmas cards, and in a few years we'd practically be strangers, dormant names lining address books. Years later we'd meet by chance in a supermarket, and my friend would introduce me to his or her spouse and children. We'd both make attempts at reminiscing about the old days, making small talk to glaze over the fact that we probably now have little to nothing in common. I'd think about how I was pretty much the same person after all these years, while my friend had moved on with his or her life, while my friend would think about the days when he or she was young and relatively free of responsibility and we'd both silently wonder where the time went there in the bread aisle.

My name is Bryan Wong, I make pictures.