Need more humour for your day? Then, here’s something that will definitely make you laugh.

“Subject: John Su”

Featuring John Su from the United States. He’s an artist that is skilled in using Flash program for both drawing and animation works. With such humour added into his works, his gallery is anything but dull. Some of his works, you will find them weird and even slightly bizarre. But never, certainly NEVER dull.

Make sure to check out his gallery at his deviantArt page. At the meantime, why don’t you enjoy some of the previews of his works below. Remember, clicking on the preview pictures will open another window (or tab depending on your browser settings) and will direct you to the source’s original location, the artist’s page.

“From something so cute…”

“…to something as cool as this.”

“And from something wacky…”

“…to something just downright bizarre!”

And here’s one of his great short animations as a treat.

“Shoo Fly” - a short Mickey Mousing (a film technique used to sync the actions on screen with the accompanying music) flash animation made by John Su (also known as Mousekliks from other sites). The animation shows how Nelly (the girl in the animation) dramatically tries to get rid of a tiny yet annoying fly.

To watch this movie, click on the preview picture that will open another window (or tab). In that page, click on the link labeled ‘Watch this movie!’. Enjoy!

That’s all for today’s little featurette. Until next time!

Looks like our favourite purple bag is trying his hands on Rangoli decorating. Let’s see how he’s doing so far.

Rangoli is a popular traditional art form in India, using rice coloured in various pigment to create patterns and designs. Usually can be seen on the ground outside of homes at any times but it is also common to see Rangoli decorating during the 5-day festival of Diwali (over here, we call it, Deepavali).

Wishing you a Happy Deepavali (anyway)!

I just recently saw a movie trailer at a nearby cinema that featured ‘Bolt’ (Disney’s upcoming 3D animated movie) and was searching for more information regarding this movie. I was hoping to find some concept arts that might show how the movie was made and not just the summary of the movie like Wikipedia provides.

Bolt, Mittens and Rhino the hamster from Disney’s latest 3D animated movie, Bolt.

During my search for Bolt, the search engine somehow ended up showing me results about an article about Disney’s upcoming 2D animated (That’s right, folks! They’re still making traditional animation works!) movie called ‘The Princess and the Frog’. This movie was said to be released in December 2009.

First look on Princess Tiana, the heroine of Disney’s upcoming 2D animated movie, The Princess and the Frog.

My interest quickly switched and I was suddenly searching for information about this movie instead. With so many CG animated movies, the traditional animated ones are so under appreciated lately. I’d love to find out more about Disney’s upcoming movies in case they have more. I kept searching which finally led me to David Gilson’s blog, the featured artist for today!

Based on the info in David Gilson’s blog, he’s from Paris, France. Hence most of his blog entries are in French. But that doesn’t mean you can’t stop by his blog and have a look at his wonderful and adorable artworks.

His blog entries are mostly articles about animation works and animated movies. And this is also where he post most of his recent drawings.

Simply click the word ‘Messages plus anciens‘ at the very bottom of his blog page to see his previous entries.

Left image: David Gilson’s ‘chibi’ rendition of Princess Tiana.

It appears that drawing characters in ‘chibi’ form is his favourite genre. Below are some more sample of his adorable rendition pieces.

Bolt, Mittens and Rhino from Disney’s Bolt.

Lewis and Wilbur from Disney’s previous 3D animated movie, Meet the Robinsons.

Wall-E, Eve and Hal the roach from Disney & Pixar’s Wall-E.

Rina: Best animated movie of the year!!! Next to Kung Fu Panda!

He also draws really nice concept arts of various characters. I mean, just look below!

Official artwork of ‘The Princess and the Frog’? Nope. It’s just one of David’s fanart works.

You can find some more of his great works in his portfolio page. Since his portfolio page is also in French, I couldn’t understand anything that was said in there but someone from an animation forum quoted that David Gilson’s resume reveals that he used to work for Disney in the now closed Paris WDFA Studio.

Ah… That sort of explained his very ‘Disney-ique’ drawing style.

Heya, fellow visitors!

How are you doing this month? Fine? Good to know. How about those who are fasting this month? Keeping it up well? Good. Don’t worry, another seventeen more days and it’s celebration time!

One of the good things about fasting is that you don’t have to spend your money for lunch. Fara would be thrilled…

But of course, when fasting, you tend to get tired easily. When you go out in a hot weather, you’d feel hot and thirsty. When you’re working in a very, very cold environment (full blasted air conditioner! Gah!), you’d feel cold and drowsy.

Rina: My fingers are numb…

Ah, well. Anyway, don’t give up! Don’t let these things get to you. Just make yourself busy all the time and you’ll forget your hunger. When the time comes, you’ll be celebrating your victory for fasting for full thirty days!

Rina: Believe me, those old monitors really work!

That’s all for today’s Behind GL.

Until next time, Happy Ramadhan and happy fasting, peeps!