clara.

animator.
loves jesus coffee & tea.

www.claraaa.com
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amanda | amelie | amirah
cheryl | daryl | harold
hui fen | hui xuan | joshua
kai liang | kenneth | lee yeung
liesl | li xiong | marcus
mei yin | shirley | shi qi
shu guo | qiu yi


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11 second club
deviantart
the clone wars !
forever 21


Sunday, June 29, 2008 7:49 PM


I WANT TO TELL YOU THAT...

OMGGGG i'm dying to tell everyone wad EXACTLY i'm doing in LF but i canttt *_*! lol. i don wanna be fired or sued or jailed or tat sorta thing! but i'll just say, work is really AWESOME, its EXCITING, its really quite extraordinary.
Go eat shit, m.s.! huahuahua!

xD ok, so basically we just learn stuff, then we get assigned animation to do, then we just have a ton of fun, and then we animate and animate and animate, and eat icecream or fruits or wadever's in the pantry tat day :D hurhur. AWESOME.

i'm so glad i'm not some clerk or something. who'd be excited abt typing all day?! but when u're moving stuff all day, u're making some trooper aliveee, NOW THAT'S AWESOME EXCITING. ok, so my vocab is limited but u get the idea. haha.

so don't make me break my contract, stop askin me stuff =x! i tend to ramble so i nv know what i'm goin to say! (-rereads wad i just typed just in case i said something i shldn't have-)

wells, toy & comic convention yesterday at suntec was pretty awesome for all its mini sculptures and toys :D and i've started to really fall in love with starwars lego toys. i think it's this thing about working there that i've started to get into this starwars madness phase. maybe i'll get a darthmaul lego keychain with my first pay! huahua. they have some pretty cool ones at Simply Toys at Suntec.

here's darth maul on his speeder! :D

okay, so here's some er, Q&A stuff that i have to do cos dear Mirah asked me to. so, okay. (: i shld stop rambling.


1] What's your favorite anime at the present time?


Erm i haven't watched any in a long time, but peace maker was good when i saw it a few yrs ago (:


2] Given the chance, what special ability/power would you like to have?


FLY ! and to be able to do super animation at lightning speed and eat a lot and never grow fat! :D


3] How do you think about yourself?


I'm not exactly what my face says i am. i'm a little louder, a little geekier, a little sweeter, and much more short tempered than wad mr face says i am.


4] Where is the place that you want to go the most?


it's between greece and japan and prague.


5] If you can have 1 dream to come true, what would it be?


hmm...to be married happily ever after and to be a character animator at lucasfilm/blueskies/dreamworks/pixar till old age then go to heaven where there's really awesome bar chor mee & mango smoothie when i die. yes, I have ridiculously detailed dreams.


6] Do you have a crush now?


Yes! It's Obi-wan! He's so cool when he says "So uncivilized." in ep III. lol!


7] What are you afraid to lose the most now?


Probably my family, friends and then my job.


8] If you win $1 million, what would you do?

I would...buy us a new house so i can have my own room and not have to share with my brother, then buy an ipod and a macbook and some clothes and buy everyone i love a nice dinner.


9] If you meet someone that you love, would you confess to him/her?


Not before he does!


10] List out 3 good points of the person who tagged you.

Mirah is not afraid to laugh really loud and is not afraid to be different and always gives me a mega watt smile (:


11] Which type of person do you hate the most?

Lazy ppl, liars, hypocrites in general.


12] What is your ambition?


to be a Kickass christian animator.


13] If you have fault, would you rather the people around you point out to you or would you rather they keep quiet?

Point it out nicely, please (:


14] What do you think is the most important in your life?

To love God & the ppl ard and to try your darn hardest at everything you do.


15] Are you a shopaholic or not?


why, YES. what a silly question. HAHA.


16] What is the thing that you really want now?

To continue working in the same company nx yr! and the nx and nx and nx etc ...


17] Why does it hurt when you punch someone?


Because humans are supposed to use their brains to fight and not their fists.
Fist = ape; brain = human.


18] Is there anything that you have done which you regret?

Don't regret, apologize and learn.


19] Are you hungry right now?


For some salt and vinegar chips, yes! :D


20] Do you think that this survey is totally useless?

Absolutely! haha.

mini-wok noodles in a small corner of outram park
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 10:06 PM


mini-wok noodles in a small corner of outram park

a glimpse of my evening yesterday (: .

zoo with sq.
Sunday, June 15, 2008 5:49 PM


(very humid) zoo!

hurhur. you'd think i'd have had enough of the zoo from all the drawing trips there, but nah. Animals are just like us, they change.

so cos sq had free tickets cos he's a blood donor, we got to go in for freeee! :D and this time i caught the animal shows! something i never got to do on drawing trips. I won't upload much of my photographs, just a few of those worth a mention.

like the butterflies in the fragile forest!!! my goodness, they're so tame. they land all over you and you can even coax them onto your finger, which we did.
and it was very rewarding cos i got to take this picture!

(please do double-click to see clearly!!!)
look at its eyes 0_O
my goodness. there are like flower patterns in there!
and it's really ticklish having it stand on your finger cos it keeps using its 'tongue', which is the long thing you see sticking out between its eyes to tickle you.

i think it's mistaken that we're sweet. or maybe it likes salty o_o.
which reminds me, it's the first time i drank Pocari Sweat ytd. i always had the thought that it mite be salty (must be the horrible naming) so i nv really dared. well, i declare it safe to drink, it tastes just like h-two-o.

and this fantastic lemur which gamely posed for us and let us stroke him.

the white tigers were majestic as usual, lazily swinging their huge paws ard as they walked, shoulder blades arched and muscles rippling *_* you can feel the POWER radiating out of them.

and the hippos! looking all zen and cool while we were all perspiring in the extreme humidity behind their glass panels.

and hahaha. this monkey. he tried to snatch our entire plastic bag of breadtalk bread from sq! hahaha. i wont forget how he just sprung out and ran to us and forcefully grabbed our bag.
here he's trying to show us where to go (: so small so cute and so dangerous. lol.

:D and mega thanks to sq for running all the way to cheers to get me a new pair of slippers after my faithful leather ones just snapped and died.

Dear leather slippers, you have served me well for 3+ yrs, so i guess it really was time i laid you to rest in the zoo's dustbin.
Goodbye leather slippers :( ...

... >:D hello brand new slippers. now i need (not just want) to go shopping. HURHUR.

ollie the sith lord
Friday, June 13, 2008 9:56 PM


LINK TO UPDATE ON ART BLOG (:

Profile : Ollie the Sith Lord
Objective: Run, jump, and slash the invisible man in half.


so, i finally got off my lazy ass and did some animation, though its only one afternoon's work...but i promise to spend more afternoons usefully *_*

alright then, I'd appreciate some useful critique please ! (:
the video comes off quite small so i apologize to any strained eyes in advance.

tumblr is <3
Monday, June 09, 2008 4:40 PM


I FOUND IT.


HOHOHO. i've been delaying for a long long long time regarding setting up a sketch/art blog. because i just don't feel blogger or wordpress is really up to it.

THEN I FOUND IT TODAY. :D :D :D as i was browsing ard artist's blogs as usual, i found the perfect host.

so here it is, finally. MY ART BLOG :D.


it's simple, it's clean and white and pristine, it's easy to customize without clearing out the shit from all the free (but often bug infested) blogskins,
it's not as unfriendly as wordpress to us animators (though i hear from web ppl it really is pretty awesome), it's not as fugly as livejournal,
and you can just grab quotes and conversations and publish them as a post easily, and it's just pure yayness.

after much thoughtful thinking and browsing :D finally.
i love you tumblr.com.
i guess blogger will have to take a backseat for now. hurhur. henceforth, all artworks will be posted there :D and since it's gonna be clean and pristine and heavenly, only links to art related websites will be up there, links to other blogs are no-can-dos :D

do pop by :D !

drawing day!
Saturday, June 07, 2008 10:56 PM


:DRAWING :DAY !!!

YES it is ! It's drawing day today! :D SO DUMP EVERYTHING AND DRAWWW.
i decided to compile someee of my nicer sketches from my brand new sketchbook! :D i love new books.

image one is done today, from online photographs,
image two is from thursday, from life.
done with my trusty uniball signo 0.28 pen ! no clean up in PS, only leveling.
feel free to critique (though i know they aren't that great (: )



cutest brunch.
Friday, June 06, 2008 4:21 PM


today i woke up to my cutest brunch this year!

hehe, how cute is that! little foxes swimming ard my miso soup instant mee (: (: (:

it all started ytd when shi han and i went down to clarke quay for some Meidi-Ya, figuring that since we can't go to Japan, the least we cld do is shop for some japanese snacks. I was whining abt how my lunches are always sad boring maggi mee, so he was being a real pie, and bought this for me and secretly stuffed it into my bag :D.

Thank youuuu shi han :D !

did some drawings by the river, and later at vivo, but i'm too lazy to compile, so i'll post it up another day.

btw, Liang Court's Kinokuniya has a real good bargain alley *_* sh managed to find a Burne Hogarth's dynamic anatomy goin for just $20 and some Moleskins goin for just $5! sweet, so do check it out.

Wednesday was spent with qy (we forgot to take pictures again), and as usual i have nthin to show for it except some real good buys! haha. i must forbid myself from even entering shopping malls. it's gonna be the death of me if i don't.

-rolls ard on my broke ass-