Tuan Nini

New post on substack- arguing for more casual, less serious approach to painting.

Took my waterbrush out for a spin a second time. Unbelievable how I only need 3 small things- a waterbrush, this tiny paintbox I got as a gift, and a napkin to paint. (Okay, and paper)

Did a lot of walkcycles for this shot!

A little moving poster I animated for the conference "The Power of Storytelling" happening this March. The theme of this edition is "Connect".

-if an inquiry comes from an inexperienced and possibly irresponsible party so I swat them down in time. But oh, the hours, days, weeks of my life spent on writing quotations.. if only they’re chargeable 😅

-even know if we get the job. In this case I already have the project but am just thinking about many other instances. Since quoting a project requires a lot of thought and effort from the illustrator it’s frustrating when we’re ghosted afterwards. I’ve been working a long time so I can often smell-

This is why quotations are very hard to do. E-mails come in asking for quotations for a job and there are always a ton of questions that need to be answered before a meaningful sum can be provided- often, illustrators need to solve a lot of problems clients haven’t thought about, well before we-

Got fresh scripts to turn into comic panels today. I realize that the only way to tell the client how many panels it’ll need and how long it’ll take is to actually start responding to the text- meaning, to treat them as visual elements in panels, one step before thumbnailing images. This is why-

Gasp, it’s not a doughnut!

Haluuu, good to have you tooo! I never got the hang of the chatter in twitter and I'm coming more from instragram-state-of-mind, which is a lot less wordy and a lot more image heavy for art-inspiration purposes. Hope I'll get comfy soon!

Hi Adiiiii Iskandaarrr Skiiiin

Hi! First post here on Bluesky! Here is my Hourly Comics this year featuring Oolong! These were all observations from Feb 1 done in quick successions. l've always wanted to do an hourly comic from the POV of a dog and I guess I finally did it. (Part 1/4)
#hourlycomicday #dog #personalcomic #Oolong

Throwin' a little timelapse to see how vids act on Bluesky!
Worked on this illustration on Clip Studio Paint, and composited in AE.

Fun fact- the elevator is going up to 19th floor, like the 19th edition of Animest Film Festival for which I made this animation trailer!

Had a whirlwind trip in Malaysia in January when I found Dear Brother, a book I recently illustrated- in Kinokuniya, my favourite-est bookshop where I spent many, many weekends growing up.

Dear Brother is written by Alison McGhee, published by Atheneum Books For Young Readers.

illustration from an animation film festival trailer

I made a cinema opening-film for an animation film festival last year and this is one of my favourite stills. "Urban Frames" is the theme of the 2024 edition and I sneaked those words in on passing trams :D

Music by Kadjavsi /Nikita Dembinski!

Now let’s test posting a video!

This is the rough-to-full anim look at one of the scenes from the trailer I made for Animest, an animation festival in Romania.

Whoa you can’t edit a post here???

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(Is this how you post comic panels on Bluesky? Let me know if I’m committing a crime)

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“I Love My Body” - a comic.
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You should post your waturcolurrrsss

Sorry, just testing how comments work. You’re my first victim!

Hiiiiiii

I’ve had a roller coaster year. Most of it good. There’s also a heavy loss. The year hasn’t ended and it’s still showing up with surprises. When my brain doesn’t feel like tangled overcooked noodles, I do feel grateful.

Just testing out the posting Bluesky-

I totally forgot I already had an account here. Was signing up tonight after reading about the exodus and got the dreaded “username taken” response and went “who the heeeelll took my naaame- oooh wait.”

Too many apps too lil brain space.

Dragonball

Happy Dragon Year!

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