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mingjue helen chen mingjue helen chen friday march 22 2013 freankenweenie process i posted this image on my tumblr with a pretty big chunk of words and i thought it may be worth posting here too there is sooooo much wrong with this painting but in the interest of full disclosure i put it up it just shows how much i ve struggled with constructing space most of my paintings started off like the image on top where i really had to fight to figure out what was going on nowadays i would have approached this image very differently but the experience was invaluable there was no way i was going to let on that they may have made a mistake hiring me so i had to learn quickly anyway i ve kept a lot of my graphs just so i remember that i m probably never going to get a task that s easy and so now whenever i get an assignment i try to not be scared and just attack it it doesn t work out all the time but i end up learning a lot posted by helen chen at 9 51 am 8 comments tuesday january 29 2013 paperman process hey guys thought i d post a look at what a frame of paperman looked like before it was painted and dressed we would get a scene with proxy geometry like the one on the top of the frame and from there i would deconstruct the perspective and repaint the scene so that it could be reprojected onto the simple geometry for the final shot to support stereo paperman is unique in that most of the lighting was placed in the hands of the artist painting that shot as a result every shot is individually designed some were easy since the crazy awesome jeff turley would have a key others we d just kind of go with it personally i loved this approach because it gave me a chance to explore lighting scenarios appropriate for the scene and a little for my own satisfaction i prefer black and white work since color is not my strong suit so this was a lot of fun for me we also tried to paint characters in all our scenes because that would serve as a value guide for the final frame posted by helen chen at 12 16 pm 8 comments monday december 17 2012 xmas card a christmas themed mini rapunzel posted by helen chen at 11 16 pm 6 comments tuesday november 27 2012 more wir pman and spam i got a tumblr i haven t quite gotten the hang of it but at least it isn t empty take a look http jigokuen tumblr com this was an early painting of the kart bakery a piece i did when i was in training and just started on paperman posted by helen chen at 6 23 pm 6 comments friday november 16 2012 frankenweenie part 2 more from frankenweenie posted by helen chen at 5 59 pm 7 comments thursday november 8 2012 frankenweenie visual development part 1 by now this art is 2 3 years old so yeah frankenweenie was the first animated film project to hire me as a visual development artist and looking back on my shitty portfolio its a miracle they had that much faith in me to begin with thank you andy nicholson and troy nethercott a little side note i was literally hired at ctn expo which is right around the corner so all you art students take heed the team was small but tight knit led by crazy awesome production designer rick heinrichs who at the time was also designing captain america no big deal and art director andy nicholson we had a 9 member team stationed at culver studios where tim burton was finishing up alice and for 4 months we hunkered down and tried to figure out what new holland would be like i learned so much on the project and really got a sense of what it was that i wanted to do with my art more importantly it introduced me to some of the best people i know and the chance to work with each one of them again i got pretty lucky in the sense that since i mostly focused on the frankenstein house set and the cemetery set and a little bit of the neighborhood they didn t get cut from the final film you know because victor needs a place to live and sparky needed to die blargh enough sentimental chit chat tl dr here s some art this is all copyright walt disney pictures i don t own anything please go watch the film posted by helen chen at 3 28 pm 6 comments monday november 5 2012 wreck it ralph vis dev and matte painting i hope you guys enjoyed ralph opening weekend i worked on ralph first as a visual development artist and then a matte painter so here s some stuff vis dev matte painting the image below was a huge challenge not only does it take up the entire screen the painting had to hold up in stereo and as a 2d background that felt like it was created and rendered in pure cgi i also had to paint two versions a destroyed version of sugar rush and a pristine version and my favorite piece of unused graffiti in game central station posted by helen chen at 2 04 pm 4 comments thursday november 1 2012 paperman concept art here s a post in celebration of the release of wreck it ralph and paperman when i first graduated from trainee status it was the production paperman who gave me my first shot to prove myself at disney i firmly believe that without this very special project my time at disney would have been cut short thanks so much to jeff turley and john kahrs for giving me a chance the images below are the very few vis dev pieces i did because it was time to ramp up and work on the backgrounds for the final product will be released tonight at midnight in front of wreck it ralph posted by helen chen at 9 14 am 6 comments wednesday october 24 2012 truffles and shit this became the official matte painting crew t shirt mascots for wreck it ralph another moment painting that was released with ralph feeling sad and neglected pre order the ralph art of book from amazon i have a few pieces in there along with a ton of artwork from all the other amazing artists who worked hard on this project and just a little something extra the 8bit ralph crew shirt i did for the lighting crew images copyright disney animation posted by helen chen at 2 53 pm 7 comments thursday september 27 2012 more wreck it ralph concept art this new image was released today as a part of a sugar rush special here initial color key was done by paul felix copyright walt disney feature animation posted by helen chen at 3 20 pm 6 comments friday august 3 2012 wreck it ralph and thugaledon here s a concept art piece i did from the upcoming film i ve been working on at disney animation everyone is super excited about this next one and it has challenged me as an artist for almost a year now this is one of the first paintings i did for the film and looking back there s so much i would change the colors are a bit funky i was tasked with creating a painting that would bring some of the really whimsical designs of mac george and lorelay bove to 3d space original article http www firstshowing net 2012 an early look at wreck it ralph new footage plot points more and a thugaledon for all your thug needs posted by helen chen at 10 08 am 13 comments thursday july 12 2012 black and white following the recent debut of the frankenweenie exhibit in san diego here s a poster i did for the frankenweenie annecy crew two years ago also a weird little vis dev painting actually more of a thumbnail i did that was floating around the interwebs production design by rick heinrichs art directed by andy nicholson and tim browning posted by helen chen at 12 23 pm 5 comments sunday july 8 2012 baker st again went to same place as last week to paint and topanga canyon on july 4th posted by helen chen at 6 27 pm 4 comments monday july 2 2012 plein air so after a few weeks of stubbornly using pen and paper i finally broke down and decided to give digital plein air painting a shot this was done in an area found by my friend rustam and we went painting there last weekend i painted through the computer s battery life so something like 1 hour 45 minutes posted by helen chen at 9 27 am 8 comments friday march 30 2012 stuff i did these paintings are from when i was still a trainee in disney s talent development program not related to production and as assignments from my mentors kevin nelson and paul felix edit so to answer some questions these paintings came from various exercises and assignments my mentors gave me the trains were to train me in perspective and draftsmanship the fox was to to kind of tackle painting color and story i don t think i particularily aced any part of those assignments but just doing them helps a lot posted by helen chen at 10 28 am 27 comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom helen chen vis dev artist at disney feature animation academy of art university alum jigokuen msn com view my complete profile my other stuff tumblr twitter followers coworkers past and present abe ong andre medina armand serrano bill perkins bill schwab bobby pontillas brittney lee chad stubblefield claire keane clio pitt cory loftis dan cooper elsa chang fawn veerasunthorn jackson dryden james finch jed diffenderfer jeff turley jin kim justin cram katy wu kevin nelson lorelay bove lou romano mike yamada nick oris patrick osborne paul felix paul tsui 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