An unexpected journey.

  Earlier this year I had the great privilege to be a guest speaker at ISB. Back to my roots, as I attended that school for 2 very amazing years. It was such a fun experience to go talk to all the students, and hopefully inspired some the same way I was inspired by  guest speakers in my youth. I found the Q&A sessions especially entertaining, as I was asked some very good questions. Not only about the industry, but about myself as well.

   

    I'd just like to say a very special thank you to Alegria and Mischele for everything. I couldn't have asked for better hosts. Thanks to Petch as well for pushing all this forward. And last but not least, I was extremely thrilled to go and check out the high school art class. It was definitely inspiring for me to see all the wonderful work that these students were up to. There was a lot of serious talent. 

   This weekend I found a fun little surprise in my post box. A thank you letter (with amazing original art!) from staff and students. I was overwhelmed with warm feelings. Thank you so much for this. 

 
   To the wonderful students I met from the high school art class, you guys are awesome.  It was great chatting with all of you about animation, art, movies, and even Imagineering!  You all are so incredibly talented. I look forward to seeing more of your work, and hopefully seeing you all again in the near future.

End of the year showreel, and The Hobbit!

It's Holiday season again. And there's no better time to update my showreel. Here's most of my past work. I managed to find a very brief clip of some shots I worked on for The Hobbit, so I threw them in. However you all can now see more of The Hobbit in theaters now!

Like Tintin, I got to put in double duty on this film. Previs and Animation. It was super fun and rewarding on both sides. And it turned out to be a pretty fun film as well. My current show reel below :

         

Professional Showreel 2012 from Moragot Bodharamik on Vimeo.

Some recent work - Concept art

Here's some concept art I did for a close friend recently. He needed a character concept for one of his female characters.I sent him a couple different design variants, as well as color ideas as well.

Post Halloween depression ...

Our ScareActors

Well, it's that time of year again ... the time of year when Halloween is over and I have to wait a full year until the next one.  This was my third Halloween in New Zealand, which is not really known for celebration Halloween. It does get more and more active each year. As usual the folks at Weta Digital rent out a bar and hosts a killer party. However, I wanted to share some Halloween spirit with our Kiwi (and home sick American) friends. So my room mate and I decided to create our own Haunt Event. Right in our house. It was super fun, we got a couple "monsters" to help with the scaring. People were genuinely freaked out and had a blast. We were happy to share what made Halloween special to us with everyone. 

Not only did we host an event, but we went the extra mile by making promotional material for the event as well. Setting up back stories so people would "get" the theme, as well as get the hype/scare train started early. Anyways, I thought I'd share some of the art and trailers I did for the event. 

Little Girl Lost - Haunt Event Trailer 02 from Moragot Bodharamik on Vimeo.

Little Girl Lost - Haunt Event Trailer 03 from Moragot Bodharamik on Vimeo.

"if you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison', it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later."

I've always had a strong fascination with the story of Alice and her adventures in Wonderland. There was something very unsettling about that strange world, and it made me uneasy. A while back I created a few drawings based on the story of A Christmas Carol, but put it in a Sci-Fi horror setting. Since I love that genre so much I decided to give it another go. I created this image to not totally spell out "Alice in Wonderland", but rather keep things subtle with references and easter eggs (except for the "eat" and "drink" canisters). I wanted people to look at it and not know right away what it was referencing, but at the same time be somewhat familiar. Sort of like what Alice was feeling once she went down the rabbit hole.

Burn it!

Kate Lloyd study.

I'm a huge fan of John Carpenter's The Thing. I have also become a huge fan of the 2011 prequel. I felt it was a great addition to the story/universe. Cool monsters, Norwegians, and end credits that just give me chills. What's not to love!

Watching it again today I just had to do a drawing of M.E. Winstead's character, Kate Lloyd. I just love her in practically anything.

Art'd Us : Week 4 and 5!

I've been a bit busy here, so here are the past two weeks combined.

The styles were Bill Watterson and Jamie Hewlett.

With Watterson's style we all took a more sentimental approach. Bringing in things that meant something to us as a child. As for Hewlett's ... well, we just wanted to look cool.