Artwork Giveaway

Hello,
Did you enjoy our Indonesian's Proclamation Day's artwork? We have something to offer. We're having a campaign over our miniseries at wujudkan.com. We need you to support us to fund our project of Rara and The Ricketies miniseries.

We're going to make 3 short series of Rara's adventure, 3 up to 5 minutes each. It's going to be fun, of course. We'll be having Leyak and The Lost Lollipop at the end of September no matter the outcome of  the campaign. At least we're sharing and having our fun together! :D

This A5 artwork is going to be yours should you support us there.  Enjoy!

67th Independence Day of Republic of Indonesia

Good afternoon!
It's been a while since our last post. Yep, we're dashing the second gag along with the assets creation of Leyak and Lost Lollipop, and we thought, 'we've forgot the updates, let us post something at August 17th'.

I think today is very special day for Indonesians and its Moslem people. Why? Because this is our Independence day, the 67th and this is the last Ramadhan's Friday for Moslems and in two days, there will be Ied al Fitr for them.

It's not very festive though. The students are having their field ceremony as always (not to mention the ceremony always lasts half an hour longer than usual), TVRI broadcasts the palace ceremony as well (and relayed by other national TV channels), our neighborhood is not making any contests like sack race, pull-the-coins-from-a-fruit, pinang climbing, and a question always occurs in every 17th: "have we been free yet?"

A tricky question, however. There are thousands of ways to answer that. Perhaps, "Well, there are poor people, millions more than last year. We're not free yet." or "A lot of potential corruption cases are still nowhere to be seen, free is still out of our reach" or "No gold at this year's Olympic Games. We're not free from pussies!!" etc.

It's easy to find others' faults, or the cracks on the wall. It's also easy to points then blame at someone's failure than admitting ourselves' flops. I admit there are a lot of stuff need to be done and a lot to learn. So let us learn, work, and keep moving on the next challenge ahead of all of us. I think those are our best way to keep this freedom our predecessors gave, alive.

Layouts sheet 2

 

Yay! Another sheet of layouts we're working at Rara and The Ricketies project.

Let's crank it up!!

Layouts sheet 01

These are few of the layouts we're working at Leyak and Lost Lollipop. It's really fun in working at it...

De Stille Kracht

Good afternoon! It's time for another update for our Leyak and Lost Lollipop.

Rara reads books a lot. This time she's reading 'De Stille Kracht' by Louis Couperus. The cover design is taken from original published book at 1900 by L.J Veen company. It was in Dutch (since the Netherland colonized East Indie at that time), and I think that was one of first books told about ghosts and superstitious matters in Java.

Potjong, jailangkung, and Kuntilanak was mentioned there as unique culture product of East-Indie inlanders.

De Stille Kracht was republished and translated by Oxford University Press in 1992 as 'The Hidden Force'...

Special Blend

"It's my special blend. Can't guarantee the flavour though. It's different each time." - Baron Humbert von Gikkingen

The quote comes from a cat character appears on 'Neko no Ongaeshi' (The Cat Returns). It was the scene when the cat baron served a cup of tea to his female office's guest, Haru. When she (Haru) said, "delicious!" the cat replied, "then you're lucky." 

Kind of cool way to be very confident about your odd works. If it was good, the guest is lucky, and if it was lousy, you would just need to apologize to your guest and get rid of the 'blend' then move on to the next 'blend'. Either way, the guest has already sip your blend :D ...

It's awesome to have Ghibli's works as our huge references (alongside with Pixar's), the way the characters move, jump, enjoying every nook and cranny of the scenes and see the beauty of hand-drawn animation into life.

We're not trying to be like Ghibli though. We learn a lot from them. And we're just noobs trying to make something good. We know our blend wouldn't be as awesome as you expected, but it's a huge honour for us you're watching our works.

enjoy!