Feng Zhu Design

More Tencent Demos

2012-02-28T02:30:00.001-08:00

More demos from the private Tencent Workshop from last week.

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Biosuits

2012-02-27T03:00:00.000-08:00

More demos from the Tencent workshop.

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Vampire Blood Tank

2012-02-27T02:49:00.002-08:00

Demo from my private Tencent Workshop in Shenzhen, China. A vampire blood tank - so some old vampire can keep himself/herself alive by sitting in that seat.

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BW Exterior/Interior

2012-02-27T02:38:00.002-08:00

Back in Singapore. Here's a demo on interior/exterior spaces. Based on the book "The Scar."

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BW Value Demo

2012-02-20T01:28:00.000-08:00

Start of new term today. Demo on b/w values.

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Tencent Poster

2012-02-16T23:40:00.001-08:00

Poster I painted a while back for a Tencent game called 王朝霸域 (Chinese game now in Beta).

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Dead Ship II

2012-02-16T00:11:00.001-08:00

Another dead airship.

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Photo Plate

2012-02-15T19:44:00.000-08:00

Demo from last night's class.

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Valentine's Day

2012-02-14T01:01:00.000-08:00

Quick valentine's day painting.

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2012-02-12T23:09:00.000-08:00

Demo from last week's Master Designer Workshop.

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Quick Sketch

2012-02-10T02:20:00.001-08:00

Prep sketch for painting. Will finish the painting next week....TGIF. Gotta go play some Kingdom of Amalur. :)

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Design Cinema - Episode 52

2012-02-10T00:09:00.001-08:00

New Episode is up. This one is aimed more towards students.

Crab Monster

2012-02-08T08:23:00.000-08:00

Demo from my digital painting class - result of hanging out with Kekai for the past few days. :)

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Dead Ship

2012-02-06T23:48:00.001-08:00

Just a quick painting inspired by last weekend's workshop.

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Kitbashing

2012-02-02T20:53:00.000-08:00

These were "built" by our FZD instructor, Kingston, as class examples for the kit-bashing project. Some of the student versions will be on display at the Grad Show tomorrow.

Dinner Time

2012-02-02T02:38:00.001-08:00

Quick doodle...

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Ball Mechs

2012-02-01T08:01:00.000-08:00

Silhouette to colour demo from tonight's digital painting class. More of my "ball-mech" designs.

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Hobby Houses - Term 02

2012-01-27T00:38:00.000-08:00

Students had to design a house around their hobby. But they can't just make a room and fill it with stuff. The house has to be visually designed to aid the hobby.

Week 14 Student Work - Term 01 - Fundamentals

2012-01-27T00:33:00.000-08:00

Some cool example works from Term 01 students:

FZD Grad Show 2012

2012-01-26T18:06:00.000-08:00

Same day and location as the Master Designer Workshop 2012 :) Just need to go upstairs.

Tiny Head Mechs

2012-01-26T02:13:00.000-08:00

Demo from today's class - quick sketching techniques.

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Far Worlds

2012-01-25T19:38:00.001-08:00

Demo from last night's class.

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JOB OPENING: VJ

2012-01-24T04:15:00.000-08:00

FZD School of Design is currently casting for a female video-blog host for a new production show. This individual must be attractive, articulate and have a fun and spontaneous personality. Job role include conducting interviews, hosting live events, up-keeping of video blogs and traveling to shows such as E3, San Diego Comic Con and the Tokyo Game Show.

Both local & international applicants are welcome to apply. Professional experience is NOT a requirement. Please send in your demo-tape (or links to your video/blog) to contact@fzdschool.com.

This is a full-time position based in Singapore.

Happy Chinese New Year

2012-01-20T10:11:00.001-08:00

Year of the Dragon.

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More Student Work - Term 02

2012-01-18T00:39:00.000-08:00

More fun designs. I'll be uploading work from 01 and 03 as they start coming in (it's finals week!).

All FZD Student Galleries

Student Work - Term 02

2012-01-18T00:25:00.000-08:00

Teaching is really fun when students draw cool stuff. I thought these were some pretty fun designs:

I'll be uploading more student work in the coming days (end of term again).

Roadside Picnic

2012-01-16T03:06:00.000-08:00

Character design demo from today's class. Based on characters from the 1971 book ,Roadside Picnic - which was also the heavy influence behind the game S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

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Organ House

2012-01-13T03:30:00.000-08:00

Quick demo for students on how to set mood and color with simple comp-paintings.

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More Warm-Ups

2012-01-12T02:30:00.000-08:00

A few more warm-up paintings.

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Values and Composition

2012-01-11T23:09:00.000-08:00

Last night's class demo. Also demonstrating how to cannibalize the 1st painting to generate the base for the 2nd painting.

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15 Min Warm-ups

2012-01-11T00:21:00.000-08:00

Two quick warm-up paintings.

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Space Pirate Crew

2012-01-10T01:34:00.000-08:00

Class demo on character line-sketching.

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Design Cinema - Episode 51

2012-01-09T20:49:00.000-08:00

New Design Cinema is up.

The Road

2012-01-09T02:31:00.000-08:00

My first paintings of 2012...been on break for so long :P

These are class demos on Painting Comps. Theme is based on the book, The Road, by Cormac McCarthy.

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Happy New Year 2012

2011-12-31T02:27:00.000-08:00

Have a great new year in 2012 everyone. To new beginnings...

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Some in-progress shots:

Design Cinema - Episode 50

2011-12-30T03:20:00.001-08:00

Silhouette technique. Video will be uploaded in a few hours.

New Canon 5D

2011-12-27T01:04:00.000-08:00

The Canon 5D Mark II really is an amazing camera. Using the 24-70 f/2.8 lens for these shots.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays

2011-12-23T00:59:00.001-08:00

Hope everyone had a great year!

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Bones

2011-12-21T21:17:00.001-08:00

Class demo on the human skeleton.

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Animal Contour Demo

2011-12-13T02:00:00.000-08:00

Animal contour demo.

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More class demos

2011-12-12T07:34:00.001-08:00

Demos from today's class.

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Priest

2011-12-07T21:54:00.000-08:00

Demo from last night's class.

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Tech Cities

2011-12-05T02:28:00.000-08:00

Class demos.

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Master Designer Workshop 2012

2011-11-30T02:16:00.000-08:00

Hope to see some of you guys here. Please click on the image for additional information.

Perspective Exo-Skeleton Life Forms

2011-11-29T00:17:00.000-08:00

Perspective demo from class.

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Fantasy Stuff

2011-11-28T02:18:00.001-08:00

Demo from today's class. Some fantasy paintings.

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Zombie Samurai + Viking

2011-11-23T21:50:00.000-08:00

Demo from last night's certificate class - Digital Painting.

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2011-11-23T01:51:00.000-08:00

Demo from last week's digital painting class - using a different approach to generate new landscape designs/ideas (useful for MMO type games).

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Military Transports

2011-11-22T01:13:00.001-08:00

Perspective demo from today's class.

Starship Troopers

2011-11-21T06:20:00.000-08:00

Live demo from today's class. Demonstrating some illustrative techniques.

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More fantasy landscapes

2011-11-15T23:51:00.000-08:00

Touching up some fantasy landscape demos from Monday's class.

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Farm Vehicles

2011-11-15T01:14:00.000-08:00

Perspective demo. Simple form development.

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Class Demos - Fantasy Landscapes

2011-11-10T02:03:00.000-08:00

Live class demo from last night's cert class; digital painting.

Student Paintovers

2011-11-10T00:12:00.001-08:00

Some student paint-overs from today's class.

Design Cinema - Episode 49

2011-11-08T03:20:00.000-08:00

Paintings for the next Design Cinema, Episode 49: Black & White Interiors
(will be uploaded by tomorrow or Thursday). The theme is loosely inspired by the book Perdido Street Station by China Miéville.

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BW Comps

2011-11-02T21:20:00.000-07:00

Quick B/W comp paintings from my Digital Painting cert class (week 01).

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More colour keys

2011-10-31T02:25:00.000-07:00

More colour key demos. This time with interior spaces.

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Colour Palettes

2011-10-24T01:51:00.000-07:00

Demo from today.

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Student sketches

2011-10-19T21:37:00.000-07:00

Some cool sketches done by some of our term 1 students during their break.

Back to Work

2011-10-17T01:36:00.000-07:00

Back to work. A new term started today. Here's a quick sketch-painting demo from today's class.

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Design Cinema - Episode 48

2011-10-11T21:11:00.000-07:00

Back from vacation. Here's the sketch for the next Design Cinema. Video will be up by tomorrow.

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Student Work - Term 02

2011-10-09T20:38:00.000-07:00

Cool stuff from our term 02 students.

Student Work - Entertainment Design

2011-09-29T20:18:00.000-07:00

Some fun designs from the Entertainment Design class. Project was to design the characters/environments for a casual/social networking game.

Another Futuristic City

2011-09-29T01:16:00.000-07:00

Demo from last night's Cert Class - Digital Painting. This is the week 06 demo; in which we start with a photo-plate.

Week 14 Student Work: Term 01 - Digital Painting

2011-09-26T00:36:00.001-07:00

Works from Kingston's digital painting class.

I'll upload more week 14 stuff soon; especially from term 02 and 03.

Week 14 Student Work: Term 01 - Production Sketching

2011-09-26T00:32:00.000-07:00

From my production sketching class (combining perspective, anatomy and basic sketching techniques into one).

Week 14 Student Work: Term 01 - Perspective

2011-09-26T00:29:00.001-07:00

From term 01 perspective class.

Week 14 Student Work: Term 01 - Design 01

2011-09-26T00:21:00.001-07:00

It's week 14 at FZD, which means final projects are in. Here are some works from our term 01 students after studying for about 3.5 months.

Since this is term 1, there are lot of basic fundamentals to cover. I'll upload more from term 2 and 3 as the works come in from the students.

Space Park

2011-09-22T23:59:00.000-07:00

In class demo for a theme park design. This is an in-door space park.

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Abandoned

2011-09-22T00:41:00.001-07:00

Demo from last night's cert class: Digital Painting.

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Neo Tokyo

2011-09-16T02:15:00.000-07:00

Today's in-class live demo.

ImagineFX Tutorial Paintings

2011-09-15T10:47:00.000-07:00

Here are the two tutorial paintings from last month's ImagineFX magazine.

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Zombie Apocalypse

2011-09-15T03:04:00.000-07:00

Zombie Apocalypse painting.

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Class demos

2011-09-14T21:47:00.000-07:00

Some in-class quickie demos.

Post Apocalyptic Hover Bikes

2011-09-13T03:16:00.000-07:00

Vehicle design demo from today's class.

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zBrush Design

2011-09-12T04:18:00.003-07:00

Demo done by one of our FZD instructors, Kingston. Showing students how to use zBrush as a quick design tool.

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Tree Village

2011-09-12T04:02:00.000-07:00

Class demo....a Tree Village.

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Cert Class Demos

2011-09-07T23:54:00.000-07:00

In class demos from my Cert Class: Digital Painting.

Another day/night demo:

More Form Extractions

2011-09-06T03:02:00.001-07:00

Another form extraction demo for our students.

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Worlds

2011-09-01T01:37:00.000-07:00

Demo from last night's Certificate course: Digital Painting

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Ski Mechs

2011-08-29T03:24:00.001-07:00

Super quick class demo on shot composition.

Student Work

2011-08-26T03:49:00.000-07:00

Some pretty impressive Term 1 student work; considering they've only been in school for 8 weeks thus far. This is from the values & materials class.

Old West Steam Punk

2011-08-26T02:32:00.000-07:00

Today's live demo - continuing on the theme of "paint something unfamiliar." Last week we did Goth, so this week I decided to try a western theme...with a bit of steam punk.

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Digital Painting Cert Class - Week 01

2011-08-24T09:32:00.000-07:00

New cert class started today. First lesson: Compositions and Values

ImagineFX Issue 74

2011-08-23T06:58:00.001-07:00

ImagineFX, the Art of Star Wars special is here!

"You don't have to venture far into the world of sci-fi art to find imagery inspired by the artists that worked on the Star Wars franchise - whether that's Ralph McQuarrie and his original concept art or Terryl Whitlatch and her creature designs for the prequel trilogy. And, in this very special Star Wars issue of ImagineFX, we feature some of the very best Star Wars art every created.

In this month’s Legends section we talk to Ralph about his work on the first three films, whilst looking at some of his most memorable pieces. We’ve also spoken to some of the concept artists behind the prequel films, including Warren Fu, Iain McCaig, Sang Jun Lee, Alex Jaeger, Aaron McBride and Stephan Martiniére, to get their insight into creating art for the films.

The workshop section opens with Darth Maul designer Iain McCaig taking us through the creation of the tattooed Sith Lord, and then Greg Hildebrandt remembers how exactly he and his brother Tim created this month's iconic cover art. Then Episode 3 concept artist Feng Zhu explains the benefits of working on multiple images before making a pitch. Terryl Whitlatch takes us through how she created many of the fascinating creatures of the Star Wars universe, and Aaron McBride uses a combination of 2D and 3D to create an Imperial droid.

Once you've created your very own Darth Vader with the help of Steve Argyle and his 3D skills, there's still the jam-packed Q&A section to get through, plus reviews of the month’s best software and art books, and our free DVD with a killer sci-fi 3D model pack, a Charles Bernard video workshop and all the magazine's workshop files."

Alien Mobsters

2011-08-23T01:51:00.000-07:00

Today's demo on form extraction. Alien mobster designs extracted from 1920s architecture.

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Sitting Doods

2011-08-22T02:17:00.001-07:00

Today's live class demo. Showing students some "traditional" medium techniques in photoshop.

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Gothic

2011-08-19T01:55:00.001-07:00

Today's in-class live demo. Trying to show students how to approach subject matters which are not familiar. For me, I don't do too much "gothic" stuff, so we decided to paint one. I think next week we'll tackle a Western theme :)

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Since this is a new subject for me, I did a quick 20 min comp to test out the theme, mood and color.

Initial line drawing

Day & Night

2011-08-17T04:21:00.000-07:00

Quick demo on lighting.

Dragon Horse

2011-08-16T02:36:00.000-07:00

Today's class demo on Creature Design, anatomy and costuming.

Riders have to be careful on this beast. Head movement from the creature can kill or knock the rider out.

Moody Paintings

2011-08-15T01:33:00.000-07:00

Demo on starting paintings by using abstract backgrounds.

Quick Comps

2011-08-12T04:11:00.000-07:00

Quick demo on comp studies

Alien Jet Packs

2011-08-08T02:47:00.000-07:00

Organic, symbiotic jet-packs - using fingers and muscle movements for control. The military also made a few earth knock-offs (image 4 & 5).

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Alien Ships

2011-08-05T02:14:00.000-07:00

Demo from today's class. Showing students how to sketch loose drawings.

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Tokyo Mechs

2011-08-03T08:26:00.000-07:00

Live demo from my Cert Class - Digital Painting

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2011-08-02T01:59:00.001-07:00

Pretty cool designs by our students. Design brief was to combine a give-away toy with food/snack packaging. Arief's Oreo thing would totally sell! :)

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Student work

2011-08-02T01:33:00.000-07:00

Some of our 1st term student work - using perspective to sketch Trains. Only after 6 weeks! Impressive stuff.

Bugs Perspective Sketching

2011-08-02T01:26:00.000-07:00

Class demo; production sketching

2011-08-01T03:29:00.000-07:00

Sci-Fi landscape demos for our students.

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Design Cinema, Episode 46

2011-07-28T23:23:00.001-07:00