Technical Artist

Hey hey,

The website layout has been updated. I noticed that some links were broken, or old, and a good portion of my portfolio was not accessible, click here to check it out. That should be fixed now.

Enjoy!

Howdy everyone,

My portfolio has been added since updating the site from sxlife.ca to scottxiong.com. Click here to access it. Best viewed with Firefox.

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year everybody! See you in 2010!

Scott Xiong

Hi Everyone,

I just finished transferring my domain to my new registrar and hosting account, and as you may have noticed, SXLife.ca is now ScottXiong.com. What does this mean? Well, instead of having 2 separate sites for people to jump around, I decided it would be easier, and better for people to find everything on one site.

WordPress is such a godsend, I mean, it makes updating my website so much easier than it used to be, and it has so many cool features and tools… *sniff, I’m so happy…

Anyways, what this also means is that I need to incorporate my portfolio works into this site now, so please bare with me as I make those changes.

You can click here to view my portfolio works.

Take it ease!

Hey hey,

I’ve uploaded my Maya MEL/Expression scripts used in my YouTube videos, so check them out here!

Enjoy!

OK, I woke up this morning and was inspired do some digital painting with OpenCanvas on my computer, and of course, using a tablet. My tablet is an older Intuos2, works like a charm, and I don’t have any intention of getting a new one unless this one breaks. Together, it feels like painting on an open canvas… sorta.

I purchased the program several years ago, it’s inexpensive, incredibly small (under 10 mb), easy to follow user interface, and has some great features, like ‘Automatic Event Recording’ which records your actions as you go so that you can play and view the entire progress of your work of art, like a movie. Unfortunately, the parent company ‘PortalGraphics’ no longer supports English for the program, or on their website, you can click here to see for yourself, more information about OpenCanvas can be found on their Wikipedia page, click here. The last English version I believe is some form of OpenCanvas 4.5, I have version 4.509E Plus. It will be impossible to get a legitimate english version OpenCanvas serial, so you may have to download OpenCanvas, and settle for a crack or patch (it is known that patched versions have problems of some sort, don’t know, since mine’s legit). I’m pretty sure you can find an Open Canvas download quite easily though.

Anyways, I had originally planned to do some fan art of either anime or video game characters, however, I found myself browsing through my old sketches instead. I found a bunch of old incomplete sketches and decided to finish some up. After going through most of them, I realized that many would never be completed, and that’s OK with me. I did however, find an old sketch of my ‘Nemean’ monster, whom I eventually made into a fully rigged low poly 3D model (by today’s standards of low poly), click here to go to my website and check it out. I liked the pose, so I decided to just touch it up and finish it.

Scott Xiong here, and welcome to SX Life!

I am in the process of transferring my content from my previous blog over at blogger to sxlife.ca. My portfolio can be viewed by clicking here, and you can check out my LinkedIn profile by clicking here.

Cheers