farizghazali

Sketch - Bird of The Rain Forest

2012-01-26T00:07:00.004+08:00

Title : Birds of The Rain Forest

Artist: Fariz Ghazali

Media: Ink on Paper

Size: A4!

Year: 1998

Haiya BidDoa in Amanz.my

2012-01-21T00:24:00.002+08:00

Again we are in the news. Part of the hype-ing up the NEF-AWANI Awards event which Haiya BidDoa is running for the Best Animation Category.

So, if you have not clicked news up there, do it here..!

Trans Studio Bandung: Not a Good Choice

2012-01-09T22:56:00.010+08:00

So the year 2011 ended with a family trip to Bandung. 2 main agendas -Trans Studio for the kids and shopping for the ladies. Claimed to be one of the biggest indoor theme park in the world, Trans Studio Bandung was disappointing for us.

Bandung overall was disappointing for me. The lousy airport service, the over priced transportation fare, the over priced food, the traffic, the 3-star hotel with a 4-star price and 2 star facilities and service, the kebun binatang (zoo) which is.. err..

Ala.. Indonesia macam tu la.. Bandung macam tu la.. kalau tak suka jangan pergi.. - your voice

OK la..

Duduk rumah tengok kes mahkamah Anwar Ibrahim.!

OK la..

TRANS STUDIO BANDUNG WITH A 4 YEARS OLD.

Do not go to trans studio if you have children 4 or 5 years old.

Do not go if your children (or you yourself) is shorter than 130 cm.

Do not go during Indonesia school holidays.

With 4 children below 8 years, the only rides they got to go on was the 'little, simple, not worth the price paid' choo-choo trains and spinning cups and sort. I didn't blog surf before deciding to go or else I would have known. Each entry to Trans Studio was Rp200,000. Around RM70. With that amount, you can go tired on rides back home.

At the end of the day, we spend close to Rp2.5 million (RM 860) for the tickets, food and transport !!!

The 'little, simple, not worth the price paid' choo-choo trains and spinning cups rides.

But children are easily amused. Not their dad.

TRANS STUDIO: TOO LOUD.

And we were there during the Indonesian school holidays. With Jakarta a few hours drive away, the place was packed, uninformative (cash card system and no food allowed) and too loud.

People were pouring in since morning and within an hour of opening, the queue to almost all rides were an hour long. I saw one with a "90 minutes from here" mark. After spending 4 hours, I managed to get my children on 2 rides minus the "choo-choo train" thingy. An hour long queue, hot and stuffy, (and carrying my child some-more..) loud singing noise, is not my idea of FUN.

TRANS STUDIO: NOT THE TARGET AUDIENCE?

In our family of ten, we only have 1 teenager. Nearly a teenage actually. 2 warga emas.. (veterans), 4 children below 8 years and 3 adults. Now, I'm looking at their web again and I am guessing that all my complains might just have a reason. We are not the target audience. Target client or consumers or what ever. Trans Studio might not be for us. They should have the notice and warning posters all over. Rp200,000 per entry is not cheap.

Dude, it's only like 20 dollars. - your voice

Yeah, but I can get more out of that 20 dollars back home.

Trans Studio was not designed to accommodate Sundays' crowd nor little children. No consideration was made to the structure design to reduce the noise. No seats around the place. And no queue-less entertainment (except for the singing which is too loud) It would be much nicer if it's outdoor i think.

All in all, go to Trans Studio only if you are a teenager or a young adult or a newly wed.

Piala Seri Endon 2011

2011-12-13T15:58:00.002+08:00

Tahniah buat isteri, Zurin dan rakan sepasukannya Ida dan Siti atas kejayaan kemenangan Piala Seri Endon 2011, kategori kraf yang lepas.

Line Drawing - Playing Toy

2011-12-07T12:40:00.003+08:00

Title : Playing Toy

Artist: Fariz Ghazali

Media: Ink on Paper

Size: A4!

Year: 1998

Line Drawing - Old Man

2011-12-03T14:45:00.004+08:00

Finally, after a few years (years) I finally made it a point to joint deviantart. visit me and comment at http://farizghazali.deviantart.com/

Title : Old Man

Artist: Fariz Ghazali

Media: Ink on Paper

Size: A4!

Year: 1998

Line Drawing

2011-12-02T19:23:00.005+08:00

This was done circa 1997-1998. Drawn on A4 paper. Picture from NatGeo mag - if i'm not mistaken. The figures seems to be a little bit out of proportion but the lines made it up for it. What do you think..?

UNIC - Doa Dhuha

2011-12-01T10:19:00.002+08:00

1433 Hijrah

2011-11-27T23:33:00.001+08:00

Muharam - tahun baru. Ingat.

Rejab, Shaaban.. ingat.. sebab dah dekat puasa.

Ramadhan? Setiap hari sedar.

Berapa haribulan? 11.

Berapa? 13..

Setiap hari sedar dan sentiasa sedar.

Syawal? Ingat. Raya berapa haribulan. 14 Ogos.

Raya 1 Syawal la..

Zulhijjah? Ingat. Sebab Raya haji.

Eh.. ke Zulkaedah?

Zulhijjah la..

Eh.. ye ke?

Selamat menyambut tahun baru hijrah. Download takwim di sini.

http://makkahcalendar.org/en/islamicCalendarDownload.php

Harimau Muda Punca Diabetik

2011-11-23T09:02:00.011+08:00

Kelmarin, pasukan Harimau Muda Malaysia telah berjaya memenangi pingat emas dalam sukan SEA di Jakarta. Berkalung tahniah. Kemenangan kedua dalam masa setahun di depan penyokong tuan rumah yang membenci segenap kita, amatlah manis. Keterlaluan sehingga menyebabkan diabetik pada seluruh rakyat Malaysia.

Tak lengkap cerita tanpa menyebut nama Khairul Fahmi dan Baddrol Bakhtiar.

Bagi menokok manis kemenangan ini, aku pun mencari lah sesawang utusan dan tulisan dari Indonesia pagi esoknya. Cerita dan berita. Banyak akhbar online Indon tidak melaporkan kekalahan. Atau belum melaporkan. Eh, tapi aku melayari internet sudah jam 8 pagi semalam. Takkan tak lapor lagi? Mungkin dilewatkan atau dimalaskan. Kalah.. buat apa nak cerita..? kan.

Tapi apa yang menarik adalah tulisan orang Indonesia. Bahasa Indonesia. Yang jauh telah mendahului Bahasa Malaysia dalam perihal dipengaruhi bahasa inggeris. Ya, bahasa kita juga banyak dipengaruhi atau dicemari bahasa penjajah itu. Tapi belum lagi keterlaluan. Pengaruh bahasa lain memang tak salah.. tapi ini sudah menceduk tanpa maruah, bukan lagi pengaruh. Aku takut esok-esok kita akan jadi macam ni. Tak jauh. Lagi 5 tahun, kita akan jadi se'baik' bahasa Indonesia.

Suporter dan kiper, Grup dan medali emas. Mengeksekusi, grogi, filisofi, pengekstrekdasi.. dan ntah apa lagi yang ngeri.

Aniwey, if tidak keful, bahasa kita wil tercemar like thet dalam fyucher terdekat. Bilifmi!!.

Alamak! Badai Semalam..

2011-11-18T00:47:00.004+08:00

Alamak..! Badai Semalam..! Hampa. Pelakon OK. Lebih dari OK. Tapi setakat tu je. Yang lain-lain semua mengecewakan dan tak tertaraf istana budaya. Dua perkataan penting: Istana dan Budaya..

Storyboard - Semangat Tuah

2011-11-17T12:52:00.004+08:00

storyboard should convey not only the story but also the movement, pose and most importantly the feel - which, lacks in my drawing.

Haiya BidDoa

2011-10-19T15:30:00.003+08:00

Haiya BidDoa - Doa Hilangkan Rasa Marah

2011-10-10T12:21:00.006+08:00

A doa to get rid of anger. This was a tricky one. Getting a fun, loving character to get angry. Where should I start? Habib and Zara quarreling? Trowing toys and calling names? I pulled this one off remembering how my children, in anger, still manage to do the ultraman signature "fire!" gesture. That was cute.

There you go. Ultraman fire!

I decided not to have the fire gesture as it would be too cliche. Instead, I created a 'frame by frame cut' inspired by Ultraman classic transformation montage. Not only it would be fun doing it, I would also be getting my (older) viewers going "yeah.. i remember that!" or "Hey! Ultraman..! Ultraman right?"

Habib was superb. I knew this one would have to have all those fx and that alone will ensure replays amongst pre-schoolers - i think. Well, at least my 2 boys was exited. My animators did a good job on this. Fancy lightning, glows, camera shakes and all.

See here at 0:32

I wanted the old school sound fx. The mono, almost one layer, scratching raw sound of 80s. Like the original ultraman video.. (how do i explain sound??) but that will just have to wait.

And whats with the Palestine at the end of this clip? This was shown in a function collecting fund for the Palestinian. This and 5 other clips. ANIMAS -the malaysian animation association was invited to have a reel of half and hour shown. Haiya BidDoa was choosen among a few others. So, in support of Palestinian, why not. Again, I hope viewers (and myself) do get the doa and make an amal out of it.

ARNAB KURA-KURA

2011-09-30T09:17:00.005+08:00

arnab kura-kura or kuntum & friends was first develop somewhat ten years ago! 10 years! it was stalled for a long period until we got RTM to air them in 2008. After 3 seasons (39 episodes) and a rating of more than 400,000 viewers at the highest; which makes it one of the most watched local animation content at that belting; arnab dan kura-kura finally got a nod from RTM to continue with its 4th season. Alhamdulillah and make doa all will run smooth.

our first development. a lot have since changed. amazingly, the blue flower survived untouched till today.

Not Really A Self Potrait

2011-09-27T12:14:00.000+08:00

it was very late and i was about to pack up to leave for home..

AYAM !

2011-09-26T21:03:00.002+08:00

ayam..! hehe..

Semangat Tuah

2011-09-23T18:48:00.000+08:00

A project i'm working on.. Semangat Tuah. An animated series.

Jalur Gemilang Lintang Pukang!

2011-09-17T12:02:00.000+08:00

Tahun ni rakyat menyambut Hari Malaysia. 16 September. Perarakan diadakan pada Hari Malaysia sebab Hari Merdeka jatuh pada hari pertama Aidilfitri. Agak susah nak balik kampung dan berarak pada hari yang sama.

Maka saya penuh bersemangat mengibarkan bendera Malaysia sekeliling rumah sebulan menjelang Hari Malaysia. Ini sekitar rumah saya.

Ini bendera kita. Jalur Gemilang.

Ini pula wajah pereka Jalur Gemilang. Apakah ditiru, diambil inspirasi atau tak disengajakan sama, dengan bendera amerika, saya tak tau.

Yang jelas, kita sebagai rakyat Malaysia tau warna Jalur Gemilang dan tau maksud disebalik warna dan bintangnya. Walaupun ingat-ingat lupa, kita tau. Tapi banyak bendera yang dicetak dan dikibar dalam iklan adalah salah..! Tengok video promo ni..

Kuntum dan Chot dalam video ini pun tau. Jalur merah putih tu ada 8 kat atas dan 6 kat bawah. Barangkali yang tersalah tu tak sengajakan, tapi harap-harap lepas ini tidaklah terjadi lagi perkara seperti ini. (video di atas juga ada kesilapan pada Jalur Gemilang..)

Kek, iklan dan banner kat atas ni semua memaparkan Jalur Gemilang yang salah belangnya. Anwar Ibrahim pun salah benderanya.. Hehe.. Iklan kanak-kanak tu lagi la songsang habis. Kat bawah ni merupakan satu iklan promosi. Ini design atau bendera? Boleh ke buat macam ni? Aku pun tak tau.

Gambar bawah ni pula satu kek yang patriotik..! Tapi belang dia sekadar belang dan bintangnya sekadar bintang. Ini kek "Malaysia asal boleh"..

Beberapa tahun lepas ada keluar kenyataan dari JPM yang mengatakan tak boleh buat kek bendera sebab tak hormat.. nanti dipotong dan dimakan.. ye ke?

Seterusnya satu lagi kes rakyat yang sayang negara tapi kurang prihatin. Projek mamat ni agak menarik dan romantis, tapi sayang, sedikit kesilapan pada Jalur gemilang kita. Harap akan diperelok dimasa depan.

Sekali lagi belangnya sekadar belang. Jalur asal berjalur.

Nama bendera kita ni Jalur Gemilang. Tapi jalurnya pun lintang pukang, mana gemilangnya..?

Dan lain-lain gambar dalam internet yang aku cedok untuk menunjukkan kesilapan dan ketidakperihatinan kita. Bende kecik ke? Aku berpendapat tidak. Kita kenal mak bapak kita setiap inci wajahnya. Kita kenal anak-anak kita sifat dan tabiat. Sebab kita selalu menatap wajah mereka dan kita sayang pada mereka. Samalah..

Ini anak-anak saya. Anak-anak Malaysia, anak merdeka..! InsyaAllah.

Salam.

Dear Diary:Spring Cleaning

2011-09-11T22:39:00.000+08:00

Title - Dear Diary: Spring Cleaning

Size - 3' x 3'

Media - Mixed media

Year 2010

This is my first post of one of my paintings.

Iklan Raya Haiya BidDoa

2011-09-01T07:53:00.001+08:00

Belum terlambat. Selamat Hari Raya. Produk terbaru yang aku direct, Haiya BidDoa. Mari Berdoa dalam bahasa kita. Satu skrip yang sepatutnya Zara cuba sebut Maaf Zabir Matin.. eh.. Maaf Mazir Bahen.. Maher Batin.. err.. Maher Zain..!

Tapi mood pelakon Zara masa tu, adik Indah Batrisha Rostam, kurang baik dan aku tak nak push lebih-lebih.. takut menangis. Ini pun dah dirasakan catchy dan cukup pendek. Idea awal memang makan sampai 40 saat.

Kalau nak tengok lagi, fb.com/HaiyaBidDoa ada sedikit koleksi.

youtube.com/animationlogic pun ada video yang sama.

Kali ni, rendering telah berubah style dari siri Haiya BidDoa yang lain. Rendering kali ni dirasakan lebih cost-efficient dan "cantik pada mata kasar". Tapi teknikal bukanlah tujuan utama 'iklan' ini. Selain mempromosikan Haiya BidDoa, 'iklan' ini bertujuan untuk test market youtube users atau wargamaya. Berapa ramai yang nak kongsi, link, share dan embed iklan ini. Ucapan Ramadhan hari tu dah memcecah seribu lebih dalam masa sebulan - dalam masa 5 - 6 hari kalau tak silap. Iklan raya ni diharapkan amat bolehlah sampai belas-belas ribu dalam sebulan. Jadi, sokonglah usaha kami..

Haiya!!

farizghazali sekali lagi

2011-08-11T17:48:00.000+08:00

dulu farizghazali.blogspot dah wujud dan kemudian dimatikan kerana tidak berhaluan, tidak tertulis dan tidak terkunjung. sekarang diwujudkan semula kerana sudah ada tujuan. berdakwah, menyampaikan, melukis dan berkongsi sini sana. selamat berjaya pada blog sendiri.