1000tentacles in Image Comic's Liquid City

November'08 My latest comic+art works appear in Image Comic's Liquid City, and it is schedule to be released this month. Liquid City is a compilation of art works from a selected artists around the industry in Asia and US. Thanks, Sonny Liew, for inviting! For those who interested to order the book, you can visit HERE. Sample of my work 01

1000tentacles+Skinnis, USA

October'08 First of OCtober! My Skinnis series has launched in US :D If you love my art work, do check out my skinnis creation HERE. Mine is under the brand name: 1000tentacles.

I did a wide range of skinnis products, a few samples here: skinnis /DS/iPhone /iPod/ Ps3 /skateboard /Mac/Wii / Tshirt

1000tentacles+3dTotal, UK

October'08 Did a project for 3dTotal, UK (www.3dtotal.com) for their 2dArtist, issue October, 034. It is a sketchbook project, and in it, I have included for the first time my sketches for a project I did. There's brief explanation how I usually design characters and brainstorming. Check it out here: 01 /02/03 /04

MSC Grant Winner!

August'08 I'd love to annouce that 1000tentacles has won the MSC 's Grant to develope a comic project titles, "Journey To The UnderWorld". MSC Grant is a Malaysian government funding and I'd like to extend my greatest appreciation and being thankful for the goverment for supporting me on this project, thanks Malaysia!

I schedule to finish the comic early 2009, so pls stay tune. You can check the cover art HERE , no 48.

1000tentacles+SpicyHorse, Shanghai, China

August'08 Worked on the pc game title for American McGee's Spicy Horse game studio, China, as one of their game conceptual artists. I love how the final game looks like and the art direction, very dark, just the way I love it! Check it out here: 01 /02

Insect Mania

August'08 Just finished modeling my Insect, learnt a few tricks along the way. You can view it HERE.

1000tentacles latest comic-Monster Mania

August'08 My latest comic, Monster Mania is out in the market! This is a 4-panel comic strips, 115 pages. MM is about a kid who casts chants and together with his big fat dog, searching for monsters and capturing them using his magical book!

Check it out! Monster Mania now available in main bookstores : Borders, MPH, Popular and news stands.

Among the comic books that I have released so far, Monster Mania is the first book which focuses on monster theme, I have never drawn and designed so many creatures within a book, and I tell you, it is fun! I have uploaded few samples HERE.

1000tentacles's Interview in CGWorld China

August'08 My latest interview in CGWorld_China issue 77. CGWorld is a monthly magazine from China featuring international digital artist, and I am very honored to be featured in it. Besides interview, I contribute a tutorial, showing how I approach an illustration project. A total of 8 pages for my interview + tutorial pages. Some of the pages 01 /02 /03

1000tentacles Toy Series

August'08 This month finally has some time to continue working on my 1000tentacles Toy Series sculpturing. This time around, it's a dino. I have always love dino, is about time I have my own. Plan to cast out 5. Really looking forward to it! Check out the WIP HERE.

Workshop at MPH, KL

July'08 Just back giving a workshop at MPH KL. Phew, quite a day! Thank you for those who attended the workshop and hope you guys enjoy it. it is definitely a tired but fun day for me to share some of my ways and techniques of rendering art work. Would like to thanks Gempak who organized this & check out the photos HERE.

Monster Mania available in August

July'08 Monster Mania, my latest comic project is in store this month! It is a 4-panels comic with over 100 pages. You can get it at Popular Bookstores and do drop me a mail how you like it :P Will update it here once I receive the books, stay tune!

My Comic @ US

Jun'08 collaborating with many aritsts, my latest comic in US, I look forward to the comic books arrive in my doorstep and this is indeed a happy news :D Thanks, Mr Tom!

2dartist_issue30+1000tentacles

Jun'08 Invited by UK's 3dTotal to contribute a Making Of for the art community in issue 30. Without doubt, 2dartist is one of the best online art magazines circulating in the cyber world now. www.3dtotal.com, worth checking and save as your list of favorite cg sites.

Visual Effect Titan_Stan Winston

Jun'08 From The Terminator movies to Iron Man, Stan Winston made the magic that make movies magic. Stan passed away on Sunday. My deepest sorrow. I admire his work greatly. It is a great lost of a genius and artist to us.

CGPortfolio Poll + 1000tentacles

Feb'08 This year, Cgtalk organises Best CgPortfolio Poll and 1000tentacles is shortlisted among other 32,000 portfolios worldwide. The voting shortlists are builded base on portfolios that containing at least 3 CGChoice Awards. This is an honour and we'd like to congrat other artists who make it into the final. 3 will be selected in the end base on the online votes they received. This Poll will be held for 3 weeks, so log on to Cgtalk and vote for 1000tentacles if you love our art ;) Our cgtalk's username is "pkok"

NikeBearbrick + 1000tentacles

Feb'08 Our bearbrick was one of the many that joined the event organized by Nike in Zuok, one of the hottest clubs in town. Over 100++ bearbricks were there, each with distinctive style. Check out the photos HERE

Kancil Award 2007/illustration

Nov'07 Just got this news from my friend Kien Hoe that my series of posters for Saatchi & Saatchi advertising firm has won KANCIL AWARD, Silver for illustration category. A good enough reason for beer, Cheers!

Kancil Award : Kancil Awards is acknowledged as Malaysia's largest, most prestigious advertising awards competition.

Epoxy, RTV and PU resin

Nov'07 Sculpted a new toyz and produced a few casts, from the master sculptureI did last 3 weeks ago. So far has 7 successful pulls. My thanks to Jones Chua who showed me the way to do mold n cast and he himself indeed is a great artist! Check out the photos HERE

1000tentacles in ImagineFX

Oct'07 We recently created a workshop detailing how we illustrate a digital painting and it will be featured in ImagineFX, a UK base art magazine. Spread over 4 pages, we detailed each of the stages and we provided 2 captured videos during the WIP . These can be found in the mag's DVD. If you are interested in how we design our art work, you can look out for ImagineFX issue DECEMBER soon to be released.

My Graphic Novel is out!

Octt'07 Hey Hey, My latest graphic novel is out! |1| 2|Check it out in major book stores like Kinokuniya ;) It has both colored and b/w comics, and also featuring my sculptures n 3d work, total of 177 pgs. Collecting Value = TOP NOTCH ;P

1000tentacles in Luzer's Int'l Archive

oct'07 Luzer Int'l Archive, magazine which features Ads, TV and Posters worldwide. This german magazine is a prestigious mag and 1000tentacles is very honoured & thrill to have our POSTERS art featured in Archive issue 04/07. Thanks, Kien Hoe for informing us on this, appreciate it.

1000tentacles + iSh

Oct'07 iSh, Singapore magazine which swept the 2007 Awards for Editorial Excellence published a 4-page INTERVIEW on 1000tentacles. The article is in iSh Vol 8.4. Thank you for having us, the pleassure is truely ours :)

1000tentacles in Love

oct'07 We all love Molly and here's 1000tentacles's art featured in this We Love Molly ART BOOK, published by Gempak. A little intro bout Molly (for those who just stepped into the land of toyz): Molly's designer=Kenny, one of the members from brothersfree, famous toy designer from HK; popularity=HOT; toy collecting value=highly recommended

1000tentackles in Territory land

Sept'07 Territory, a designer magazine from Singapore is known for its exclusive interviews featuring many unique artists around the globe (each has a vast different in terms of artistic style). 1000tentacles is happy to put our feet in this Land of Territory in its Vol 07. Flip through the mag to read our interview :) Take a glance here |1| 2 |3|

New update in 3d section!

Sept'07 After clearing all the proejcts, finally have time to work on my 3d project. Here's how my FISHY-SPACE TANK looks like :P

Nike @Bearbrick + 1000Tentacles

Sept'07 This month I have added another interesting project in my resume, Nike@Bearbrick! I am invited to take part in the cross over project and this is most exciting n fun project. I enjoy it a lot! I spent about 5 dayz to sculpt my character using Nike@Bearbrick's template. You can view it HERE

Expose 5 + 1000Tentacles

July'07 The industry most recognized digital art annual, showing creative talent worldwide is now in shipping. Our work has been picked in this year annual, featuring "FREEZE!". Visit BALLISTIC PUBLISHING to get your copy.

Asia Digital Art Show 2007 + 1000Tentacles

July'07 07/07/07 marked the day KL hold the Digital Art Show 2007 in Central market, Malaysia. We are happy to be part of this exciting art event. The organizer, Galleriiizu projected the art works on a special canvas which hanged on the building on top. Everyone looking up and taking snap shot of the exhibited art works. Sounds cool rite? check out da PHOTOS :)

Astro Cityzen Sculpture Series_01!

July'07 Ok, this year planing : sculpt a series of toyz based on my Astro Cityzen character design. A total of minimum 10 pieces and once that done, will held an art show featuring my art prints and sculptures, either end of this year or beginning of next. Hope thing goes well, finger cross :) Here's the very first sculpture I just DID.

Astro Cityzen in 3 Dimension

July'07 Hey there! Thx to Leo, here's my very FIRST 3D model base on one of my Astro Cityzen's characters! This is so cool, can't wait till it's done with texturing! Thanks dude!

1000Tentacles + cccelsius

Jun'07 Cross over project organized by cccelsius. This is a fun project, co-designing a character with Argentinian artist, Gaston Caba. This is how IT turns out :)

Expose 5

Jun'07 "FREEZE!" make it to Expose 5! Congratulation to all others whose work make it to this annual art book by cgtalk!

1000Tentacles+KLUE

May'07 The release of Astro Cityzen art book, one of the happening news in this KLUE's issue ;P

1000Tentacles + Hong Kong comic

April'07 Series of my horror ghost story published in "Ying Yang Ru", a Hong Kong comic, by jade Dynasty, an established comic publishing company in the land of Hong Kong. Is fun to see my COMIC there, especially since I have been following Jade Dynasty comic from small. It sure means something to me now that my work is there :)

1000tentacles + Graphic Classic

Apr'07 Ok, this is really exciting for me to share this... this year, my COMIC has finally appeared in US market! Awesome! Comic book review and interview, pls visit HERE. If you'd like to get the book, pls drop me an email. My next comic project will base on HP Lovecraft's novel, which has a total of 47 pages and will be released early next year. This comic is mostly dark/horror theme, just my cup of tea!

1000Ten_sistible!

Feb'07 One of the most interesting projects landed this year! I was commissioned by a well-known international ad agency to illustrate 3 giant posters,( they are really GIANT posters....)all with different ideas, but a consistent theme. These are for art contest in oversea. (hope to hear some good news...hehe) Will put them under "illustration" section once the AD allows it. Really excited about this :)

1000Tentacles art print available in Europe!

Dec'06 I'm most happy to announce that my art print is now available In German and if you stay in Europe, no problem, you can order them from COCONOVA . The art works are printed in nice aludibond material, they are beautiful I must say :) Check it out!

ICON magazine, Korean

NOV'06 Received an interview from Korean's art magazine, ICON, issue November. This is quite a nice mag, informative, and this mag mostly features game and art scene especially in Korea and they do have section featuring artist abroad. I'm honour to be part of it, Thx for having me! not sure if you can get this mag in Malaysia, since it's written in Korean. Here's a snap shot of it, |1| |2|

Astro Cityzen

NOV'06 My art book ASTRO CITYZEN is out! You can get the art book in local main art book shops, like Basheer and Kinokuniya. Well, hope you will like it and do drop me a mail, tell me what you think of the book yeah :)

Astro Cityzen

OCT'06 Finally, my art book ASTRO CITYZEN is finish! Colored comic and illustrations covering this art book is schedule to be released end of November 2006. Can't wait for the books to reach my doorstep :)

Liverpool Biennial 2006, UK, Indipendents Online Show

SEP'06 Invited by Digital Show.co.uk to participate in the online exhibition, among other 133 artists from 25 countries around the world joining the fest. The show starts in Sep 16 untill Nov 26 2006. Thank you for inviting me, Minako! You can check out my work HERE

KLue's Starbucks Music Siries

JULY'06 In conjunction with this event,1000Tentacles's ARTWORK make it's appearance in 5 selected Starbucks around KL. Apart from that, this artwork is available for d/load as DIGI phone wallpaper. Check out DIGI's WEBSITE, the wallpaper section:)

Expose4

JUNE'06 2 of my art work |1| |2| have been selected in this year Expose4. Expose4 by ballistic publishing is considered one of the most respected art books which features digital art from around the world.

Levi's501Day

MAY'06 Check out my booth's PHOTOS for this event. The crowd's amazing and love the music played! My booth was voted one of the best booths that day. It was so much fun, and hope that this kind of event can be held annually :)