Logbook of Bocuk

melis seylan portfolio

2011-06-09T08:10:00.001+01:00

at last here is the new blog for my portfolio works

http://melisseylan.blogspot.com/

monday morning

2011-03-27T21:28:00.004+01:00

Nutymax

2011-03-18T17:06:00.005Z

well very very late update but better than nothing :)))
concepts and Production stills from ''Nuttymax'' Director is Turgut Akacik (A.K.A. Fasonto) i made the concepts and production stills.

Agency: Leo Burnett Istanbul
Director: Turgut Akacik- anima istanbul
Creative director: Engin Kafadar
Copy writer : Damla Akcay
Art director : Ezgi Midilli
Production: anima istanbul

2011-03-18T17:00:00.000Z

2010-06-26T08:38:00.003+01:00

i'd just need upload smth. there is more but they will come with some text.

enjoying the İstanbul rain

2010-06-23T13:36:00.002+01:00

ANNECY

2010-06-14T16:41:00.001+01:00

WİİİHUUUU we are back aaand we won two great trophies,

Special Distinction ex æquo
Junior Jury Award for a short film

i can not express how i feel but this is such a great honor,we met with alot of great people we saw great movies and parties,i will not keep this journal long but i will be writing all details and photos soon, thank you to whom support us on this,see you soon.

presence

2010-05-15T23:39:00.000+01:00

2010-05-15T21:34:00.000+01:00

what a pleasant feeling that met with a really old friend,this will seem corny when i write it down but i have to write exact mood before it fade away from me.
It was such a pleasure found IT, where i left it, -middle of nothing-. It was just in endless shape of BEAUTY.But not for looking just for feeling.Really TO BE SAW what is in it.
It is really nice to know it has have presence,still exist.

2010-05-14T13:37:00.004+01:00

i am freakishly excited about up coming event of Annecy International Animation Film Festival
http://www.annecy.org/home/?Page_ID=2 )

, We will be on our way to France next month :) because our (
fasonto (http://www.turgutakacik.com) and i )
short Film Don't go has been chosen for the official competition, it was just great when we got the news about one or two month ago, somehow i couldn't write it to here i guess i waited for something,we will be there with our Colleagues
mehmet kurtuluş and ayşe ünal (www.anima.gen.tr) also my dear old friend will be joining us ,so if any of you, who is going we'll see you there at center of animation for a week,wish us good luck ... :))

i'll post here some os production details later

note to self

2010-05-08T14:12:00.003+01:00

listening fairly high music can sometimes help not to listen violent growl of your own thoughts.

2010-04-18T13:35:00.000+01:00

you know that i will fill the day blanks

meet me in prada

2010-04-18T13:26:00.004+01:00

sketch sketch sketch all i do is just do some sketches nowadays, no i'm lying :9 (girl from back stage )

at last my imagine fx magazine has arrived, after one month later that i have publihed in haha, anyways did i mantion before another great news!
İ will :))

CİLEK

2010-03-18T13:29:00.007Z

Strawberry was the theme as you see first i put the lady in a strawberry the i decided make lady as a strawberry.at the and instead of them i made lady a little reddish and put my totems with strawberry candy shading
i tyred to put some images from wip i dont know if its help u to cath something?

2010-03-18T11:26:00.004Z

something for my friend Ahmet Tabak he had entered the 11 seconds last month,we wanted to make'the princess and the frog'fan art
but when Ahmet finished the animation he noticed that ,copyrighted materials was forbidden,well,we laugh long time to ourselfs and then he had change the face :)

am i lazy of smth...

2010-03-13T20:11:00.003Z

i would love to say; oh i can't believe it has been two mounths yet i couldn't put anything i cant believe how time has passed but noooooo

i feel like i broke school and didn't tell parents.Short of words i feel guilt.

But i have news some of my works published on İmagine FX :))
issue February (54) i guess, cause i coudn't get the issue yet :))
here is the link www.imaginefx.com

note to self

2010-03-10T06:00:00.002Z

it is not POSSİBLE to swim in the lake that occupied by leeches unless you haven't got bait with POİSON

2010-01-27T23:10:00.001Z

i couldn't help myself to excerpt from Rodolphe Salis
: ))

oldies

2010-01-27T13:28:00.003Z

i found this one, in backups dated 2007.a kitchen for feta cheese product.center of kitchen (sink and windows from stock,photos)

2010-01-25T21:58:00.004Z

i sat on computer just for make some eviroment sketches ,but it turned to this

new bird scetch

2010-01-24T12:42:00.003Z

2010-01-19T23:12:00.001Z

don't get mad

2010-01-17T18:17:00.003Z

if they pissed on u, they say this is a big luck,so we had listen them,on xmas eve fasonto and i were at work,he came out to smoke cigarettes,at that moment a crow pissed on him and a lottery man came at very same second, it must been have luck right?.
no we are still have same bank account. :)

bathroom

2010-01-14T12:06:00.002Z

this one was for some production meeting,blow drawing blongs to Ömür kökeş, our art director.

birdy

2010-01-11T17:23:00.003Z

this is officially first enter of this year,i would like to put more paintings but i hardly find some time at this part of year,our company is really busy,so we are,but promis this week, i ask a favor from my friend,he will open a backup for me and if i manage i'll put one of my favorite ad. that we have been done.

bird

2009-12-30T21:54:00.002Z

family

2009-12-27T18:27:00.001Z

family

2009-12-26T13:19:00.001Z

family

2009-12-25T13:16:00.001Z

özgül

2009-12-24T11:34:00.001Z

also we are forcing civans room mate to open her blog and guess, she is a great modeller too,hope she menage to do it

civcivata

2009-12-24T11:24:00.005Z

There is a new blogger among of us,she is moddeler ,she is crazy, i mean literally :)and she has unbelievable energy inside and outside,she is our Colleague we are at the same floor with faced rooms,she will be writing about everything i guess, i hope she put some works of her here we go

http://civcivata.blogspot.com/

2009-12-22T03:35:00.002Z

i'm am soooo tired but i couldn't kept myself to doing this,i'll go for bud gin's for a while

2009-12-21T23:03:00.004Z

there is something wrong with the pic thumbs.they are seems so low res,i dont know why.
whatever

Gin's of the bud's,they seems like to like the girl,this is first time they ever saw a human being,the girl on the otherhand about to notice them,but she knows what to do,she is a gin sheperd or giperd.

by the way last friday we went to the avatar movie it was gorgeous,and then we got home and while we made chestnut,first snow came out it was wonderful but it didn't went long unfortunately.But winter has officially came for me

2009-12-20T22:59:00.001Z

isn't it cute 'gin of a bud,not she neither he,just silly'

remember?

2009-12-19T22:54:00.000Z

internet is back

2009-12-17T21:03:00.002Z

If i am off the computer everything is ok,my friends my love, streets,weather our cats everything is just fine but i have to admit it,when it becomes a computer without internet i felt like somebody had closed me a small box.
But fasonto as always handled everthing and hopefully we got connection again.
above, pic is from portrait which i sent here as a sketch on 29.11.09

crash test dummy

2009-12-14T16:48:00.002Z

This pic came from some 'work in progress' project.There was no information about it.I dont know who is the owner of this,if it's real or not,i juSt found him in ref. file, and i felt sorry for him ,he is really know what is gonna happen to him ...

move.... move move move :)

2009-12-13T13:04:00.000Z

ok so it has been over ten days but i have news, first of all we moved,I haven't got internet connection yet because we'r still trying to settle down, we have tons of boxes everywhere and we are opening them like a child on xmas morning.I am extremly happy,we made a new studyroom even i like to work at diningroom.I was more like flat studio person,but now i'm really into new home and family mood.anyway i'll try to put some new stuf soon.

seraphim

2009-12-03T14:07:00.001Z

Seraphim is protecting the throne of Lord in every situation, praising Him constantly:Day and night they never stop saying:'Holy, holy holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is to come' (wiki)
I am effected by the myths, books and stories. They make me think different…

My Seraphims are naughty, and they enjoy running away to play in ocean …

2009-12-01T17:06:00.000Z

Of course it is not the page 209, but it is the first completed piece,there is so many sketch for others,In each story, Bocuk ,the main character, takes different characters to different places, and all these paintings are designed with colors which represents different spiritual situations. Some of them soft, some of them sharp, some of them are live, and when they come together in the series, they are as the notes of a beautiful song…it is a long lasting Project.

2009-11-29T14:21:00.002Z

sketches,i really dont know when will i can finish those

2009-11-28T20:08:00.004Z

I've made this one's sketch like one or two week ago but i couldn't find time to finished it untill today.Now we are in break before xmas, so i just want to name it xmas.I have little time to make new things,at least i wanna to look at some of my old pieces and sketchs maybe i can able to bring them to the light.

anima

2009-11-27T13:58:00.004Z

wii this one is reaaaaally reaaaly big, we made it with erhan,there was a purpose for making it because we hang it to our wall,it's two metres long

light fairy

2009-11-26T20:47:00.000Z

i wish i can say 'well that was cold cold evening and the lights were gone i read book like four hour(actually i'm doing it nearly all weekends,anyway)i wached the rain for a while and i took my oils,start to paint on canvas with a low candle lights'.But no
if lights were gone i had been doing nothing except reading a book and wach the rain...
My point is i really, reaaaaaly miss work with oils and i'm saying this like two years and it has been three years that i didn't take any oils on my hands,sooo yes i'm the one who must be belamed,agin i can say alot of reason for this, i haven't got enought time, i have'n got enought cash to buy some oil and canvas,i'm tired at home, i'm working alot.İf u were here u were able to hear my voice when i'm answering to my excuses with a god father voices LİEEEEEE,deceit u are fooling your self,and yes right now i'm angry with my self,no i'm not.
this work like three months old ,just a study on candy light

baby onboard

2009-11-25T15:16:00.004Z

soo we did another piece for baby peri,line art is from erhan again and i tried to put working process of it, buuut a movie would be better or something like that or at least flash version.
i like the brown version but erhan forced me to do it yellow,i know this piece purpoced to be seen from car, but i like the brown version anyway,i am stubborn.

posters

2009-11-23T02:49:00.000Z

we'r planning to move out,i don't know when,but we'r planning it like four months,any way i'm making some posters for our new home,i'm working on the fonts.I'll edit this post when i finished them

2009-11-22T22:21:00.003Z

i'm just having fun for our new upcoming little movie, i'll upload some stuff and explain them later, i really need to organize them first,aaand need to learn upload a movie with good codec :)

totems

2009-11-22T16:16:00.003Z

this one is back from like six month ago,it was actually two seperate pieces when i put it another account, ill put them here too (u can see up)

2009-11-22T13:43:00.002Z

well, im putting this one just for my own embarrassment,that is shame ,she was so beautiful,i must have been jealous her cause there is no other explanation what i've done to her.she has just a little bit square edges and i made her,he.It is right time to blame tools,bad photo,bad photo she was moving all the time didn't u saw ,look here again, she is moving, and my pen has been broke again and again ,i was had to color correct my cintiq,and lights went of aaaand my cats attacked me.yees im saying the truth here!

2009-11-21T19:01:00.004Z

recently i've started to follow some of these great blog's, so i noticed that everybody working hard, to be in shape (i mean in drawing)obviously thats what it should be.
any way i have tryed to make some famous peole sketch.İ saw so many people went with twilight phenomenon, i couldn't dare, so i went with merlin.it took me roughly an hour.

s.a little ones

2009-11-20T14:12:00.003Z

Little things in bigger things,they are like salt and paper.

s.a. lady

2009-11-20T12:51:00.006Z

i went for 'saturday afternoon' lady a little more and she has changed a little bit.

saturday afternoon - third part

2009-11-18T13:56:00.003Z

ok, things become really tangle, well u see there is a piece but it have like four pieces in it ,it's bigger than it should be, heh i think i couldn't over it ,it had been over me ,so this piece has got ,his own mind.And it has finished itself by using me.

Q.S. green

2009-11-02T16:41:00.001Z

Baby Has Arrived

2009-10-29T06:11:00.007Z

We made this one for Erhan and wife's (Leyla) little new born baby.She just went out from hospital so I couldn't see her yet but i'm sure that she is gorgeous.her mane is Peri (means fairy).I wish a wonderful life for her with all of her family.
Line art :Erhan gezen
coloured by me

Q.S. green

2009-10-26T13:35:00.003Z

2009-10-25T10:32:00.002Z

this is way small than the original painting, i just reframe it

family

2009-10-24T14:22:00.002+01:00

i made this for a while ago but this is not the original of it,i had split it,and texturize it.it seems more warm in this way

2009-10-23T13:44:00.003+01:00

I'm living at the top flat of my building.There was a building behind it.It was totaly empty and huge.It was nearly seen from all around the neighbourhood and İ was had to see it everynight from my bedroom window.believe me it was really really creepy.Any way they demolished it in three days.Now i'm not worried about it, but i started to kind of miss it.

Q.S. green

2009-10-23T09:03:00.000+01:00

saturday afternoon -second part

2009-10-22T13:33:00.007+01:00

well i had continue, with some sketches and this lady come out with a bonus, cleaner robot

quicky sketch,green

2009-10-21T13:05:00.001+01:00

during the day ,i'm drawing some quicky sketches.If u see had line as a 'quicky sketch' this means i have a color pallet and i'm playing with it,this one is green,i'll try to make some series with this palettes.

color

2009-10-21T02:54:00.000+01:00

i'm thinking about colors mostly of during the day, actually i'm not thinking just feeling,with recognation or awereness.
if i had to be ask to my self most basic question, are u like combinations of colors or just colors?. absolutly yes i love them.
the second question after this would be which color?
and i'm %100 positive of this,that i can not answer it,see there is billions of color, yes you would probably say that ;'yes, but there is Primary colors u can
consider ' and i would say yes ,i can choose one of them and i can continue with it.
but no i won't.

saturday afternoon

2009-10-20T10:25:00.000+01:00

it seems like pattern , im just working on it we will see what will come out.

BoCuK

2009-10-19T10:27:00.000+01:00

2009-08-04T12:47:00.000+01:00

Ok, for a head start, I’m eager to put something here since I had opened the blog.

I have this years icon for bocuk, for a start. I have been making thousands of sketchs, lots of paintings and finished some fine art.

But somehow i couldn’t post it in here. I’m waiting for myself like months to be ,opened this blog.

Maybe I’m just lazy, i feel like i’m in a hole but not black, not like depression , just like i’m in my daily life, not unhappy, not unsatisfied. Everything that happens around, happens like in a slow motion sphere, i am a bit higher from ground (cause i’m not tall enough to see everything) but it’s not happiness either. it feels like im in some kind of pause.
So i decided to not to start with paintings. But i’m pretty sure it will be pushing me, to put new things right after publishing my writing.

I have some sleeping problems lately,i’m going to bed like 11pm and i suddenly find myself awake in the middle of the night, i’m trying to get back to sleep,over and over.And when I finally manage I end up in nightmares ,but i’m hell of a lucky one that my love is always around me. I hold his arms around my shoulders to make a hug for me. He slowly awakes with a absent minded smile but with awereness of situation, he puts a kiss on my lips and it’s just worth everything.

I feel like im not getting older, not even a little,but time is passes by, even for me.Some days I’m afraid of looking back one day and say that i had done nothing. Sometimes i set off to do something about this feeling .Of cource and eventually this attempt finishes with tons of scratchy paper, painted parquets and nothing usefull to feel better about.

On the other hand i can easily tell my self, as if i talking to a stranger, ‘it doesn’t work like that u know, u should be easy on yourself, u can be more patient’, but I am not convinced)

I am impatient and tense(not like nervous) , i am the one who have ants in the pants.Maybe i couldn’t grown as much enough as to be patient before i stoped it.My mood changes in a second ,it probably seen like i have thousands of twins and we are constantly changing shifs.Thats happening with my paintings too but i’m really okey with it, actually feels great,when i made different things from eachother.

Any way please excuse my language if its really horrible cause i have no idea about how it is.i hope that this blog can be really be my logbook.best wishes

2009-03-27T11:53:00.001Z

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