Time for a new pinned tweet!
Hi I'm Kenny!
I'm a character designer / illustrator for animation based in Canada! I love telling stories about Filipino folklore. 🌴🦇
Full Thesis Film:
info
@kenesu
.com
ig:
Heyo
#ArtistsofSEA
!
I'm a Filipino-Canadian designer who uses art to connect to my culture. Here's a little peek of my thesis project. It's a ghost story based on the famous Filipino painter, Juan Luna and the rumors surrounding his haunted painting, Portrait of a Lady.🖼🖌👻
Long time no post!! I've been whipping up a mini character design portfolio over the past few weeks and it's been really fun developing a full cast of characters!
I wanted to feature a world inhabited by monsters from filipino folklore. 🦇🌴✨
w korra coming on netflix i Truly cannot WAIT for the upcoming SURGE of bolin fanart to wash over this wretched hellscape of a site like the deluge purifying the world from corruption and sin
ive been obsessed with this thai/german drag queen/make up artist/design deity??? hungry’s looks are just ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE AND SO AESTHETICALLY INFORMED!! IM??? INSPIRED...
Some concept work for an idea i'm gonna be working towards for my thesis year!! It's going to be a tribute to 19th century Filipino painter Juan Luna, and a romantic horror based around the themes of cultural identity and loneliness. 🖼️🖌️👻
Heres my a
#rymesona
! He’s a hex maniac turned massage therapist since moving to Ryme City. His Litwick drains the life force of his clients, “relaxing” even the tensest of guests. That being said...his business is not doing well.
A little something different from me for
#PortfolioDay
Im Kenny! I work as a designer for animation! One day I hope I can write and illustrate picture books about filipino myths and legends. 🌿🌴
Heres some new stuff Ive been working on for myself!
#kidslit
#artph
PIXAR’S FIRST PINOY CHARACTERS
Filipino-American writer and director Bobby Rubio announces his new Disney Pixar short film, “Float,” will feature Pixar's first all-CGI Filipino characters! (Screenshots from
@DisneyPixar
)
Hi I'm Kenny!
I'm a designer and painter for animation based in Toronto! I'll be looking for work after graduating in the coming spring! Open to freelance / in house positions!
📖
✉️ info
@kenesu
.com
📷 ig:
#PortfolioDay
My thesis film has made some rounds in festivals and here's where they have been/going so far! Im glad to be able to share this story with people! 🖼️
Trailer in case you haven't seen it yet:
Designed my new dnd character! She’s a 769 year old drow warlock named Moretta who is spending her final days on Earth cursing beautiful men. Her familiar is a little soot ram fiend named Hamilton.
STAND BY ME!! 💎⚔️🌙
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Finally able to post my
#ffxv
piece for the
@FF30thFanzine
! A tribute to a heartwarming, emotional, sad boys big summer roadtrip.
The Tikbalang is a demon described as half human half horse. They lurk at night to terrify and entrap humans in the forest. 🐴
This one descibes himself as a gentleman. It is said he possesses a kapre’s wish granting stone. By day he assumes the form of an old tricycle driver.
how does du*lingo, an american based app, not have tagalog as a language to learn, despite filipinos being one of the largest populations of asians in america, but yet they have high valerian?????
this......... smells........
every year or so we get a realistic edit of a disney feature and im like... damn u guys rly want everything to look like the polar express 2004 huh...
realistic =/= better we just need to introduce more diverse/appealing character designs periodt
Dimangan, the filipino god of good harvest (aka rodel’s ph god au) 🌾🍞 🍚
This is me shamelessly prompting yall to draw a big boy;;; if you want!!! Pls @ me if u do!!
#drawthisinyourstyle
Alitaptap - She was the daughter of Bulan-hari and Bitu-in, who burst from the sky and were not of the earth. She had a heart of stone, as cold and hard as the sparkling star carved in her forehead. Alitaptap would never know love. 🌟
Hi guys! My film has finished its festival run a while ago and I’m really excited to share the full story online with you later this month September 23! 👻👻👻
cmon hollywood... do it. DO IT. GIVE US FLESHY KIRBY.. KIRBY WITH REAL FEET TO WEAR SHOES. KIRBY W PORES. KIRBY W A GLOTTIS. KIRBY WITH A BIG OL TONGUE AND FLESHY VEINY ARM STUBS
👩🏻>🦇🧛🏼♀️some ph monster lore for you:
Manananggal are vampiric creatures that appear human by day, but at night split in half to reveal their true form.
The top part typically flies out in search of prey while the lower half finds shelter.
quick concept of what I WISH i could wear to the
#MetGala
for the
#MetHeavenlyBodies
category 😇👑⛪️
Inspired by the Santo Niño de Cebú and 19th century styled Filipino Barong. ig this is my
#MetGalasona
lol
The Litao and Serena
A 🇵🇭 fairytale about a water deity who fell in love with a human. He transformed her into a mermaid so they could live happily together under the sea. At the end of his life, he turned to stone, for the price of their union was his immortality.
#mermay
🐠💔
Yayy it’s happening guys!! I’m moving to Portland for a cool design opportunity for a certain film IDK if im allowed to say LMAO...
I’m so so so excited to start this new chapter of my life coming out of college! If anyone has any reccs for places to visit in the area lmk!! 💛
The mangkukulam is a Filipino witch. In stories, they are known to use dolls, effigies or bugs to place curses on their enemies.
🧸📌
Nanay Reyna is a particularly cruel & vindictive, often turning those younger and prettier than her into monsters or mannequins for her wardrobe.
My
#bendersona
is an earthbending fashion designer from a small south eastern Earth Kingdom colony. He’s moved to New Omashu to develop creeping crystal couture.
whenever i see an asian character in a series/movie im just clenching my teeth PRAYING their storyline isn't just about 'restoring family honor' or always throwing in asian words for the SAKE of asian words as if this one person is a cultural ambassador for the damn series
OK im bringing up old art TEA but is the anti anime argument of "you'll lose ur identity as an individual artist, its all the same and you'll just blend into the sea of 'anime style art'" just the cartoon version of "all asians look the same lol"
HEY BESTIEESSS💛🙊💛🙈💛🙉💛
I’ve starting this week as a Character Design Trainee @ Walt Disney Animation Studios!!! 🎉🎉 Feeling so excited, honoured and blessed for this new amazing opportunity and this new chapter of my life in sunny CA!! 🌴
DREAMS COMING TRUEE 🥺
finished botw at the airport and the ending got me feeling so emotional fjskdjlwlw
got emo on the plane ride thinking abt zelda returning to kakariko village after 100 years and seeing her old caretaker so i drew it