Studio Visit : Astro Awani

I went to a studio visit yesterday at a tv station called Astro Awani. This was a last minute visit as my mum was called my the tv station to do some recording and without thinking twice I want to join my mum to the studio. My flight to the United Kingdom is tomorrow anyway so this was a proper last minute studio visit.

Cameramen preparing the cameras for the shoot.

I think a tv station's studio is completely different than any other studios that I went.  There are so many cameras and lights in the recording studio. When we arrived at the studio, we went to a guess room and they provided us some soft drinks, then my mum went to a make up room then we went to the studio for recording. The presenter did not do any rehearsal which is quite amazing because I need to rehearse a lot if I presenting to someone. 

Pink circle : Was live on TV.

Green circle : The news presenter will be on air and live in 5 minutes.

It was interesting to see news presenter present the news live on the studio. He looks serious during presenting the news but relax during advert or clips on tv. There was a tv on the studio; it was amazing to see he live on tv and live in front of my eyes. 

Overall this was an good experience and I am looking forward to visit more studios and meet more professionals in the future. 

Studio Visit : Infinite Motion 3D Animation Studio

Me with animators at the company.

I went to a studio visit yesterday at an animation company in Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia. I met the CEO in Limkokwing London then keep in touch until now. I emailed the company early summer to intern but they did not reply so I decided to send again an email to do a studio visit and they welcomed me to visit their studio on Monday the 14th of September 2015. This company creates a lot of 3D animation for Malaysian TV stations also create Malaysian 3D movies.

There are few things that I learnt:-
1. 3D cartoon can edit to 2D cartoon.
2. Women's voice use for children's voice in cartoon as they have soother voices compared to man.
3. Each character they created need to register at a copyright company which means they own the character so nobody can copy the character that they created. If someone copied it and commercialise it, they can sue them.
4.  To register the character, you need to pay them each one of them.

I was so nervous at first because most of the staffs are males and they look busy animating characters but then the CEO introduced me to their staffs then i got to talk to every single animators at the studio and I managed to give out my promo pack to most of them. They are friendly and welcomed me well. I did not ask many questions as I did not prepare any but overall, I enjoy studio visit and meeting new designers all over places !

I think going to conference really help me because I don't think I will do internships and studio visit if I hadn't go to the conference. As at the conference I met professionals and able to know and talk to them.

Internship at Malaysia : Day 5

My cars to get in the building and the office.

Yesterday was my final day internship at Megasap. The CEO gave me few things that need to be complete before I leave the company.
1. Design a compass for SurvivalTravel apps. (Mandatory)
2. A Logo for their 3D game called 'Pixel Racer' (Mandatory)
3. Create following and follower logos. (Optional)

I manages to finish off the 1st and 2nd tasks but not the third task. I also had had to teach the whole office staff (around 8 people) the basic of  After Effects. It was spontaneous as the CEO told me to teach them in the morning. I was a bit nervous but I manages to do everything in one go without rehearsal and managed to answers all the questions.

I think internship at Megasap was so much fun but so challenging as there was no senior designer and  the CEO depending on me to lead some other young internship students on their simple animations by using Ai and Ps.  The CEO also asked me a lot of question whenever it comes to design e.g layout, editing and tutorial of Ai,Ps,Ae or Pr.

I stared working on Thursday the 3rd to Friday the 11 September 2015. However, I start coming to the office on the 11th Sept because I live quite far from the capital city. In total I made Rm180 = £30.

As a designer, this was my first ever pay job. I am one happy girl.

Our final portrait together.

Designs from the internship at Megasap.

These are my main work when I did at my internship.

1. Opening animation for a mobile apps called SurvivalTravel.

Took me 3 days to animate this 3 seconds animation as I need to edit and redo, edit and redo a lot! go knows how many times I've watch this animation. 

2. Pixel drawings for 3D gam

Image on top left is designs that I did for the client, which is the company. Then they hired a 3D game designer to use my design for their objects such as aircraft, ground etc as shown on the image (top right)

I had a chance to mess around with the 3D game before I finished my internship. That proud feeling to see that they use your design for gaming. This made me realise that an illustrator can also work and contribute with 3D game.

3. Logo for 3D game called Racer Pixel

I personally doesn't like the logo but the client likes it. However the client changed the shadow to darker colours to fit with their dark background.

4. Design a compass for their mobile apps called SurvivalTravel.

Internship at Malaysia : Day 3 and 4

Me working hard on my animation. First time in my life working with more than 50 frames on Ae !

Day 3 :
The boss decided to ale the 5 seconds animation to 3 seconds long as 5 seconds is too long for an opening apps animation. This is an easy task because I can just move the stuff on the 'position'.

When I was in the early second year of BAIL, I was so scared of industry but now I think I am ready to face the art industry as I already went to three different companies during this summer holiday and hopefully will do some studio visits next week.

Day 4 :
I had to help my friends with some weather gif by using Ai and Ps. This task is harder than my 3 animation that I did on the 1-3rd day. This is because the animation leave some white stuff at the edge of the illustration and limited to 6 frames.

Working with Megasap company is a whole new experience as now we are facing three different projects. First is a 3D game called Pixel Racer, and apps called SurvivalTravel and SurvivalLanguage. Watching people making the game and apps is like a new language to me. I understand nothing and made me realised that art department is really broad.

I work with developers and  a game designer which they coding the apps and 3D games. I realised that making apps/ game can take so much time as you need to do a lot of coding which completely I don't know how to.

Tomorrow is my last day. Arghhh I don't want to leave this people and company !

Internship at Malaysia : Day 2

Day 2 :

Today I am still finishing off my 5 seconds animation. I think it is easy because I work at the company, the same office as my boss so if he want me to change any design then I can redo it straight away in front of him.I spending most of time with editing the video as the other keep commenting and advising. I am okay with this as I got pay for this. hahahaha. This is first ever pay job ! yey

Internship at Malaysia : Day 1

Today was my first day internship at a company called Megasap, a company that produced a lot of applications from variety clients all over the world. I had to singed a contract agreement on my first day which was on the 7th Sep 2015. I work here until the 11th September 2015. There are a lot of rules on the agreement for example, I need to work 37.5 hours a week, need to be punctual and not allowed to share any finish work on social medias.

I had had to produce a 5 seconds opening animation for a travel application. Even though it is only 5 seconds long, it took longer that I thought as there are a lot of animation that animating within those seconds. I leant a new whole technique in Ae which is called ‘CC Sphere’ - making a globe spin on Ae which is apart of the opening animation.

There was another design task that need to be done by tomorrow which will be done by other engineering intern students. Because there were no senior designer and I have to be the leader, they asked me a lot of advices on their animation and helped them with illustrator. I was not so confident at first but then my confidence started to build and managed to help them all along.

I had so much fun and looking forward to finish off my 5 seconds animation by tomorrow.

I contacted 'Annjfr', she is a freelance illustrator from Malaysia. She studied social science in a university.  I am not so sure what her real job is but I contacted her throughout Instagram as I've been following her since early this year.

My message to her. There are some Malaysian language btw.

Below are example of her work. She also do stop motion animation. I contacted her because I like her tone of voice especially when she use a black fine-liner when she doodle same as myself).

But at the end I did not meet her as she seems busy. I think it is interesting and to be honest I did not expect that she will reply my message but she did as usually famous people will not reply message to strangers. I just realised that I can contact professionals not only by email or phone call but on their official facbeook, Instagram or twitter.

Emailing...

Below are some companies that I contacted through email/facebook/instagram/behance:-

Kotak Hitam Art Studio - A printing company
Megasap - Mobile apps and gaming company
Frogtale Animation company - Animation company
Kasradesign - Animation company specialise in production
Annjfr - A Malaysian freelancer
Amin Daud - An illustrator from Tudidut design company.

Image above is one of my email to the company. Some company might be slightly different as I met the CEO before.