Once, there was an ounce of glimmering awe as I gazed at once a place in Sunway, called The One Academy, looking at its sound glorious
I began my day as I waited for the whole tedious line with people queuing up. Getting to the counter took almost like 10 minutes, unfortunately for me, it felt so far.
After many perilous journey (just walking), I got to the counter and gotten my name registered. After that, I went up to the auditorium where everyone is were told gather there at the 3rd floor. Well, I looked around and after seeing many people showed up for this camp convinced me that this must be the right choice to come here.
The Marketing Director, introduced himself and thanked everybody for coming to the camp. He said that Now, could you ever think more than 90 people came to this camp because it's full house? neh.
Here, I met
Tun Jie and
Eric as I was sitting next to them all the whole time. We introduced each other when the icebreaking session began. But I was not sure of the girl (Yen Yong) one table away from me. The icebreaking ended pretty fast and moving on to the best lecture of the whole camp. Coincidentally, our row here were all group B, wow.
So we got the same group, same row. Sweat.
(Don't mind the picture, you can always google to get the real one. This IS
Eric Leong, and it doesn't clash with any celebrity you recognize.)
An awesome man, whose baldness shows true boldness - Eric Leong, is a one of a kind. Unfortunately, he was the only one there bald. Suprisingly he likes it because he's different and unique. (so true!) So for those artist wanting to become an Interior Designer, they should really mimic him. (not his hairstyle though, his character!) For the past three hours, he was spontaneously joking about his career and his past experience in his job. Lecture or talk, he gave us insights on colour theory and how an artist can be successful depending on his/her character. The whole time, the room was just filled with laughter, building up our motivation and making it more livelier that the Monday blues just faded away. He gave everyone a clue on every year's colour distinction and even next year's (2012 is some vintage red colour) but told us not to put his name on the internet.(WELL it is here now...) He gave questions so everyone that can answer it, could get prizes from him. At the end of it, I got a small pink book given to me by Eric Leong HIMSELF.
After that, we had lunch. Oh, that's where I met
Yen Yong when we're eating in the auditorium. That time, we also introduced each other while walking to the multimedia lab. We sat in our own respective tables and watch as the flash animation workshop began. There were two lecturers, one is
Kok Jia Wern and the other
Kenix Ho. They instructed us on how to use Adobe Flash cs5.1 and did animation, GREAT! ( My whole life I wanted to do one and now I get to do a real completed one!)
They did show some interesting examples of flash animation did by other alumni and professionals. Here's the link to the websites:
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Get The Glass
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Ecadazoo
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Cooking Mama : Mama Kills Animals (beware of it's mature content, it's not for the faint of heart)
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Heavenly sword
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Radaratorium
Motion Tween? Onion skin? Inbetween? Well much of these are part of an animation process that an animator needs to understand. It's handy to know that I know some of these stuff beforehand. xD
After that we did our own flash animation step by step with a paper instruction to guide us too. We also have to do a flash e-card with the given objects and sound effects in the computer. The place was filled with firecracker noise and music all over the place.
We ended our day and I felt much of it was quite bland a little though but I was still excited for the next day.
Tomorrow? A new day to begin again.
20-Dec-2011
This time, I just happened to meet
Eric at the queuing up line.We talked much about our interest. After confirmation of our attendance at the counter, we went upstairs to wait for our workshop to begin. Interested, I asked him to draw his drawing in my sketchbook to look at his manga skill. There I saw
Yen Yong sitting, waiting. We saw and waved at each other. Later,
Eric,
Yen Yong and me chat together and started to get to know more of each other.
When the workshop started, we went into the workshop as if it was something exclusive for first timers. We were first introduced with a video about Beatrice's manga works.Then, there we saw
Beatrice Tan, a.k.a.
Kid Chan. We had to produce our own comic about Snow White, the evil Witch and the poison apple. So practically, everyone have to pitch their own ideas and create the story in any how on their own preference, all in only one page.
Eric did a fairly simple yet manga-ish style comic which I awed some few times looking at it.
Yen Yong on the other hand, she adopted a realistic and aesthetic to her comic, the fact it's so awesome that I don't even know what it is anymore. Mine was a cartoony one but sadly it wasn't finished.
:-(
Eric and
Yen Yong had no experience using a tablet eventhough
Yen Yong had used it once, yet they did so much faster than me, lol. ( I had 3 years experience of using a tablet and managed to produced that slow work.)
After 12 noon, we came out and had our lunch break. Soon, Tun Jie joined us. Then, we chat most of our time about comic fiesta, manga, cartoons, and animations.
Okay time for T-shirt designing...Everyone was given a choice to use templates to make the pattern on each of their own shirt provided by the lecturers or make your own pattern. We use special paint for painting clothes, a silk screen and plastic stencils. The process is fairly simple, the plastic is cut from the middle with the desired shape/pattern that act as a stencil and then the silk screen is put on top of it. Paint is applied onto the silk screen and a brush or flat cardboard is used to spread the paint on the silk screen over the stencil.
Yen Yong took a bunny template but with some of her add-on modification, a ribbon and a pair of wings. She scored a picture with the instructors and other students there, outstanding! For
Tun Jie, he created a few and erased. He took some time before he finalize with the idea of a guy punching a shark and scoring 1000 points. Well who knows what happens next?
Eric on the other hand, he did a silhouette head of a Gundam, cool choice! I saw some did an assassin creed's emblem, some made typography and some with a silhouette of a chibi dog. Well for me, to make things easy I decided to use a kitten silhouette and
modified it by my own. HAHA, who's that orange character you see down here? A quick look will give you an idea that it's probably an iconic character that doesn't ryhme if he is without his boots - Puss in Boots.
Well, our design ended pretty early, so we have to wait for almost more than an hour. We had fun, laughing with the instructors because people had drawn all over his gundam picture that was pasted on the white board. It had SpongeBob too. LOL. We drew a bit while relaxing, I asked Yen Yong to show her skills by drawing in my sketchbook, again my eyes bulged out by the awesome drawing.
my shirt design- puss in boots
After the workshop is over, all the participants had to gather back at the auditorium for prize ceremony. We watched some interesting videos while waiting for the results to be finalize. When it came out, they announce winners that have the best artwork from all three workshops. Firstly for the manga comic workshop, A few people was called out. Little did I suspect that Yen Yong won a prize for the manga comic and Tun Jie too won the prize for t-shirt design! I was not expecting myself to win a prize for t-shirt design, until now I'm still don't know why mine was selected as one of the winners in t-shirt design..As for Eric, that guy didn't win anything but he was okay with it. I could only say this but he's the winner from the start because he tried his best and was the best pal there i could ever asked. So does Tun Jie and Yen Yong. :-)
By the end of the camp, I eagerly urge everybody to take a picture for the final day. I told Eric to stay for the photo shoot. Yen Yong resisted at first but eventually decided to give it a shot. Tun Jie was no where to be found, but luckily he came down a little late than us. So we asked someone to take a shot for us. The final outcome. *note: we all wore glasses*
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