April 2010 | Sean

Created by Me

After going through countless of tutorials and exercises, I have created my very own picture by editing my previous semester photo. Previously, I used to follow those tutorials from the website,despite during my third semester break i intentionally create my own idea of editing a photo. I believe many beginners tend to follow those tutorials and end up to learn nothing. I can't deny I'm one of them before but after taking several practices, I realize is time to have my own style or in other word, my own thinking towards design.

When the moment I editing this picture, I eventually comes out a lot of ideas. I tried to interpret them try to fit them into my photo. During editing this photo, I faced couple of problems. I learnt from my mistake and correct them up. Maybe it's not a professional artwork but I'm sure this exercise sure gave me a valuable lesson.

My third semester break

Time goes fast. I have been studying diploma for almost a year. Within this 1 year, i have learned various kind of stuff not only education but value. I have learned how to interact with my classmates, how to be a leader, how to present ourselves and so on. I can't deny I enjoy my time in class, no matter with classmates or lecturer.Therefore, during my third semester break, I have organized a small genting trip with my classmates. After having a hesitate semester, I think is time to have some leisure time with my friends. The photo above was taken on first day while everyone was queuing up for the game.

Looks like Ryan and SiewHoong were enjoying both of their time on the lake.(ROmantic ^^)

As for another side,MingChun and SooJin look kind of nervous and frighten by other boat.

Two shy guys were escaping my camera....

"Enemy spotted!"

It seems like everybody felt ashamed to be a beggar except Hazel Chin...==

The next day I have my breakfast with Hazel.

2days might be short but I'm sure I enjoy a lot. No matter what, I will always remember the times with u guys.

The making of V-awards

What's v-awards?V represent victory. Basically this awards was organized by SSSH school. This is the first year that SSSH organized this kind of event and do u guys know the story behind this event? I believe this event would be happening if there's no teamwork.

The story starts when Ms Kasturi offered me to attend the v-award meeting. The reason why Ms Kasturi sent me to the meeting is because she need few students to gain informations from the members of this event. It's kind of confuse when the time I stepped into the room because in that meeting room, there's all kind of students with different course and background. After some times, a lecturer name Ms Serene came in to our room and started to brief the purpose of gathering everyone to this meeting. In this room, everyone has to stand a pose and i have been chosen as the props coordinator. The duty for props coordinator is to organize and design the stage. In addition, I need to build up a sculpture as well. The picture above is my backdrop design for the stage. It's around 245 cm x 245cm each. Why I'm using the word of each? It is because this backdrop was designed to separate into 2 parts which means there's an empty backdrop between these two graphic backdrops. The purpose of this empty backdrop is for the projector purposes.

The picture above is me and my baby, V-sculpture. This is my first time building a 200cm height sculpture and believe me, this baby really torture me when I built it.

This cute lady is the one who gathered us and taught us how to be a team, Ms Serene.
Thanks Ms Serene.

V-awards committees

Even though we came from different background but I'm sure that we have done a great job.
Thanks guys.

Semester 3 - Color studies

Phew.. here comes semester 3. Surprisingly, we only have two subjects in our third semester which is color studies and creative and critical thinking. Hmm..Color studies?? what's that? it sounds kind of boring to me but trust me it is not as simple as you think. After going numerous of lecturer class, I realize that our eyes do lies us. Why? For instance, if a guy has a CPD (color perception deficiency) looks on a red apple, do u think the color that he see from that apple is red??Therefore I think that sometimes we can't just judge a thing in a single angle. It mights just an illusion or a lie. We must always judge a thing from different perspectives so that we can manage to solve or understand it.

Ok. Back to my story. For our color studies final project, we need to do a game for the V-award. What's v-award? V-award is some sort of Student version of Oscar award. After battling mind, my group mates and I decided to redesign some of the fun fair games.The reason we using fun fair games is because we hope our audiences can refresh their childhood memory and draw attention from them.In addition, Ryan (one of our group members) suggested to create a video to advertise our game, we have no doubt about this media advertising can contribute some attention and at the end we aim for games plus video. Last but not least, we name our group as Inovastain means innovation + stain.

ICE - CREAM LAND, a more fancy and dreamy design. Painted by Hazel Chin

INOVA BAR, using the wild west concept to generate this kind of style. Painted by Sean

Our advertising video created by Ryan and Sean

My second semester break

After busying with my second semester, i thought i can indulge myself by filling up my leisure time. Unfortunately, my friend phoned me to help him to design a boutique blog-site and be their photographer. In the that moment, i felt happy and stress. Happy - because I can learn more. Stress - ...my plan "puff"

After understanding the main concept for the boutique I start to develop my blog design. For me, this boutique job was kind of tough for me because i never write blog before and second, I have to edit the whole blog HTML sequence.

"Shopping isn’t just about choosing and paying. In 12moments, you would be introduced to a whole new experience of shopping, one that is enjoyable yet fuss-free. Here, we provide you with sets of outfits, complete with accessories. Every little detail has been looked into to create a perfect image. With time always at our heels, we save you the trouble of pulling your hair out over how you should pair up clothing and accessories. Just put on the whole set of outfit, inclusive of the accessories that we have carefully paired up and you are ready to go. Besides, 12moments cater to people of different personalities and interest as we will be uploading outfits of different styles every week. You too, can add colour and style to your wardrobe as we create a whole new you."

This is the brief introduction for the boutique. In other words, this boutique is using a different way to sell their outfits. Different way?? I believe everyone is getting curious on it. Actually, they are using some sort of story line to sell their outfits. Different characters represent different style of costumes.

Semester 2 - Webpage design

WANTED, the name for my final web page assignment. During my web page practical class, I have learned some basic HTML and CSS coding. Even though, we have learned the basic but our tutor requested more from us to get a better result. Therefore, I spent some time in doing some researches regrading to the coding.

Back to my final assignment, what we need to do for our final assignment is to create our shoes website. First of all, we need to design 3 themes of shoes. After that, choose one of them and paint on a white sneaker. Next regarding to these 3 shoes, we have to design a web page for our shoes.It's like some sort of advertising our shoes by using web.

Both of these sneakers represent the music theme.

As for this yellow strips sneaker represent 1m'sia theme. However, i selected this style as my representative shoes.

Lastly, this dreamy sneaker represent my dream theme.

Semester 2 - Digital Illustration2

After struggling in our individual soap box assignment, Ms Yarshi ordered us to regroup so that we can process to the next group assignment. We have our brand name as Belleza which means beauty in French. To show a feminine design, our group members had done some research towards ladies trend. After battling mind, we had decided to change our t-shirt to a dress. The reason we choose a dress template instead of t-shirt is because we think that a dress design is much more interesting and attractive. As usual we started to figure out our concept for our dress design. At the end, we decided to show the feeling of a lady. As you can see from the very beginning of our assignment 1 until now, you can realize that we are using the concept which is just for ladies, a day for lady or a special give for a lady. Our art director tends to organize and manage every group member’s job. First step for our assignment will be doing research on female dress. After doing several researches, we gather up our researches and found out that the only way to show up our graphic on our dress is to find cotton made dress which has adequate space for our graphic. Next, we started to have a rough idea for our dress design. Every group member managed to sketch their own idea and after that sort them up. After having discussion, we make our final decision for our dress design which is using a lady figure and roses on it. What we are up to is trying to show the deep thought of a lady. The emotion figure in our design defined as the shyness of a lady but at the same time, she wants to show up herself. The rose petals represent the messages send the ladies. In other words, the lady in our dress attempt to express her own words or express her feeling but she was not confident on it. Therefore, she needs to find another way to speak up her personal feeling. Our graphic might looks abstract without any explanation but we believe that after descript the purpose of this dress, it can be very meaningful, especially for ladies. Overall, our objective for this dress design is to help lady to show her personal character and also brings out another perspective view towards lady, lady might be weak but at the same time they are strong in the way of thinking.

Hazel is our dress model.

This hanger major painted by miss Hazel.

Our dress box, main concept came from the moment flower get blossom.

Semester 2 - Digital Illustration 1

The above cover was mainly designed for my soap box illustration. Before going further more about my design I would like to talk our my tutor. Ms Yarshi was our digital illustration tutor. She taught us a lot of design concept and principle. Nevertheless, she attempt shared us some of her oversea experience. Let continue my soap box introduction.
Why I used “lust” as my brand name? The reason I used lust is because lust give me a feeling of passion which is very suitable for my theme. In addition, lust means a strong sense or eager desire to have it. So after fully understand the content of this word, I decided to use it as my title. As for my soapa’s slogan which is Long Lasting Passion. Long lasting passion shows audience a feeling of having a forever lasting fragrance. I believe that it might create curiosity among the audience and and they will certainly attracted to it. Whereby the instruction, I try to bring audience’s imagination to complement with my design. For instance, “firstly expose yourself to the lavender fragrance of the soap bar before open and feel the lust that unleash thru your sense of smell. Then, open the soap bar box and apply tenderly on your body. After applying the mysterious scent of the soap bar will unveil its deepest secret. Next, the lust aroma would remain on your skin whereby filling your room will seductive fragrance while someone in waiting for you... “. Through my instructions, I want to convince my client or audience to imagine the environment for that particular situation so that they will eventually draw attention towards my soap.

My soap box advertising shot

Semester 2 - Photography part 3

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After having a hesitating time for our first assignment, Mr Tay Guan taught us more about photography rules. For instance, rule of third, diagonal rule, framing, cropping,golden spiral and others. All these rules can be developed in our photos so that our photos can looks much more interesting instead of taking a very horizontal or flat way.

Picture above is taken at Melaka seaside.I feel kind of dramatic while i perceived this scene therefore, i took it as my framing rule.

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This is the Eye of Malaysia. At the very beginning, I wanted to have a ride on it but trust me the entry fee is ..expensive. ==

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This building is one of the Melaka building and the first impression that it gave to me is a very traditional chinese restaurant. Although they have been repaint the whole building but the atmosphere of the surrounding still remain.

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This building defines the history of Melaka. By changing the color mode, I realize this effect kind of suit for this scene.

Semester 2 - Photography part 2

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After going through several exercises, Mr Tay Guan implemented a new task for us which is our first assignment. What we need to do in this assignment is to take portraiture picture. In other words, we have to find a white mice to be our model.^^
I have chosen Charmine as my model because she satisfied my requirement. Charmine is my very old friend and the thing she really impressed me is she really understand herself. What i meant by that is she can be very flexible while I'm busying taking her pictures.

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29th of November 2009

There's two categories for my first assignment indoor and outdoor glamorous portrait.
As for my outdoor portrait,I have decided to have my model shooting at a empty yard next to the Setia Alam Sport Complex.

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After taking my outdoor portrait, me and Charmine planed to take our indoor portrait at Centro mall. Both of us spent almost an hour at there due to the background issue. At the end, we finally had our final conclusion which is using the elevator's wall as our background. It's not an easy job to take picture in the elevator but overall we manage to complete our objective.

Even though, we faced some problems in our shooting but Charmine never complaint much on it. I'm glad to have a model like her. Thanks a lot my friend.^^

Semester 2 - Photography part 1

All of these pictures were taken for my first photography exercises.
Our lecturer, Mr Tay Guan gave us free theme for this exercise because he wanted us to practice more and understand the functions of each mode.
When i received this task from my lecturer, the first scene that pop up from my mind was the Setia Alam park. Therefore, i decided to have very beginning shots at there.

11st of August 2009, 6 30a.m
I remember sir mentioned about light source is one of the major aspect while taking picture.
In this case, i decided to have my very first shot in the early morning because morning sun light can actually enhances the nature feeling.
I would also like to thanks my mum because she attempted to accompany me to the park.

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This tree might looks very normal but when we look think from another perspective, it might give us different kind of visual.

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While I was walking along the track, my mum asked me to take this scene because she said that the sunlight looks very nice

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Instead of taking a whole tree, I tended to only focus part of the tree so that there's a contrast between the sky and tree.

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Sometimes, we should bend down our knee and have a look towards the world because it mights give us different kind of visual and experience.

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This shot was taken when i perceived there was a water drop on the grass. It eventually gave me a sense of natural.

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A very harmony sunlight falls on the pink flower with few drops of water drop.

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Depth of field definitely do a great job in differentiating the background and also the main object.

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Maybe for you guys this dragonfly picture might looks kind of fake but trust me it's a real dragonfly! I spent around 20 minutes to take this little fella because I'm not using a micro lens.