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PDW Reflection

  Professional Development Week Name : Chan Huei Lian (0351597) Major Project | Bachelor of Design in Creative Media | Taylor's University Professional Development Week  PDW Reflective Writing During our Independent week (Week 8), we were supposed to join various webinars / online workshops amidst our near graduation. The objective of this activity was to prepare us for knowledge about working life and the related industry insider by experts with experiences. We were to join minimum of 6 hours worth of workshop period throughout the week. I have joined 6 workshops, including : 1. "Financial Literacy for Fresh Graduate” by ALLIANZ. 2. Keynote: “Career Readiness & Employability Success: 10 Quick Top Tips That Will Help Graduates Get Hired” 3. “Succeeding in a Multi-Role Creative Media Industry” by WSVS STUDIO 4. "Best Practices in LinkedIn and Professional Online Etiquette" by PwC 5. “The Storyteller and Super-Producer: Lessons from the Creative Media Industry” by ...

Major Project

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Major Project | Final Year Project Name : Chan Huei Lian (0351597) Major Project | Bachelor of Design in Creative Media | Taylor's University INSTRUCTIONS CONSULTATION W1 - Breifing We were briefed about our final project by Mr Asrizal. The main takeaways are that we have to make sure that we make this project to be industry standard / professional, and not treating it as only an assignment. We also need to come up with an issue to be solved, before we think of outputs or media execution.  W2 - Proposal I consulted Mr Asrizal with 2 ideas, which was about beach pollution and also homecooking and the feedback I got was that it does not need to always have a storyline for animation student. Can explore with music video style motion infographics. Avoid touching on issues that are too big/major to be solved.   Idea 1 Idea 2 W3 - Finalised Proposal I changed my topic to creating an animated music video for a 2000s classics R&B song 'Just Fine' by Mary J Blige. Feedback fro...

Industrial Training

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Industrial Training Name : Chan Huei Lian (0351597) Industrial Training | Bachelor of Design in Creative Media | Taylor's University INSTRUCTIONS PROGRESSION First day (3/1/23) On 3/1/23 (Tuesday), I begin my internship at Hometaste Sdn Bhd. I reached the office at 9am, and was briefed about the company's general knowledge and details by the HR, Swen. After that, Swen introduced me to my supervisor, Grace and we had an online meeting about my first task on Lark app. First day was very overwhelming as there is alot of information for me to digest. I need to get used to 2 new apps, Lark and Asana for smooth workflow. Lark is a software that gathers all employers and employees together in one platform for communication purpose, it is also used to take attendance (Clock-in and Clock-out), and also has functions such as sick leave application. On the other hand, Asana is used for tasks allocation that ease the information sharing of briefings and files between supervisor and person ...

Advanced Animation Final Project

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Advanced Animation Name : Chan Huei Lian (0351597) Advanced Animation | Bachelor of Design in Creative Media | Taylor's University Project 2 : Action Animation INSTRUCTIONS Week 13 Acting for Animation Reference We were required to record ourselves acting out various emotions into a simple plot which includes Sad, Anger, Happy, Surprise, neutral, fear. This is for us to observe closely to the authentic poses and facial expressions when we are to animate the character later on. My plot : A girl is sitting on a table with her bubble tea. She calls someone through her phone happily, but through the conversation she becomes angry and accidentally pushes the bubble tea to spill with her hand. She is surprised and ended the call, then she becomes sad over the spilt bubble tea. Recorded Reference : Blocking Process : After the recording is approved, I carried onto animation process, blocking. I found the props needed for the animation through online sites and appended them into the scene....