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Disney’s Internship Parks & Resorts Online July 7, 2008 to May 2009
I would like to present you with the work that was done during my internship with Disney’s Parks & Resorts Online (Advanced Projects). As an Art Intern, I was involved with a variety of work that includes creating web design layouts (comps), identity design, illustration and other pre-visualization work. Besides I was given the opportunity to be a creative lead in an identity project to create promotional materials and assets for my department. It has been a rewarding experience working with highly creative professionals, and in general, I am most honored to be part of the creative team that brings “magic” to the people.
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PAGE3 Summary of Qualifications
Professional Experience
A versatile digital artist with professional work experience since 1999, working fulltime and freelance as an illustrator, designer and animator, for publishers, ad agencies, web companies and educational institues. He is skilled in both digital and traditional media, concept designs, storyboarding and experienced working with Maya, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Premiere, AfterEffects, Flash and Dreamweaver. In a nutshell, he is a dedicated, responsible and industrious individual who works well in a fast-paced, team-based environment.
Walt Disney Imagineering / Parks & Resort Online (July 2008 - May 2009) Art Intern: Conceptualization and visual development (2D & 3D) for websites, games and blue sky projects. Work includes character designs, Web designs for Attraction Sites, Comps, Interface designs for online games, and designing for brand identity. Creative lead for identity & branding project. Participated in meetings, brain storming sessions and in most creative processes. Freelance Illustration & Design (1991- Present) Most recent clientel: • JWT (J. Walter Thompson) Singapore - Spot Illustrations & Design for press ads (Most recent project: Pizza Hut’s Valentine Promotion). •B rick Age Pte Ltd, Singapore (Spring 08) - Completed character designs, game concepts, and game interfaces for an online game. • Vineyard Church of Savannah (Winter 08) Designed & illustrated a children’s song album that included a sleeve jacket and a CD label (pro bono) • Speakaboos (212 Media LLC), New York (Fall 07 - Spring 08) Completed a total of 4 fully illustrated children’s books for the web at Speakaboos.com • Past Clientel: JWT (J. Walter Thompson) Singapore, BBH (Bartle Bogle Hegarty) Singapore, 10AM Advertising agency, and Brandz Advertising, Imaginary Friends (illustrations for game cards & game handbook), Singapore Film Society (Images for Film Festivals) and etc. Savannah College of Art & Design (Spring & Summer 07) • Tutor & Language facilitator for English as a second language in the ESL department • Student Assistant for SCAD Summer Seminar (Animation Workshop) • Store Assistant at Hamilton Hall for the Film & Television Faculty • Teaching Internship for Character design, animation layout and Storyboarding class The Rock Pte Ltd, Singapore(2003-2006) Illustrator & Graphic Designer: Designed and created graphic designs for direct mails, internal collaterals, branding exercise; designed, illustrated and layout a quarterly magazine with a distribution of 12,000 copies and a readership of 35,000; created designs for music CDs, message DVDs, books and etc; developed art direction for different business entities namely, a coastal recreational centre, bowling centre, childcare centres and media production studio; collaterals included, large prints, banners, truck and bus designs, yearly calendars, postcards, greeting cards and namecards SGWeb Pte. Ltd., Singapore (2001-2003) Character designer and animator: Developed creative directions, previsualization, character designs and production for animation on the web; web design and advertisings, interface designs for Flash applications Clients include: Yahoo Asia, Yahoo Singapore, Overseas Chinese Banking Corporation, United Overseas Banking and etc.
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Teaching Experience
Awards | Merits
May 2006
Workshop speaker, Kaki Bukit Centre Prison School Developed and trained imates who have outstanding IT capability and showed potentials and interest in animation skills with Flash
Nov 2005
Workshop speaker, Singapore Film Society Conducted a one-day workshop on character designs for animation and sequential art
2002 - 2005
Part-time Lecturer & Tutor @Lasalle-SIA College of the Arts & Nayang Polytechnic Digital Media Centre Taught design fundamentals, animation storyboarding, directing for video production, character designs, Flash MX, web designs and sequential art
2008
Selected as finalist (Team of 4) for Walt Disney Imagineering ImagiNations Design Competition 2008
2008
Collaborated film project titled “Heart” selected for nomination for Golden Horse Award 2007. Awarded Best Aesthetics/ Style as a team for Savanijam 2008, a 24 hr animation competition held by Contemporary Animation Society
2008
2007
First prize for image submission: International Broughton Street Festival organized by SCAD’s International Student Service Office
2006
First and second prize for poster competition: International Food Festival - Taste Of The World organized by SCAD’s International Student Service Office
2006
Media Education Scholarship awarded by Media Development Authority of Singapore for overseas studies
2006
SCAD Artisitc Honors Fellowship
2005
Featured artist on ImagineFX Magazine (DVD)
2003
Finalist for Asia Animation Pitch Contest
2002
Second place for Asia Animation Pitch contest, representing SG Web Private Limited
Education 2008
Master of Fine Arts in Animation Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
2006
Certificate in Sculpture Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (Singapore)
2001
Bachelor of Art in Interactive & Multimedia Design Curtin University of Technology (Perth, Australia)
1996
Bachelor of Applied Science in Materials Engineering Nanyang technological university (Singapore)
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Projects done during Disney’s Internship
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Jungle Cruise Attraction Site The design and concept is based on the look and feel of a 1932 riverboat outpost in some exotic corner of the world. It is therefore, strongly, reflects the art and architecture of the period and location. The main content the site includes information and history about the physical attraction, picture and video galleries, downloads, merchandise and unique behind-thescenes. Besides there are special story pages that features topics such as “What it takes to be a Jungle Cruise Skipper”, “Skipper Hall of Fame”, and “How to Survive a Jungle Guide”.
Project Lead: Steve Tatham Illustration & Design: Don Low
Jungle Cruise Home Page Design Proposed Skipper’s character design
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Home Page Design with rollovers
Jungle Cruise Survival Guide
Jungle Cruise Video Page
The idea was to have an animated skipper bring users through a guide on how to survive in a jungle. Several ideas were tested: a human skipper or a anthropomorphic skipper of one of the featured animal in Jungle Cruise.
More Skipper character designs
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PAGE7 Creating the elements
The design of the homepage was based entirely on the Jungle Cruise Attraction, taking unique design elements from it and placing them straetgically on the homepage so they provide users an emmersive Jungle Cruise experience as through they are treading through the jungle floor. Moreover, animals in this online attraction comes alive as they also serve as animated mouse roll-overs in the website giving users an unexpected visual candies. Providing pleasant surprises is the key to the online attraction.
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Creating and designing the elements The designs and illustrations are made in such a way they reflect the conceptual flavor of Jungle Cruise. As such, all design elements were handdrawn, and digitally enhanced so they do not look like “factory-made-drawings”. In a way, this helps to convey the story of a jungle adventure made during the 50s time period.
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PAGE9 Creating and designing the elements
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PAGE10 The Hall of Presidents The concept behind The Hall of Presidents Online attraction is that Presidents live online in an exceptional academic institution where they share their knowledge and experience about the issues facing America and the world. The content includes highlights of Presidential history summarized on encapsulated “baseball cards”, interactive slider that allows visitors to scroll through the entire time line at a glance, video interview of Project Lead: Steve Tatham Illustration & Design: Don Low
Disney’s legend, Blaine Gibson and behindthe-scenes attraction information.
Presidents’ Video Page
Presidents’ Home Page
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Other design iterations.
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Siemens Space Ship Earth Website at Innoventions
Conceptualizing and designing the look and feel of Phase II futuristic City to be used in the website. (Project lead: Terry Dobson)
Design proposals
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Siemens Space Ship Earth Website at Innoventions Conceptualizing and designing the look and feel of Phase II futuristic City to be used in the website.
Final look as executed by the vendor.
Final Approved Design
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PAGE14 Disney’s PhotoPass New Site Design Proposal (Project lead: Jeff Voris)
Designed comp layout user interface, creating 3D assets and PhotoPass Logo
Designed comp layout and new identity
FaceBook App
iPhone App
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PAGE15 Blue Sky Project : Interactive Trip Planner Collaborated project with Abe Chong and Michael Boccacino. My responsibility in this pitch project was providing all illustrations, interface designs, storyboards and conceptual art.
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PAGE16 Blue Sky Project : Interactive Trip Planner (Collaborated project with Abe Chong and Michael Boccacino)
Concept art and element design sketch
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PAGE17 Disney Cruise Line Teen Social Networking Website Creating & Designing comps
Designing & Creating Promotion Tiles to be used in Disney Online
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PAGE18 Online Game for Waste Management: Recycle Rush (Project Lead: Terry Dobson)
Logo Design
Interface Design
Character Designs
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PAGE19 Online Game for Waste Management: Recycle Rush (Project Lead: Terry Dobson)
Character Design Iterations
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PAGE20 Blue Sky Project: The Spire Concept design & art (Project Lead: Terry Dobson)
Interface Design
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PAGE21 TROWE Road Trip Game: The Great Piggy Bank Adventure (Project Lead: Steve Tatham)
Game Board Pre-vis & Animation sequence
Work Involved: Initial presentation materials, some pre-visualization, concept sketches
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PAGE22 Final build for the CG Model based on the physical model built for Level 1 of the Piggy Bank Game
Maya: Modeling, Texturing, Lighting and rendering.
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PAGE23 Final build for the CG Model : Assets closeups. Design based on the physical model built for Level 1 of the Piggy Bank Game
Maya: Modeling, Texturing, Lighting and rendering.
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PAGE24 TROWE Road Trip Game: The Great Piggy Bank Adventure (Project Lead: Steve Tatham) Proposed Game card & logo designs
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PAGE25 TROWE Road Trip Game: The Great Piggy Bank Adventure (Project Lead: Steve Tatham)
Game Home Page Comps
Initial Presentation materials Misc Concept sketches
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PAGE26 Blue Sky Project: Siemens Real Science Comps designs (Project Lead: Terry Dobson)
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PAGE27 Advanced Project Creative Process Illustration
The concept was to have a stylistically illustrated and designed Creative Process for WDPRO Advanced Project
Design & Illustration
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PAGE28 Advanced Project Identity / New Logo Design
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PAGE29 Parks & Resorts Online Identity
Powerpoint Deck Designs
WDPRO Logo Stylized Treatment for use in Corporate presentations
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PAGE30 Miscellaneous Projects
Creating Comps for Disney’s Park Links
Creating Comps for Disney’s Toy Story Mania! Minisite Home Page
Comps for Blue Sky Project: The Spire
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PAGE31 Miscellaneous Personal Illustrations and Concept Sketches
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PAGE32 Miscellaneous Personal Illustrations and Concept Sketches
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PAGE33 Miscellaneous Personal Illustrations and Concept Sketches
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PAGE34 Miscellaneous Personal Illustrations and Concept Sketches
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PAGE35 Miscellaneous Personal Illustrations and Concept Sketches
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Thank You!
For addtional work, please visit my other online portfolio sites as follows: 3D Artwork www.donartdesign.com/3D An on-going blog journal to track and exhibit my progress as an artist/ designer -r www.donlowillustration.com/blog
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