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Mingjie, otherwise known as mj,
animator / designer based in Singaporemjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16207803711440256244noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6237177567551025452.post-21507591931054815162015-06-17T03:44:00.000+08:002016-09-19T06:24:19.063+08:00WE HAVE MOVED<div style="text-align: center;">
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new site at mjxu.co</div>
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mjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07372087744689131890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6237177567551025452.post-68590201484930740482014-05-10T02:01:00.004+08:002014-05-13T05:01:33.768+08:00A Vegetable NoirWhat happens when you cross film noir with vegetables?<br />
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'A Vegetable Noir' was a recent visual exploration to see if the aesthetic of noir films could work with less serious looking characters.<br />
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A world was envisioned, where vegetables of different social classes<br />
1) Onions (Aristocrats: Bosses, Politicians)<br />
2) Potatoes (Middle Class: Salesmen, Businessmen, Celeried Workers (pun intended)<br />
3) Turnips (Proleteriat: Cleaners, Construction Workers and other less desirable jobs)<br />
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Find out more about the project <a href="https://veggienoir.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">here</a> cheers<br />
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<br />mjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07372087744689131890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6237177567551025452.post-68867240930819236152014-02-26T01:51:00.000+08:002014-02-26T02:45:14.290+08:00Asian Alchemy Labjust sharing some developmental concepts from a collaboration with ADM coursemates Anh and Cereph. The idea revolves around an apprentice (affectionately dubbed "The Intern") and his Master in a secluded mountain alchemical lab...<br />
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This is an excerpt (intro) from the colour script<br />
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The concept was for the Master to have a mechanical hand that contrasted with his frailness, much like a chinese steampunk kungfu master if you will.<br />
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The Intern on the other hand was conceived to be adorable yet lazy XD as a tribute to our own internship experiences.</div>
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However the REAL difficulty lay in translating these characters and concepts to 3D. More to come soon cheers<br />
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<br />mjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07372087744689131890noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6237177567551025452.post-59908265296911640232013-12-08T12:05:00.000+08:002013-12-09T12:31:26.578+08:00Revamped Neighbourhood Police Post Launch<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The team was invited to attend the launch of the Revamped Neighbourhood Police Posts at West Coast yesterday. After a couple of months of brainstorming and hard work put in <a href="http://mjxu.blogspot.sg/2012/04/npp-of-future-contest.html" target="_blank">last year</a>, we were quite excited to see how much of the ideas were actually implemented.<br />
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To recap, the competition brief was to suggest ideas for automating certain police services, which would then free police staff from under-utilised police posts to patrol the streets and other core policing duties.<br />
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Our team's concept utilised several technological features such as videoconferencing and touch screen interfaces to create a safe, transparent and user friendly environment. There were however concerns raised about certain features such as the safe room which was eventually not implemented, but other ideas were given the green light (a little to our surprise). The final concept combined ideas from other teams and police feedback, such as the inclusion of community areas and partnerships with grassroots organisations.<br />
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The e-kiosk implementation was surprisingly similar to the proposed concept, with guided screens and videoconferencing to assist in crime reporting. This allows for centralized collation of data which frees up manpower. We were concerned about budgets in the original design and put in screens around 24 inch, but the implemented screens are huge and elderly-friendly . Possibly more work could be put into the interface organization as I feel it is too spread out at the moment, but pretty impressive work considering it only took about 1 year to implement.<br />
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The lost and found drop box was another surprise to us as many concerns were raised over the potential danger of items. This is mitigated by having to register using ID and also surveillance, and will bring a lot of convenience to users reporting found items.<br />
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Check out at the police video <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10152457840899408&set=vb.56706929407&type=2&theater" target="_blank">here</a> as well as the <a href="http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/revamped-npps-to-bring/913448.html" target="_blank">press report</a>.<br />
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Overall we were very impressed by how close the implementation was, though there certainly is more room for improvement which should be ironed out as the concept rolls out. The police are currently stationed to help users during the transition period, together with community volunteers at Radin Mas, West Coast and Marsiling NPPs, so pop by to take a look if you're around :)<br />
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<br />mjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07372087744689131890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6237177567551025452.post-21816810554660908752013-10-17T03:14:00.002+08:002013-10-17T03:34:33.187+08:00Rocky Muscle StudySupposed to do a sculpt based off classical sculpture...<br />
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but got bored and based it off good ol' Rocky instead :P<br />
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It's a been a crazy crazy couple of months... just back from my internship at DT Asia Communications in Hong Kong (more on that soon), and now currently working on my Final Year Project at NTU. Predictably this will be a pretty uphill battle having to pickup Nuke, Zbrush and other 3d techniques on the way, but i think our team is ready for the challenge >:) More soon mateys</div>
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This was meant to be presented as a triptych together with a giant hog and a housefly. Fair bit more to polish but imma take a break from this set for now... more turbulent stuff coming my way soon.<br />
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To update, I'll be on school internship in HK from 10 May to 22 July! Excited! Mixed Feelings! More time to do personal work I hope >< later alligators</div>
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Kind of a short post, just sharing some work done for a local grassroots music event. But it's always exciting to chart out the design direction and feel for large events, and definitely more so for festivals...</div>
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I guess for me it feels like almost solving a puzzle of some sort, and defining the look is always the toughest (and sometimes most enjoyable) part of the ride. My client had suggested an MTV kind of feel, but after some experimenting I came up with the imagery of a lone rocker girl on a school table that they liked.<br />
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I basically went on further explore the look and expand it into the other collateral and designs for the event, such as the backdrop, posters, social media etc. Big shoutout to Janice and her team at Rivervale CC for the crazy 2 weeks that went behind preparing for the event, and for taking a risk with the rather "strange" faceless figures, I think it worked out. It was an enjoyable experience despite the mad rush, although I do wish I had more time to refine the final colour palette.<br />
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But the strangeness of it all is that I only really started working on events purely by chance. This was way back in junior college, where I had to conceptualise the decor for a couple of school events (which although unforgettable, certainly had its share of late nights, madness and tears).</div>
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And then somewhat by chance again (amazing luck I have), I went on to become the publicity chief for an arts festival in university which was its own monster to handle really. This was only possible with the help of an amazing team of 5 (cheers to Ersalina, Chi Theng, Joel & Harng) who helped create everything for this 2 month marathon.</div>
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That's really all I have for now, thanks for listening to an old man rant and reminisce about the good old days :P stay safe and hopefully attend a couple of those pesky art festivals now, it really is a lot of hard work!mjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07372087744689131890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6237177567551025452.post-5536918789119245522013-03-31T16:27:00.000+08:002013-09-01T13:38:58.702+08:00Project Nado StoryboardsCurrently working on a game concept for animation preproduction class. Quite a fair bit more to go before we can flesh this out as a final year project concept, but it's been fun trying and executing new ideas. This particular sequence is inspired by the 1939 Wizard of Oz film...<br />
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Did some asset illustration work for a game trailer some time back, and now I'm finally allowed to share some stuff behind the scenes :)</div>
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Below is one of the composite images used for the Assassin trailer. Backgrounds have never been one of my strengths, but I'm glad to report that 1 semester under the tutelage of the legendary Hans Bacher has really helped to improve my background layout and design skills.<br />
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A big thank you goes out to the guys at <a href="http://inkfusion.com.sg/" target="_blank">InkFusion</a> (Silver, Chonghan and Andy) for their kind guidance and also for the opportunity to help out on the project! And finally, do check out the <a href="http://as.cherrycredits.com/" target="_blank">game</a> when it's released later this year! Cheers!<br />
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Pretty excited because we will be going to BreadTalk HQ in Shanghai for a 6 day stint. More on that as it comes... in the meantime, read more about the competition here: <a href="http://cling.omy.sg/index.php?articleID=4777&option=com_article&cid=16&task=detail&pageArtcl=1" target="_blank">omy.sg article</a></div>
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Our team basically narrowed down our focus to target three segments of working professionals (top management, middle management and ladies). Based on these target segments, we made suitable recommendations for how to craft a personalized and effective marketing message, that takes into account different media both off- and online.</div>
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A team of friends and I took part in a competition to design a police post of the future recently, and here's just to share some of the work my team did behind the scenes.</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">From left to right: Robin Tan, Me, </span><i style="text-align: left;">Guest of Honour Mr S Iswaran - Second Minister for Home Affairs and Trade & Industry</i><span style="text-align: left;">, Chia Yan An and Darell Mak</span></div>
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The competition brief was to design a police station 5-10 years into the future, and see how certain services could be improved or automated. This required us not only to think of how to make such a police station aesthetically appealing, but also to consider how we could make it user-friendly all the while fulfilling the core functions of different police services.<br />
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First of all, I had to make a tough decision between using maya or Google sketchup for this particular project. The grill turnstile on the left was the only thing done in maya for the entire project. </div>
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Of course, Maya has much more capabilities than a freeware like Sketchup, but the trade-off is that it is difficult and time-consuming to make changes in Maya, and we had less than 2 months for the project, all the while having to deal with schoolwork.</div>
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The infographics and graphic design was mostly done in Illustrator, before being put into Sketchup for renders. One issue that cropped up however, was that the software would crash if we tried to render the entire room with all objects inside. <i>(Still have no solution for this, if you know a way around it, give me a shout in the comments below.)</i></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><br />Below is the "controversial" safe room concept. This drew a lot of flak from netizens, who criticised the safety aspects of it, based on the solutions proposed by various teams. After much thinking and revision, we decided on a </span><span style="text-align: left;">press triggered </span><span style="text-align: left;">turnstile mechanism. This features a L shaped door that closes behind the user. See design specifics below.</span><br />
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The infographic for the abandoned lost and found locker system. By integrating the 4 main languages of Singapore, we hoped to make the system more user-friendly, and a infographic feel was adopted for rest of the designs. The locker deposit system a la hongkong / korean / japanese locker systems was replaced with a dropbox system in the end.</div>
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I would like to thank my amazing teammates who worked hard together for the proposal and presentation, and also my boss and colleagues at First Sight International for giving me the opportunity to acquire proficiency in Illustrator and Sketchup during my time in the company, without which this project would not have been possible.</div>
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Hope you enjoyed this post, do leave a comment or drop me an email if you have any questions or feedback :)<br />
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Will be sharing stuff that I'm currently working on here :)<br />
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Turnipman is a concept for a stop motion animation that is essentially a parody of superheroes. He doesn't really have any powers... and he isn't exactly cool looking, but he aims to save the world, one turnip at a time.<br />
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My story will have him fending off (note: not fighting) an onion dracula character (oh the irony). Will update as I get more stuff done :) comments and feedback definitely welcome.<br />
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Model made of wood (from chopsticks, pegs and ice cream sticks) on a metal wire frame. Will be attempting to create the right texture by carving out the foam.mjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16207803711440256244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6237177567551025452.post-17575308566358592382011-11-14T12:55:00.002+08:002011-11-15T13:23:00.905+08:00<div style="text-align: right; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: x-small; ">Logos & Branding</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; "></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both; "><div class="separator" style="clear: both; "><a href="http://mjxu.blogspot.com/p/logos-and-branding.html" style="text-align: center; "><img border="0" src="http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/318/0/d/logos_header_by_xmj-d4g4shp.jpg" /></a></div></div></div><div style="text-align: right; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: x-small; ">Print Collateral</span></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left;clear: both; "><div><a href="http://mjxu.blogspot.com/p/design.html" style="text-align: center; "><img border="0" src="http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/317/1/6/print_header_by_xmj-d4g4vhk.jpg" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: center;clear: both; "><div class="separator" style="text-align: right;clear: both; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: x-small; ">Animation/Film</span></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both; "><a href="http://mjxu.blogspot.com/p/animation.html" style="text-align: center; "><img border="0" src="http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/318/4/2/animation_header_by_xmj-d4g4xt8.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; "><span id="goog_1431133765"></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: x-small; ">Drawings / Illustration</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; "></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both; "><div class="separator" style="clear: both; "><a href="http://mjxu.blogspot.com/p/drawings.html" style="text-align: center; "><img border="0" src="http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/318/5/1/drawingsheader_by_xmj-d4g4mpv.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; "><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Feel free to drop me an email at </span><b style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a href="mailto:mjxu.design@gmail.com" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 136, 187); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); ">mjxu.design@gmail.com</span></a></b><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">to discuss potential projects or to obtain more samples of my work.</span></div></div></span></div></div>mjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16207803711440256244noreply@blogger.com0