Maklenard (as they call him) is a Motion graphic designer/ Director based in Manila. Specializing in videos that call for graphic treatments, Maklenard has worked with many clients, notably BMW, Coke, and Motorola. He also makes music videos for local bands and artists, and draws comics about himself in his spare time.
Currently he is working to combine his talents with two other individuals to create “Springboard”, their new production house.
Zal is a digital artist residing in Singapore. He started drawing at a young age, and his portfolio qualified his entry to the School of Interactive & Digital Media, Nanyang Polytechinic (NYP). He has worked previously at Lucas Animation Singapore (JUMP Program) as a Digi Matte Painter.
His NYP school project “Catastrophe” was recently screened at 2008’s Animation Nation Short Films: Singapore Showcase. His works have also been showcased at “We Don’t Need No Education” (WDNNE) Exhibition and television programme “Gen Y.org” on MediaCorp Suria, among others.
His animations have garnered awards including Bronze award for Crowbar 2008 and Honorary Mention for Digicon 2008.
Yun Wang’s work “The Evil Twin” will be screened at SIGGRAPH Asia 2008’s “Computer Animation Festival: Special Programme”.
Yun Wang on “The Evil Twin”:
I try to conjure a world that’s simultaneously alluring and disturbing. I create a creepy atmosphere with a slice of death scent with grotesque characters and quirky environments. I like to use lovely animals and dolls to represent innocence with their cold eyes without any judgments or feelings, while wading through the harsh realities of cruelty and bleak circumstance, but eventually they meet an unfortunate ending only to find a new beginning in another life. That’s why I told this kinky story full of violence and sex (but not physically) to create my haunted paradises.
Born in Shanghai, educated in both China and Canada, gave Tao Jiang an interesting perspective of Asian and Western culture. She is passionate about design, art, food, travel, culture, language and speaks Chinese, English and some Japanese.
Her early training in traditional Chinese painting mixed with a Western education in computer arts and design management, are reflected in her design work. In the past 6 years, she has worked in network branding, promotion, show opening packages, commercial post production, video editing and visual effects in Canada.
During her free time, she enjoys exploring silk-screen printing and soap making.
Born in Seoul, Ilmo studied fashion design in her undergraduate years. She worked as a fashion designer and webmaster in companies before studying media design at IDAS, a design school in Korea. After going through the foundation level of the course she figured that her core interest was in animation and storytelling. She moved to Singapore in 2008 to study Animation and Digital arts at NYU Tisch Asia instead of finishing the design course.
Makoto Yabuki works as a director/ art director at Tokyo ,Japan.
He started his career as a visual designer in 1997 ,and joined TANGRAM.co.ltd at its establishment in 2003 as director. His artistic range is expansive; among his recent works are “scope” ,”MANAKAI”,and “CONFINE(S)”. His works have been presented in film festivals such as SIGGRAPH, onedotzero, artfutura, ARS Electronica.
Santosh D. Kale started his career as an illustrator, graphic and interactive designer after earning his BFA and MFA in Applied Art from Mysore University and Bangalore University respectively. His quest to further explore digital arts brought him to Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, where he joined the Masters program in Computer Art department. After graduating he worked with various studios, first in USA, then in India, on short films, advertisements, projects for TV channels and game cinematics. He now has his own studio- Underground Worm, that focuses on exploration of ideas/self expression/ storytelling using technology, styles/ treatment, techniques with different media for various commercial and non commercial projects. He collaborates most of his projects with Kavita Singh Kale, a fellow designer and film maker.
Santosh’s films have been selected for the following film festivals:-
Annecy International Film Festival-India Focus’08, France
ANIMA’08, Belgium
Melbourne International Animation Festival’08, Australia
Annecy International Film Festival’07, France
Won AMS Animation Award in CMS Vatawaran Film Festival’07, India
9th Wiesbaden International Weekend of Animation’07, Germany
Santosh’s film “Killing the Fittest” will be screened at SIGGRAPH Asia 2008’s ” Computer Animation Festival: Invited Screenings – India Focus” on 12 December 2008.
Kavita Singh Kale is a director/partner of a small design studio called Underground Worm in Mumbai. Her work is guided by intuition and imagination and as a film maker, an artist and an illustrator; she draws inspiration from a constant documentation of her memories in several sketchbooks. She completed her post graduation in Animation Film Design from National Institute of Design and BFA painting from Delhi University. Her work has been screened in many film festivals and also won awards.
Achievements:-
- Two films were screened at Annecy International Animated Film Festival’08, France
- Anifest’08, India
- Siggraph Asia- India Focus’08, Singapore
- Two BDA Promax world awards’2006-07, New York, USA
- Silver Conch Award (International Section) at Mumbai International Film Festival’06, India
- Award for excellence- 1st Prize by IDPA, India
- 6th Indo-American Arts Council Film Festival, New York, USA
- 14th Golden Elephant International Children Film Festival’05, India
- Nova Cinema-India Focus’05, Belgium
Kavita’s work ” Happy Dusshera” will be screened at SIGGRAPH Asia 2008’s “Computer Animation Festival: Invited Screenings – India Focus” on 12 December 2008.
