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Don Low
Singapore
Though Don was born & bred in Singapore, he has never gotten used to the hot & humid climate here. And unlike locals, he has never successfully enjoyed chilly and spicy food without working out a sweat. Therefore he longed to live in the northern part of the earth's hemisphere or the south where he could see a change of seasons and where the weather is not as harsh. Don is basically a self taught artist and an engineer by training.
In 2006 he was awarded a MDA Media Education Scheme scholarship to pursue an overseas graduate studies in animation. On graduation, his thesis film "Cafe Voyeur" was awarded Honorable Mentions among others from around the globe in the Animag 2009 Students' Film Awards. At the same time, he was also one of the 5 teams chosen for his collaborated entry to be one of the Finalists for the Disney Imagineering ImagiNations Design Competition 2008. In addition he interned and worked a year for The Walt Disney Company Imagineer/Parks & Resorts Online as a Visual Development / Concept Artist.
Currently he is working as a fulltime illustrator for books, magazines and advertising agencies. His specialties include: Character design, animation designs, creating storyboards, comic and etc. His favorite traditional media includes watercolor, pen & ink, pencil and acrylics. He works digitally with all Adobe programs, Corel Painter and Autodesk Maya specializing in 3D Modeling, Texture Painting and CG Lighting. He hopes to publish his comic books and work full time on his animated film.
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“I am an animator. I feel like I'm the manager of a animation cinema factory. I am not an executive. I'm rather like a foreman, like the boss of a team of craftsmen. That is the spirit of how I work.”
--- Hayao Miyazaki.
Archive for February, 2010
Posted: February 26th, 2010 under Digital Art, Gallery, Illustration.
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Commissioned work for Hard Ware Magazine February Issue 2010. These were pretty fun to do, especially painting the Gaming Devices, Game & Watch, Game Gear and the all time favorite, PSPGo!! What an exciting month!
Posted: February 24th, 2010 under Commissioned Work, Gallery, Illustration.
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Finally I managed to compile the sketches with ISSUU. My trip to Hong Kong was between Jan 29 to Feb 7. It was my wife’s business trip but I decided to tag along. I took a week off from my work so I could accompany my wife for this little holiday, just about 2 months [...]
Posted: February 18th, 2010 under Gallery, Sketch Journal, Watercolors.
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What do I think about the Lunar New Year? Well, I think it sucks… but maybe not for 2010. This year would be great not because it is the year of the Tiger or Tigger, but just because it is the year of 2010, a new decade. Every other lunar new year sucks but not [...]
Posted: February 10th, 2010 under Gallery, Illustration.
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1995 was the year I arrived in Hong Kong for the first time. The company that I worked for sent me on a training trip to the US for like 3 weeks but my colleague and I wanted to see Hong Kong at the same time before 1997 when she would be “returned” to China. [...]
Posted: February 6th, 2010 under Sketch Journal, Watercolors.
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