Animation Talk by Kromosomlab

Visiting by founder of Kromosomlab, creator of Eicak the Series, Mr. Fythullah and Mr, Kamal to Animation Programme, Design Technology, FACA, UNIMAS. The duo shares the experience in creating TV series, process from pitching, pre-production to post-production. Thank you for your support to our programme!

visual studies + learning activities

Game Art and Design

Game samples from a basic flash Actionscript inspired from Pong game






A successful game art classes where the students have the hands-on virtual experience and interaction in creating basic flash games, especially Actionscript fundamentals. A potential opportunity as a game professions in the digital content industry particularly in Malaysia and Singapore. Range of categories and specific skills are required such as visual artists who creates environments and concepts, to Flash and vector artist that create vector art which is compulsory to the game market.

Latest selected game art & design, from previous class of 2013

Instructors @ Lecturers

Academic Staff

Dr. Azaini Abdul Manaf

MFA Animation

Savannah College of Art & Design

Georgia, USA

Doctor of Design (Service Innovation Design)

Dongseo University, Pusan

South Korea

niche area - field of interest: character design, animation, character modelling, digital painting, service design, marketing, research methodology.

Azwan Abidin

MFA Computer Arts and New Media

Academy of Art University

San Francisco, USA

niche area - field of interest: Interaction, game design, UX, Graphic production design, Compositing and rotoscoping.

Noorhaslina Senin

MA Visual Communication and New Media

UiTM Shah Alam, MALAYSIA

niche area - field of interest: character design, Graphic production design, Graphic design.

Terry Lucas (PhD Study Leave)

MSc Digital Imaging and Design,

New York University,

New York USA

niche area - field of interest: Animation, Dynamics and Physics, Mel scripting.

Auzani Zeda bt Mohamed Kassim

Master of Arts (Visual Art and Design)

Universiti Sains Malaysia.

B.Multimedia(Hons) Film and Animation,

Multimedia University(MMU),

Cyberjaya MALAYSIA

niche area - field of interest: Architecture animation, 3D Modelling, Projection Mapping.

Jong Sze Joon

M.Sc.,Creative Multimedia, 

Multimedia University, Malaysia

niche area - field of interest: Motion capture, 3D Modelling, 3D Animation.

Asadul Islam (Contract Lecturer)

Masters in Digital Director, 

3D Animation Film Making, 

DSK Supinfocom, INDIA

niche area - field of interest: 3D Modelling, 3D Animation, Rendering, Rigging, dynamics, physics and softbodies. 3D animation workflow, technical renderfarm solutions.

Ang Tse Chwan

Master of Instructional Multimedia, 

Universiti Sains Malaysia, 

Malaysia 

niche area - field of interest: 3D Modelling, 3D Animation, film analysis, animation education.

Technical Assistance

Penolong Jurutera

Humprey Lincoln Ak Badar

JA 29

COURSES

GKN1043 Animation Studio 1

GKN 1053 Storyboarding and Visualization
GKN2083 Animation Studio 2
GKN2093 Character Animation and Layout Design
GKN2103 Game Art & Design
GKN2113 Advanced Animation Studio 1
GKN2123 Stop Motion Animation
GKN2133 Animation Post Production
GKN3013 Advanced Animation Studio 2

Character and Layout Design

In GKN2093 Character Animation and Layout Design where the students have the real life hands-on to polymer clay that is specialized for building character maquettes. These Hard-to-find clay need to be baked at 125 degrees to obtain matte and hardened surface. Animators requires the maquettes as a references of form, shadow and consistency in the animation.

Student's development of sketches to finished 3D maqquettes:

Facilities

Lab Facilities and Inventories

2 x 20" Wacom Cintiq

4 x Maudio professional CF recorder

10 Dell Precision Intel i7 with 16GB DDR3, Nvidia Quadro
59 Dell Precision Workstations Intel Dual-Core x 20" Monitors

30 Wacom Intous + Bamboo Digital Tablets

Software

3D Max
Blender 3D

Toon Boom Studio

Classical Animation

• 30 Animation Desks
• 6 Capture Stations with Flipbook Software

Compositing Room

• Green Screen 9'x12'
• 4' x 2' Kinoflo include ballasts
• 2 x Arri Lighting

Motion Capture Centre

• 18 unit Optitrack High Speed Camera
• Dell Xeon  Workstation, with Motion capture processing application.
• Arena Software

Graduate and Final Year Lab

Game Development Corner

• HP Dual Xeon Processor with 3 x 20" Monitors with quest 3D
• Microsoft X Box 360
• Sony Playstation 3
• Nintendo Wii
• Network ready