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About

Ayo!

 

I am Ben Tan, a Y3 Singaporean animation student enrolled in Nanyang Technological University school of Art Design and media. I love drawing and painting quirky things with traditional mediums, and telling stories rooted in my personal experiences.

 

Sidebar: I also love playing music!

Education

08.20 – Current: BFA Character Animation in Nanyang Technological University School of                     Art Design and Media.

 

07.21 – 11.21: Attended one semester of exchange studies overseas at Queensland College                   of the Arts, Griffith University

Experience

08.18: Helped illustrate the poster for Cartoons Underground, the biggest independent             animation festival in Singapore.

 

01.20 – 05.20: Interned at Finding Pictures in multiple roles.

 

               Worked as a layout artist to design backgrounds for a pilot episode based                 on their Cannes nominated film “Piece of Meat”.

 

               Provided simple animations and backgrounds for an AXA commercial, as well                 as thumbnail sketches for the opening sequence of SCOOP, a MediaCorp                       children’s new series.

 

08.21 – 07.22: Co-head of Publicity Committee in NTU’s Jazz and Blues Club

 

               Responsible for the art direction and production of various promotional                   collaterals for the club’s Instagram page (ntujazzandblues), as well as                   the designing of the club’s T-shirt and album covers.

 

               I also managed and lead a small team of 4 people to promote our annual                     concert in 2022. Responsible for distributing and managing the                             workload amongst the various members.

 

               I was also actively involved in the art direction and making process,                     helping to take and edit photographs, produce illustrations, supervise my                 team and organize our concert booklet in the form of a website.

Skills

Adobe photoshop/ AfterEffects/ Adobe Illustrator/ Adobe Premiere Pro/ Adobe Lightroom

 

ToonBoom Harmony/ Tv Paint (learning this semester)

 

Music production, Garageband

Awards

2018 : Ong Teong Pin Platinum Award for Art and Design.

An award given to the outstanding art student in VJC, Victoria Junior College, that has gone on to develop his dual passions of art and design.

 

2017: Selected 20 finalists Sovereign Art Charity Prize

 

2017: Short Fiction Selected, All in! Snack Fiction Anthology

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