Mohd Zarin, Author at Mohd Zarin

Lights Up!

June 25, 2007

Salam,

Apa kabar. Sekarang ni utk sementara waktu selagi opis baru belum siap… sebahagian dari staff Les Copaque terpaksa pindah ke opis lain utk beberapa bulan… Opisnya tak jauh dari opis utama Les Copaque.

Kat sini semua creative department such as concept artist, storyboard artist, modeller, script writer dan render artist. Nak kata seronok sangat kat opis baru ni takde la jugak.. tapi staff2 kat sini jugak yang memikirkan macam mana nak ceria kan opis baru ni…

Gambar2 kat bawah ni antara suasana kat opis ni bila kita semua pakai lampu kuning … ala lampu ikea tuu…

My working area… dual monitor 1 LCD & 1 CRT

My own graphic tablet… tak boleh hidup tanpa nya

Devil memenuhi sebahagian dari sudut meja

Anas buat kerja dengan relax nya… ( macam ngantuk je)

Fuad paling excited pasal lampu ni… meja dia je ada dua lampu kuning ni…

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I Love Mocca

May 22, 2007

Mohd Zarin

Film & Music

Yes, I love Mocca… Mocca is actually a band from Indonesia. The lead singer of this band is a girl. All of their song are in English. Their music is sounds a little bit like Cardigans, mix with of Juliet the Orange and sometimes sounds like Cokelat with some jazz instruments and guitar. Its really amazing. Ive been listening to their song for almost 3 weeks now.

Cover of their 2nd Album

Most of their song use very simple lyrics but the way she sang the song is really blend with the mood and style. I start to love Mocca’s song when I heard 1 song from their 2nd album title “Buddy Zeus”. The song is about a girl and her dog. Simple and really cute song…

Video clip from one of their song title “I would never”

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Spontaneous Night

May 2, 2007

Mohd Zarin

Personal

This night is the night after I when back from China. Im with a few of my officemate felt really malas and bored. That night we decide something spontaneous to do with. We (Me, Anas, Yong Pin, Eejean, Nazrul) were having dinner at 6pm at MMZ mamak stall (Bukit Jelutung) and suddenly someone suggested we go to IKEA. We without any futher thinking just drive to IKEA. From IKEA we walk to the Curve for a few minutes. Then we come out with new idea; watch Spiderman 3 at Cineleisure Mall. We queuing for the tickets and after a few minutes it come up with no sits available.

Then we decided to go for other option. We rush to IOI mall to see if there are any sits available. Yaa.. in our journey we sing out load in the car and we even stay thank you together at the girl’s toll station. At the IOI mall… like we expected.. there no more ticket available for Spiderman 3… we should book the ticket before decide to watch the movie… Time is almost 11pm. Before we when back home, we decided to eat some A&W…

Waiting at Cineleisure Mall

At A&W

Me with cool pose

Anas

Nazrul

Eejean

Yong Pin

Me with the big poster

In the car

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Trip to China

May 2, 2007

Mohd Zarin

Holiday & Travel

On the 28th April 2007, I went to China for a few days for a business trip. The purpose of this trip is to discuss about co-production with animation company in China. This is my first visit to China and I’m really excited. It’s really a long journey, where it took roughly 5 hours to reach at China mainland and another 2 hours for ground transportation. The temperature is 18c and the environment its really calm and nice.

Infront of the Office

Me with daughter of Big bos

The company in China is called Zhongnan Animation and their office are located at Hangzhou area. The company’s building is really huge and tall. It’s really stunning how animation company can be this big. Animation industry in China is similar with Japan where they have 3D animation and anime. Even though, the quality is not comparable with the Japanese, but the industry is building up. Chinese prefer local animation and they will try their best to stick with chinese animation or TV Programme as best as they can.

View in the offfice

Animation Parade

Some of the Zhongnan’s Animation

After almost 1 day I had meeting at Zhongnan Animation, the day after I invited me to their Animation Fest. This event is a gathering of all animation titles under one roof where all company showcase their products, merchandises and even cosplay.

Me with the angels at booth

Other interest places that I visited

At art museum

Overall, our trip is a successful. This is my first time visit other country and i gain lots of experience from this trip.

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My new HP

April 21, 2007

Mohd Zarin

Personal

Hi,

I just buy a new HP last week. Is a Sony Ericsson’ HP; Model w850i. Is not like im wasting money to buy a new phone.. It just that I use my old one for like 3 years i think…

So far I think this handphone is ok. Its have most features that really suite my self. Because its a walkman phone so most of the features are focusing on music and video…
Other than that… the camera functionality is maybe not that good. No autofocus and no zoom in function.. zoom in only for video mode.. weird~

But overall.. i kindda like this phone… I may use this phone for another year perhaps…

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AFP06 – Newspaper Coverage

January 29, 2007

Mohd Zarin

Personal

Lately, ada beberapa akhbar utama memaparkan liputan mengenai AFP06… dan my picture pun termasuklah dalam suratkhabar tersebut… glamor sekejap.. hehe…

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Menang AFP06!!!

January 29, 2007

Mohd Zarin

Personal

Wehuu.. last weekend GILA-GILA KERBAU menang sebagai the best script dalam kategori Animasi di Anugerah Filem Pendek 06 (AFP06)… Memang tak sangka langsung, sebab animasi ni mana ada skrip… nak buat treatmeant dulu pun susah gila.. tapi, apa2 pun dah menang dan bersyukur…. Hadiahnya berupa sebuah tropi, sijil dan wang tunai RM5000…

Selain itu, kemenangan besar sudah tentu untuk GENG. GENG menang Anugerah Filem Pendek utk keseluruhan dan dlm kategori Animasi… tahniah Les’ Copaque…

Lastly, I would like to say thank you to my parents, to Les’ Copaque… especially to En Burhan, Pn Ainon, Kak Mun sebab tolong diuruskan byk benda… to Anas dan Eejean, sebab hantar borang penyertaan AFP… to Nizam, sebab support me… kepada kawan di MMU, Shaz dan Sara, sebab tolong kasik idea utk cerita ni… dan kepada semua sebab mengundi… tq

Terkejut menang

p/s : Yuki mata duitan~

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Ito datang office

January 22, 2007

Mohd Zarin

Uncategorized

Hari ni saudara Ito dari kumpulan Blues Gang datang office… Ala, yang femes dengan lagu “Apo Nak Di Kato” tu. Buek apo di datang sini?… ha, ada la sikit perbincangan dengan En Burhan (bos besar les’ copaque)… mebi dia akan sumbangkan lagu dalam filem Geng ni… so far tak sure lagi… baru aje bincang.. tapi kalau jadi, mungkin kita akan buat Ito versi 3D sebagai watak sampingan… macam mana nak combine tu?.. ha tu kena tunggu…

Gambar Ito ni saya yg lukis… So, masa jumpa dia tu… macam konon2 bergambar kasik kat dia la…

//Selain tu hari ni ada 1 peristiwa kelakar berkaitan Ito… dialog nye cam ni

Eejean : Ito tu siapa? penyanyi ke?
Zarin : Yela.. you tak kenal ke? Dulu dia dari Blues Gang… lagu famous “Apo Nak di Kato “
Eejean : Ha? dia nyanyi lagu jepun ar?
Zarin : Kenapa pulak lagu jepun?
Eejean : Tu… you cakap nama lagu dia “Arigato”

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Gila – Gila Kerbau on AFP06

January 21, 2007

Mohd Zarin

Uncategorized

“Gila- gila kerbau” is actually my FYP in MMU and its been nominated in the TOP TEN in Anugerah Filem Pendek 2006… Is a short animation about Mumu (the kerbau) and Bubu (the bangau)…. the story is err.. really simple… To find more info about AFP, go here -> http://www.afp06.com/sub_ANIMASI.htm

The event is on 27th at Angkasapuri….

Ohya… 2 animation from Les Copaque also in the Top Ten… Im very happy to see either one of this animation win…

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Les’ Copaque Production Sdn Bhd

January 21, 2007

Mohd Zarin

Uncategorized

Currently, I work at Les Copaque Production Sdn Bhd as 3D Artist. Right now our biggest project is Geng – The Movie… is the 1st 3d animation movie in Malaysia… and yes, it will happen

My task here basically is to prepare all 3d elements for animators, do some texturing for all props and backgrounds… draw a storyboard… join in compositing process… experiment matte painting(sort of)…. and my main task is actually is to RENDER…

Render is where I must set the lights for all scenes… arrange all the background and props according to each shots nicely.. make sure all texture loaded… and hits the render button… and only after i satisfied with the render quality.. i will do a batch render… this is where i separate the shot into a few layer… and later on combine it in After Effect …

See, sounds easy!

Left to right : Standing : Zarin, Jeff, Nizam, Yong Pin, Anas, Safwan, Zaid, Adi Sitting : Ee Jean, Yuki, Ah Wei

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