Deborah Christie Tan

Experience

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  Astro

  May 2011 - May 2011

  Summer Intern

  Broadcasting and Media DepartmentWorked on William and Kate's wedding advertisement (Vector character designs)

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  Inspidea

  May 2014 - Dec 2015

  Animation Layout Artist, Animator, Production Designer

  • Worked closely with a team to deliver animation layouts and key poses for 21 episodes of ‘Zip Zip’ and 3 episodes of ‘Hubert and Takako’ animated series.• Worked closely with a team to deliver animation for 25 episodes of ‘Get Blake’ animated series.• Reliably handled the prop and character designs of a whole season of the children’s animated series: Chamki ki Duniya (Season 2).• Contributed as a content producer and committee member in the production of 2 company books: ‘Little Giant: Arcana’ and ‘Little Giant: Memento’ as well as promotional work for the company. Show less

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  Lil Critter Workshop

  Jan 2016 - Aug 2017

  Production Designer

  • Efficiently delivered character designs and prop builds for 33 episodes of ‘Hogie the Globehopper’ and some additional Youtube content.• Designed and built rigs in Adobe Flash for the ‘Teletubbies Nursery Rhymes’ and ‘Tulipop’ Youtube series.• Developed character designs for the pilot of ‘Barry Scary’ and ‘Toy Box’ as well as other in-house IPs.• Led the Builds team of the company until the end of working term.

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  Flickerpix Animations

  Jan 2018 - Jul 2018

  Production Designer, Animator

  • Traditionally animated the ‘Tea is Consent’ and some dance scenes for ‘James is Dead’ for Nexus NI.• Rig-animated the ‘David Walliams: Alright in the Night’ opening sequence.• Contributed character designs, storyboarding and animation for the ‘Weatherbies’ pilot.• Contributed character designs and storyboarding for various pitches.• Worked with a small, tight-knit team the course of a semester term under the Erasmus programme.

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  JAM Media Ltd

  Jun 2019 - Nov 2019

  Development Intern

  • Winner of the ‘The Big Pitcher’ event at Animation Dingle 2019. • Collaborated and developed a pitch bible for my own personal project, ‘Hanna & Nana'.• Presented and pitched my project at 'Cartoon Springboard 2019' in Valencia, Spain.• Presented and pitched my project (virtually) at 'Cartoon Forum 2020' in Toulouse, France.• Contributed in various parts of development work such as 2D animation, compositing and effects animation for other shows that were in the development stage. Show less

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  CCS Digital Education

  May 2020 - Feb 2022

  Senior 2D Animator

  • Creating animation layouts and animation for educational content using Toonboom Harmony.

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  Daily Madness Productions

  Apr 2022 - Jun 2022

  Junior Prop Designer
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  Luma Kembara

  Feb 2023 - Feb 2024

  • Managing, ensuring welfare and communicating with hostel staff to ensure that all internal deadlines are met.• Overseeing check-in and check-out procedures as well as ensuring the comfort and safety of guests.• Assisting in community service projects organized by the company.• Assisting the supervision of the hostel's dive centre (Luma Duyung), charging dive tanks and maintaining dive equipment before and after island trips and in-house reef dive sessions.• Creating signboards, murals, promotional posters and artwork to promote, enhance and beautify working premises. Show less

  • Assistant Manager

    Sept 2023 - Feb 2024

  • Administrative Assistant

    Jan 2023 - Feb 2024

  • Management

    Feb 2023 - Aug 2023
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  The Sea Monkey Project

  Apr 2024 - now

  Social Media Manager