GEORGETOWN, Jul 20 – Penang Chief Minister Tuan Lim Guan Eng having a launching of the First Transformer Street Art Exhibition at Esplanade yesterday morning. The Transformer Street Art drawing and painting was done by The One Academy students with the excellent result. Six Transformer Street Art Exhibition will be choose out a winner and the winner will be announce on this end of July and may get a trip to Bali.
“While Penangites are already accustomed to murals on our buildings, streets and alleys, it is not often that we get to catch these Autobots in an artsy adventure. Only available until 17 September 2015, grab this opportunity to visit the Esplanade and witness Optimus Prime and Bumblebee becoming Penang-lang in paint. The artistic talents, imagination and effort young student from The One Academy Penang student also successfully merged Autobots with Penang’s iconic landmarks,” said CM Lim Guan Eng.
“A team of 30 student from illustration and digital animation with 6 lecturer were involve in the Transformer Street Art Exhibition. They have spend 2 week time for their painting with spending per day 5 – 6 hours on the draw. Besides that, they also need to depends on the weather due to the main problem for them was the weather,” said Director of The One Academy Penang, Mr Leong Hoy Yoke.
“When receive the project, we just give the student for 2 days time to prepare the art. After the license approved by the Managing Director of i2 Promotions Sdn. Bhd. Mr. Ricky, they only just start their art and spend 2 week time for the painting. All the student are joined with junior and senior which from illustration and digital animation. This was also the first time for us in this transformer street art exhibition,” said illustration manager and senior lecturer Bryan Lim.
A student of Diploma Digital Animation, Lai Zheng Chien, 22 said that this was the first time he do street art. There were have 5 in a team each with having a lecturer to guide us. It quite difficult for us due to there were a large container for us to complete our street art. We are using a week time to complete our street art exhibition. The idea of our street art exhibition are coming for our teammate. We having this idea is to make Penang joyful because Penang was a places of entertaining. In the same time, we also would like to bring in more tourist to Penang even though the transformer also want to come to Penang.
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