A Shop through Time- Kopitiam

We will introduce the environment, the culture, the food, drinks, society of kopitiam to you...

Monday, December 25, 2006

Characters Design




Owner of the Kopitiam

He is the owner of the kopitiam and he stand in front of the cashier. He is the grandfather of the family. He was in charge of collecting bills and also answers all your questions. He will also take order from you as well.














Chef(Food)

This is the chef of the kopitiam. He is Uncle Lim. Normally; kopitiam is a family business where the workers are the owner’s family members. Usually is the eldest son of the family. So the character is an old man carrying a plate of boiled eggs to indicate he is the chef of the kopitiam.








Chef Helper(Drinks)

She is Yong Sam, also known as Aunty Lim. She was in charge of prepared drinks for their customers. She was also wife of Uncle Lim. She is the grandmother of the family.










Old Man(Customers)

This is the target customer of kopitiam. Mostly old Chinese men love to dine at kopitiam because they felt friendly and relax. They also love to meet friends and chit-chatted for hours at kopitiam.








Old Women(customers)

Old Chinese woman came to kopitiam with their husband or bring their grandchildren for a meal as well. If she didn’t cook lunch or breakfast, she will come to kopitiam to buy food for their family members especially their grandchildren.












Boy(Customers)

This is the grandson of the old Chinese man. Previously, Chinese boy’s hair style is looked like this, but it is very hard to find in current society.






Girl(Customers)

This is the little girl of the grandfather. Some customers may bring their grandchildren along to the kopitiam. The girl is wearing Chinese costume and also has a small pony tail on her hair.


Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Interface drawing....going to draw like a mad girl....

Huh, busy busy week...Non-stop drawing drawing and design....
We r busy with the gallery right now cause the more things to draw. As we stated in the proposal, we going to draw another version of the image of the exact picture. ALthough it was hard but it was fun!

Do you know what is this? Yeah, this is boiled eggs which was a very common food in kopitiam. I won't upload the actual picture here until you find it out yourself in my application.

This is a very typical look of a chinese style coffee sold at kopitiam.

More and more pictures and designs coming up...


Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Apple's Intro

Here is my intro about 3 little girls (Elyn, Gan and me). This short intro is actually talking about where they are going to during holiday and weekends. In a glorious weather day, these 3 little girls are brining happily the mood heading to shopping but suddenly they found out something was improper because this time they nearly forgotten something, that is kopitiam which is the place they usually will go. So after thinking much, they decided to go kopitiam with a happy mood again. After that, the feelings finally come back where they are usually having it in the kopitiam with the boiled egg, the toast and the thick coffee.

Starting screen shoot

Boiled Eggs

Toast

Coffees


Gan's Intro

My story is happen in a old age house with the gramophone. The gramophone is playing a 30’s century famous song which is sing by Zhou Xuan. Suddenly the gramophone start lagging while play the song. When the uncle comes close to the gramophone, the gramophone had stop. The room becomes silent… Uncle doesn’t know how to repair it. So, he decides to get out from his house. When he leaves the room, the gramophone continues playing the song. Uncle come out from his house and he walk to a street. He found a kopitiam and him walk in….





Gan's Intro clip screen shoot.



Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Elyn’s Fly Intro

Yeah…it’s back to the director world. I have fun with it anyway; the intro I did actually is far away too long as I did it very funny and quite related to the culture of Kopitiam. The story goes like this, a hungry fly was flying around to search for food, when he reach KFC, he saw a plate of fried chicken and was attempt to fly to it. Unfortunately, he bangs the glass. Then he proceeds with the next destination which is Mc Donald. The same thing happens because Mc Donald also has a glass door. While he almost gave up his mind to search for food, he passed by a Kopitiam and saw fresh boiled eggs n coffee. But this time, he was hesitating because of the bad experience before. At last, he didn’t fly into the Kopitiam. But actually, Kopitiam dun have any glass or wall to separate from the dust and air. So if the fly flies in, he might can have a very full meal.

This is some pictures of my scene.



This is my main character.


KFC scene

Mc Donald scene

Fly's habitat.