Kenji Chai was born and raised in the city of Sandakan, Sabah and currently lives in Kuala Lumpur. He was bred on comics, cartoons and storybooks from an early age and spent his days rummaging into these worlds of imagination.
Quiccs Maiquez (QUICCS) is an illustrator, toy designer, and graffiti artist from the Philippines. His style is deeply rooted in his love for the Japanese robot culture and hip-hop influences since his childhood days.
Chaigo x Quiccs creating ripples between Malaysia and Philippines! This AR animation version of the mural aims to explore the layers of the illustrations being animated to life with the mix of 2D and 3D animations.
The process involved redrawing the illustrations by layers to remove the texture and preparing the animation assets, animating each component layer by layer, and finally constructing the AR experience all together.
About the ARtist
Nurul Hidayah Adnan, fondly known as Yaya Adnan, is a Kuala Lumpur-based artist born in 1995 in Johor. With a background in Media Arts, she specialises in a wide range of creative projects, from graphic design and illustrations to motion graphics and animation.
Following her true passion for creating art, Yaya created Totbonkers as a playground to explore and experiment with various mediums, aiming to create practical, vibrant, and meaningful visual art.