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Heya! My name is Poh Luna Ali (He/Him) I am a Singaporean/Japanese Artist Aspiring.. I don't know I do like to draw that's all I know This is my professional portfolio in some sorts.

Here is my carrd to my other socials and my commissions:

Ali's Carrd

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Malaysia Trip Part 3 (Final)

Who knew that the hit game, Baldurs Gate 3 Studios was also in KL and I got a chance to hear the talk from their team! Also Jocat?

My two teammates winning a Baldurs Gate 3 Shirt Waaa how lucky !

At Baldurs Gate 3 Booth,

Felt really fortunate to get to see the artbook of Baldurs Gate 3. Made sure to have a good picture of Astarion for my Astarion simps friends <33

Lunch Break: Bagel! and someone ate his bamboo straw to bits...

Also got my friends No Straight Road Fanart that is a mix of Final Fantasy! So happy I got the last 1010 piece

Was happy to get such colorful art from illy.art, Didn't expect to see some freelance artist booths but boy was this a treat for myself to get such pretty art before I return to Singapore as well as finally getting Hanako's Art book.

Now onto the final Studio Visit: Polygon Pictures Malaysia

The projects that worked on... WOWOWWO is all I can say unfortunately as NDA but I can't believe one of the animes I like is one of their projects. waa also they gave us Mooncakes! they were so good. Their trait of working 3D animation in Toon style similar to 2D animation is amazing, the working with 2D mix 3D Style is something that I may be interested to learn more. Thinking of Trigun Stampede...

Now to Baldurs Gate 3 Talk !

It was interesting to hear the non-design part of the game workings as someone who is in design, I usually just focus on the design aspect but still it was nice to learn what are the other roles needed to get a game working well with less bugs as possible.

Wayne Chu, the Senior Character Artist part of the talk was pretty insightful on the many aspects that a game like Baldurs Gate 3 need from the customization and certain detail for each race. A whole D&D world to design and research properly!

Wrapping up the last day in Malaysia ....

with some Hong Kong Food at Pavillion Mall ( I think next time going to KL with malay friends or even Malaysian friends to show me the local food cause why was I eating Japanese Yakiniku at Malaysia)

and.....

Bangdream girls

ALSO CHIIKAWA OMG!!

DAY 5 (30TH SEPTEMBER 2023)

Returning to Singapore time, with a Macdonald breakfast ( because we were getting tired from the breakfast buffet in the hotel ) and a long bus ride back to SG. A fun trip and a real leg work out at KL it was

PART 1 | PART 2 | PART 3

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Malaysia Trip Blog Part 2

Continuation of my blog:

Lunch Break hehehe at TGIF Fridays ( first time trying it out) I was so full that I could not touch the tacos at all 😞

Shout out to Zen for the lighting of this photograph of the tacos that I never gotten to eat at the end.

Quickly bought some souvenirs for my parents as well

We found the Indie Games Zone

So cool to see the different games made by the locals and even other ASEAN artists

Bastian playing "A Space for the unbound" from Mojiken Studio, He recognized the game through Steam, that was cool!

Other games I saw that was showcased

"Overhours" was having a character vote poll and I sure hope Team Eon wins cause I think he's neat :]

Our Lecturer, Ms Alicia knows the anime figurines spots so off with my battered wobbly legs we go 20k steps after a 200 steps climb yesterday ough....

Even though Malaysia have some similarities to Singapore, it still feel really different which is crazy as we are just one bridge away from each other. Also really made me appreciate how small Singapore is cause ough so much walking ....

Figurine Search time - Saw lots of transformers for my transformers fan friends

Hastune Miku <3 and Marin!

Wall-E holding Godzilla tail hehe

Hakken in KL is so wide compare to Singapore! which is no surprise but it did feel a tad empty...

Ending off at Family Mart near to the hotel.

An experience I guess as I have only been to Japan's Family Mart

Gonna cut off to Part 3, dedicated post to show the Baldurs Gate 3 Stuff...

PART 1 | PART 2 | PART 3

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Malaysia Trip (4 Nights 5 Days Trip)

A summarized blog post about my first time at Kuala Lumpur.

It was the last few chances to go for an overseas trip in my final year of school so why the heck not despite not knowing anyone in the trip.

DAY 1 (26TH SEPTEMBER 2023):

Heading off to Malaysia via Bus~

Didn't expect to see so many trees in the next few hours. Would have thought I spend the few hours in the bus drawing or doing something productive but no I just knocked out half of the ride, I guess this is what happens when you hit the adult age

Once we arrived to our hotel rooms -> A view from my room! ( Happy to say I had a real sweet roommate during this trip☺)

Dinner time aka Group of introverts battling their way through salespeople challenge

also lizard 🦎 I was hoping to see more lizards but this was the only one I saw through this trip

"hallo"

DAY 2: (27TH SEPTEMBER 2023)

Little do my legs know we are gonna have a leg day in the next two days.

On our way to Lemonsky Studio & Inspidea Studio vrrr ( Saw my fellow schoolmates interning at Inspidea as well! glad they recognized me haha covid has cause us to not know our class well)

Studio 1: Lemonsky Studio

Such a humongous studio with so many colleagues wowza and they had a cool lounge area with arcade games and gachas! It was cute how they named each room or door based on the big projects they worked with. My fellow colleagues lets meet at the final fantasy room

Also the number of projects they worked with, W o w

Brought home two of their postcards of the projects they worked with, Ratchet & Clank and Diavolo! ( I don't play these two games ! :D <- not a gamer ) I just thought the monster in the Diavolo postcard looks cute

Quick stop to the mall after that: (The speedrun of a quick bite so we can check out the anime store goal - My team's objective)

Spoiler: The anime store was boring but the arcade store next door wasn't! but it sure took some of our money like this darn clown claw machine which was bloody BROKEN and my coins are gone with it Damn cute clowns.... But is okay I got the highlight of this whole trip, my wittle lizard guy in a gacha machine. I luv him <3

Studio 2: Inspidea Studio

Their office was smaller than Lemonsky Studio but it was very cozy and welcoming. Their "head animator boss" was real cool -> image below

Oh to work there and have feline colleagues~

Was real neat to see my schoolmates currently interning there and hearing how their time was in an overseas internship. A studio that is still doing 2D Work and illustration was nice to see in this trip as it has mostly been 3D targeted sighhh

Next Stop: Batu Cave ( RIP My legs)

Off with 200 Steps up to the cave with monkeys eyeing you for food.

I came back down with having beef with these monkeys for trying to steal my drink. One of them stole one of our mountain dew and down it like a true gamer.

The view at the top was very worth it in the end also BIG chickens

and cat

With sore legs, we return to Pavillion Mall for dinner and shortly after I got lost 💞 (Is okay I was found)

Back to the hotel room, sore

DAY 3 (28TH SEPTEMBER 2023):

The actual reason why this overseas trip was a thing, a convention at KLCC with various animation/games studio and talks coming in to talk.

Drew DJ Subatomic Supernova and my guy at Inspidea Studio Booth's

SNUFKIN FROM FINNISH ANIMATION MOOMIN?!

also twin tower

Talked to Tenten Studio and listened into a talk about working in concept art for games. Got an interesting advice that they would be interested to see process of how you design the character/prop/environment from research in your portfolio. Though I don't know if I have the interest to grind my skills up to the level of a Games Concept Artist

Alright cutting this off as Part 1 of the blog | PART 2