Fine Arts and Animation

Dominic Chang Yeat Cheng earned a BS in Construction Management and worked as a civil engineer for three years while saving up to attend animation school at Sheridan College in Ontario, Canada.

After receiving his diploma in classical animation, Dominic returned to Singapore to work at Southern Star as a 2D animator and at Scrawl Studios as lead storyboard artist. He would go on to become animation director on the Shelldon CG animated series at Tiny Island Productions and was one of the driving creative forces behind the series Dream Defenders.

Dominic devotes whatever spare time he has to figure drawing, and he has participated in art exhibitions with Group 90 alongside other Singaporean artists.

Jazno Francoeur’s career began in 1990, when he interned at the Walt Disney Feature Animation studio in Orlando, Florida. Upon graduating from Kansas City Art Institute in 1992, he began working at the Disney studios in Los Angeles, California. During that time, Jazno worked on a number of films, including Lilo & Stitch, Tarzan, Mulan, Pocahontas, The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, The Emperor’s New Groove, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Brother Bear, John Henry, and Roger Rabbit’s Trail Mix-Up, as well as the Aladdin video game for Sega Genesis and numerous other shorts, park projects, and commercials.

In 2004, Jazno became an animation instructor at DigiPen Institute of Technology in Redmond, Washington. After transferring to DigiPen’s branch campus in Singapore in 2008, he was invited to a seven-month effects course at Lucasfilm Animation.

Jazno returned to DigiPen (Singapore) in 2025 as the Dean of Arts.

In addition to his career as an animator and educator, Jazno is a performing musician (with his ensemble Mercymachine), a published poet, and an exhibiting photographer.

Low Chee Mun “Don” holds a Bachelor of Applied Science (Materials Engineering) from Nanyang Technological University and a Bachelor of Arts (Multimedia & Interactive Design) from Curtin University of Technology. In 2005, he was awarded a media scholarship from the Infocomm Media Development Authority (then known as the Media Development Authority) to study overseas. Don used the opportunity to obtain his Master of Fine Arts in Animation from Savannah College of Art and Design in the U.S.

Don’s career as an artist has seen him wear many hats. Upon getting his degree in multimedia design, Don joined a local web company as an art director to produce original animation intellectual property for the web. Thereafter he worked as a freelance illustrator and graphic designer to produce different corporate materials and magazines for clients. After completing his master’s degree, Don joined Scrawl Studios as its production head to oversee production of a 2D animated series by the studio. Later, Don continued working as a freelance illustrator for clients such as Apple Singapore, Singapore Post, Singapore Press Holdings, Saatchi & Saatchi, and the Ministry of Education. During this time, Dom also taught as an adjunct lecturer and art instruction at various institutions such as DigiPen (Singapore), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Institute of Technology, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, and Temasek Polytechnic.

Beyond teaching in schools, Don was actively involved in the community and conducted drawing workshops and instructional classes. He also took part as an art instructor at multiple art symposiums that were organized by international art communities in Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, and the U.K.

As an artist, Don paints in different traditional mediums such as oils, acrylics, inks, and watercolors. The last is his favorite and he has been regularly exhibiting and selling his work at annual shows such as the Affordable Art Fair.

Don has been featured as a visual artist in two books: The Art of Urban Sketching and An Illustrated Journey: Inspiration From the Private Art Journals of Traveling Artists, Illustrators and Designers.

In 2018, Don was the winner of the SIGGRAPH Asia (Tokyo) character design contest. That year, he also authored and published a graphic novel title Kungfu Dough.

At DigiPen (Singapore), Don teaches drawing and painting in the traditional mediums, art processes, tone, color, and composition.

Keh Choon Wee graduated with a Diploma in Digital Media Design (with merit) from Nanyang Polytechnic. He has worked in the international animation and games industry for over 12 years with experience in directing, creating conceptual designs, animation, storyboarding, 3D modeling, and texturing, as well as creating VFX for games.

Choon Wee’s versatility, keen sense of aesthetics, and eye for detail has seen him contribute to numerous animation and games production pipelines over the years. This has included conceptual designs on Weta Production’s Jane and the Dragon children’s TV series; storyboards and direction on a few episodes of Scrawl Studio’s The New Adventures of Nanoboy and Milly, Molly; and work on LucasArts’ titles including Star Wars: The Force Unleashed I and II (modeling, texturing, VFX), Monkey Island 2: Special Edition (VFX, BG artist), The Clone Wars: Jedi Alliance and Republic Heroes (rigger, environment, VFX), and Star Wars: The First Assault (VFX).

After six years with LucasArts Singapore, Choon Wee joined Beach House Pictures in 2013 as the creative lead of the animation and digital department, where he was responsible for its overall art direction, animation, and conceptual designs. He also spearheaded projects for the ZooMoo network and the ZooMoo App.

During his spare time, he continues to draw comics, illustrations, and character designs, and he has self-published his own sketchbooks since 2012.

Tan Yuan Sheng “Eternality” completed a Bachelor of Communication Studies (Honours) from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and a Master of Education (Curriculum and Teaching) from NTU’s National Institute of Education.

Alongside his teaching duties at NTU’s Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Polytechnic’s School of Design & Media, and Shelton College International, Eternality serves as the vice chair and programming director of the Singapore Film Society. He is the managing director of his film education initiative, The Filmic Eye, and he also channels his love for film by reviewing movies, with over 2,800 insightful critiques featured on his personal website.

Eternality’s teaching interests encapsulate diverse aspects of cinema, including Asian cinema, popular and cult cinema, and film festivals. His teaching philosophy centers on alleviating unnecessary academic pressures to ignite an intrinsic passion for the subject and ensure that students eagerly anticipate each class.