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[2008-07-17 14:45:54 +0000 UTC]
"Question Convention."
(Singapore)
# Statistics
Favourites: 3087; Deviations: 374; Watchers: 193
Watching: 189; Pageviews: 51973; Comments Made: 1398; Friends: 189
# Interests
Favorite movies: CarsFavorite games: Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven
Favorite gaming platform: PC
Tools of the Trade: Pencil, Markers, Colour pencils, Wacom tablet
Other Interests: Animation, Cars, Books
# About me
Andre, otherwise known as TDIT, runs an open-air cinema called The Drive-In Theatre along Interstate 89, Carburetor Canyon. He's a fan of movies, cars, and movies about cars. He is also passionate about animation, Pixar's in particular, and harbours dreams of working for them or any of the big animation production houses one day. He also enjoys action flicks (of the spy and police genres), and big-budget fantasy and historical blockbusters. He loves reading fantasy and thriller books, as well as historical, technological and philosophical non-fiction.Born in Malaysia, he enjoyed drawing cartoon characters based on Garfield and Tintin in exercise books as a kid, graduating to passing doodles during class and designing the classroom notice board wall during his elementary school years. Growing up on a staple diet of Saturday morning cartoons and Renaissance-era Disney cartoons from the 90s, he took a liking to cartooning as a career. His parents humoured his interest by sending him for art and creative writing classes, as well as taking him to meet the famous Malaysian syndicated cartoonist C.W. Kee, who does the daily comic serial "It's A Durian Life". After receiving constructive criticisms to "shade-in his drawings", he received an autograph of a bald man running from a rolling durian.
At the age of ten, he got his first break when his short poem with accompanying illustrations on tea-drinking fairies got published in his local newspaper. Spurred by this recent success, he submitted short stories and drawings to his primary and secondary school yearbooks, which were printed to the amusement of his friends and family. When he was twelve, he designed the promotional artowrk for his high-school play on the Pied Piper of Hamelin. His depiction of a giant anthropomorphic rat dressed in medieval clothes were displayed on posters and banners around the school.
Nothing much happened artistic-wise after that, as he was busy preparing for the much-dreaded 'O' Level examinations. During his pre-university year, he watched Pixar's 2006 film Cars in theatres and was completely blown away by the engaging story and spectacular visuals. Realising that people actually made a living from animated films, and to the horror of his parents who had been expecting him to undertake a law degree, he enrolled in the arts faculty of a certain Group 8 Australian university and never looked back.
He resided in the home of Nemo the clown-fish; Sydney, New South Wales for five years to complete his bachelor and later master's degree, before working for six months at a coupon-magazine company that shares the same name as a movie starring Samuel L. Jackson and Kevin Bacon. While working at his first job, he discovered the TV show My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and joined the secret cult known as the bronies. He later got a job offer at the biggest print organisation in Singapore, and, with a heavy heart, he had to leave his uni mates and equine-loving friends behind.
He is currently working as a sub-editor and a movie critic for a free national tabloid, in between creating silly trailer parodies and fan music videos on Youtube, while entertaining plans of restarting a long-dormant Cars crossover fanfic on FanFiction. This dA account is but another addition to his wide repertoire of creative endeavours and he hopes he will have a fruitful and super happy fun time with this experience.
Current Residence: Singapore
Favourite genre of music: Film soundtracks
Operating System: Mac OS X, Windows XP and Windows Vista
MP3 player of choice: iPod classic & Zen Vision M
Favourite cartoon character: Wall-E
# Comments
Comments: 277
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I wonder if you make the human version (equestria girls version)Β of Sam and Cilli
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You're welcome!
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Ohh so are you open to requests/art trades/collabs?
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Depends if the subject matter interests me and I have the time and energy
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Anyways Iβm just wondering if you are interested in the request or not!
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Okay so I had the idea of my ponysona Techno being with your OC and they might be anthro/humanoid tribal warriors together! Or they could be ponies standing on their hind legs plus they would probably be wearing loincloth outfits with massive capes!
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BTW, I wanted to show you this awesome commission a friend did to me.
Feel free to leave her a comment about it.
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Man, if ou have time, take a look at my DA gallery and feel free to get inspired or use as reference all of my stories and characters.
I think they have a lot in common with your art.
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Ah, I see you have the same taste in well-toned ladies in dangerous predicaments!
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Seems we are at close frequencies.
I noticed you have some centaurs in your FAVES.
Check my DA gallery to read my beauties vs beasts stories. There is one featuring a centaur. Click on the image below to read it and let me know your thoghts abut it.
Also feel free to draw it and all of my other shor tales and characters. Just keep me posted, I'll be honored.
Helen and the CentaurHelen and the Centaur
By thormanoftunder@yahoo.com
If you are an artist and would wish to picture this stories (draw, collage, shoot, whatever), please feel free to do it and e-mail me. But remember, this is just for fun and you will not be paid or anything, as I did writing.
Warning - Adult material. Not recommended for minors
This is a fiction story and all similarity with other works and characters is mere coincidence.
This is a continuation of Helen and the Minotaur
http://fav.me/d1yet1j
After having defeated the fiercest and more powerful opponent she ever faced, Helen departed from the village very early in the morning. She walked back to Sparta and her plan was to be there by the sunset, however, she was surprised to find the only bridge over the canyon was totally fallen down. The Minotaur had destroyed it before its battle against the mighty warrioress.
Now the only way to return was surrounding the canyon and crossing the forest of the centaurs. She really wa
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Thank you for the watch, I do appreciate it!
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You're welcome!
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Thanks JSWeC! We're keepin' the Pixar fan love alive!
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You're welcome!
BTW, if you don't mind, and no offense, I do prefer to be referred to by my real name, Stephanie, as of now. Though it's okay if you want to refer to me by my old PixarPlanet name as well.
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Sure thing, Stephanie! If you don't know my real name yet, it's Andre, but you can call me by my PP name too. ^^
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Thanks Kane!
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Thanks, love your Pearl Shine pieces!
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Great arts about the 'Singified' My Little Pony characters and that i like all of the characters 'cause they funny! And as you can know, on last October 11, a Singaporean named 'Sufie Rashid' wins Akademi Fantasia 2015 in Malaysia through his song 'Kisah Dua Muka' and to dedicate him (as of i'm his new fan now), i want to give you this job:
Please make a drawing where Sufi AF2015 was standing in the middle between Sam Seng and Cili Padi, because i'm his and also your fan... So, can you do this for me? I really wanted it, okay? Good luck!
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Eyo, TDIT! Long time no chat, so I decided I'd drop ya a friendly hello. 
I'm curious what you think of Pixar's Inside Out so far! Personally, I'm excited.
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Hi Ribbedebie, sorry for the late reply! I actually just saw Inside Out last Monday with Mitch-el (the Ratatouille fan with the Remy avatar) in Los Angeles! First time we met in person, she's absolutely wonderful. 
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Ooh, so cool! It's always rad to meet people you know from the internet in real life. Glad to know you two had fun! And ooh, I saw Inside Out recently and it's amazing. I feel ashamed to admit I didn't cry -- but that's probably to blame on my medicine which makes my emotions a bit more muted. I loved it though, and I got the art book soon after. Beautiful movie, really inspirational, and I related to it a lot.
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Hey, I just wanted to know, what's the matter?
Did I do something wrong or something that bother you? We haven't talk and you haven't reply me in a while.
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Hey CBP! I'll send you a note, but it's more of I've been busy lately.
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That's ok, bro. Take your time.
Glad to see you here again.
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