About Andrew

Andy is an award winning multi-skilled veteran with an extensive background in visual and broadcast design. Trained traditionally in the graphic arts and animation. He has acquired core technical skills in illustration, concept art, visualising, scamping, storyboarding and pitching, which have proven in helping deliver powerful Creative Solutions to clients, from the conceptual stage to final delivery, on budget and on time. ​​
With over 10 years of experience, he has worked on some of the biggest brands from broadcast to the music industry. During his tenure, he has successfully won pitches for some of the most coveted Award Shows. From the Kerrang Awards, Mojo Awards to the Empire Movie Awards, delivering outstanding and complete motion design packages from conception to execution. Andy was given the responsibility to oversee, lead and liaise with clients, and would often go above and beyond to ensure the final product meet client’s vision and brand.​
http://www.andrewyap.london/

AWARDS//

2016 PROMAXBDA GLOBAL EXCELLENCE PROMOTION, MARKETING AND DESIGN AWARDS DISCOVERY CREATIVE LONDON // ENTRY: WHEELER DEALERS (QUEST) // CATEGORY: ART DIRECTION & DESIGN – PROGRAM BUMPER

2016 PROMAXBDA GLOBAL EXCELLENCE PROMOTION, MARKETING AND DESIGN AWARDS DISCOVERY CREATIVE LONDON // ENTRY: VE DAY 70TH ANNIVERSARY (DISCOVERY) // CATEGORY: ART DIRECTION & DESIGN: HOLIDAY / SEASONAL / SPECIAL EVENTS SPOT

His tools

Andy does a lot of 3D content creation for a living, using Cinema 4D and Octane. Hence he needed a machine that will keep up with him, with no barriers and no compromise. 

Challenges faced

Andy primarily uses his Mac for his work. However, he spends more them waiting for his render to complete then actually doing his work. He needed a machine that does the heavy lifting task of rendering. He began his search for a company that can advice and build this machine for him.

 

 

Solutions by Typhoon Systems

It was in October 2017, that Andy found us. By understanding his work and his tools. We picked a Ryzen 7 1800x, the fastest desktop Zen CPU from the AMD stable. With 8 cores and 16 threads and a base clock of 3.6 Ghz (4.0 Ghz turbo), it was one of the few CPUs that was up to the mammoth task at hand.

To this we added the twin MSI GTX 1080 GPUs, with a very lovely-looking HB SLI bridge to match. All of that sat on a MSI X370 Gaming Plus motherboard, along with 32GB of the finest G.Skill Ripjaws DDR4 RAM.

As this machine is meant to be a workstation where downtime absolutely has to be kept to a minimum. We eschewed all forms of liquid cooling like AIOs with pumps and tubings that may take precious man-hours to repair and/or maintain in the future.

Instead we went with the tried-and-tested Cryorig H5 CPU cooler with its absolutely humongous 140mm fan and heatsink to match. It was also for this reason that we went with the Sharkoon TG5 casing (with Red Leds). A single 120mm fan to the rear and three more 120mm fans in the front. One can tell that we kind of threw the word “overkill” out of our English dictionary in the process.