Thanks to all who have helped to put up a successful graduation exhibition! Specially those who came down to visit my booth and everybody who made this possible, including visitors, my family and friends, lecturers!

I'm really really grateful! :D

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Ronald Fong will be displaying his work at Fusion 2009

Here's a web poster! Do drop by! :D



Fusion 2009
6 - 7 March 2009
Fri, Sat 10am - 8pm
Nanyang Polytechnic Auditorium

Fusion 2009 is Nanyang Polytechnic | School of Interactive and Digital Media | Graduation Show and Exhibition!

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Eyeka Creative Challenge Winner at Siggraph Asia 2008

At the Autodesk Booth in the Exhibition Halls of Siggraph Asia 2008, I saw our Eyeka Creative Challenge Winning Entry!
I thought I was dreaming or something! It was screen on the big screen at the Autodesk Booth together with other NYP SIDM produced films.
I feel glad that this clip produced by Yong Yi, Zi Chao and myself has some small achievements all around. Hope to have more coming in!



Managed to take a photograph of it! :D

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Siggraph Asia 2008 | Singapore
10 - 13 December 2008

Hello everybody!

10 December
Pixar's Renderman Course

I was at the first ever Siggraph Asia Conference last week!
The whole of the first day of the conference was spent at NUS Singapore for the Pixar Renderman Course!
Before the conference, there were only 25 seats to the Pixar's Renderman Course which I was hoping to attend.
Made my way down early in the morning and managed to get the last couple of tickets to the Renderman Course by Prof Malcolm Kesson!
Marcus and I attended the course together and learnt valuable stuff! Lucky me!

The Renderman course covers the concept behind using Pixar's Renderman, such as RIB files, RIB archives and the Renderman Shading Language [RSL].
We even had the fun of writing our own custom shader! I must say Pixar's Renderman is really powerful, it has a huge library of procedural textures in SLIM.
And the best part, the SLIM parameters are all able to be brought into Maya to animate!
Understand that the current version of Renderman for Maya [RFM] still has some inadequacies, hence I'm waiting for the release of Renderman 2!

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Aardman Retrospective
Tuesday 28th Octover 2008

Nanyang Polytechnic Theatre for the Arts

David Sproxton and Luis Cook from Aardman, the home of Wallace and Gromit, had a discussion session after the screening of some of Aardman's works.
The question and answer question was really interesting, so I thought I'll jot some of them down here. I cannot remember everything, word for word or every figure, but I guess the idea is somewhat like that, may not be too accurate :)

Q: Do you have life at Aardman?
A: In the past we used to work day in and out, now with advancement of technology, we adopt a 5 day work week. So we have time for ourselves during the weekends.

Q: How do you find your animators?
A: Source from institutes and we have portfolios and resumés coming in. From there, they are trained to be stop frame animators or 3D animators. It's interesting how stop frame animators can convert to 3D animators much easier than the other way round.

Q: How many animators do you have?
A: All the times, it depends on the scale of a project. The size of the team grows and shrinks based on the projects. For feature film length projects, the number of animators can go up to 40, whereas for short films or commercials, there coould probably be 5 to 8 animators.

Find out more about Aardman!

Overall, I found the talk really beneficial. I love The Pearce Sisters and a commercial (I forgot the title) which interviewed different creatures "Why will you do when you fear?" there were two comical cockroaches inside hilarious! And the Mcvities one too. They have really interesting concepts and execution here and there. Awesome!

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