Here's one of the winning entries for CGSociety's Secret Agent Challenge by Ishan Shukla. This entry won the Video Individual Excellence Award. Congratulations, awesome work Ishan!
I find the art direction super cool and overall very impressive for an individual effort. Will like to share it with you guys :)
I'm SO SUPER happy for Pulcinello, Waltz of Joy and Story of I team!! They swept away numerous awards at the Crowbar Awards 2009!! Congratulations guys! We had a celebration dinner last Saturday and it was an awesome get-together and catching-up opportunity. Hope we'll have another outing soon! :D
Awards are as follows:
BEST OF FILM Category Film - 3D Animation Title of Entry Pulcinello Student(s) Gabriella Mesenas, Hong Kai Wei, Lee Yong Yi, Sheetha Lakshmanan, Tan Jing Hua, Tan Tai Chi, Tan Zhi Chao, Vanessa Yeap Min Rong School Nanyang Polytechnic
Awards Gold Category Film - Film Craft: Art Direction Title of Entry Story of I Student(s) Syarah Mahmood, Jinky Gilbert, Phang Ni Zhen, Rosalind Sam, Stella Ng, Theodora Hui, Wei Linfang School Nanyang Polytechnic
Awards Gold Category Film - 3D Animation Title of Entry Ronen-Waltz of Joy Student(s) Anastasia Christina Mas', Jacqueline Chow Pei Qi, Carol Lee, Oh Han Wee, Edwin Liew Wen Jun, Tan Yong Gang School Nanyang Polytechnic
Awards Gold Category Film - 3D Animation Title of Entry Pulcinello Student(s) Gabriella Mesenas, Hong Kai Wei, Lee Yong Yi, Sheetha Lakshmanan, Tan Jing Hua, Tan Tai Chi, Tan Zhi Chao, Vanessa Yeap Min Rong School Nanyang Polytechnic
We have put a lot of effort into this Eyeka Asia Creative Challenge and we are very excited about it!
Just a couple of days ago, the winner of Eyeka Asia Creative Challenge is announced! It's us, Channel Box!!
We are so so happy!! :D I'll like to thank Ms Grace, Mr Jacques D and my two buddies Yong Yi and Zi Chao for making this possible! Thank you guys! Can't wait to show you guys what we've been up to so here goes! Hope you'll like it!
Our objective was to create an engaging animation that will inform the audience about the pronounciation of eyeka.
Simple visual elements are used for audience to relate better. For instance, the mouth literally provides a visual demonstration of the pronounciation of 'Eyeka'. Therefore, the concept allows the audience to register the correct pronounciation of Eyeka without much complexity.
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.
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!
Top-right is the character design for Stong for Stong and Mong adventures :) The hands are generally bigger than Mong and the silhouette is rounder on purpose.
On 30 June at Hortpark. My team and I won the Judges' Choice Award category! The prize was some cash and more importantly an internship at Infinite Frameworks! :D Hopefully I will be able to go for the internship. There are some issues because I have had my attachment programme already. Probably somethings can be worked out to schedule the internship after graduation :)
Judges' Choice Award winning animation entry from students Oh Han Wee, Goh Peng Fong, Tan Zi Chao, Ronald Fong Ren Kai, Lee Yong Yi.
