Posts Tagged ‘competition’
Saturday, September 16th, 2017
Photo of the Day: Spectacular shot of a male olive-backed sunbird feeding on nectar of a flower. Taken by Li JiaXuan, winner of Canon Challenge Winner.
JiaXuan’s submission for Theme 2: “Kyosei” – the second of three themes in Canon PhotoMarathon 2016. The photo won the Canon Challenge for the competition. Photo credit: Li JiaXuan.
Since Canon PhotoMarathon XV 2017 is happening this Saturday, I looked through the winning photos of last year’s PhotoMarathon 2016.
This photo is my favourite for last year’s Canon PhotoMarathon.
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Tags:Canon, competition, contest, CPMSG2016, photography, PhotoMarathon, photos, potd, Singapore
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Sunday, February 19th, 2017
Cedar Girls’ Secondary School snatched the two top positions in this year’s Total Defence animation competition, with Ahmad Ibrahim Secondary School clinching the third place. Results listing below.
Congratulations to the winners of N.E.mation! 11: “MADEit” from Cedar Girls’ Secondary School!
The Awards Ceremony was held at the Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium at National Gallery Singapore.
Minister of State, Ministry of Communications and Information & Ministry of Education Dr Janil Puthucheary was the Guest-of-Honour.
Detailed results below.
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Tags:animation, competition, education, N.E.mation!, ne11, nemation, Nexus, schools, Total Defence
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Saturday, January 14th, 2017
The top 10 teams have completed their animation clips. These are now available for viewing at www.nemation.sg. You can now vote for your three favourite clips, and stand to win attractive prizes such as iPad tablets, Apple Watches and MacDonald’s vouchers.
Voting ends 5 February 2017.
Student animators from the Top 10 teams at the Downtown Picnic, which marks the commencement of public voting for N.E.mation! 11. With Ryan and Sylvia from Night Owl Cinematics.
There are four methods to vote.
You can vote on one or all of the following:
- N.E.mation! website if you’re on a desktop/notebook.
- N.E.mation! mobile website if you’re on a smartphone/tablet.
- Facebook app on mobile or non-mobile. Remember to “Like” first before voting.
- SMS to 76677 in the format below.
SMS format (to 76677)
NE11<space>WEB<space>C1,C5,C8<space>NRIC<space>Full Name
Example below:
NE11 WEB C1, C5, C8 T0123456D Darth Vader
The above example assumes you’re voting for C1, C5 and C5.
As you may guess, my favourite animation clips are:
Do check out their clips and vote for them if you like their animation as well.
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Tags:animation, competition, education, N.E.mation!, ne11, nemation, Nexus, schools, t4tEvents, Total Defence
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Saturday, January 7th, 2017
The Downtown Picic marks the commencement of public voting for N.E.mation! 11.
Highlights of the afternoon of fun include games, lucky draw, food, and Ryan and Sylvia from Night Owl Cinematics.
Student animators from the Top 10 teams will be present to showcase their completed 1-minute animations.
Admission FREE, registration NOT required. Bring along family & friends.
Tags:animation, Cathay, competition, MINDEF, N.E.mation!, N.E.mation! 11, ne11, nemation, Nexus, Singapore, t4tEvents
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Friday, December 9th, 2016
Here is a sampling of the art used in this year’s N.E.mation! competition.
Simple but innovative use of ink cartoons on plastic cups for use in stop-motion animation. Rotate the outer cup to get different facial expressions or different stages of a chin-up exercise. Prop by N.E. HEH HEH (#NE11C09).
To many, N.E.mation! 11 is first and foremost an animation competition – with animation themes based on the National Education message of building a strong and resilient country that can defend itself against adversity and external threats.
![My favourite is this finger puppet of a soldier sewn by [BlankSpace] (#NE11C01). Other finger puppets included civilian clothes like those worn by the Sylvanian family of toy figurines.](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/88740461/images1612/161209ne11artFinger180x225.jpg "My favourite is this finger puppet of a soldier sewn by [BlankSpace] (#NE11C01). Other finger puppets included civilian clothes like those worn by the Sylvanian family of toy figurines.")
My favourite is this finger puppet of a soldier sewn by [BlankSpace] (#NE11C01). Other finger puppets included civilian clothes like those worn by the Sylvanian family of toy figurines.
![Cut-out pop-up park to be used as background for the animation. The cylinder can be rotated to simulate movement of foreground objects in the animation. By [BlankSpace] (#NE11C01).](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/88740461/images1612/161209ne11artBackground180x225.jpg "Cut-out pop-up park to be used as background for the animation. The cylinder can be rotated to simulate movement of foreground objects in the animation. By [BlankSpace] (#NE11C01).")
Cut-out pop-up park to be used as background for the animation. The cylinder can be rotated to simulate movement of foreground objects in the animation. By [BlankSpace] (#NE11C01).
So a lot of emphasis is focused on the animation techniques used and how slick and accomplished the completed animation looks.
MADEit (#NE11C08) animates the images on a $10 Singapore bill, adding their own elements to it in their animation.
N.E.mation! 11 bestows upon participating teams the skills of digital animation.
Finding Sanity (#NE11C05) draws their artwork on a computer for their 2D 8-bit animation. I like the patchwork look.
More than that, the competition also brings out the artistic talents in every participating individual.
Passionfruit (#NE11C10) draws their artwork digitally on a graphics tablet.
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Tags:animation, art, artwork, competition, MINDEF, N.E.mation!, N.E.mation! 11, National Education, ne11, nemation, Nexus, NYP, Singapore
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Thursday, December 8th, 2016
We met with one of the Top Ten teams for this year’s N.E.mation! competition – “Passionfruit” from Evergreen Secondary School.
N.E.mation! 11 Team “Passionfruit” from Evergreen Secondary School. From left: Wong Xin Yuan Mabel, Maybelle Ong Hui Leng, Yolanda Low Jing Xuan, Pamela Lee (Li Ming Fang).
This team is the most passionate of the lot – seriously folks!
Leader of the bunch (of Passion fruits) – Mabel Wong Xin Yuan.
I could tell from talking with these four young ladies about the digital 2D animation that they have been working on for the past three weeks of production.
The title of their 1-minute animation is “Shields of Singapore”.
Using the allegory of an umbrella to express their main idea, the theme is that “Everyone is a shield of Singapore, no matter rain or shine”.
And this is embodied in what citizens do in their everyday lives, manifesting itself in how Singaporeans help one another in sticky situation and even in the littlest things – shielding one another from harm and giving a hand when needed.
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Tags:Ahmad Ibrahim, animation, competition, MINDEF, N.E.mation!, N.E.mation! 11, ne11, NE11C10, nemation, Nexus, NYP, Passionfruit, Singapore, umbrella
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Sunday, December 4th, 2016
We met with one of the Top Ten teams for this year’s N.E.mation! competition – N.E. HEH HEH from the Singapore Chinese Girls School (SCGS). Erin Tan reports.
N.E.mation! 11 Team “N.E. HEH HEH” from Singapore Chinese Girls School (SCGS). From left: Wang Lei, Sarah Mak, Karen Nakajima and Michelle Khor.
N.E. HEH HEH is the only team from SCGS in the Top Ten teams in this year’s N.E.mation! 11.
Wang Lei, the Secondary Three team leader of N.E. HEH HEH, a bubbly art student who also drew life-like portraits of the entire team – see below.
The team members consist of two Secondary Three ladies, who keep the team anchored, and two Secondary Ones, who keep things light-hearted and fun.
The two Sec Three girls – Wang Lei and Sarah Mak – are veterans from the school’s N.E.mation! 9 Top Ten team two years ago!
They told me that their team name is a play on the evil laughter of the character Pap from the video game Undertale, and the name “N.E.mation”.
The product of these three weeks of production will be a 60-second animation, to bring to life the ideas and storyline they proposed during the earlier pitching and selection rounds.
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Tags:animation, competition, MINDEF, N.E.mation!, N.E.mation! 11, ne11, NE11C09, nemation, Nexus, NYP, SCGS, Singapore
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Saturday, December 3rd, 2016
We met with one of the Top Ten teams for this year’s N.E.mation! competition – “[Blank Space]” from Ahmad Ibrahim Secondary School. Erin Tan reports.
N.E.mation! 11 Team “[Blank Space]” from Ahmad Ibrahim Secondary School. From left: Tan Jing Yi, Olivia Surrthi Ketheesan, Ng Hui Xin, and Nur Adilah Binte Jamaludin.
The team members are all from the same Secondary Two class.
They tell me they can never stop arguing with each other, yet they are able to work together in perfect harmony nonetheless.
Olivia Surrthi, Secondary Two, the tallest and supposedly the most mature of the group.
Their team name arose from not knowing what to name themselves, and so they came up with this creative name.
They say it has nothing to do at all with Taylor Swift’s song “Blank Space”, which became immensely popular two years ago when it was released.
After these three weeks of production are over, they will be required to submit a 60-second animation, the plot of which they have refined and perfected over the course of the selection rounds.
[Blank Space]’s animation revolves around a the imagery of a hand with five fingers – with each finger representing one of the five pillars of Total Defence – Military, Civil, Economic, Social, and Psychological Defence.
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Tags:Ahmad Ibrahim, animation, competition, MINDEF, N.E.mation!, N.E.mation! 11, ne11, NE11C01, nemation, Nexus, NYP, Singapore, [Blank Space]
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Wednesday, November 30th, 2016
Photo of the Day: Taken by Byron Moray Pittendrigh, 2nd runner-up for Theme 1: Vision (Open Category).
2nd Runner-up in Theme 1: Vision (Open Category) in this year’s Canon PhotoMarathon. Photo credit: Byron Moray Pittendrigh.
A very atmospheric shot – many hands grasping at a light source.
An apt illustration for an alien movie, or “The X-Files”.
Really love the lighting!
Tags:Canon, competition, contest, CPMSG2016, grasping, hands, light, photography, PhotoMarathon, photos, potd, Singapore
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2016
Photo of the Day: Taken by Wee Keng Hor, 1st runner-up for Theme 1: Vision (Open Category).
1st Runner-up in Theme 1: Vision (Open Category) in this year’s Canon PhotoMarathon. Photo credit: Wee Keng Hor.
This photo is really interesting.
The window serves as a picture frame so it looks like “there’s a picture within a picture”.
And to the people in the photo, the photographer is also a picture within a picture.
The window serves as the picture frame from both sides.
Tags:Canon, competition, contest, CPMSG2016, frame, photography, PhotoMarathon, photos, picture, portrait, potd, Singapore, window
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![My favourite is this finger puppet of a soldier sewn by [BlankSpace] (#NE11C01). Other finger puppets included civilian clothes like those worn by the Sylvanian family of toy figurines.](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/88740461/images1612/161209ne11artFinger1638x2048.jpg "My favourite is this finger puppet of a soldier sewn by [BlankSpace] (#NE11C01). Other finger puppets included civilian clothes like those worn by the Sylvanian family of toy figurines.")
![Cut-out pop-up park to be used as background for the animation. The cylinder can be rotated to simulate movement of foreground objects in the animation. By [BlankSpace] (#NE11C01).](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/88740461/images1612/161209ne11artBackground1638x2048.jpg "Cut-out pop-up park to be used as background for the animation. The cylinder can be rotated to simulate movement of foreground objects in the animation. By [BlankSpace] (#NE11C01).")
