The last week for production had been quite a ride for Spatium (#ne10c09).

From radio interviews…

To slamming down Tim Tam Slams with Duck Vaders…

They had to stop animating to get ready for the open house.

Considering they still had a lot to animate yet, it was cutting into their time as they worked together to display their jigsaw puzzle used for their story.

Still, the others worked while one of them presented and this was one of the rare times I got to see so many people in their tent.

Some people laughed at their joke about Spatium and no… I’m not going to say it here.

You can ask them yourself what is Spatium because there will be a time next year where they will try to garner votes from the public… IN PUBLIC.

When open house day was over, the team continued on with the work.

Apparently they managed to finish everything but just the dog.

The dog was so much work to make it look right that they split the parts of the dog to animate between all four of them.

It had come to this, animating and eating next to their stations.

awesome lighting awesome chunran #prayforspatium2k15 #ne10c09

A photo posted by Spatium #NE10C09 (@spa.tium) on Dec 9, 2015 at 6:48pm PST

At this point, they started to wonder why not a cat. A cat wouldn’t move as much as a dog but then, we don’t have sniffer cats… Do we?

chun was buried in confetti during wrap party #NE10C09 #prayforspatium2k15

A photo posted by Spatium #NE10C09 (@spa.tium) on Dec 13, 2015 at 1:16am PST

In any case, at the time of this post, YES they finally finished it!

HURRAY.

No more animating and now… They can chill and wait to show you their final product next year.

So watch out for Spatium!

Don’t they look cute in their illustrated form? That’s the Duck Vaders in their storyboards.

Anyway week 3 and it is their last week to finish up everything!

In the midst of animating though, they got to do some radio interviews just for you all to know who they are and garner your votes when it’s open in January!

And… welcoming guests like sponsors and even friends and family on their open house day to explain what they have been doing or why have they have to keep coming to Nanyang Polytechnic in the morning and leave at night for the past few weeks.

This is the only time you’ll see this screen because what all of you will see is the final product where their live action work is mixed with their stop motion graphics.

But after the open house activities, the Duck Vaders had to quickly get back to production.

They weren’t finished yet!

Most of their props had been folded and cut properly so what’s left is just making sure everything is supposed to be where it is.

There was a moment of panic where they misplaced their paper walkie talkie but thank goodness, they found it hidden on another table under another piece of paper.

A plane zooming…

But yes, come January, don’t forget to vote for Duck Vaders (#NE10C05)

They’ve put in a lot of effort of singing and rapping and then even animating their story.

with miss elaine, believed beliefs, spatium and bamm!! someone remind me (kerrianne) never to sit in confetti again 🙂 because i sat there and got confetti thrown at me for 10mins and i couldn’t find myself 🙂 #ne10c05

A photo posted by 🐥🐥 Duck Vaders #NE10C05 🐥🐥 (@duckvaders) on Dec 12, 2015 at 5:19am PST

Hope you all will get to see their work next year!

Ah yes, we have come back to Spatium (#NE10C09) and what’s this?

A hand drawn Shia because they didn’t remember to print one of it. But alright, looks like they’re getting onto their work.

Ah yes, N.E.mation. Week 2 always makes the teams wonder why did they even join this because they’re all working continuously just to get their scenes done to see their project come to life!

Ok, dramatic much but yes.

I mean, they might have little or no animation experience and just for this competition, they have to complete a whole animated story in a few weeks.

One scene is done though. Hurray for saluting people. HURRAY! ONE DOWN. So just a few more scenes to go till completion.

I learned that for their team, the scenes are actually split up via difficulty. So we have level 1 to 4 and each of the girls have scenes according to what they can handle.

With that said, even with all of them having their own work cut out for them, they’re starting to create mistakes here and there.

WATER IS NOW BANNED in their tents or at least away from the computers…

But somehow there seems to be some accidentally spilled still.

I should mention, theirs is the first tent if you walk into the main area for N.E.mation and you might hear weird singing.

If you do.

That’s Spatium.

At the time I was visiting and look see-ing, there was repetition of “Beautiful knees, such beautifuuuuul knees”.

The moon represents my heart.

Here we see someone animating a ‘level 4’ scene. This is how actual animators look like some times. I know because I’ve seen animators animate during crunch time before.

But hey, what’s that on the table?

A shame shame jar?

So far I see the money is made out of the koufu vouchers that all the teams get to pay for their food in NYP’s canteen though…

Never let it be said that Spatium aren’t good at trying to market themselves.

Whoops, their instructor is glitching while I panorama-ed.

The pieces on the floor are the jigsaw puzzles for their production. It’s the only place they can keep it safely so that no one would accidentally break it.

Onwards to week 3 where they have to finish their animation. JUST ONE MORE WEEK.

so deng drew this just now and pasted it on the curtain which closes the tent #NE10C09

A photo posted by Spatium #NE10C09 (@spa.tium) on Dec 2, 2015 at 7:43pm PST

Also don’t forget to like their pages. SPATIUUUUUUUUUM.

Ah Spatium, Spatiuuum aka #NE10C09.

Do you say it as SPAH or SPEH?

Well, it’s a team of four girls from CHIJ, St Nicholas Girls’ School: Xu Chunran, Deng Cheng, Ng Yi Zee  and Thel Su Thazin.

Theirs is a live action video mixed with 2d animation.

They look like such good girls here, looking so concerned about their production.

I managed to visit their tent and after the whole recording of people placing pieces of a puzzle together, they had to keep it there for reference.

I’m rather concerned about them though as this was week one and they’ve started to randomly vacuuming things without the plug on.

And then I saw all the Shia Leboeufs… That was five days of work, there will be more by the end of their production.

Deng Cheng says the moon represents her inner self, so alright. This is the time just doing it.

I could tell you more about the story of their production next week (TUNE IN SOME MORE or read their blog posts) but so far, they have live action video recorded for their part one and part two is a LOT of animating of scenes in toon boom.

This was on the last day of week 1 and… And she made a mistake.

Her instructor is telling her how to fix it and she has to redo that scene.

Creys. So much creys.

It’s ok. They’re still sort of on schedule…? Sort of. They can do it! Let’s give them, our support!

I managed to get to witness the debrief of week 1 and Deng Cheng asked Ellery if he could take off his hoodie because she had never seen him without it before.

And that was then I knew this group was going to be ridiculous.

Ok, the Shia Leboeufs were major hints also.

They are actually sword trash (Touken Ranbu), Potterheads, K-pop and one hipster(?).

A varied group but they are all working together.

This is going to be about how everyone works together in their story and it looks like how everyone, though different is also working together to create this animation.

Go like their page, follow their Instagram and twitter!

Talk to them, I think they really need it if they start vacuuming things again.

Duck Vaders aka #NE10C05 are students from CHIJ St Nicholas Girls’ School.

They are not ducks, nor are they invaders.

They are:

Rebekah Seow, Goh Kerrianne , Christabelle Kam Rui Ting and Lim Yean Lyi

And they are awesome girls. YEAH!

Come like their FB page first, GO GO! Click here.

It’s NEMation time again and I’m ambassadoring two teams, both happen to be from CHIJ and well, let me tell you more about Duck Vaders.

This is their first time animating and working with a green screen, so now they have learned how high resolution a 4k camera is and why makeup is totally needed.

Their concept is rap, recorded and performed by themselves and for all the animation to happen around them.

So far, none of them have paper cuts on their fingers and that’s great because they have a lot of cast and sets to make.

Part one, they had to record the song and have themselves recorded.

Part two, they have to do the actual animating part now.

Here’s some of the multiracial cast. Hey… What’s that over there? Let’s take a closer look at the NS guy.

It’s all… in coloured pencils?!

I asked them and it takes 4 hours to manually colour the digital uniform for NS army guys now.

And they have two army guys to make in total…

MAJOR HAND CRAMP MATERIAL.

Rebekah finds this guy the handsomest of all their paper cast because he has awesome hair.

He kind of reminds me of a broody Angel from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Sort of, right??

Stop motion with all the paper cut outs is so going to take a lot of time. Here’s their set up with the camera mounted above.

So if you don’t know how it works, they have to manually take a picture frame by frame and then from there, it gets animated when it’s all put together.

Week one for Duck Vaders and they’re on schedule. Let’s hope they continue being on schedule.

Come support them and watch out as we tell you more about the story they’re animating in just these few weeks.

LIKE THEIR PAGE, Follow their instagram and twitter!

The ceremony was a week ago, the 20th Feb at the National Museum of Singapore. Finally we would know who would win for N.E.mation! 8 . I had no idea really but I hope that my teams would win.

I’m sure the other blogger ambassadors wanted their teams to win too of course!

Continue reading Congratulations to BOTH my teams!