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Winners for N.E.mation! 6 Public Voting

Winners for the top three prizes
iPad 2 (3G + Wifi) S***221C Tan Shao Wei
Xbox 360 with Kinect T***1128Z vanessa how jing ying
Canon Powershot SX230HS S***0952I Soh Wei Lin

Winners for Canon Selphy CP800
T***1109G Justine Nicole Cordero Belen
S***5499Z Liu Gong Kai
S***1785Z Eugene Tan Jia Hao
S***4623F Yap Hao Yeun
T***1132C Phua Yu Hang

Winners for a pair of Universal Studio Singapore vouchers
S***3504C Wee Keng Yee Adelene
S***6674D Wong En Teng

Winners for CapitalMall Voucher worth $40
S***3495E Eunice Ho Jia En
S***3295D Kwan Chang Yew
S***1433D Sajida Sharifa
S***4255H Elizabeth Chew
S***2930G Ng Kian Hng
S***8491B Siti Nurul AIn Binte Suriyadarma
S***6592J Siti Noorbaya Bte Mohd Hanapi
S***2216Z Shawn Tan Wen Bin
S***0418G Ho Zhi YIng
S***5869F Tan Jian Hao Terence

Winners for GV Vouchers (2 tickets)
S***4240C Yeo Kim Huat
S***4946D Low Leong Leong
T***155C Derrick Tay Zhi Rong
S***0325D Muhammad ‘Ali Safiuddin
S***6416J Ong Guang Jie
S***3955E Dion Quek Huici
S***4417J Francis Foo Xiang Leng
s***0323D Benson leom meng suan
T***7795Z Nicholas Sim Yen Kwang
T***4611F Nicole Cabison Pagdanganan

Congrats to all the above winners! You will be contacted soon.

A Winner is YOU!

Total Defence Day was held everywhere in Singapore but meanwhile, the final results of N.E.mation was going to be at ITE West! It’s a pretty cool school and very big too. I kind of got lost around there searching for the auditorium, ha.

I did get in eventually with the help of Sara and ooh, there’s so many guests (duh). The minister of defence was the guest of honour too besides all these officers.

Don’t you feel safe being amongst them as a guest?

By now, you’ll know who the winners are but they were all nervous then. All ten animated shorts were screened and each group lined up one by one until all of their entries were shown.

SO! The ending was pretty dramatic, they got Hungry Monsters and Dreamation to stand in front since one of them was going to be either the champion or the 1st runner up.

Their group names flashed and flickered on the screen, everyone held their breathe anticipating the final winner’s name and BOOYAH! It was Hungry Monsters from Dunman High School! I think it was a close fight for their animations were all pretty good.

Everyone got trophies like this too since they were all in the top 10. It’s a very cool trophy since you could see the logo of N.E.mation moving if you spun the top bit!

ALSO HA, IF YOU READ THE PREVIOUS POST, YOU’D KNOW I WAS THE WINNING AMBASSADOR!

YES! Ha ha ha ha! The winning team will be off to Dreamworks USA and I shall accompany them (and of course with some of their instructors too) there! Isn’t that fun?

I thank all my voters, Nexus, Animagine, DICE studio and well, EVERYONE who got me here. I shall be taking pics, videos and having fun there with the Hungry Monsters!

Watch out Dreamworks, we’ll be coming soon to you!

Thanks (:

Heyy (: 

This is KokYin from DREAMATION! 

Thanks for voting for voting for us! Without all of your support, we might not have even gotten 2nd! I would also like to specially thank: 

Miss Hazel (Enjoy your trip kay!) 

Miss Wei Tyng (Haven’t seen you for so long!)

Miss Seah (My teacher in-charge) 

and my fellow SST supporters! 

Honestly, I didn’t expect to win even top 3 so really, thank you! 

Hope you guys will enjoy a awesome 2012 (:

Signing off,

Kokyin, DREAMATION. 

“Thank you for your love and encouragement; words cannot express [our] gratitude for you.”

Hello everyone! This is Jia-er  On behalf of Fabian and Siang Ler, I’d like to say, firstly,

CONGRATULATIONS to the other 9 teams!

Most notably to Dreamation of SST and Reveille! of Kent Ridge Sec for being the 1st and 2nd runners-up respectively (hey you guys got cameras! ) and iSmacked of Evergreen Sec for winning the Social Media Award!

You guys have been awesome throughout the whole N.E.mation journey and we’re glad to have met such strong competition Thanks for putting up with our noise/nonsense during production phase, especially Asian Keedz who were next to us and probably heard our gossip and whatnot, oops.

 

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE FOR YOUR SUPPORT. I think we said it many times but really, “words are not enough to express [our] gratitude”.

Thank you to the instructors, especially Ms Hazel! For making us redraw everytime we fail your Quality Check and striving to do better. As Mr Ellery said, every time we redo our work, it is a chance for us to improve. We did. And true to the constant reminders by Mr Joshua, we “backed up and saved our work twice” – we produced 2 piles of drawings that were approximately of equal height:

And also for treating us to gongcha/Aston’s for dinner on the 2nd Sat of production.

Thank you to the organisers, for allowing us to make it all the way to the top 10 We’re all turning 18 this year, so N.E.mation 6 is our first, last and only chance to take part, and we’re really glad that we made it so far and learnt so much! 

Thank you to our beloved Dunman High School for supporting us! We hope that we did the school proud and thank you especially to our principal, Dr Foo, our vice principal, Mr Gan, and our teacher-in-charge Ms Teh! And of course, the dearest alumni members who helped us to spread the word! Hello Yellow Earthworms from season 4!  

ESPECIALLYESPECIALLY our beloved sister team, EATYOUUP ♥ The support that you guys gave was tremendous, really. I think you all know how important you were/still are ^^

Much love goes out to our NYP helper Xinyi and our ‘helper’ Edric (ok actually he’s an old friend) for helping us out! Whether it was buying food or providing company etc.

All our love goes out to our friends and family too, for helping us to promote our  animation- eg. getting everyone else in the office to vote on the spot, getting customers to vote, and during a CNY family gathering, making sure that everyone casts a vote before the whole table can begin eating. Hehe We hope we made you proud too! 

Also, our thanks to the NE6 Ambassadors and everyone else involved in providing coverage for our NE6 journey  

 

Anyway, YES WE ARE TERRIBLY EXCITED FOR OUR TRIP TO USA but sadly for now, it’s back to the harsh realities of JC life!

But to end off, thank you to my lovely wonderful teammates Fabian and Siang Ler! For everything  

And the Champion is…

Well, well, we have certainly come a long way from so many teams with a myriad of story ideas down to our Top 10. Following that we had a grueling production period where teams dedicated 3 weeks of their precious holidays to animating.

After all that effort, hard work, sweat, tears, you know what I am getting at, we’re down to this very day…

Crowning the champion!

The champion team is decided by judges who take up 50% of the score and also public voting, amassing the other 50%.

Kicking off the Total Defence Day celebrations were some performances to lighten the mood, followed by an opening address by Mr Ng Eng Hen, Minister for Defence.

Then came the highlight of the show, the result announcement. All 10 teams were called to the stage and had their animations played one more time. The amount of anticipation and tension radiating in the room was quite hard to miss!

It started with giving thanks to the 7 teams that have made it this far before we moved on to award REVEILLE! of Kent Ridge Secondary School with the 2nd runner up position.

Now it was down to 2 and the auditorium was quiet with anticipation as the remaining two teams, Hungry Monsters (Dunman High School) and Dreamation (School of Science and Technology, Singapore), stood forward.

Host for the night, Power98′s DJ JK lightened the tense atmosphere with some quick questions for the teams.

The champion was announced through the giant screen at the back of the stage. The result announcement felt even more nerve-wrecking as the screen flitted to and fro the two teams and finally landed on…..

Hungry Monsters!

Congratulations to Hungry Monsters for winning the Champion spot and the audience also gave a round of applause to Dreamation for securing the 1st runner-up position.

The members of Hungry Monsters mentioned that they were still in shock and too elated over winning to have any thoughts come to mind about the win.

Even though they were swarmed with attention after they exited the stage, we did manage to grab a quick interview with them and that will be up soon. You can check our Facebook Page to be notified once that interview and video feature of the event is up!

The prize giving for the night didn’t just stop there as iSmacked was awarded the Social Media Award for their active sharing and spreading of N.E.mation! through online platforms!

You can find their Facebook page here.

It was truly a day of prize giving and result announcements as aside from the teams, we also announced the winning N.E.mation! 6 Ambassador that will be flying to USA with the winning team!

It was down to three, Marcus, James and Sarah and you had seen their extensive coverage about the production period on our blog. After much deliberation, the appointed ambassador is….

Sarah!

Congratulations once again and a big thank you to everyone who had taken part in this be it as a student, ambassador, or behind-the-scenes instructors! Though not everyone can clinch the top position, making it this far is already an achievement in it’s own, this goes for teams and the ambassadors! All the memories and experiences that you have gained, along with friends you have made will be something you can keep for a long time to come.

With this N.E.mation! 6 is a wrap but don’t go anywhere, we have more news and information coming up soon!

Reflections …

Hello all!

It’s the last 2+ days left for voting and everybody is crazily trying to garner more votes. Welllll, in my opinion, there’s nothing bad about it but there is another important thing to do though. And that is to reflect on oneself. So, here we are, reflecting on our animation clip and together with everything else. I mean as proud as we are of our clip, there is still room for improvement right?

Reflection on animation clip

Firstly, maybe it could be a tad less, simpler. I’m not saying simple isn’t good but maybe there could have been more animation, in terms of transition, rather than just a simple fade. Because initially, we did think hard of how to transit, etc. Father looks at National Service sign and it transits to the Boyfriend’s checklist. Plus we aren’t skilled enough to make full use of the animation software. 

Secondly, we know it’s going to be on television on everything, and that’s probably why the watercolour texture was not very obvious, losing the whole point of why watercolour was used. What I thought we could try was watercolour without the outline and background. Because the essence of watercolour is this fleeting feeling. With the outline and background it seems grounded and more like poster colour rather. We know our instructors’ concerns was the patchiness but we think that gives the dynamic feeling to watercolour. That’s why initially we wanted a simple wash for our backgrounds.

This is an example we found online. We thought it was quite cool  

Thirdly, maybe we could have edited the dialogue / add more of it. The transitions happen really fast and the audience might not be able to catch what’s going on without proper explanation. That’s just a thought though.

Reflection on other stuff

We could’ve bonded more with other teams than just sticking to Hungry Monsters cause we’re from the same school. The thing is, we are like in J1 while the rest were in their Secondary stages, so there was this difference in wavelength that we could not overcome. Then again, no excuses, hence this is under our reflection list.

We didn’t spend alot of time getting to know more about our wonderful instructor Serene D: She was so busy all the time and we really didn’t want to drag her down with our nonsense.

And yupyup, that’s all we have. We really enjoyed the whole N.E.Mation process and it’s something we probably won’t forget in our entire lifetime. Rememmmbeeerrr, VOTE FOR US! WE ARE EATYOUUP (C3) FROM DUNMAN HIGH SCHOOL! ^^

omnomnomnom,
EATYOUUP

P.S: Here’s another clip we thought was interesting.

VOTE FOR JELVETICA!!!! And other things.

I know voting’s ending soon and this is a little late but remember to vote for us if you haven’t!

Again, there are FOUR ways you can vote for us, that means 4 votes PER person!! (Because some people still don’t understand how this works) Through web, mobile web (that means you need 3G), SMS and Facebook.

Now, this would probably be our final post before the results are announced. We’d like to thank so so so many people who helped us during the three weeks, this goes in no particular order.

Shiling, our wonderful (kinda hahaha) trainer!!! Hello hello, we know you’re missing us after seeing our pretty faces (almost) everyday for three weeks. Thanks so much for dealing with our nonsense every single day but we made those three weeks a whole lot more fun right! If, or when, we go to USA, we’ll buy back LOADS of things for you okay! If not, you can still remember us with the pooh bear, it’s so cute. (If you think “like me” then I have no comment, hahaha.) And please, that stupid rumour you told us is so ridiculous okay!

Jamie, our other amazing trainer! I know you spent most of your time in our tent during the three weeks and you tolerated much more of our crap than Shiling but you’re still alive. So it’s all good!! You must be missing us too right, we made your life that much more entertaining and fun in three weeks. I’m sorry if we were too noisy for you when you were doing your report but EVERYONE knows that St. Marg’s girls are noisy hehehe. We’ll buy back stuff for you too if/when we go to USA but you still have your piglet!

Gina, I don’t know how I should refer to you. You’ve been a great help! Right from the start, you helped us to draw, paint, cut, scrape. You even brought things for us to eat! Man, I don’t know how to thank you but I don’t think we’d be as productive as we were if you weren’t there.

Rebekah, becky! I know things have been complicated right from the start, before we even got into top 40 but you’ve been there either physically or virtually to support us every step of the way. Thank you so much becks, for everything that you’ve done for us and bought for us on your way here.

I feel like I need to thank smoochiezz too, although this may be a tad too far, but oh well. We are in no way affiliated to them at all. Smoochiezz had a flea outside the NYP auditorium, selling nail polishes for a week. This may be a little shocking to all of you but I (Daphne) bought around 8, EIGHT, bottles in around three or four days.

 

N.E.mation! 6 – A Tip To Get More Votes

Hi Folks,

Since N.E.mation! 6 public voting started 2 weeks ago on the 18 Jan 2012 … I’m betting that all of you have been canvassing for votes like crazy (probably pestering your relatives & friends until they went crazy or voted on the spot), right?

Have you already done all you can to gather your votes? Did you miss anyone?

With less than 7 days to go before voting ends, lets take a look at the effort each Team has put in during the past week (based on publicly available data on their own NE6 Fan Page).

Efforts So Far

Here are the stats from 9 of the 10 NE6 teams (I still cannot find Jelvetica’s Fan Page) and I ranked them based on the number of Conversation they generated over the past 7 days (you know it by the “talking about this” number on your Team’s Page).

iSmacked Fan Page
162 Fans
37 Conversations in the Past Week

Dreamation Fan Page
229 Fans
20 Conversations in the Past Week

Reveille Fan Page
168 Fans
14 Conversations in the Past Week

FERD Fan Page
101 Fans
12 Conversations in the Past Week

Eatyouup Fan Page
145 Fans
6 Conversations in the Past Week

Hungry Monsters Fan Page
138 Fans
6 Conversations in the Past Week

Viva Fan Page
118 Fans
5 Conversations in the Past Week

S.S.S.A Fan Page
223 Fans
2 Conversations in the Past Week

Asian Keedz Fan Page
24 Fans
0 Conversations in the Past Week

Why do I rank the effort based on Conversation and not Fans?

Well, that’s because fans can vote once but conversation has more reach and potential gather much more votes for you.

Based on the above data, posting on iSmacked Fan Page very likely reached much more people on Facebook than any other team for the past 7 days.

So is that bad news for the other teams? Well, not really.

The good news is that I know many of you (like myself) are sharing the voting app on NEmation Facebook Page directly.

Due to the concerted effort, N.E.mation Facebook Page gained over 2000 new fans (likes) since voting started and have 1289 active conversation (likes/mentions/shares etc) in the past 7 days.

Can you do the same for your Team’s Fan Page, get the sharing to go viral and get more votes?

A Tip To Get More Votes

Of course and here is how you do it:

1) Write a post on your Team’s Fan Page to canvass for votes, remember to add a link to http://nemation.sg/ and thank the reader for their time and vote. And ask them to share it with their friends too.

2) Share the post on your timeline, wall (if you are not using timeline), other pages you may have or even private message your friends. Remember to ask them to Vote for you AND Share the post with their friends too.

Note that if you are writing such a post on NEmation Facebook Page, there is no option to share, it can only be ‘liked’ so it’s not as effective as you cannot personalize with a message of your own (and besides, I think majority of those 6000+ fans have already voted).

So what are you waiting for … get going and start canvassing for more votes … it ain’t over till 7 Feb 2012.

Every vote counts and everyone can only vote once so be the first to ask!!

Good Luck!!

Cheers,
James
NEmation! 6 Ambassador Finalist

 

 

 

STOP-MO PROMOTIONAL VIDEO! ^^

Hello all!

It’s Xin Yi from EATYOUUP here. Anyways, it’s been approximately 2 weeks since voting has started and if have yet to cast your wise decisions on any of the 4 platforms, it’s not too late to do so because you’ve still got 1 WEEK to go!

Setting that aside, we’ve been fooling around with cameras throughout the 3 weeks of production, regardless of whether it’s the webcam or my handy dandy DSLR and I would say I’ve become pretty okay with editing videos now

Around the 2nd last day of our N.E.Mation Production journey, we kinda got a little bored and tried to find ways to entertain ourselves :X And it so happened that Dawn and I went a little overboard with the imitation of Channel 8 Chinese dramas, and then poof, LET’S MAKE A PROMOTIONAL VIDEO! (Courtesy of Dawn) I found myself seated at the desktop clicking the button on the software called Animaker while Dawn and Sim Lin maneuvered our little paper figurines on the book-elevated platform behind me, with slacker Yu Shan playing Tetris Battle without a care in the world.

But before we present the all-awesome PROMOTIONAL VIDEO, here’s the stop-motion video we did during the Top 20 animation workshop, just to show you where we obtained our stop-motion skills from

It’s a little bit sadistic right? But admit, it’s so cute :3

Alright, now for the PROMOTIONAL VIDEO! Please enjoy~

I have to admit, it came out a little late. It was meant to be a prelude to our actual N.E.Mation clip, but ah well, what’s done is done. Better late than never right?

And here’s our actual N.E.Mation product!

Well, I’ve hope you enjoyed my attempt at being self-enthusiastic in front of a computer screen, so that’s all for now! See’ya later folks!

omnomnomnom,
Xin Yi from EATYOUUP 

P.S: We might upload some of the vlogs we did over the production week because some of them are really funny (or at least we think they are) XD So keep a lookout! 

 

Hello again!

Yup, Dawn here again!

No, we are not gone yet. Hmm, we have been doing our own stuff after production’s over and all that. So, anyway… THE CLIPS ARE NOW UP!

They are all really pretty and stuff after the after effects and all that. I am pretty proud of our clip since you can still see the watercolour and paper texture. So, I guess our clip stayed true to our medium. Hmm, we were all impressed with the other clips as well. All the clips were different and they are all awesome!

Remember to enjoy all 10 clips and vote for the best 3 okay! And hopefully we will be one of your three choices. ^^

And if you haven’t, please go ‘like’ our page, click here! Thank you all and see you soon!

Lots of love,

Dawn