Seriously Sarah

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!