Yay!! Coldsteam wins Best Visual Effects and Best Original Music at NYFA 2016! :D
National Youth Film Awards 2016:
Coldsteam – 2015 ADM Visual Effects graduation film (FYP):
Coldsteam
Nicholas Chia, Yang Sishuo, Yeo Shiyun, Goh Pengfong
Coldsteam
Nicholas Chia
有刺客 (You Ci Ke), the 2015 ADM Digital Animation graduation film by Ronald Fong, Han Qingping, Candice Lee and Xiangting Su received all 3 available animation awards at the 2016 National Youth Film Awards today!
All the hard work and late nights, as we strived to make the best animation within our abilities, paid off at NYFA 2016. Big thanks to the Jury of NYFA 2016, Prof. Hannes Rall, Mr Davis Vu, Ms Jasmine Seo, my teammates, my family, and all the brilliant ADM Animation schoolmates who walked by and gave their feedback and words of encouragement. A HUGE thank you.
National Youth Film Awards 2016 – Animation triple award:
有刺客 (You Ci Ke) – 2015 ADM Digital Animation graduation film (FYP):
有刺客 (You Ci Ke)
Ronald Fong and Han Qing Ping
有刺客 (You Ci Ke)
Ronald Fong and Han Qing Ping
有刺客 (You Ci Ke)
Ronald Fong, Han Qing Ping, Candice Lee and Xiangting Su
My namecard design hasn’t changed since 2011. That’s 5 years ago! I was testing a new camera phone with these couple of shots. Clearly, I didn’t realise they were out of focus.
Great news! 有刺客 (You Ci Ke) and Coldsteam, along with other great works from NTU ADM has been nominated for NYFA Awards 2016! See the full nomination list here.
RONALD FONG
CHIA PENG YANG NICHOLAS
YANG SI SHUO
YEO SHIYUN
GOH PENG FONG “Coldsteam”
BFA in Digital Animation
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
RONALD FONG
HAN QING PING
SU XIANGTING
CANDICE LEE “有刺客” (You Ci Ke)
BFA in Digital Animation
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
RONALD FONG
HAN QING PING “有刺客” (You Ci Ke)
BFA in Digital Animation
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
RONALD FONG
HAN QING PING “有刺客” (You Ci Ke)
BFA in Digital Animation
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Hey, I’ve got a bunch of requests for the “hipster” color palette in use to start my digital doodles in Photoshop. So, here you go – Hipster Swatches
Here are some notes on file versioning and date naming conventions for 3D animation production:
I recommend using the following “_###” versioning system:
animation_001 animation_002
It depends on the project you’re on, but most project files won’t have a 1000th version so 3 frame padding is very very safe for almost all purposes in animation, while 2 frame padding doesn’t allow for the occasional 100th version.
Some pipelines use “v” to denote version number, and I think it’s not a bad idea. In a pipeline where it’s understood that “_###” already denotes versioning, it comes across as an additional letter without providing more information.
Please avoid using the “.” for file versioning because some softwares may confuse that with a file extension! That said, Maya’s imagePlane sequence only accepts “.” for image sequence number.
For Maya image sequence
Bad:
animation_001.jpg animation_002.jpg animation_003.jpg
Good:
animation.001.jpg animation.002.jpg animation.003.jpg
Most file browsers default to sort by name. It quite confusing to date files with DDMMYY because 301216 will numerically be after 011217 when it should actually be chronologically before:
011217 151217 301216 310118
Thus I recommend YYMMDD where it will make both numerical and chronological sense:
161231 171201 171215 180131
In fact, it is clearer to see 2016 as compared to just 16. As long as the entire pipeline understands the date convention, we can essentially save on the redundant “20”, since most of the projects we work on don’t run past a century.
That’s all for now! :)
Ronald Fong - Windows XP Wallpaper - Bloom (2)