What Makes Us Singaporean?

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

N.E.mation III

This year's ecstatic N.E.mation teams.

N.E.mation! is back! The Total Defence animation competition, now into its third year, is down to ten finalist teams from secondary schools and junior colleges. They spent three weeks of their year-end school holidays working on their animation clips. And the question they had to answer: What makes us Singaporean?

From 16 January you can watch their clips at the N.E.mation! III website and vote for your three favourite clips! Visit the website now!

N.E.mation III

Jumping at the chance for an appearance in an animation clip.

N.E.mation! III attracted 560 entries in the first round in June - more than double the number of last year's competition. Forty teams were then shortlisted to go through a one-week animation production training and selection phase in September.

Out of these forty teams, the ten teams that finally made the cut were:

  • Granroneo - Siglap Seconday School
  • Les Animateurs - CHIJ Toa Payoh Secondary School
  • Media-Luna - Crescent Girls' School
  • Midnight Artists - Methodist Girls' Secondary School
  • NJC DESIGN CLUB - National Junior College
  • Oathkeeper15 - CHIJ St.Joseph's Convent
  • Perspectives - Methodist Girls' Secondary School
  • Singafour - St Anthony's Canossian Secondary School
  • VA Club 01 - Yishun Junior College
  • Within.us - Hwa Chong Institution
So watch now and vote! You'll get a chance to win some attractive prizes too. The voting period runs from 16 January to 5 February 2009, with the champion team being announced on 15 February at Suntec City Tropics Atrium. See you there!