Howdy, it's been a long time since the considerably post I had. It's like two months? There's been lots of transitions going on, this post might go off as a long post. I'm on this competition with MDA on 3DTV. It is about creating a short clip about Savvy Surfers that will be produced onto stereographic projections. I didn't wanted to compete in this event in the first place. I had several doubts before I entered this event.

The words given by the lecturer and the words that's stated on the poster doesn't seem to interlink. He said that as long you submit the story-boarding, you will have a chance to win the prizes. As to so far I've seen, I had never seen such easily paid off competitions. Even if it is then there comes to two outcomes. It is either this competition has more than they are looking for, or plainly they have a company to sponsor them for their upcoming film. Another thought that went through was, why was it introduced to our course? We aren't studying anything related to stereography. It should have been into courses relating to visual effects. Everyone start to mistake it as computer graphics, and then in the end it was stereographic 3D.

Anyway the production process was fun, from its creation of story to the training courses. I never knew how it worked out theoretically. I only know that the distance apart creates the illusion for depth of field. I still remember that during my secondary school, I stumbled across this website promoting this german alcoholic drink. The whole website is done in stereography (anaglyph), imagine your screen to go double-visioned.

Sometimes I just feel that there's a drawback between the education and the industry, especially in Singapore. Yes, the revolution of media industries. Animation is still in its fostering stage, and there seems to be a blurred line between animation and the film industry. How many in your mind right now can you think of for companies that are setup in Singapore? (not including those that has been welcomed to setup a branch here, mainly of the tariff-free policy) Now you want us get into this field? The creations of having an animation is still not there yet, and you want something new? Stereography is just a plain tool, that can only be used till a certain extent. Once it's rule is broken, everything falls apart.
MDA 3DTV Competition

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Posted by Purity And Simplicity at 18:13