SV gets the unique opportunity to meet and learn directly from industry professionals, artists and teachers while assisting conference attendees and supporting conference programs.

All SVs have free admission to SIGGRAPH Asia 2010 complete program including Courses, Technical Sketches & Posters, Technical Papers, and the Computer Animation Festival. To help cushion your expenses, we offer all SVs meal vouchers and selected SVs who fulfill 25 hours or more conference housing for up to five nights. Team Leaders will receive seven nights of housing. This year, we offer international SVs the home-stay option, where local students are encouraged to host international students at their homes during SIGGRAPH Asia 2010 in our effort to provide an experience that bridges cultural and language differences and disciplines, and encourage networking, communication, and collaboration amongst students from all over the world.

You can create your application here. Details here.

SIGGRAPH Asia 2010 starts 15-18 December 2010 in Seoul, South Korea at COEX Convention & Exhibition Cente.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at sv_asia2010@siggraph.org

See you in Seoul!

I had the opportunity to attend Internationale Trickfilm-Festival Stuttgart in Germany with ‘Hush Baby’. Upon Sophie’s suggestion to visit Paris as well, it turned out to be an amazing journey!

Whee!

I arrived at Stuttgart airport, took a train to Stuttgart HBF and realised from a disinterested information assistant that this wasn’t the location to ride the coach to Paris. I jumped on a train to Obertuerkheim station and found a friendly staff at a hotel who pointed me to the correct pickup location. I am horrible with directions but thank goodness nice people are always around. I made a big blunder on my way back to Stuttgart though, hee.

One of the shooting locations for Amelie.

First breakfast in Paris on a rainy morning.

Sophie with nutella tiramisu, note the bliss.

Spice shop filled with hundreds of mix, preserved meats, jams, nuts, sweets. It should be a very colourful picture with lots of details. Would love to shoot this place again.

Home-made dinner with Sophie! Comfortable and memorable.

Posters plastered on the wall of subway station.

Dusty, old, creaking book store we found. Like.

Sophie has a fantastic apartment with a corridor that I like! I remember tiptoeing across the wooden floor every morning to this kitchen, trying not to wake her up with my incessant shuffling.

Apparently bachelor and bachelorette parties involve dressing-up and dare challenges with friends in public. These are two separate gangs.

Duck confit. Meat just fell off its bone. Yum-my.

These signs are pretty much everywhere but I don’t know why I keep clicking at them. They are nice, don’t you think?

I haven’t seen Viet Tu in a long time; it was a pleasant coffee chat plus the fantastic weather!

Lourve at night looks mysterious and grand. Too bad the fountain square shuts its gate before 9pm.

Commuters have to unlock their own doors to alight, instead of automatic doors which some have.

After 4 fun days in Paris, I took a coach back to Stuttgart HBF. Well, the bus goes to Stuttgart HBF but in my drowsy stupor I jumped off at the wrong HBF. HBF is short for Hauptbahnhof, German, which means ‘main or central station’, and of course I alighted at the wrong HBF… So, I took a train ride back to Stuttgart HBF, and blew some euros unnecessarily. This is my cosy hostel which the festival placed me!

Dustin, Joseph and Javier (out of screen), three very talented directors.

VERY elated to see Hannes, Melanie and Dave at the event! FMX is happening alongside ITFS, so there’s lots of screenings, workshops and talks to catch. Watched lots of films and talked a lot. I haven’t spoken so much English since I worked in Tokyo.

Festival garden with a free outdoor screening. Very cool.

There’s a weekend flea market on my way to the festival. Selling really old-looking comic books, army bags, clothes, coins, accordions, records, toys…

Because Japan is 7 hours ahead of Germany and in order to be at work on Monday, I missed the last day of the festival and the award ceremony :-( thus I didn’t manage to say goodbye to a lot of people. Hi there, if I met you at the festival, please stay in touch!

And I am back in Tokyo, what a wonderful journey. Thanks Sophie!
Below is a ‘Please do again’ poster series encouraging commuter etiquette. Previously there was a ‘Please do it at home’ posters of the same style showing lady putting makeup, drunk salaryman on the train etc. Omoshiroi..

Following the successful showcase in London Generation Gallery during 2009 London Design Festivals, the 22 postcards make their way home for an exclusive showcase at Hairloom & Caramel for one week only.

From May 22 (Sat) 1pm to May 29 8pm
Location: Hairloom & Caramel
100 Beach Road, #01-50/52, Shaw Towers

Meet the Singapore illustrators this Saturday, 22 May ‘10, 1pm at Hairloom and Caramel! A collaboration between 22 illustrators from both Singapore and the UK. A6 /future/ invites these artists to share their thoughts, hopes and dreams about their future through the use of A6-sized postcards.

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The baby will next be crying at Anifest 2010, Czech Republic. So exciting!

Students can apply to volunteer for either 15 or 25 hours during the conference. Outstanding 25-hour applicants who live outside the Seoul area may receive complimentary housing for the duration of the conference. All accepted Student Volunteers will receive a Conference Access badge (equivalent to Full Conference registration) and a copy of the Full Conference DVD-ROM.

Submission deadline: 30 June, 23:59 GMT

Details here. Please feel free to forward this information to any other interested people, and if you have any questions, please get in touch.

Hush Baby is nominated for Best Animation at the 1st Singapore Short Film Awards taking place at The Substation Theatre from January 25-31. Full schedule is available on www.substation.org/SSFA/. Admission is by donation and no advanced booking of tickets is necessary.

Fellow ADM graduates are also nominated in various categories. Teck Siang for Best Cinematography, Zihan for Best Script and Danny and Alicia for Best Editing. All the best!

[Updated on 2 Feb '10]

It was a wonderful feeling last night when Vanessa was online to share the good news that we won Best Animation! Thank you so much. Hugs to Zihan who was awarded Best Script for Threshold, and to Sun as well :-) More details here. It is snowing very heavily now and I miss everyone back home.

The short film is also shortlisted for Experimental Animation Award at the Animex International Festival of Animation and Computer Games. Taking place on 8-12 February 2010 in Middlesbrough (UK). Details here.

Our very own annual Animation Nation is back this year with a fascinating programme of ‘must-see’ feature films, including The Secret of Kells, Mary and Max, Waltz with Bashir, Musahi: The Drama of the Last Samurai, A Town Called Panic and more, as well as short films, including Genius Party Beyond, Best of Studio AKA, Best of SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 and not forgetting our Singapore Showcase!

Most of the feature films are screened in glorious 35mm and Digibeta, thus it is definitely going to be a real visual treat.

Must-see List:

The Secret of Kells / 35mm / Ireland
Audience Award at Annecy 2009 and Edinburgh Int. Film Festival 2009

This is what I sent to my London counterpart. In the future, I imagine we would eventually run out of burial space on Earth and began sending our beloved ones into outer space. But with so much debris flowing around, a collision caused the capsule to break open and therefore releasing the body.

The character clutching the letter is sort of autobiographical, that’s my mother. I remember on the morning when she died last year, my younger sister wrote a letter for her, folded it into a crane and placed it on her hands as she laid in the coffin. We do not know what she wrote and we never ask, because it is for her. And, here is what Su from London drew in response:

Click the picture above for a scanned image.

It is rather spontaneous because we never corresponded at all and I did not explain on the postcard. After Su completed her part, she sent me a screenshot of the postcard. I wrote back saying that what she drew gave a peaceful aura and that the intended message is not important. If I really have to attach a meaning to the image, I would say that the deceased had moved on to a better place (maybe nirvana) and that she is able to hear us from there.

At this time, I received a postcard from London, this time from Jacqui!

And she asks, in her postcard, “Will birds marry mobiles?” Because birds are adapting to the environment, and some birds are singing the songs of cellphone ring tones, they are falling love. Hee hee, here’s my response:

Click the picture above for a scanned image.

I had so much fun!

There are 20 other postcards to look at if you happen to be in London during this period (21-27 Sep). All postcards will also be auctioned to raise funds for Envision, a UK registered charity.

Idea Generation Gallery
11 Chance Street, E2 7JB
(Just off Redchurch Street, off Shoreditch High St.)
Nearest tubes: Liverpool Street/ Old Street

Previews: 21 – 27 September 2009
(Monday – Friday: 10am – 6pm, Saturday – Sunday: 12pm – 5pm)

Auction Party: 26 September 2009, 6pm – 9pm
(For an invitation to the Auction Party, Please RSVP info@creativesinergy.com)

Logos by UK illustrators and SG illustrators.

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