From Final Year Project to National Stage
Weaving visual magic into National Day Parades since 2011 If you have seen the brightly coloured animated graphics accompanying each act during the National Day Parade (NDP), you may be surprised that they were not created by professionals, but by third-year students from Nanyang Polytechnic�s Motion Graphics & Broadcast Design (MGBD) diploma course. From left: Kristine Chua, Wilson Low, and Patey Ng, some of the 20 students involved in the NDP project For the past five years, students from this course have been behind the animation and special effects that you see at our NDP. Each year, about 20 Final Year Project students work on creating the vivid imagery for NDP�s various acts, bringing excitement and realism into each scene of the show. Their work includes sourcing for reference materials, creating storyboards, modelling the storyboards in 3D software, improving on the graphics and remodelling the graphics to the client�s expectations. This takes a whopping six months to compl...