Team Talk with RandomAcademy

RandomAcademy is made up of four girls with a common yet interesting story behind them. Yuqing, Fuying, Xinyan and Ruoxi are from Raffles Institute (Junior College). These four girls are all students from different part of China! What makes this team unique is not just their nationality but how much they share the need to show care for Singapore. They feel that being away from home and having spent so many years in Singapore, they tend to see things that are often ignored by Singaporeans, and this is what they’ve captured in their animation clip!

This team wants to tell their story through different pairs of feet. Theyshow the story of care from a boy through his growth to become an adult. During his journey, he experiences different kinds of situations but no matter where or what he was doing, he is always concerned and cares about his home in Singapore.

During their pitch to the judges, they had their hands in different pairs of shoes, and acted out their story from the view of the camera. The two girls who were acting as the “feet” had to slide their hands between different pairs of shoes at each scene! Hope they had the shoes cleaned before the pitch!

Being in the top 20 hadn’t been very easy for these girls. During the week of qualifying training period, these girls had to juggle between the 6 full days at NYP learning the fundamentals of animation and preparation for their SuperPitch!, and they also had to find time between all these commitments to prepare for their promotional examinations which was in two weeks’ time. They were all glad that they were able to manage their time and work well.

During the production period, these girls were always hard at work, tracing and drawing their animation, frame-by-frame. This group is working on rotoscoping, where they acted out their animation and then recorded with a video camera, after which they converted their video into frame-by-frame stills. And from these stills, they had to trace the images to to create their frame-by-frame animation.

Here’s an example of how a rotoscope animation will look like.

Now that you know a little more about these four girls, you might also want to follow RandomAcademy on their facebook fan page to show your support for them by VOTING for their clip!!! I wish them all the best in this competition and I hope they’ve all learned new skills and knowledge through this journey.

加油噢！

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Tags: RandomAcademy, RI(JC), rotoscope