Picture of the Day #7

Last Saturday, 5th September 2015, I went to DreamWorks Animation Exhibition at Art Science Museum in Marina Bay Sands. I went with my housemates and my friends who study at NTU. Actually there are 8 people from my friends in Medan who study in NTU, but only 2 out of 8 people could come and joined us. I really proud with my friends because they could pass NTU admission test. In my city, if you could pass the NTU or NUS admission test, you will be seen as a very very genius person. It sounds too exaggerated but it is the truth. 

So, we met up at 13.00 at Starbucks Bugis Junction and directly went to Marina Bay Sands. The situation was really awkward because my housemates were from Medan, Jakarta, China, and Philippine and we must talked in English so that all people can understand. However, me and my friends - there are 5 people from Medan - usually talk in Hokkien - Medan local language - when we met, so we just felt uncomfortable and awkward if we speak English with each other. On our way to Marina, we talked a lot. My friends also shared their first experience study in NTU. After it took around 10 minutes, we arrived in Marina Bay Sands. I went there 1 week before NAFA orientation day with my family too. After we walked around 5 minutes, we arrived at Art Science Museum and directly went in and queued to buy the tickets. It costed $15 with student card and there was 1 free tickets for Singapore Stories : Then, Now, Tomorrow.

Then, after we bought the tickets, we went into the exhibitions. It was really cool. There were lots of installation which were hand-crafted, clay or moulded plaster sculptures such as, Kung Fu Panda, Shrek, How to Train Your Dragon, Madagaskar, The Crood, Shark Tale, etc.  

Kung Fu Panda, 2008
Po - I'm not a fat panda, I'm just the fat panda.

Shifu and Mantis - Kung Fu Panda, 2008

Lola and Lenny - Shark Tale, 2004

Shrek, 2001
Shrek - Ogres are like onions!

Madagascar, 2005
Marty - I don't even know if I'm black with white stripes or white with black stripes!

I like this very much! These were hand drawing and they even wrote the main point from the drawing so they also taught us indirectly from the pictures.

This was a big screen with all different expressions.

Story boarding
This is roughly how it looks when they discuss everything before they made the animations

The total amounts of storyboards at each animations.
Shrek (45,000 storyboards), Kung Fu Panda (100,000 storyboards), How to Train Your Dragon (80,000 storyboards)

"The Pitch"
Once a sequence is storyboarded, the artist pitches using voice and action to bring their drawings to life.

Animators in action! 

These were model from each of the animations.

Shrek Swamp House Model - Shrek
This model was made by paper and foam board

Central Park Zoo Model - Madagascar
This model was made by paper and foam board

Berk Island Model - How to Train Your Dragon
This model was made by fiberglass and plywood 

Prison Model - Shrek
This model was made by paper and foam board

Far Far Away Model - Shrek
This model was made by paper and foam board

This was very cool inside! I went inside 3 times! This was like a small teather about the How to Train Your Dragon.
They showed us from a simple drawing until it changed into a very good 3D animation.

This was a short part from the Dragon Flight. I took the whole video which was about 3 minutes and 6 seconds, but it was more than 100MB so I couldn't post it! What a waste!

Make Your Own Thaumatrope 

This was  what I made! Can it be seen?

This was cool! There was also snother screen where we could change the Po - Kung Fu Panda - and other character expression whatever we want.

This was the situation inside the museum. There were also a digital painting which hung on the wall

Wow! My friend was really good at it!

This was what we found on our way back and my friends really interested in it!

The other side of the Super Heroes Cafe

Well, should I call these as Behind the Scene Photos? 

This was really cool!

Well, it was a really fun experience with my friends.

Good luck guys~!