Ngee Ann's Film, Sound and Video turned 10 this year... it's really amazing we've survived this long. So Jac (who's now the Alumni Rep) organised this Anniversary Get-together at the Sound Stage. The turn out was great, comprising of 8 batches so far. There was the usual "I can't believe we lasted this long" crap, a video montage screening and sharing from some pioneers currently working in the industry. Dinner only commenced around 9pm, which really killed a couple of us.
What really brought back memories was the walk down memory lane, or a guided tour around the studios. There's many pieces of new equipment, some old ones remained. There's a spanking new preview theatre with a film projection room and the most kick ass seats, fully cushioned with full head support. Back in my time, we had the most uncomfortable plastic chairs...
The Digital Studio (where I spent practically all my time) has now lost it's former glory. The Alias Wavefront posters we hung up during the studio's launch is still stuck to wall, slowing fading away... IBM machines have replaced the former $45,000 (each) purple Indigo2 SGI machines. I think we used to have a room of 20 pieces of that baby! Then walking to the back of the studio are stacked up pieces of our 1st Indys (each costing about $15,000). The giant Onyx is fortunately still in use and basically still sits next to the white elephant Cineon Film Scanner and Film Recorder, costing 1/2 a million and 1/4 of a million respectively. According to Adrian Harvey, I seemed to the only student who made use of the the Cineon! Somewhere hidden in the corner, are the baby toaster O2s. I'm contemplating buying one at eBay as a souvenir or decorative piece. I still love these machines! It's shocking to realise how much money we had flushed into this studio...
(You may wanna check out this wonderful Obsolete : SGI Workstation site)
The studio is now clustered, but it still have the dark green walls and point up special ceiling lights.
Peter was a really nice surprise to have at the Alumni. I guess we shared the same sentiments about the Digital Studio. We were even reminiscing about the gun firing sounds at the nearby NS firing range... Machines aside, what really saddens me is the current softwares of choice... 3D Studio Max has replaced Softimage 3D and Maya; while compositing softwares such as Flint, Flame or Jaleo has been over taken by Adobe After Effects. Well, I guess they're trying to cultivate creativity over tools and machines...
After that night, I really miss animation...
What really brought back memories was the walk down memory lane, or a guided tour around the studios. There's many pieces of new equipment, some old ones remained. There's a spanking new preview theatre with a film projection room and the most kick ass seats, fully cushioned with full head support. Back in my time, we had the most uncomfortable plastic chairs...
The Digital Studio (where I spent practically all my time) has now lost it's former glory. The Alias Wavefront posters we hung up during the studio's launch is still stuck to wall, slowing fading away... IBM machines have replaced the former $45,000 (each) purple Indigo2 SGI machines. I think we used to have a room of 20 pieces of that baby! Then walking to the back of the studio are stacked up pieces of our 1st Indys (each costing about $15,000). The giant Onyx is fortunately still in use and basically still sits next to the white elephant Cineon Film Scanner and Film Recorder, costing 1/2 a million and 1/4 of a million respectively. According to Adrian Harvey, I seemed to the only student who made use of the the Cineon! Somewhere hidden in the corner, are the baby toaster O2s. I'm contemplating buying one at eBay as a souvenir or decorative piece. I still love these machines! It's shocking to realise how much money we had flushed into this studio...
(You may wanna check out this wonderful Obsolete : SGI Workstation site)
The studio is now clustered, but it still have the dark green walls and point up special ceiling lights.
Peter was a really nice surprise to have at the Alumni. I guess we shared the same sentiments about the Digital Studio. We were even reminiscing about the gun firing sounds at the nearby NS firing range... Machines aside, what really saddens me is the current softwares of choice... 3D Studio Max has replaced Softimage 3D and Maya; while compositing softwares such as Flint, Flame or Jaleo has been over taken by Adobe After Effects. Well, I guess they're trying to cultivate creativity over tools and machines...
After that night, I really miss animation...
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