08 February 2017

The annual N.E.mation contest is organised by education service provider Animagine in conjunction with Nexus, the Ministry of Defence department responsible for National Education. It is a yearly contest where students from secondary schools, junior colleges and centralised institutes express their ideas on Total Defence in short animation clips.

This year saw creative entries as diverse as a finger puppet performance, an animation made from plastic cups, and a paper-tearing stop motion animation.

Last July, students working in teams of three to four started work on short clips based on the theme Together We Keep Singapore Strong. Teams were taken to places such as the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the Singapore Civil Defence Force to learn more about the respective pillars of Total Defence.

The top prize is a fully sponsored trip to animation studios in the United States.