Few know, however, about the late nights and weekends eight people put in that resulted in those six clips about a waterfront lifestyle in Punggol estate.
The director of the team from Nanyang Polytechnic's School of Interactive and Digital Media, Mr Daniel Tan, 48, said: 'This year's rally is the first with so much animation.'
The team, comprising lecturers and animators on the polytechnic's staff, was supposed to produce just one animation but ended up with six as the ideas just kept coming.
The clip that clinched it for the audience: a waterway that took form on screen accompanied by palms and birds in flight, conveying a vision of Punggol in the 21st century.
The clip has raised the team's profile and also earned them thanks from PM Lee.
SphygmomanometerIt was a sweet ending to a month of hard work that began when the Housing Board gave the team a couple of architectural drawings to render into 3-D animated images - and a deadline of just one month.
'We mobilised ourselves immediately,' said Mr Tan. Many late nights led to spectacular animation
With his team - Mr Tan Chin Khoon, 43; Mr Steve Lim, 35; Mr David Hwee, 27; Mr Nicholas Lee, 23; Mr Jovi Phang, 23; Mr Lim Sze Yang, 26; and Mr Darwin Muis, 22 - he began hunting down floor plans.
They then photographed cardboard models and created 3-D forms out of them before combining the images with satellite maps.
Three of the team's eight members were behind the fireworks animation clip in the finale of the 2005 National Day Rally.
But the Punggol clips are more elaborate, said team member Mr Darwin, adding: 'I felt like I was watching myself on television.'
Nanyang Polytechnic, which began offering its diploma course in digital media design in 1996, has three other diploma programmes in the field today.
Mr Hwee, an animator, said of the clips: 'They added some spice to the campus. It's not every day that the students get to see their lecturers' work on television.'
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