Upon their invitation, we are trying out MyToons, an internet platform for putting up High Definition movie clips and I must say that it is working beautifully. The resolution is really good and we had no trouble uploading Katakune - our first preschooler 3D animated series. We will be using MyToons a lot more I’m […]

Starting from today, we will be showcasing a series of animation projects we produced over the years.
The hit documentary Secrets of the Battleship Yamato produced by Bang Singapore was the very first documentary Mediafreaks produced CG for. It proved to be a most rewarding experience and project as Mediafreaks later went on to produce many […]

With the box office success of Kungfu Panda, a bunch of knockoff Pandas has surfaced on the market. A couple of them are passable but the rest is just horrendous! No prizes for guessing where they were manufactured

Here is a list of upcoming animated movies worth watching out for:

Igor - Written by Chris McKenna, the comedy tells the story of a hunchbacked lab assistant who has big dreams of becoming a mad scientist and winning the first place prize at the annual Evil Science Fair.
Release date - 19th September 2008

Star Wars | […]

Ratatouille? Naw…it’s Ratatoing!
An ‘interesting’ company from Brazil allegedly producing rip-offs of Pixar’s animated features have appeared. The ‘victims’ are Cars and Ratatouille.
Rip-offs or not? You decide.
Wikipedia Entry on the Company
The ‘Official’ Website of Ratatoing

Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation have secured the rights to The Smurfs and plan to make a feature film version of the popular blue villagers that mixes live action and animation.
Variety reports the film will be produced by Jordan Kerner, who helped the studio secure the rights from Lafig Belgium, with Shrek 2 and […]

This is a rather interesting article from Rune Spaans, a 33 years old graphic artist from Norway. I’ve found it to be rather lucid and should be particularly interesting to CG artists. Below is the article.
Do you want to be an animator, but all you do is compositing? Are you spending all your time modeling, […]

A Hulk of a Deal
© Business Wire 2008

7-Eleven, Inc. has hulked up its stores - from green-colored Slurpee(R) drinks and Super Hero sandwiches to a renamed Incredible Gulp fountain drink and a new edition of THE INCREDIBLE HULK comic book, created by Marvel Comics and available exclusively at 7-Eleven(R) stores. Not only is an incredible […]

This is a trailer for the much anticipated Street Fighter IV video game which will be released for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, as well as the PC.
No word yet on when the game will hit homes, but the game should be officially released in Japanese game centers sometime this summer. A fifth, and […]

Japanese international phenom “Hello Kitty” has just been revealed to be Japan’s Ambassador of Tourism in China and Hong Kong! The newscaster reporting this doesn’t seem to be very thrilled though…

Check out this interesting software called the Pepakura Designer.
Basically it allows you to create paper craft models from 3D data. If you have a 3D software and you have some 3D models, Pepakura Designer can take the data from the 3D models and intelligently map it out on a paper with the vertices arranged in […]

A gentleman from the UK called Michael Hull had some questions regarding pitching a cartoon series to producers. Here is the Q&A.
1) Question: What’s the best way to actually budget the show, speak to a producer?
Answer: There is a certain formula to budgeting for a show by dividing it into 3 phases - […]

This is absolutely unreal!
A company called AI ROBOTIC has developed a realistic female robot. The founders Etienne Fresse and Yoichio Yamato call her the ‘Lisa - the Perfect Woman’. They seem to think that she would be the answer to the lonely man’s fantasies…whilst I have my reservations about that, I must admit that this […]

Check this out! An entire bedroom’s furniture comes in a box!
It is really quite amazing how the guy / guys who designed this thought of the concept and went on further to develop it!

It has been a rock solid year of hard work and fun with our clients and projects! Our new animation showreel showcases some of what we’ve done over the past 12 months. Please click on the graphic to see what we’ve been up to!