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I am not a great fan of the Olympics but when I heard that Singapore beat Korea 3-2 and made it to the finals for the Woman’s Table Tennis match, I just could not help feeling proud of my home country. Usually this blog would only discuss media related topics but this occasion calls for […]

Monkey, Pigsy and Sandy head on a “Journey to the East” for BBC Sport this summer.
This animation based on the classical Chinese novel, “Journey to the West”, was produced by the men behind virtual band Gorillaz - Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett.
The animation is great to say the least. I would say that Damon and […]

What could be greater than a lightsaber duel between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs? A lightsaber duel where YOU get to control one. And what could be the next best thing to seeing the two big men squabble ‘live’? An animation of them bringing it onto each other!
Mr. Jobs is depicted more like a gruff […]

I did a post on some great looking wooden toys I found on the internet yesterday but was unable to say where the toys came from. My good friend - Xavier Feng (also co-creator and Creative Director on our animated series Katakune) - gave me the answer today - you can find them at […]

With recent news of high lead content and chemicals in plastic toys for kids, it is perhaps not a bad idea to look towards toys made from other materials.
How’s wood for example? I’ve never been a fan of wooden toys personally, until I saw this collection. It totally blew me away! Check them out yourself.

Wooden […]

Google’s Lively is a Web-based project similar to Second Life. This shows a re-creation of Google headquarters, complete with the T. Rex skeleton.
Google on Tuesday plans to unveil an online 3D social arena called Lively, the Internet giant’s take on Second Life. But Google wants it to be part of your first life.
Second Life requires […]

There’s a cool free program that allows you to create creatures called the Spore Creature Creator. They are also currently organizing a contest on Youtube to see who can create the best dance moves with the software.
Just download the software, animate the creature with cool dance moves and upload the final work to Youtube. […]

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
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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 […]

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 […]

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!

Disney is launching a series of programmable robotic toy products!
In conjunction with the launch of WALL-E - the new animated feature from Disney and Pixar starring an adorably dorky robot - in summer this year, Disney will be releasing an innovative line of robotic toys. Amongst them are the iDance Wall-E dancing boombox, the Ultimate […]

This post is for business owners or CG enthusiasts who own a website or a blog. I have stumbled upon a website that can potentially drive loads of traffic to your website. The best part of all - it is free and easy to register for!
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Animation is not related to web traffic building, you said? […]

This baby of Boston Dynamics can climb over rubble, snow and leap over obstacles! You would have to see it to believe it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RfZxhlIhdo