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Pepakura Squidoo Lens

16. November 2008

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Pepakura Squidoo Lens

Pepakura is really taking the 3D community by storm. There are just so many magnificent paper craft using Pepakura that I had to do a lens on it! I’ve included some interesting videos and more pictures of Pepakura paper craft there. Please visit it at http://www.squidoo.com/pepakura. For the uninformed, Pepakura Designer is a really amazing software [...]

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Have You Heard of the Pet Rock?

14. November 2008

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Have You Heard of the Pet Rock?

In the 1970s a guy called Gary Dahl came up with a brilliant idea called the Pet Rock that made him a multi-millionaire in 6 months! Ever since the Pet Rock has always been used as a case study for many licensing talks. I thought it is worth documenting to draw some inspiration for licensing ideas [...]

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Squidoo Lens on Producing a Cartoon Series

11. November 2008

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Squidoo Lens on Producing a Cartoon Series

I have previously written an article called “8 Steps to Producing a Cartoon Series” which later sparked off a lot of questions. Most of my answers were made as comments and is becoming a tad untidy. To keep things coherent and easy to read, I’ve consolidated all the articles and Q&A on the topic of [...]

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Setting Up a Business

23. October 2008

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Setting Up a Business

I am an entrepreneur, and to an entrepreneur, opportunities are found in bad times. If you’ve been following the news, these are bad times. During bad times, people like Warren Buffett brace himself to make tons of money because of his theory “When people are greedy, be fearful. And when people are fearful, be greedy.” [...]

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Options in the Animation Industry

21. October 2008

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Options in the Animation Industry

Recently a gentleman from the States wrote me an email asking some questions pertaining financing for cartoon animated series production. This is an all-time favorite topic on this blog ever since I wrote an article titled 8 Steps to Producing a Cartoon Series. One of his questions is a most unusual question as it dealt [...]

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Felon

21. September 2008

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Felon

Powerful. Emotional. Justice. Friendship. Love. Hatred. These are the words that keep spinning through my head as I watched ‘Felon’. The story stars Stephen Dorff who plays a family-orientated hardworking man with a bright future who killed an intruder into his home by accident and gets incarcerated as a result. While his fiancee who is with a struggle [...]

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Great Character Designs | Tips on Creating, Monetizing and Popularizing Digital Characters

16. September 2008

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Great Character Designs | Tips on Creating, Monetizing and Popularizing Digital Characters

It has been a few months since I published a lens on the topic of ‘character designing’ on Squidoo. The subject matter is obviously popular as it made it to the top of Squidoo in the top 50 overall positions in its first 2 weeks and remains today in the top 10 of its category. I made [...]

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3D Animation Studio | What Goes On Behind Those Closed Doors

15. September 2008

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3D Animation Studio | What Goes On Behind Those Closed Doors

Many people are confused when they see the word ‘3D’ tagged on in front of the words ‘Animation Studio’. Although animation has been with us for as long as a few decades now, the concept of animation still seem pretty much magical to the layman. ‘How do you make drawings come alive on screen?’ is what [...]

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Katakune on Squidoo

28. July 2008

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Katakune on Squidoo

We’ve just published a spanking hot lens for Katakune on Squidoo. Please check it out at  http://www.squidoo.com/katakune. For a cartoon property coming out of Singapore – which is a country relatively new in the world of animation – we are humbled that Katakune is making some headway and gaining recognition across the world. Currently already sold [...]

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How 2D and 3D Animation Can Help Sell Your Products and Services Like Crazy

11. April 2008

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How 2D and 3D Animation Can Help Sell Your Products and Services Like Crazy

Over the past decade, some companies have learnt how to harness the power of animation to add tremendous value to their presentations and marketing campaigns, resulting in high volumes of sales for their products and services. But there are still many companies who are not saavy in this aspect. We have created a lens on Squidoo [...]

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