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Miyazaki Embaressed by Japan’s Prime Minister

Thursday, November 20, 2008

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Miyazaki Embaressed by Japan’s Prime Minister

Academy Award-winning animation filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki said Thursday that he is merely embarrassed by Japan’s comic-loving prime minister. But he was far more upbeat about investing in the nation’s children. Miyazaki’s latest film “Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea,” now playing in Japan, is a story of a goldfish who forms a friendship with a little [...]

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Humorous Signboards

Thursday, November 20, 2008

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Humorous Signboards

It’s always good to have a sense of humor when you are conveying instructions to somebody. For the first time I smile instead of frown when reading signboards

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Intel and Dell Launch Mass Animation on Facebook

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

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Intel and Dell Launch Mass Animation on Facebook

Animation is getting democratized. After years of watching consumer-generated shorts sprout up on Google’s  YouTube, NewsCorp.’s MySpace, and elsewhere, a Hollywood veteran wants to tap these amateur animators for help on projects that could hit the big time. With funding from Intel and Dell, former Sony Pictures digital chief Yair Landau is launching Mass [...]

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MyToons Launches Digital Portfolio System

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

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MyToons Launches Digital Portfolio System

MyToons.com, the world’s first and only online animation community to offer HD animation, today announced the launch of its ground-breaking Digital Portfolio System. Using the Digital Portfolio System, artists and [...]

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Cartoon Characters a Cheaper Alternative to Celebrities

Thursday, November 13, 2008

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Cartoon Characters a Cheaper Alternative to Celebrities

Mobile handset maker Nokia India Pvt. Ltd has hired a nerd to endorse its E-series office handsets, online. He may not score in the dating department, but Dilbert—the main character from the eponymous comic strip syndicated to hundreds of newspapers around the world—can tell you a thing or two about the workspace. The use of comic-strip characters [...]

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Squidoo Lens on Producing a Cartoon Series

Tuesday, November 11, 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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What Kids Like in a Cartoon Character

Friday, November 7, 2008

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What Kids Like in a Cartoon Character

If you’re planning on producing a cartoon series or rolling out a kids’ campaign with an animated character you might be interested in Kidscreen’s three-part series on children’s TV viewing habits. The series covers recent research by Dr. Maya Götz of the International Central Institute for Youth and Educational Television in Germany. Part one is boring and [...]

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Glowing Review of Pixar’s Up

Friday, October 31, 2008

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Glowing Review of Pixar’s Up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIJmegq4IyU Pixar’s ‘UP’ seems to be receiving pretty rave reviews. Even prior to its official release, people who were lucky enough to watch its preview have glowing praises for the show. Here’s what one of them had to say of the animated movie. “Last night my wife and I had the wonderful opportunity to watch an early screening [...]

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What Makes a Character Brand Licensable?

Monday, October 27, 2008

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What Makes a Character Brand Licensable?

It is very easy to think that character design alone determines the success and failure of a character brand and how many licensing and merchandising deals it can garner. In actuality, the very first criteria for merchandising opportunities is mass exposure before anything else. Licensing agents and manufacturing companies are often opposed to taking on properties [...]

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Katakune Wins 3rd Prize in Digicon 6 Singapore Region

Saturday, October 25, 2008

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Katakune Wins 3rd Prize in Digicon 6 Singapore Region

Yesterday was a happy occasion for us. Katakune won the 3rd spot for the Digicon 6 animation contest organized by TBS (Tokyo Broadcasting System) for the Singapore region. For those of you who are unaware, Katakune is an original cartoon property Character Farm (a subsidiary of Mediafreaks) produced for the preschooler market. It is relatively [...]

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85 Years of Disney!

Friday, October 17, 2008

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85 Years of Disney!

85 years ago in 1923 on this very day, the Walt Disney Studios was founded by brothers Walk and Roy Disney! While we reminisce on the magic Disney brought us all these years, here’s also a clip showing what Disney has in store for 2009.

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Pixar ‘Up’

Friday, October 17, 2008

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Pixar ‘Up’

You can almost hear them shouting out, “Look, we can even animate a really old man and you’ll still love it.” Well, with Pixar, you can believe it. It’s just some balloons carrying a house, but since it’s Pixar, we know each of those balloons is full of a child’s dream/soul, and are therefore better than standard [...]

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Bollywood Gets Animated

Monday, October 13, 2008

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Bollywood Gets Animated

Budgets on Bollywood animation have just gone up. While Hollywood giant Disney has entered the fray, local big daddies like Yash Chopra and Percept Picture Company have also joined the animation bandwagon. It is estimated that Bollywood studios are setting aside sum to the tune of Rs 20 crore per animation film. This Diwali, Disney and [...]

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Marvel Super Heroes to Congregate

Thursday, October 9, 2008

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Marvel Super Heroes to Congregate

As the conglomerate of Marvel superheroes known as the Avengers gradually assembles on the big screen, Marvel Animation is prepping an animated television series that will bring together such iconic comic-book heroes as Iron Man, Captain America, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Wasp and Giant Man. Toon shop Film Roman is producing 26 episodes of The [...]

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China Animation Properties Not Hot in China

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

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China Animation Properties Not Hot in China

I read an interesting article on the CCTV website regarding the state of the animation industry in China and how the young in China are simply not embracing China produced cartoon characters. You will recall that an article I wrote a few weeks back regarding this very topic describes the cause of this situation very [...]

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